Unless you have to go to a distance of 100 meters, people with very sharp eyes can see the difference in the collar badge, but the devil is not like the Chinese army, and the officers rarely rush in front.

It's not that the devil's officers are afraid of death, but the tactical discipline of people is like this, and it takes several years to train a qualified soldier in Japan, and it takes time to train a qualified officer.

As an army, you need to graduate from the army non-commissioned officer school or other officer schools, and you cannot become an officer immediately after graduation, you need to be apprenticed for more than half a year.

After passing the probationary examination, he can become the deputy of the lowest-ranking officer, and then slowly rise according to his performance and military merits.

That is to say, the value of an officer is far greater than the value of several soldiers, and some soldiers may not like to hear this, but on the battlefield, the fact is that the role of an officer is definitely greater than that of a soldier.

Therefore, the operational discipline of the Japanese army clearly pointed out that when the infantry attacked, the officers could not rush to the front, and the members of each attacking group rushed to the front, and the group leader was in the group, commanding in real time, and each team leader was listening to the officer's command.

In this way, the sacrifice rate of grassroots officers has been greatly reduced, but why did the Chinese army come in reverse? Generally, the company commander and platoon commander rushed forward with a group of younger brothers.

This is not because the Japanese officers are afraid of death and the Chinese officers have a fearless spirit of sacrifice, but the key lies in the quality of the soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers are several grades higher than the Chinese soldiers, whether they are fighting alone or in small groups.

Therefore, when Japanese soldiers cooperate individually or in small groups, they can quickly interpret the battlefield, complete combat tasks independently, and clearly carry out orders.

And most of the Chinese soldiers can't do it, the Japanese soldiers are at least elementary school graduates, and most of the Chinese soldiers are illiterate, or people who can only read a few words and count a few dollars.

The Japanese infantry has a "Infantry Drill Book" on their bodies, and they can read this "battlefield manual" in real time to improve their combat skills.

And the Chinese soldiers, not to mention the soldiers, are many low-level officers who can't understand the "Infantry Drill Code" issued by the Chinese Army, let alone illiterate soldiers.

Therefore, when the Chinese army is fighting, most of them can only be operated by platoon commanders and company commanders with soldiers.

This is also a helpless move by the Chinese army, so the officers who rushed to the front also died the fastest and the earliest.

In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the greatest losses were still a large number of low-level officers, and low-level officers and veterans were the framework of a force.

They can also be said to be skeletons, without them, no matter how much flesh and blood are piled up, it is useless, just like mud can't support the wall, that's what it means.

The Japanese now knew the situation of the Chinese army, and every time the troops approached the 30-meter area, they knew that the Chinese army was about to drop grenades and charge, and the people in front of them immediately lay down.

At this time, the light machine guns placed on both sides of the assault unit in advance began to strafe the Chinese troops who had just risen, and within the first time, a large number of Chinese officers died on the way to the charge.

As for ordinary Chinese troops, once the officers died, most of the soldiers did not know how to fight, although they did not know how to fight, but they knew how to escape, so they collapsed at the touch of a button and dispersed in a hurry.

This seems to modern people, it feels like child's play, how can a war be so joking, but in those days, this is the case.

The Chinese armed forces are in a transitional period of replacing cold weapons with hot weapons, and this is a period of transition in terms of tactics, soldiers' quality, and familiarity with weapons.

The Japanese army, after decades of the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, has tempered a skilled modern armament.

This generation gap, on the battlefield, the most direct embodiment is the one-sided effect, so after 918 (1931.9.18), the Chinese army in the north was almost one-sided against the Japanese army, and it could not defeat the Japanese army at all.

The country learned from the painful experience, carried out a large-scale and deep-seated army reform, and prepared to equip 60 German divisions to counter the powerful Japanese army.

But when three or four German armor divisions were equipped, the heat of the domestic war of resistance had long been ignited by a large number of people who did not know the inside story.

But this is the bitterness of China's weakened strength, and I can't talk about it, but the common people will care about these things, and they will not be happy to see that the country does not resist the war.

This is also understandable, if the country is occupied by people for many years, the people will also have great dissatisfaction with the country.

Another point is that Japan is also afraid that China is really equipped with 60 German armor divisions, and it will not be so simple to solve the China incident, so it is also pressing step by step, wanting to launch a large-scale war of aggression against China before China succeeds in transforming its army.

Therefore, after the July 7 Incident (July 7, 1937), the Japanese North China Front began to attack southward on a large scale, and the North China Plain was boundless, which was very suitable for the operation of the Japanese army's mechanized troops.

China had no choice, so it provoked a war in Shanghai, hoping to bring the Japanese army into the south of the Yangtze River, which was full of ditches, to fight, in fact, there was no problem with this strategy, and if it really wanted to lead the Japanese army to fight on the three defense lines of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it might not necessarily lose.

However, the problem lies in the chairman, who has always wanted to use international forces to contain Japan's aggression against China, so he will choose Shanghai, where China has the most influence in the world at that time, to fight.

At that time, for the sake of an international conference, he demanded that the defeated Chinese army hold out in Shanghai for half a month, and it was this half month that destroyed China and the capital Nanjing.

In fact, there is no illusion that Western countries will help China during this time, as was the case with the Lytton Inquiry in 1932.

Even though the League of Nations Congress voted 42 in favor and Japan voted 1 against, it passed the resolution of the Committee of 19 on accepting the "Report of the Lytton Investigation Mission", reiterating that it would not recognize the puppet state of Manchukuo.

But so what, Japan announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations on the grounds of protesting against the report, and the investigation report of the League of Nations was effectively a dead letter.

Facts have proved that the activities of the League of Nations and the influence of Western countries could not stop the aggression of Japanese imperialism against China, and a weak country has no diplomacy, as has been the case since ancient times.

But in the Battle of Songhu, Lao Jiang still had to pin his hopes on Western countries, but as a result, this delay caused his army to suffer.

Hundreds of thousands of troops should have calmly retreated to the three defense lines to continue organizing the interception, but they did not retreat in a hurry until the Japanese army made a detour.

The army was defeated like a mountain, and it was simply unable to organize an effective interception at various levels, and the three defense lines that had been painstakingly managed were all in the pockets of the Japanese army.

The large-scale rout led to an unprecedented humiliation in the capital near Nanjing, and the high command should bear the main responsibility for the tricks and decisions that caused this fiasco.

Of course, talking about these things now is just an afterthought, at that time, especially for low-level officers like Sangou, they couldn't see this level at all, and they couldn't see what the future would be.