According to many later sources, the "Chongqing Bombing" lasted from February 1938 to August 1943. In fact, until 1944, Chongqing was still being bombed, but the city was no longer bombed, and the Japanese invaders targeted factories and military installations.

Even in December 1944, Japanese planes were still bombing the surrounding areas of Chongqing such as Liangping, Wanzhou, and Kaixian.

At the same time that Japan ended the bombing of Chongqing, the United States began the bombing of Tokyo!

On November 24, 1944, the U.S. military sent 88 bombers to attack Tokyo. The effect of the bombing was not obvious, only one Japanese aircraft factory was slightly injured, but it opened the curtain on the bombing of Tokyo.

In Europe, the U.S. military used daytime precision bombing tactics to bomb important German military targets. But this bombing tactic was not suitable in Japan, where the weather was so bad that it was difficult for pilots to accurately find targets at high altitudes.

As a result, the Yankees, who had suffered heavy losses in the Pacific theater, began to bombard large Japanese cities with night carpet incendiary bombs. There are specific reasons for this tactic, one is that many of the Japanese military parts are produced in small workshops scattered in residential areas; Second, most Japanese cities are made of wood, which is very suitable for barbecue.

In the nine months that followed, the U.S. military launched 33,000 sorties of bombing of 98 cities in Japan, dropping 160,000 tons of bombs, killing and burning 230,000 people and wounding and burning 350,000 people. Throughout Japan, 24% of houses were in ruins, 1,600 planes were destroyed, and 1,650 ships were sunk and damaged.

Why is it called the Great Bombing of Tokyo?

In 1945, 140,000 people were killed, more than 50% of the city's houses were burned, and more than 1 million Tokyo citizens were left homeless.

Compared to the "Great Tokyo Bombing," which lasted nine months, the damage caused by the two atomic bombs to Japan was negligible. The incendiary bombs exploded so coolly that in the air raids of March 9, 1945, more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped, and an area of 41 square kilometers in central Tokyo was directly burned to the ground, and nearly 100,000 Tokyo citizens became mobile torches.

In many cases, people in Tokyo were not burned and blown to death, but suffocated to death due to lack of oxygen. Even if they could find a safe place to hide, everything around them was burning, the flames drained the oxygen from the air, and they could only wait for death wherever they fled.

Truth be told, even if Japan were to win in the Pacific, just a few months of bombing Tokyo would make it difficult for them to survive. 24% of the country's houses were burned down by incendiary bombs, so how can Japan still fight?

This series of air raids, also known as the "Li Mei Fire Attack", can be called the most fire attack in the history of human warfare, and the fire burned all over Japan.

Until the 21st century, many elderly Japanese people have come forward to accuse the US military of inhumane acts. They completely ignored the Japanese army's brutal aggression against the peoples of various Asian countries, and kept saying that the Japanese civilians were innocent, while the US military imposed the wounds of the war on the Japanese people.

Hehe!

If it weren't for the countless small workshops scattered in Japanese people's houses, which continue to provide parts and prefabricated parts for Japanese military enterprises, the US military would have changed its tactics and caught the frenzied bombing of Japanese urban areas?

Let's turn the calendar to 1945 -

In January, the Soviet Union occupied Warsaw, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force triumphantly joined forces with the Chinese army in India.

In February, U.S. forces occupied the Philippine capital, Soviet troops occupied Budapest, and Finland officially declared war on the Axis powers.

In March, Hitler ordered all of Germany to self-destruct, and Soviet troops occupied the Austrian capital.

In April, Roosevelt died of illness and was succeeded by Truman. The Soviets surrounded Berlin, the U.S. captured Leipzig, the Soviets and the U.S. met at the Elbe, and then the Soviets occupied Berlin. Mussolini was executed, and Hitler committed suicide. The preparatory meeting for the establishment of the United Nations opened in San Francisco.

In May, Canadian troops occupied Amsterdam, Germany surrendered unconditionally, and Germany was destroyed.

And on the Chinese battlefield, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army have gone crazy. Last year, they fought more than 20,000 large and small battles, annihilated nearly 200,000 Japanese troops and puppet troops, recovered more than 20 county towns (the previous chapter was to conquer county seats, and some county towns were defeated and lost), and liberated more than 17 million compatriots. This offensive against Japan lasted until the summer of 1945, and the Japanese invaders in the battlefield behind enemy lines were no longer able to stop it.

If the war had reached this point, Japan's economy would have collapsed long ago. The treatment of those Japanese soldiers in the battlefield behind enemy lines was not much better than that of the soldiers of the Nationalist army, and some Japanese soldiers even began to learn how the Chinese made straw shoes, and when they were so hungry and panicked, they organized groups to grab the rations of their fellow villagers.

The reason for this situation is also that the Japanese army transferred most of the materials in the occupied areas to the front line to fight the Armageddon against the Nationalist army - just as Stilwell transferred materials from the Chinese theater to the battlefield in Burma.

This series of situations is all interlocked, Stilwell for the Burma counteroffensive, resulting in the Chinese frontal battlefield materials and soldiers empty, by the Japanese defeated Yuxianggui. However, in order to realize the "Operation No. 1" plan, the Japanese army caused the materials and soldiers in the Japanese-occupied areas to be empty, and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army took the opportunity to counterattack for more than a year.

At the same time, Chang Kaishen shouted the slogan of "100,000 youths and 100,000 troops", organized 35 new infantry divisions, and formulated a plan for counterattacking southwest and south China in February 1945. In the spring of the same year, the Supreme Command of the Chinese Theater formulated the "White Tower Plan" and decided to carry out a general counteroffensive against the Japanese invaders in the autumn.

In the spring and summer, the national army simultaneously carried out the Battle of Western Henan and Northern Hubei and the Battle of Xiangxi, which opened the prelude to China's frontal battlefield counteroffensive.

In the face of the Chinese army's flanking attacks on the frontal battlefield and the battlefield behind enemy lines, the Japanese invaders continued to retreat, and they could only make this plan: "Even if the situation has reached the last moment, it is necessary to secure important areas around Nanjing, Beiping, and Wuhan." ”

In other words, the Japanese army was very pessimistic about the situation on the Chinese battlefield, and they only wanted to hold Beiping, Nanjing, and Wuhan except for the northeast region.

In last year's Yuxianggui rout, the Japanese army seemed to have won a complete victory, but its logistical materials in the Chinese battlefield had been consumed innumerable, and it was difficult to provide follow-up support when the country was bombed by the US army, and most of the looting and supplies in the battlefield behind the enemy line were cut off by the communist army.

In 1945, the Japanese army in China, whether it was behind enemy lines or in the frontal battlefield, was in a very difficult situation, and could not resist the joint attack of the Nationalist army and the communist army.

By August, the Nationalist army had recovered parts of Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, and Suiyuan provinces on frontal combat. In July, Chiang even made a plan to counterattack Guangzhou, wanting to reclaim it by force, in an attempt to open up a sea supply route for international support.

Therefore, even if the United States had not dropped the atomic bomb, and even if the Soviet Union had not sent troops, the armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party would have been able to drive out the Japanese invaders by their own strength.

Because, Japan has run out of oil and lamps, and the sun is at its end.

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