Chapter 333: The Origin of History (2)
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The fall of Wuhan and the collective relocation of the high-level leaders of the Nationalist Government to Chongqing gave Han Yunhua a big blow, but Han Yunhua recovered quickly, not because Han Yunhua's psychological quality was good, but because Han Yunhua figured out a key. What he has to do now is not to care about whether what he has done in the past two years is meaningful, but to do his best to lay a solid foundation for the take-off of the Chinese nation and the revival of the ancient Chinese civilization.
Of course, Nanchang is still occupied by the Japanese army as in history, and Wuhan has fallen as always, history seems to have played a big joke with him Han Yunhua, everything seems to have returned to the origin of history, but Han Yunhua knows that this is not the case, on the surface Japan still occupies an absolute advantage as in history, even in 1944, when it was about to be defeated, it could still launch a sweaty battle of Yuxianggui, and the national government could not be defeated. However, it is also very clear that some of the most basic situations in Japan are that Japan is an island country, limited by the basic domestic conditions, and almost all of Japan's strategic materials and a large part of civilian materials are extremely lacking, especially major materials such as steel, oil, and rubber are mainly dependent on imports.
As we all know, imports require a lot of money, and Japan's economic strength, which has just recovered from the economic crisis of the Great Depression and the Great Collapse, is not very strong, and at worst, Japan's economic performance is extremely bad. Although the Japanese government implemented many effective methods to save the economic crisis, it was limited by the underdevelopment of the economy itself, which led Japan to choose to use foreign expansion and aggression against China to mitigate its own losses. However, as it stands, Japan is still some time away from fully recovering, although it has temporarily contained the spread of the economic crisis by using the raw materials it has plundered from China and the vast market in eastern China. Of course, there is a historical basis for all this, according to the history of the Japanese army, at the time of the "77" incident, Japan's "gold reserves, including the reserve for the issuance of banknotes, were only 1.35 billion yen"; As far as Japan is concerned, what restricts the scale of the war is actually its gold reserves. It meant that Japan's reserves of positive currency had limited the war from the beginning.
From the very beginning of this war, the Japanese high-level has deviated from the track set for him, and the Chinese are not the lambs imagined by the Japanese, which mysterious and magical Chinese anti-Japanese forces have given the Japanese army great damage. Eventually, Japan launched a war, but it did everything possible to "seek an early solution". As everyone knows, fighting a war is not only about the weaponry and the quality of the soldiers, but also about fighting a war in a contest of comprehensive national strength. The military is important, but the economy is the most important support. If you don't have a strong economy to back it up, no matter how powerful an army is, it's a paper tiger, and when your good soldiers don't have a bullet in their rifles, you suddenly find that the economy is actually an important core of war.
In order to maintain the war of aggression against China, Japan made relatively adequate preparations and imported a large number of strategic materials, and the total amount of military supplies imported from overseas in the 12th year of Showa (1937) alone reached 960 million yen. Most of these were imported from the United States on the west coast of the ocean, and both in terms of quantity and price, Japan was greatly bleeding. By June of the following year, in order to carry out the Battle of Wuhan, Japan tightened its belts to get by, and the whole country donated money and materials to support the government in fighting this war. However, at that time, the Japanese economy was on the verge of collapse, and in order to build more troops, even the rifles used by school instructors in Japan were withdrawn and used to equip the expanded army. …,
This is only a manifestation of Japan's economic recession, but Han Yunhua knows better that this is only a superficial thing, and cannot actually show the people the inner deterioration of Japan's economy. As an elite commander of a republic in the new century, Han Yunhua knew exactly what that meant. According to the records of Japan's war history, due to the needs of the war, Japan transferred a large number of young and strong people from the country to join the army, and the continuous increase in the number of soldiers directly led to the shortage of labor, food, and energy in Japan. By 1939, after the Battle of Wuhan, Japan's military expenditure had reached 6.156 billion yen, far exceeding Japan's national reserves, thus sharply impoverishing Japan's national strength and losing its ability to fully guarantee the supply of military supplies to the army.
If an army loses sufficient logistical support, then the combat effectiveness of this army can be imagined. However, this is not absolute, just as the Eighth Route Army under the leadership of the Communist Party and a large number of guerrillas do not need so much logistical support, and they are still fighting in battle, because this army has been fighting without sufficient logistical support since its formation. From this aspect alone, the Japanese army was no match for the Eighth Route Army in any case. It is precisely because of this reason that the pain and pressure of the head of the Japanese Central Command have been greatly aggravated, so much so that his chief of staff and the land minister claimed that "a strong foreign force and a cadre in the middle are a portrayal of our country today, and it will no longer be maintained after a long time."
By consulting some post-war historical materials and reading the autobiographies of some veteran generals, Han Yunhua knew that roughly after the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army's establishment, equipment, and combat effectiveness of the troops generally decreased compared with before the battle. This is also an important reason why Japan has no choice but to change its political and military strategy in an attempt to "use China to contain China" and "use war to feed war."
Although Han Yunhua's two years of hard fighting still failed to change China's disadvantage, Han Yunhua also figured out that he was just an ordinary soldier who had a little bit of historical trend. Compared with the long river of the entire history, he is just a drop in the ocean, and he is nothing. Of course, compared with the eight-year-long war related to the inheritance of Chinese civilization, Han Yunhua's personal strength is very small. But Han Yunhua knew very well that he was now just doing what the most ordinary Chinese children could do, and what he had to do, and the result was unpredictable.
Moreover, Han Yunhua still recognized the achievements he had made in the past two years, especially the base area of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, which stretched for hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, which was the largest and most stable anti-Japanese base area established by the Communist Party so far. This not only expands its own strength, but also greatly weakens the enemy's strength. Originally, the Saibei area was an area under the control of the Japanese, and it was the largest area for the supply of Japanese war horses, but now, is it not that Han Yunhua underestimated those Japanese troops, the strategic materials and military land invested by the Japanese army in the Saibei area were enough to fight a resounding battle, and the Japanese puppet army that lost here was countless, and Han Yunhua set up tens of thousands of prisoners of war in dozens of large mining prisoner camps in the Baotou area, of which 90 were Japanese. This is what he Han Yunhua has done to China and the entire Chinese nation in the past two years, whether it has changed the fate of China Han Yunhua is not clear, but he knows that it has really weakened the strength of the Japanese army.
This is enough, as long as it is beneficial to the Chinese nation, Han Yunhua will unswervingly carry it out. Even if it is not possible to change China's fate in a short period of time, then Han Yunhua is secretly determined to consume Japan's war potential to the greatest extent, so that Japan can open fire on the United States and other Western powers this year or less, and then Han Yunhua is confident that he will be able to do so in a very short time
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