These two days coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, which reminded many people in China of the eight-year war of resistance that took place 70 years ago. At that time, the Chinese nation was United as one and fought bloody battles to resist foreign aggression. Undeniably, it was through this war that China realized the great turning point of the whole nation from decline to prosperity, and China's international status today is also inseparable from the victory of this war. So that for a long time, in all kinds of official propaganda materials, it has been claimed that the battlefield in China was the main battlefield of the anti-fascist war in the East, and the people in China often hold a generally accepted attitude towards this statement. However, is this really a historical fact?

An important indicator to measure whether a battlefield is the main battlefield of war is the loss of the enemy in the battlefield. As we all know, there were four main battlefields for the anti-fascist allied forces to fight against China during World War II: the battlefield in 1998, where the Japanese army fought against Japan; The northeast battlefield of China is mainly the place where the Soviet Red Army fought with the Japanese Kwantung Army. The Pacific Battlefield and Burma Battlefield, where American troops fought Japanese troops, were mainly Commonwealth troops plus a small number of Chinese and American troops. According to the detailed statistics of the Japanese side after the war, the death toll of the Japanese army in the above four battlefields is as follows: 456,000 in China; China northeast battlefield, 83,000 people; Pacific battlefield, 6.5438+0.5 million people; Battlefield in Myanmar185,000 people. It is not difficult to see from the above figures that the US military killed the Japanese army the most in the Pacific battlefield, exceeding the sum of the other three battlefields. Adding up the death toll of Japanese troops in Shanhaiguan, China and the number of more than 10,000 Japanese troops killed by Chinese Expeditionary Force in Myanmar, it can be calculated that China's army killed more than 470,000 Japanese troops in World War II, which is much less than the results achieved by the US military in the Pacific battlefield. Some netizens may ask, there was a lot of information leakage in the past. Didn't the Japanese army lose 1.33 million people in the battlefield in China? Why is there only 470 thousand left now? It should be pointed out here that the figure of 6,543,800+0,330 includes the number of casualties and prisoners of the Japanese army in China (during World War II, the Japanese army fought extremely tenaciously, and the number of prisoners has been very small, almost negligible), which is the data obtained by adding the absolute loss (death toll) and the relative loss (injured toll) of the Japanese army.

In fact, the US military not only killed the largest number of Japanese troops, but also sank Japanese warships and shot down and destroyed Japanese planes. According to Japanese statistics, during the entire Pacific War, the Japanese navy lost 4 10 warships, with a total tonnage of 1.38 million tons, and lost about 54,000 aircraft of various types. In addition, Japan's 86 1.7 million-ton merchant ships and oil tankers were sunk by the US military, which directly led to the paralysis of Japan's wartime maritime transport lines. However, due to the weak naval and air forces in China during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army lost only 1200 aircraft on the battlefield in China, which is far from the loss of more than 54,000 aircraft on the battlefield in the Pacific. What's more, many of the more than 1200 planes lost by the Japanese army were the results of the US Air Force Volunteers led by General Chennault. As for the number of Japanese warships sunk by China's army during the Anti-Japanese War, it is even more insignificant.

There has always been a popular view in China that during World War II, the battlefield in China contained the main force of the Japanese army, and it was impossible to put more troops into the Pacific battlefield to fight with the Allies. In fact, this view is only half right. The battlefield in China only included the main Japanese forces in one period, that is, from the July 7th Incident in 1937 to the Pearl Harbor Incident in 194 1. After the Pacific War broke out, especially after 1943, the US military launched a counterattack, and the Japanese main force turned to the Pacific battlefield to fight with the US military. Here we look at a data, that is, when Japan surrendered in August, 1945, its strength distribution in several regions: Japan itself, 3.7 million people; China Guannei District, 1 1 10000 people; Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia, 1, 3 1, 000 people. It is not difficult to see from the above data that by the end of the war, the main force of the Japanese army was no longer in China, but on its own land. In addition, it should be pointed out that although the Japanese Kwantung Army in the northeast of China is also stationed in China, its main target is the Soviet Red Army rather than the China Army. In fact, most of the Kwantung Army's dead soldiers were killed by the Soviet Union. Therefore, the Japanese invaders in the real sense are just the so-called "China Army" fighting China's army in China Pass.

In addition, the United States also carried out large-scale strategic bombing and sea blockade against Japan during wartime, which seriously weakened Japan's wartime industrial production capacity. Many big cities were devastated and hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians were killed in the bombing (only on the night of March 9, 1945, the US military dispatched more than 300 B-29 strategic bombers to bomb Tokyo, killing more than 80,000 people). Bombing and blockade have also led to an extreme shortage of various materials in Japan. In the final stage of the Pacific War, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, which not only killed a large number of Japanese, but also dealt a heavy psychological blow to Japanese fascists, completely disintegrating their idea of fighting to the end and promoting Japan's early surrender.

From the facts and data listed above, we can draw a conclusion that the Pacific battlefield of the US military against the Japanese army is the main battlefield of the anti-fascist war in the East, and the United States is the number one main force to defeat Japan. Of course, China has also made great contributions. However, the battlefield in China was not the main battlefield against Japanese fascism, which was related to China's national strength at that time. At that time, China was poor and weak, and the country's industrial base was very weak, so it could not provide a large number of modern weapons and equipment for the army. This makes it possible for us to use inferior equipment to fight the aggressive Japanese fascism, so as not to cause a devastating blow to the Japanese army. And a backward country can't play the role of the first main force in an unprecedented global war like World War II. In this regard, we should not be discouraged to face up to history. The key is to remember a wise saying, "If you fall behind, you will be beaten." Let's unite and work hard to build our country, so that China can stand out in the international arena in the future, and no one will dare to bully us again!