From 1938 to 10, after the Japanese invaders occupied Guangzhou and Wuhan, China and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression gradually entered the stage of strategic stalemate. Facing the situation that the war turned into a protracted war, the Japanese invaders made some adjustments to their strategies and tactics of invading China while continuing to adhere to the general policy of destroying China.

Militarily, the Japanese army basically stopped the strategic attack on the frontal battlefield, adopted a conservative occupation policy, and gradually focused on attacking and destroying the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.

Politically, the policy of giving priority to military offensives, supplemented by political persuasion, was changed to the policy of giving priority to political persuasion and supplemented by military strikes, in an attempt to induce the Kuomintang government to compromise and surrender.

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Reasons for Japan's Adjustment of China Strategy

With the expansion of the war situation and the extension of the front, the Japanese army is more dispersed and its morale is gradually declining. The heavy war consumption and the abnormal development of military industry have made Japan's financial economy increasingly in trouble. The development of guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines and the expansion of anti-Japanese base areas have consumed and contained a large number of Japanese troops, forming an independent and vast anti-Japanese battlefield behind enemy lines, posing an increasingly serious threat to the Japanese army.

On the frontal battlefield, China's army continued to carry out defensive operations against Japanese troops in Nanchang, Xiangyang East, Xiangbei, Zaoyang I (Chang) area around Wuhan, Nanning area in Guangxi, Zhongtiaoshan area in Shanxi, Suiyuan West and other places, forming a situation in which the frontal battlefield and the enemy's rear battlefield supported each other strategically, cooperated with each other and fought for a long time.

China Military Network —— Adjustment of Japanese Strategy towards China