Even if it does enter Shaanxi, Japan will regret it. Shaanxi is criss-crossed, with mountains and rivers connected. Obviously, it will take several days to go around a ditch. Not to mention that Japan's mechanized troops can't play a role, it is difficult to find a fellow villager to ask for directions. Shaanxi folk customs are tough. Not to mention that it is enough for the Japanese to drink a pot when they meet guerrillas or bandits. After playing hide-and-seek for a few days, Japan collapsed and might as well not go.
The anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians built strong fortifications in the mountainous areas, equipped with strong firepower. When the enemy ship sailed into the river, it turned over and fired mortars at the enemy on the other side. loyal opposition crossed the Yellow River in a roundabout way and attacked the Japanese army from behind, which made them worry that they would be attacked from front to back and could not organize the crossing.
3. After1939, the Eighth Route Army established a base area in North China, went deep behind enemy lines, and constantly launched attacks on the Japanese army, so that the Japanese aggressors could no longer look west. I stopped playing in Shaanxi after that.
4. The natural barrier of the Yellow River and the tenacious resistance of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians led to the Japanese army never occupying an inch of land in Shaanxi. Shaanxi has become the rear area of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, especially the base camp of the central government's anti-Japanese command and the leading center of the victory of the Liberation War.
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1939, after Wang Jingwei, the second figure of the Kuomintang, publicly surrendered to Japan, he shamelessly suggested that Japan occupy Shaanxi as soon as possible, saying that this would quickly defeat the troops of the Eighth Route Army and Yang Hucheng entrenched in Shaanxi.
The Japanese army then attacked Songjiachuan (the seat of Wubao County) in Dadukou, northern Shaanxi for four consecutive times, with at least 500 troops, at least 1500. Planes and cannons opened the way, followed by warships. However, when the enemy bombed indiscriminately, our army concentrated its fire on the enemy ship, causing the enemy to capsize and return home defeated.
However, when returning to the east coast, the Japanese troops preparing to cross the river were suddenly attacked, and the camp was in chaos, so they quickly retreated in the direction of Taiyuan. The Japanese army successively launched attacks in Fugu, Shenmu, jia county, Wubao, Zaolinping, Matouguan, Grand Customs Clearance and Tongguan, and each time they dispatched 5000 to 10000 troops, they were repelled by the same tactics.
It is worth mentioning that Yang Hucheng's troops in Chaoyi (now Dali) and Deng Baoshan's troops in Yulin dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese troops who tried to cross the Yellow River from east and north (Baotou). Fugu and Grand Customs Clearance (Chaoyi) were occupied by the Japanese army and were quickly recovered by the anti-Japanese forces.
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Phoenix Net-Why didn't the Japanese invaders occupy Shaanxi?