Japan is an island country with poor resources. It relies heavily on foreign countries for most of its industrial raw materials and markets. After being cut off from most of its shipping channels, the number of domestic factories that lacked resources dropped sharply. As the war progressed,
, the number of young and middle-aged people being drafted is also increasing, and the area of military land is becoming larger and larger.
Coupled with the countless landmines dropped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in rural Japan, it also caused a sharp decline in agricultural production. Japan, which usually still needs to import food to supplement its food supply, has become more and more serious about food shortage. By the beginning of 2005, ordinary residents
The amount of food rations is getting smaller and smaller.
After abandoning Southern Manchuria, even the miscellaneous grains that the Japanese rarely paid attention to were already in short supply. Of course, for the royal family and the powerful, the supply could still be guaranteed. But for ordinary residents, even taking a bath and eating
A full meal, even in the winter of 1944, sufficient heating supplies and winter clothing became a luxury.
Although the Japanese government and base camp have suffered huge losses in shipping, they are constantly trying to find ways to transport food from Taiwan, southern Korea, and Vietnam to supply the mainland. However, the food output in these areas must first supply the large local garrisons. The remaining food
Production, even if it can break through the blockade of US submarines and mines, the food transported back to the mainland will be minimal.
After losing Southern Manchuria, the operating rate of Japan's domestic steel plants dropped every day due to lack of raw materials. By January 1945, Japan's domestic steel production had dropped sharply to 40% of the pre-war level. Even if there was no
The workers who were drafted into the army also went hungry because they could not receive their wages because the factories could not operate.
The printing of these counterfeit banknotes dropped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance was extremely exquisite, and it was almost impossible to tell whether they were genuine or fake, which caused a sudden and explosive increase in the purchasing power of the Japanese people. When the government was unable to provide enough supplies to meet market needs, even the powerful black market
After being unable to satisfy residents' frenzied purchasing power, inflation became inevitable.
From January to March of 1945, in just two months, the Japanese currency devalued by 1,000%. In addition to the increasingly constricted war situation and the increasingly difficult material supply, the normal wartime situation
In addition to the inflation, these counterfeit Japanese yen notes dropped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance can almost look like real ones, which can be said to be a great achievement.
Can they be mistaken for real ones? These counterfeit banknotes were originally printed on the two Japanese yen banknote templates seized by the Anti-Japanese Alliance after they captured Shenyang and were stored in the Central Bank of Manchukuo. The paper and ink used are also used for printing authentic Japanese yen.
ink and paper. Some of them were even large amounts of Japanese yen seized from the Bank of Japan in Shenyang and Dalian.
After these Japanese yen, which were used as reserve currencies by the puppet Manchukuo, were airdropped back to Japan. Together with the Japanese yen printed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the impact on Japan's fragile economy can be imagined. In addition, the large amount of airdropped Japanese yen seized in Shenyang and Dalian
, coins that have basically disappeared in Japan, the Japanese economy has reached the point of collapse in less than two months.
In other words, in addition to changing the currency, the Japanese government basically has no effect on the counterfeit banknotes airdropped by the Anti-League, which cost dozens or even hundreds of tons. The Anti-League dispatches several bombers every day from the city to the countryside, as long as there are Japanese
Wherever there are people, a large number of counterfeit banknotes are airdropped.
The Japanese army and navy stationed local air defense fighter groups, constantly dispatching large groups to try to intercept. They even gave up the air defense of some cities to specifically intercept these bombers carrying counterfeit banknotes. However, they were always elusive due to the airdrop operations of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and they were not fixed at all.
location and failed.
These bomber groups are not carrying high-explosive aerial bombs or napalm bombs, but large amounts of counterfeit banknotes. Their targets are not factories and cities, but areas with convenient transportation and gatherings of people. In the selection of airdrop targets
It has a lot of randomness. It can even be said that wherever it flies, it can be counted as a target. Implementing this kind of interception operation is quite difficult for the Japanese air defense system.
The Anti-Japanese Alliance carried out this kind of economic war by directly airdropping large quantities of counterfeit banknotes to the Japanese mainland, simply to accelerate the inflation in Japan. The Japanese used printed legal currency counterfeit banknotes on the Chinese battlefield to arbitrage supplies in the rear area in a way that harmed others and benefited themselves.
It's different. It's purely to disrupt the Japanese economy openly and above board. It's a pure method that harms others without benefiting oneself.
Even if the Japanese government wants to invalidate all these counterfeit banknotes, as well as the yen that these counterfeit banknotes are imitated from, the Japanese have become completely exhausted and cannot even come up with the materials needed to replace the banknotes. There is no specially made
With paper and ink, currency cannot be printed.
The most fundamental thing is that except for a few small mints, most of the remaining large mints were blown up in the first round of air raids by the Anti-Japanese War. The Japanese at the time were still wondering what these Chinese mints were.
If they don't blow up weapons factories or industrial zones, why bother blowing up banks and mints? After discovering the true intentions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance two years later, the Japanese were at their wits' end.
If new replacement currencies cannot be printed, all these counterfeit banknotes cannot be driven out of the market. The most important thing is that the number of counterfeit banknotes is too large, and the Japanese at this time cannot afford the cost of exchange. The most important thing is that these counterfeit banknotes are even consciously made old.
There are so many counterfeit banknotes that even the most experienced experts in Japan have difficulty distinguishing between genuine and fake banknotes in a short period of time.
The Japanese government, unable to change the situation, finally chose to let it go. What else can be done? The current Japanese economy simply does not have the ability to replace the templates of the banknotes that these counterfeit banknotes are forged. There is even no place to print new banknotes.
arrive.
The forcible confiscation of these counterfeit banknotes caused many resistance incidents. I wanted to use barter, but I couldn't get so many supplies. It was impossible to use all the checks. You can buy two kilograms of radishes.
Isn't it just a joke to write a check? What's more, even if you write a check, there is no place to cash it.
Moreover, both the Japanese military and the so-called most efficient Japanese police system were shocked to find that after the leaflets dropped by the Anti-Japanese League, the number of incidents and the number of so-called non-citizens in their mouths increased significantly.
, and the imperial army and the government no longer show the same respect as before.
At this time, the Japanese base camp, which is still stubborn and trying to resist, does not dare to push the people too hard. If a large-scale civil uprising is triggered at this time, it will be really bad luck. Although the Japanese mainland at this moment,
It has become a very large military camp.
But if the Japanese military is determined to suppress it, they may not just be as simple as a civil uprising. Even if the Japanese soldiers are obeying orders, they have been thoroughly trained into beasts. But shooting in the face of their own relatives is different from treating other enemy countries.
When it comes to residents, things are different. If the pressure is too tight and it might lead to a mutiny, then it will be completely ruined.
The Japanese who were so distressed by Yang Zhen clearly felt that the Americans just wanted to completely defeat them. But the various methods and practices adopted by the hateful Chinese in Manchuria were to dig up the ancestral graves of the Japanese and destroy the entire
Japan is in complete chaos from bottom to top.
But in the face of this hateful and scheming opponent, the Japanese base camp and the government were helpless and could only turn their grief and anger into strength and vent all their anger on the Americans. For the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which had always refused to go to sea, they were
I absolutely don’t have the guts to mess with those Chinese people who they really can’t get enough of.
For the Japanese, they insist that without the Americans as a bastard behind the scenes, the Chinese people alone would not be able to make such a big move. From the Chinese battlefield to the Pacific, it was all caused by the bastards of the United States. Even Japan
When a person jumps into a well, he has to drag Americans into the water with him.
As long as the Americans cannot withstand the huge casualties and retreat, and then negotiate with the Americans, then the result will definitely be much better. And without the manipulation of the Americans behind the scenes, the Chinese alone would not be able to create such a big project.
The movement of the devil in Manchuria, the threat to the Japanese mainland, is at best a demonstration in the air.
Without the support of the navy, they would not be able to land on the Japanese mainland, which is surrounded by coastal areas. Moreover, the Chinese who are not united internally may start fighting among themselves in a short time. The Japanese firmly believe that the Chongqing government will not sit back and watch the communist army do this.
Rapidly develop and expand.
At that time, the Japanese army was at its strongest, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party continued to have disputes and even fights every year. Now that the Japanese army is at the end of its war effort, it can be said to have given both sides the best opportunity to compete for dominance in post-war China.
The power will definitely lead to a big fight between the two parties.
The Japanese, who are expecting the Chinese to fight against each other, are constantly adopting strategic contraction methods in the northern battlefield of China. The entire army retreats to the south of the Huaihe River and uses the Huaihe River as a line of defense to defend the Central China region. In South China, it defends the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River below Wuhan.
, the richest region in China. In southern Korea, it has adopted a posture of shrinking back. No matter what you do, I can't stand it.
I just want to delay as much time as possible until the Chinese start fighting on their own. By then, the pressure on China's battlefield will disappear in an instant. The result of the fight between the snipe and the clam can only be the profit of the fisherman. The Japanese are stubborn
He believed that as long as the powerful communist army in Manchuria that had now entered the border was at war with the Nationalist government, the Japanese army could at least ensure its control over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Moreover, the enemy's energy was diverted to the pass, and the entire controlled area in southern Korea was basically safe. Therefore, on the battlefield inside the pass, the Japanese army faced various base areas in North China and the hundreds of thousands of well-equipped anti-alliance troops entering the pass.
It is a repeated contraction. It is just to provoke internal fighting among the Chinese people and create opportunities for them to profit from the situation.
The Japanese are very good at calculating, but the Chinese cannot be fooled by them, which is another matter. The Japanese abandoned the Jinpu Line, and even planned to move the disaster northward in some areas of eastern Henan, moving the hot spots on the Chinese battlefield
, transferred to the Chinese themselves, this is a bit too obvious.
Yang Zhen's plan from 1945 to completely defeat the Japanese not only on the battlefield, but also psychologically and economically was carried out step by step very smoothly starting from January 1945. In this war
In the final stage of the war, Yang Zhen adopted a variety of methods to completely and fundamentally destroy the advantages of the Japanese step by step.
The bomber groups of the two armies were in the sky, constantly igniting Japanese cities one after another. Japanese military industrial bases were reduced to nothing one after another. Yang Zhen's plan to completely disintegrate Japan psychologically and economically also
While it was unfolding step by step, a new round of combat operations on the ground was also launched one after another.
Just as the Americans were doing their best to clear out the last remaining Japanese troops in the Philippine battlefield and were preparing for the Battle of Iwo Jima, the anti-Japanese troops remaining in the Northeast were also constantly entering North Korea. With the cooperation of the Korean Independence Army, they were going all out to attack the North Korean army.