1937 after the war. Our army is in the stage of strategic defense, and the battles of Taierzhuang, Songhu and Taiyuan are all aimed at resisting the Japanese attack. After the war in Wuhan, although the Japanese army occupied a vast territory, it was at the end of its rope, forming a "long snake array" in the Japanese-occupied areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River-with a small strategic depth and more troops; The north occupied almost the whole of North China and Northeast China, and no more troops attacked. 194 1 or so, the war situation gradually turned into a stalemate.

1942 after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army transferred a large number of elite troops to the battlefields in the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia. Take the Kwantung Army as an example. In 1938, the troops reached more than 800,000. It is claimed that when the Soviet army 1945 attacked the Northeast, there were only 600,000, and a considerable part of them were garbage divisions established in 1944. Therefore, starting from this stage,