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What are the two wars that Japanese launched against China?
Sino-Japanese War and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

1, Sino-Japanese War

The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 (Japanese War, Korean Peninsula War, Sino-Japanese War/First Sino-Japanese War) was a war of Japanese aggression against China and Korea at the end of 19. According to China's calendar, 1894, the time when the war broke out was the Sino-Japanese War, so it was called the Sino-Japanese War.

1894, the East Learning Party uprising broke out in North Korea, and the North Korean government forces were successively defeated and forced to ask for help from the sovereign state of the Qing Dynasty. Japan also took the opportunity to send troops to North Korea and deliberately provoked war.

1894 (20th year of Guangxu) On July 25th, the naval battle of Toyoda broke out, and the Sino-Japanese War began. Because the Japanese had planned for a long time, the Qing Dynasty rushed to fight, and the war ended with the defeat of China and the annihilation of the Beiyang Navy. Under the military pressure of Japanese militarism, the Qing government in China signed the treaty of shimonoseki in April 1895.

The result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 brought unprecedented national crisis to the Chinese nation and greatly deepened the degree of semi-colonization of China society. On the other hand, it has made Japan's national strength stronger and laid an important foundation for it to become a big country.

2. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, or War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression for short, refers to an all-out national war in which China resisted Japanese aggression during the Second World War in the middle of the 20th century.

The time of the Anti-Japanese War began with the September 18th Incident at 193 1 and ended at 1945 for fourteen years.

193 1 year. After the September 18th Incident, the Japanese invaders completely occupied the northeast of China and established the puppet Manchukuo. Since then, they have created troubles and provoked wars in North China and Shanghai, while the National Government adopted a compromise policy to prevent the conflict from expanding.

1On July 7, 937, the Japanese army provoked the Lugouqiao Incident near Beiping, and the Sino-Japanese war broke out in an all-round way. 194 1 year 65438+February 7th, after Japan launched the Pacific War, Chongqing National Government officially declared war on Japan on February 9th, 65438. On August 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the allied forces.

China battlefield is one of the main battlefields in World War II. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the people of China, was an important part of the Second World War.

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the people of China, is the greatest patriotic war in the history of the Chinese nation, a just war of China people against Japanese imperialist aggression, an important part of the world anti-fascist war, and the first national liberation war of China against foreign aggression in modern times.

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Introduction to the main battles of the two wars;

1, the battle of Pyongyang

The battle of Pyongyang was an important battle in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. It was held in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea's Pingan Province, on September 15, which was a decisive battle for Japan to expel the forces of the Qing Dynasty in North Korea.

1At the beginning of September, 894, the Japanese army began to advance to Pyongyang, with more than16,000 troops participating in the war and about13,000 troops defending the Qing army. Although the Qing government dispatched military forces from various places to Pyongyang, the progress was slow except that the company commander Lu led two battalions of cavalry to Yizhou in September 13.

The Japanese army completed its deployment on September 15, and then launched an attack. After a whole day of fierce fighting, the Qing army repelled the Japanese army at the bridge, and the Japanese army captured the Xuanwu Gate and Peony Pavilion, strategic locations in the north of Pyongyang.

Later, the Qing army abandoned the trench and retreated in panic. On the way back, I was repeatedly ambushed by the Japanese army. After retreating, there was no defensive support point to rely on, resulting in heavy casualties. By September 24, the Qing army had all returned to China, and the Japanese army won a total victory.

The battle of Pyongyang in September 15, together with the naval battle of the Yellow Sea in September 17, became the turning point of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. From then on, the Japanese army took the initiative in the battlefield and began to advance rapidly in China.

In the battle of Pyongyang, the outstanding generals in Philadelphia, Shandong Province faced the situation that friendly forces fled and the enemy was pressing hard, and loyal opposition died heroically. Ye Zhichao, on the other hand, abandoned the city and fled for 500 miles, causing the Japanese army to occupy the whole territory of Korea.

2. Battle of Songhu

The Battle of Songhu (also known as the August 13th Battle, the second Shanghai Incident in Japan) was the first large-scale battle between War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China and Japan, and it was also the largest and most tragic battle in the whole Sino-Japanese war.

The battle of Songhu began in August 1937 13. After the Lugouqiao Incident, Chiang Kai-shek took the initiative to fight back in Shanghai in order to change the direction of Japanese invasion from north to south to east and west for a long time.

About 654.38+0000 troops from China and Japan went into battle, and the battle itself lasted for three months. The Japanese army invested more than 200,000 people in 8 divisions and 2 brigades, and announced more than 40,000 casualties. China's army invested more than 800,000 people in the most elite Central Teaching Corps, 87th Division, 88th Division,148th Division and 62nd Brigade, and counted 300,000 casualties by itself.

In the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses due to the stubborn resistance of the Kuomintang. For China, this campaign marked the real beginning of the undeclared all-out war between the two countries, and the regional conflict after the Lugouqiao Incident escalated into all-out war, completely smashing the Japanese plan of "destroying China in three months".

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