Which was the weakest division of the Japanese army in World War II?

During the Second World War, the Japanese army attacked many Asian countries, including China, and its soldiers were more ferocious and crazy than any army of any country in the world at that time. However, there is such a Japanese army that is different from other troops. They will not carry out crazy suicide charge like other Japanese troops, and their soldiers will even do some "small businesses" such as reselling munitions. Within the Japanese army, this special force has always been despised by commanders of other troops. In China, there are even all kinds of interesting stories about this unit. This unit is the famous Osaka Japanese Fourth Division. In the eyes of many people, this fourth division is a different kind of Japanese army, and it can be said that it is the most cowardly division in the Japanese army. However, unlike many people's impressions, the actual level of this so-called "abandoned" teacher is far from what is generally advertised. Today, the author will take you to know the real Japanese Fourth Division in Osaka.

The Fourth Division of Osaka, Japan was founded in 1888. It is one of the oldest divisions of the Japanese army and one of the few first-class divisions of the Japanese army. As we all know, as a Pacific island country, Japan's resources are actually quite scarce. Although Japan was strong before World War II, it was quite difficult to maintain a large number of elite troops. In this case, the Fourth Division can still be preserved as the most elite division of the Japanese army, and its combat effectiveness is far from what outsiders think. In the eyes of many people, the Fourth Division is a passive force to avoid war. Its soldiers are afraid of death and will only try their best to quit fighting on the battlefield. However, in fact, if we delve into the history of the Fourth Division, we can easily find that the record of the Fourth Division is absolutely good. During the second Changsha Battle, the 4th Division confronted the 10th Army, the national ace, directly leading to the rout of the 10th Army. You know, when defending Hengyang, the Tenth Army regretted it. The Japanese army defended Hengyang for 47 days, and the soldiers were absolutely brave. If the fourth division really passively avoided the war as rumored, it would be absolutely impossible to defeat the tenth army. In fact, during the battle of Changsha, the Fourth Division was once under the direct command of the Japanese base camp because of its flexible combat mode.

Maybe some friends will say that the Japanese elite is actually in the Pacific battlefield, and there is no Japanese main force in China battlefield (I disagree, after all, the Third Division, which is known as the strongest Japanese army, has been stationed in China). However, in fact, the fourth division also played in the Pacific Ocean, with a brilliant record. 1942, the 4th Division was transferred to the Philippines to join the American troops attacking the Bataan Peninsula, and captured the Bataan fortress that the American troops thought could not be captured by the Japanese in three years. However, it took only one night for the Fourth Division of the Coregidor Fortress in the same area, and the US military could only watch the Japanese artillery fire raze their bunkers one by one (the Fourth Division sent a large number of scouts in advance to find out all the positions of the US military).

Since the fourth division has a good combat capability, why has this unit been hacked? There is a simple reason. As the name implies, almost all the soldiers in this unit are from Osaka, Japan. Osaka has always been a commercial city in Japan, and most residents make a living by doing business. Most of the soldiers in the fourth division are businessmen, not farmers like most soldiers in other societies. Fisherman background. Soldiers and businessmen of the Fourth Division were born, giving full play to the advantages of businessmen and having flexible minds. However, because they used to be businessmen, they were civilized earlier, so the soldiers of the Fourth Division were not as crazy as other Japanese soldiers in the battle. The fighting style of the Fourth Division was more like that of the US military: maintaining their vitality and not making unnecessary sacrifices. This way of fighting was unique in the militaristic Japanese army at that time, and even violated the prevailing Bushido spirit at that time. Therefore, even the reputation of the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army at that time was not good, so that the reputation of this unit has been passed down to this day (a considerable part of the credit is attributed to the domestic spicy chicken history inventors, that is, those "historians" who fabricated history without distinguishing truth from falsehood, and fabricated a large number of "histories" that seemed to be fabricated completely according to reality).

However, although the reputation has always been bad, the fourth division has survived quite tenaciously. Although the Fourth Division was dissolved after World War II because of Japan's defeat, its designation was still preserved. Today, the Fourth Division is still one of the four first-class divisions of the Japanese Self-Defense Force. Moreover, due to the rampant right-wing forces in Japan in recent years, the Fourth Division, a force that does not follow Bushido, is still being hacked.