sustain the war by means of war(yǐ zhàn yǎng zhàn)

sustain the war by means of war

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ zh à NY ǎ ngzh à n, which means to use the manpower, material resources and financial resources obtained in the war to continue the war, so as to expand the results of the war. From a talk with Xinhua daily about the new international situation.

The origin of Idioms

Mao Zedong's "talk to Xinhua Daily reporter on the new international situation" said: "it will carry out its political attack of" using China to control China "and its economic aggression of" using war to support war. "

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in military affairs. Xiang Chun's coal city Fury: "the main task of Xiaodao is to grab coal, so as to realize its evil purpose of supporting war with war."

Idiom story

Japan originally wanted to make up for its lack of resources through war plunder, but as a result, difficulties were increased, and the war "consumed its original things". According to statistics, in less than four and a half years from July 1937 to December 1941, the Japanese army spent 3775.8 billion yen on military expenditure, equivalent to 2448.1 billion yen before the war (1934-1936), which is equivalent to the five large-scale wars of foreign aggression after the Sino Japanese War (Sino Japanese War, Russo Japanese War, World War I, sending troops to Siberia and occupation) 4 times of the total expenditure in Northeast China. with the extension of the front, Japan's domestic labor force and resources are seriously insufficient. Therefore, the Japanese government has put forward the policy of "supporting war with war". On December 8, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and launched the Pacific war with the main purpose of seizing the interests of the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan faced the situation of fighting in Asia and the Pacific at the same time, which required more troops. At that time, due to the fact that adult men were all recruited as soldiers in cities and villages of Japan, there were few men who could serve as labor force. facing the situation of serious shortage of labor force, it is impossible to obtain a large number of labor force from normal channels. For this reason, the Japanese authorities tried to mobilize the domestic labor force to engage in military production through domestic "volunteer service". On the other hand, they adopted the policy of "supporting war with war", using the labor captured in the occupied areas and the prisoners of war to make them engage in various kinds of servitude. It can be seen that the policy of "supporting the war with war" was one of Japan's basic policies to maintain and expand the war during World War II. "Supporting the war with war" enabled Japan to maintain its economy in wartime. It is one of the inevitable ways for Japan to maintain and expand the war to drive the people in the occupied areas to force labor and make full use of the large number of prisoners obtained in the war to supplement the shortage of labor force.

Chinese PinYin : yǐ zhàn yǎng zhàn