This answer has what you want https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/314152/49962
WP already does this out of the box thanks to the include_children parameter of tax_query which is true by default.
So you do not need to tell it the sub-terms, just do something like this:
/wp/v2/posts?categories=1
Where categories=1 is the parent category ID
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