During the period of the All-out War of Resistance, because the Japanese army was equipped with a large number of heavy artillery, tanks and other heavy equipment, and the long-distance transportation of these equipment had to rely on railways, the Japanese army became the main user of the wartime railway line. In fact, in just 5 months after the Lugou Bridge incident, the Japanese army has opened up the entire line of Beining, Pingsui, Jiaoji, Zhengtai and Tongpu, as well as the northern section of the Pinghan and Jinpu railways.
During the War of Resistance,
90%
The railway was occupied and used by the Japanese
By the end of 1942, only 2,800 kilometers of China's more than 21,000 kilometers of railways had not fallen into the hands of the Japanese army. After the Battle of Yuxianggui in 1944, the Xianggui, Yuehan, and Qiangui lines in the south also fell for a time. During the eight years of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, only the western section of the Longhai Line and the domestic section of the Yunnan-Yue Line were not occupied by the Japanese army. Therefore, in order to weaken the power of the mechanized units of the Japanese army, reduce their mobility, and force the enemy to "race with our army with their legs", except for the great battle of the Hundred Regiments War, which concentrates on breaking the road, the military and civilians behind the enemy's rear have never been interrupted in the sabotage of railway lines.
The anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians behind enemy lines launched a large-scale traffic raid
As early as the establishment of the first anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines, the Jin-Cha-Ji Revolutionary Base Area, the Eighth Route Army unit realized that "[the base area] is between several major lines of communication, and the four major railway trunk lines that threaten Pingsui, Pinghan, Tongpu, and Zhengtai, and the development of guerrilla warfare here can directly cause the enemy's communication to feel extremely threatened and difficult, and suffer a major blow." During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it was difficult to count the number of railway mileages that the vast number of anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians sabotaged by the Japanese army, and the Eighth Route Army's briefings on the war situation had a large number of briefings on the road breaking every month.
The ability of the Rikou to repair roads and protect the road is very strong
However, the Japanese army is not as wasteful as in the modern anti-war drama, its ability to build roads and protect roads is very strong, a Japanese army engineering wing can often carry hundreds of kilometers of railroad tracks, in the case of roadbed is not damaged to the railway for rapid repair, such as the Hundred Regiments War in the whole line of paralyzed Zhengtai Railway, the Japanese army only 1 month to resume traffic. In addition, the Japanese army also extended the "sitting method" to railway protection, forced the masses along the railway to set up a "love village", drove the masses to patrol along the railway line day and night, and guarded the railway tracks and power lines in sections.
The Japanese Kou retaliated by burning and killing in retaliation for the railway raid
If the railway is destroyed once, the Japanese army will capture and kill one person in a nearby village, hang the head of the person for display, and also fine "pull out an electric pole and fine yang thousand yuan, and lose a wire and fine yang hundred yuan." After each railway was destroyed, in addition to retaliating with the surrounding masses by burning and killing, the Japanese army often forced the masses to build roads, "causing the people to repair and break through day and night, and they were inevitably tired." In order to take care of the interests of the masses, the Eighth Route Army adjusted its tactics at the right time and no longer carried out comprehensive railway raids, but more important parts such as railway bridges and water towers were selected for blasting.
The Eighth Route Army promptly changed its tactics and changed its focus on large-scale sabotage
When crossing the railway line, the Eighth Route Army often no longer takes the initiative to demolish the railway tracks; nor does it organize the masses to demolish the railway on a large scale, but instead digs all over the perimeter of the railway line to allow pedestrians and rickshaws to pass through the traffic trenches, making it inconvenient for the enemy's mechanized troops to move and containing them within a limited range on both sides of the railway line.