The passage about the three-hour white-knife battle of the stone pai defense war has been debunked as early as a few years ago, and it is unthinkable that this kind of obscene thing has a special market, and there are still people spreading it to this day. What's even more ridiculous is that every time it is played, there are always a large number of believers cheering for it.
When commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a person in Chongqing wrote a sacred article commemorating the defense of the National Army's Shipai, "Shipai Weiji| which is more meaningful than "Hacksaw Ridge"! Blood Epic, Chongqing Don't Forget", which reads:
"On that day 72 years ago, On May 30, 1943, it was a scorched earth, and the air was filled with the smell of blood. The longest white-knife battle in the history of World War II took place in the afternoon at Cao Jiafa.
"On the battlefield of Gaojialing near Caojiaba, there were 3 hours when gunshots could not be heard. This is because the two armies are completely glued together and cannot shoot at all! Only draw knives against each other, white blades hand-to-hand combat! When the enemies meet each other, their eyes are extremely red! White knives in, red knives out! Kill or get killed! There is no choice on both sides, no way back! Either you die or I live! Whoever knocks out the other person, he can go out! Thousands of people fought together, and both sides killed the red eye! Kill the corpses all over the field, and the blood flows like a river! Kill the sky is dark, the sun and moon are dark!
"Exactly 3 hours! This is the longest white-knife battle in the history of World War II, and one of the most brutal fragments in the history of human warfare! Nearly 2,000 Japanese troops were killed in the battle, and the lives of 1,500 Nationalist troops were forever frozen here. ”
Very exciting, very sensational, very cooperative with the drama. But I have to ask again, where is the source of such a story?
The creation of literary works can be imagined by imagination, and the recording of historical events is different, it requires that everything you record in the text must have a solid basis, and it cannot be created out of nothing from your own imagination.
Regarding the Battle of Western Hubei, there are quite rich historical materials between China and Japan that have been made public, and perhaps I have not seen enough information, but judging by the information I can personally find, neither the mainland nor Taiwan nor Japan has written a single account of the parties concerned, nor has there been any record of such a large-scale white-knife war in a war report. So I would love for the author to give the source of this statement and let me believe it again, but I'm afraid I can't wait.
The author of this article should be a hardcore fan of the drama, because he is too ignorant of the fighting style of the Japanese army and the national army. I think it is still necessary to introduce the tradition and ability of the two sides to fight with white knives.
Compared with the Western powers, the Japanese army paid special attention to the training of white-knife warfare. In his militarist textbook, The Army Reader, he insisted that "even in the era of scientific warfare, at the end of the conflict between the two armies, a hand-to-hand battle must be performed." At this time, the only way to solve the battle is the stab of the bayonet with the strength of each person's wrist." Objectively speaking, by the time of World War II, when fighting the US military with a large number of automatic firearms, this tactical thinking of insisting on "white troop assault" to solve the battle had become backward, but it still played a relatively large role in fighting the Chinese army in the war of aggression against China. To tell the truth, either influenced by it or invariably the same, this is also the tactical thinking that our army has adhered to for a long time.
Under the guidance of such tactical ideas, the training of thorns became one of the basic trainings of Japanese soldiers. Each squadron of the army is equipped with an instructor for thorn training, each squadron has a special plan for the training and examination of thorns, and in 1932, a special "SwordPlay Teaching Model" was promulgated, which became a model for assassination training in the whole army.
The assassination training of Japanese soldiers is not limited to the exercise time, but as long as there is free time, before eating, before going to bed, between marches, etc., the squadron leader or the thorn instructor must squeeze out a little time to organize the soldiers to practice assassination. Through such uninterrupted training, the Japanese devils and the gun did reach a high tacit understanding, and they were able to be handy when charging into the battlefield, plus the Nutrition of Japanese soldiers was generally better than that of Chinese soldiers, and their physique was generally stronger than that of Chinese soldiers, so their white-knife warfare skills were absolutely first-class at that time. Combined with the technique of stabbing, and more importantly, the Bushido they advocated, forged the confidence and bravery of the bayonet, and had an advantage in morale.
The Nationalist army has always paid little attention to white-knife warfare training. Since the hiring of the German military adviser Shi Dezhi's skills training, because the German army does not pay attention to white-knife warfare, the training for white-knife warfare is even more insufficient. The lack of spiritual education in the national army has never been able to cultivate the courage to see the bayonet red. When fighting with the Red Army, we should try our best to avoid close combat and white-knife warfare, and whenever the Red Army fights with close combat and white-knife warfare, if it is impossible to get rid of it, it often surrenders its guns and surrenders. When encountering an opponent like a Japanese devil who dares to fight and can fight, the gap is even greater, and he is even less an opponent.
Look at what Chen Cheng, commander of the Sixth Theater who commanded the Battle of Western Hubei and also blew out the great victory in western Hubei, said in a secret telegram to the headquarters: "Combat skills are not refined, and some recruits join the battle after they are added or the cadres are too poor, and the training is not lawful." In particular, it is worse for assault battles after the preparation of the charge (in-formation battles) and the destruction of obstacles and side defense mechanisms and white-knife warfare. "Soldiers are weak and weak when they are new recruits, and after entering the camp, they are unable to regain their strong physique due to nutritional relations, and generally their physical strength is insufficient, if the enemy occupies a higher mountain as a stronghold, when our soldiers climb from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, they are already tired, and they are even more powerless to fight with the enemy's white blade." Chief Chen's secret telegram, which could only be circulated internally, was right, but he seemed to have missed a point, that is, in addition to physical strength and skill, the bayonet needed fighting spirit, and the vast majority of the Nationalist army lacked this fighting spirit.
According to the "Stone Tablets", the largest white-knife battle in the history of World War II, 2,000 ghosts were killed at the cost of killing 1,500 soldiers of the Nationalist Army. I see that I am going to spray rice here. Don't say that killing 2000 devils at the cost of killing 1500 national troops is killing 200 devils at the same cost.
Qin Geming, commander of the operations section of the Nationalist 31st Army, wrote that during the Battle of Kunlun Pass at the end of 1939, the 131st Division of the army, which was responsible for blocking the attack, surrounded a group of 500 or 600 Japanese troops to death, but the division "only shot with mortars, light and heavy machine guns and rifles, did not dare to engage in close combat, and surrounded the enemy at night or did not dare to approach the charge and hand-to-hand combat." "Causing the enemy to break through and escape." Knowing that a division had blocked five or six hundred enemies, and that it had already surrounded the enemy because it did not dare to fight bayonets and that the blockade had failed, Bai Chongxi, the director of the Guilin battalion who was in charge of the command of the battle, was embarrassed and angry, and once severely reprimanded the commanders of the relevant armies and divisions.
Soon, when the second group of Japanese troops, also five or six hundred people, entered the preset blocking position of the 188th Division, Bai Chongxi, in view of the failure of the previous blockade, gave a strict order to Wei Yunsong, deputy commander-in-chief of the 16th Group Army and commander of the 31st Army, that if this Japanese army was spared again, "the deputy commander-in-chief should be severely punished." But the strict order was useless, and after encircling the enemy on all sides, the 188th Division also "because our army did not dare to engage in hand-to-hand combat in close combat, and fought for several hours in the dark night", it was killed by the enemy and opened a bloody road and broke through.
Ten times more than the enemy, still do not dare to fight with the devils and fight bayonets, why? No, this is the style and tradition of a unit. Daring to fight bayonets is the style and tradition of the Japanese devils, and it is also the style and tradition of the Chinese Communist army, but it is not the style and tradition of the national army. Except for a few units such as the Northwest Army and the MaJia Army, the Nationalist Army rarely dared to bayonet and saw red, and few could take advantage of the white-knife battle.
The army with this style and morale, which can fight with the Japanese devils for three hours with bayonets, really does not understand what kind of state the author was in when he made up this paragraph.
Ten thousand steps back, that is, if the national army is incomparably brave, especially good at and particularly fond of white-knife warfare, he will not be able to fight for three hours. If you want to fight a three-hour white-knife battle, you must also meet a condition, that is, the other side has guns and cannons, and is willing to accompany you to fight with bayonets. But as far as I know, even the Japanese army, who is particularly good at white-knife warfare, does not have the leisure to play with you with the bayonet, let alone for three hours.
During World War II, white-knife warfare generally occurred at the moment of position breakthrough and sneak attack, and the battle had to be ended soon. If the two sides encounter each other unexpectedly on the narrow road, no matter which side will use small forces to contain the enemy, and use the main force to seize the favorable terrain and quickly get rid of the entanglement. In short, no matter what the situation, the white-knife war will end in a very short period of time, and there will be basically no glue. Because including the Japanese devils, the white-knife war is also to ensure absolute superiority (but not necessarily the absolute superiority in numbers), and strive to solve the battle in the shortest possible time, rather than obsessing over the endless bayonet fighting, let alone the national army that has never been good at white-knife warfare?
Someone defended the author of this myth, saying that the article meant that there had been many white-knife battles within three hours. hehe! That's two different things. According to this, within seven or eight hours of the Pingxingguan battle, there have been several white-knife battles, is it difficult to express it as a white-knife battle fought for seven or eight hours in the Pingxingguan? In the eleven days of the Taierzhuang Inner Street Battle, there have been many white-knife battles, is it difficult to express that Taierzhuang fought a 260-hour white-knife battle? If this is the case, then how can this three-hour white-knife battle of the stone tablets become the longest white-knife battle in the history of World War II?
In Taiwan's rewritten history of the War of Resistance Against Japan in the 1980s, the figures of the enemy and ourselves captured in the Battle of Western Hubei, including the Battle of Shipai, were published, and the Chinese army was captured by the Japanese army in 4729 people, and the Japanese army was captured by the Nationalist army in 88, which was almost 54:1. If you think about it, if the two armies can fight a three-hour white-knife battle, then the will to fight and the fighting skills of the two sides are absolutely indistinguishable, but if that is the case, will there be such a huge disparity in the proportion of surrendered weapons and prisoners?
Fighting bayonets is not lazy, and it is not like boxing or sanda matches, which have intermissions, three hours of continuous life, and are tired and exhausted from being stabbed by the enemy. Those who fabricated this mythical story and believed and spread this mythical story are advised to listen to Zhao Benshan's words: "Have you seen it in the hospital, and there is something wrong with your designation." ”
More than one fruit fan asked me: What basis do you have to prove that there was no such three-hour white-knife battle? I replied: My basis is that I can't find a basis. I searched through all the archives, newspapers, war reports, memories, etc. that I could find, and I couldn't find a single one of them with such a record. If anyone disagrees, you go and look for it and see if you can find it. Of course, if you like obscenity, then when it is really good, the description of the article is still enjoyable.