During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese army was short of materials, military supplies and ammunition were seriously insufficient, many military supplies needed to be captured on the battlefield, and the battlefield also became the source of many materials. During the anti-Japanese period, one of the purposes of the battle was to replenish the supplies through capture. Therefore, the military supplies on the battlefield are generally cleaned by our army, but it is interesting that there is a kind of material on the battlefield that our army almost never wants, even after capture, and never uses it, that is, the Japanese coat.
In fact, at that time, our army's coats were extremely scarce, and many soldiers wore thin cloth clothes in the cold winter, and they were often frozen and shivered at night. But even so, our army never uses Japanese coats, why is this? Veterans said: This is all a lesson in blood.
Veterans recall that in January 1938, Lin Biao's troops passed through Shanxi County, because the weather was too cold, many soldiers put on captured Japanese coats, and Lin Biao was the same. While passing through the area, the troops were spotted by local guerrillas and mistaken for Japanese troops. The local sentry fired a shot at Lin Biao, who was sitting on the horse's head, and Lin Biao was also injured, only to find out afterwards that he was injured by mistake. It was this Oolong incident that made the soldiers of the troops no longer dare to wear Japanese coats.
In fact, such things happened many times during the anti-Japanese period. Since there is no difference in appearance between the Japanese and the Chinese, many Chinese will think of the Chinese in the Japanese coat as japanese troops and then attack. At that time, Chinese hated the Japanese who invaded China very much, and once they found people wearing Japanese coats alone, they would secretly kill the killers. This also made Chinese soldiers even more afraid to wear Japanese coats.
Also because of the aggressive atrocities of the Japanese army, the Japanese coat has almost become a symbol of "cruelty" and "bloodshed" in China. Some backbone Chinese soldiers did not even bother to capture such a thing, and even had to tear it to pieces or burn it before they would stop. Therefore, most soldiers, except in extreme cases, will not wear Japanese coats.