Intelligence warfare is a battlefield where there is no smoke of gunfire, and an inconspicuous piece of intelligence can determine the life and death of tens of thousands of soldiers and determine the direction of the entire war. Therefore, in times of war, all countries attach great importance to intelligence work. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that year, in order to prevent the Japanese army from obtaining information from our army, our army used dialects as an encryption method. After the Japanese army intercepted our army's telegram, they knew every Chinese character, but they couldn't read it after they were connected together.
Dialect encryption in the anti-Japanese war
During the anti-Japanese period, our army used many means to encrypt. For example, at three or four o'clock in the morning, when people are most sleepy, they send a telegram. Another example is the telegraphy in the commercial area, which is confused by the fact that there are many telegraph frequency bands in the commercial area. However, to say that the most legendary means of our army is to encrypt with Wenzhou barbarian language.
Wenzhou dialect is a dialect spoken only around the town of Qianku in Wenzhou City, and even in the 21st century, no more than 300,000 people use it nationwide. This language cannot communicate with any language in the world, and although the barbarian language belongs to the Hokkien language under the Sino-Tibetan language family, it is very different from the normal Hokkien language.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, our army used wenzhou dialect as an encryption method. After intercepting the telegram of our army, the Japanese army was first overjoyed, and then directly encircled. When they translated morse codes into Chinese characters and put them together, they looked directly at Meng, and they could know the meaning of each of the Chinese characters on it, but when they were combined, they saw Meng.
At that time, there were only tens of thousands of people in the whole country who could speak barbaric language, and even if the Japanese army could hear that it was Wenzhou dialect, it was impossible for Wenzhou people to help them translate, because Wenzhou barbarian language was still very different from other Wenzhou dialects. Just as the so-called ten miles are different, the people who speak Wenzhou barbaric dialects have walked out of their hometowns, and no one can understand what he is saying.
Dialects in the War of Self-Defense Against Vietnam
In addition to the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wenzhou Barbarian also played an encrypted role in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. In a skirmish, our army was attacked by the enemy in the camp and took away the codebook. If our army still uses the previous codebook, then our army's communication will be like "running naked" in front of the Vietnamese army. At this time, some people in the command headquarters were in a hurry, and they urgently dispatched the soldiers from Qianku Town to the headquarters and issued orders in Wenzhou dialect, which enabled our army to turn the tide of the war.
Wind Whisperers in World War II
Its practical "dialect" as a means of encryption was common in World War II, and the Japanese army also used dialect during the invasion of China. However, to talk about the most well-known dialect encryption method in World War II, it has to fall on the head of the "wind whisperer". The United States used the Navajo Indians and their language as a means of encryption during World War II, and even if the Germans saw the Navajo movements clearly and heard their words, they did not know what they were talking about.
In fact, Hitler had long expected the Allies to use Indian as a means of encryption, so he sent linguists to Indian tribes to learn the local language before the American army entered the war. However, there was a huge gap between the grammatical structure and vocabulary of indian languages and the outside language, and these linguists were slow to learn and could not communicate normally in the local language until the end of World War II.