During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Japan committed heinous crimes against the Chinese, so the Chinese people held a very great hatred for Japan, and many people joined the army to resist Japan simply because of hatred. However, on the anti-Japanese battlefield, there is an animal whose priority is even higher than that of the Japanese army, once encountered, it is better not to kill the devil first than to kill this most untouchable animal first, this animal is a pigeon.
The history of carrier pigeons
Speaking of pigeons, many people first think of the image of the peace dove, but the birth of the image of the peace dove is derived from the ability of the dove to transmit information, so the dove is not only a peace dove that transmits the message of peace, but also a military dove that transmits battlefield messages.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the ancient book that recorded the history of the Wuyue region, the Book of Yuejie, there are records of Chinese domesticated pigeons, which shows that the history of Chinese domesticating pigeons and using it to send letters has been thousands of years. Later, with the unification of China, exchanges with Asian countries began, and the domestication of pigeons and the use of them to deliver letters became a tradition in many Asian countries, and Japan was no exception.
From the time of Emperor Meiji to the time of the invasion of China, The era of Emperor Hirohito was a node in japan in ancient and modern times, and by the time Japan launched the war of aggression, Japan had not completely completed the industrialization reform, so there were still many "ancient" customs left in the country, and raising pigeons as carrier pigeons was one of them.
Japanese military pigeons
During World War II, Japan used to domesticate carrier pigeons on a large scale, but due to the shortage of carrier pigeons in the country, Japan also imported a large number of pigeons from Belgium and Germany. At its peak, the number of domesticated military pigeons in Japan may exceed tens of thousands, and even after the Nanjing Massacre, Japan also set up a special military pigeon management office in Nanjing, and the number of Japanese military pigeons in Nanjing once reached 3,000, which shows the importance that Japan attaches to military pigeons.
These military pigeons played an extraordinary role on the battlefield, sending messages by telegram could be intercepted by the anti-Japanese army, and the telegraph machine was large and inconvenient to carry, and there were no carrier pigeons on the battlefield. Therefore, the Japanese army had a special carrier pigeon team during World War II, and once the war began, the carrier pigeons would be released and the various units would exchange information with each other. These carrier pigeons have small targets and are fast, and they are better used for exchanging information between various units on the battlefield than with telegrams.
Japanese military pigeons on the battlefield
At first, our army did not know that there were carrier pigeons in the Japanese army, and often fought ambush encirclement battles into battles surrounded by Japanese troops, causing our army to suffer heavy losses. Later, our army learned about the domestication of carrier pigeons by the Japanese army, and only then did we know that after our army and the Japanese army exchanged troops, the Japanese army would release carrier pigeons, so that the reinforcements of the Japanese army would come faster than our army expected, thus realizing the counter-encirclement of our army.
Knowing this, our army set up a special pigeon extermination team, whose task was not to eliminate the Japanese devils, but to eliminate the Japanese carrier pigeons. Once carrier pigeons are found on the battlefield, they will all be killed, which is bound to leave the information of the enemy and our army on the battlefield.