During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army finished fighting with the devils with the bayonets, but the devils did not finish the bullets, so why did they fight with the Eighth Route Army for bayonets?
This is a war, the ultimate goal is to beat the other side to death, it seems that there is no need to talk about morality. Did the Japanese army really find it in its conscience to have a fair duel with the Eighth Route Army?
Of course not.
Let's first say why the Eighth Route Army fought with bayonets.
The Eighth Route Army's bayonet fight is a common thing, the reason is the lack of bullets, even the average person can not get a gun, often when fighting, there may be some people who go to the battlefield without a gun, wait for their compatriots to die, and then use his gun to continue fighting with the enemy.
In this case, the bullet cannot be fired without authorization, and it is necessary to obey the orders of the superior. Because we don't have many bullets in the Eighth Route Army. Chiang Kai-shek gave the Eighth Route Army a establishment, but the military expenditure was not given a single point.
The Eighth Route Army could only figure out its own way.
The production of bullets was supported by industry, China was an agrarian country at that time, and the bullets of the Eighth Route Army were either captured by the enemy, supported by the Soviet Union, or given by allies.
Just like the Kuomintang general Wei Lihuang, who saw that the Eighth Route Army was short of guns and bullets, he resisted Chiang Kai-shek's pressure in the early stage of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and gave the Eighth Route Army 1 million rounds of ammunition.
For the Eighth Route Army, this is a very huge amount of important armaments and materials, and it must be used sparingly. In this case, of course, the Eighth Route Army bullets will not be too much.
Everyone knows the famous Hundred Regiments War, when there were 105 regiments and more than 200,000 Eighth Route Army participated in this battle, and these 200,000 Eighth Route Army took 4 months to fire a total of 1.2 million rounds of ammunition.
What does that mean?
One person averaged 6 rounds of ammunition, fought for 4 months, and won the Battle of the Hundred Regiments.
That is to say, bullets are very precious, and only after receiving the command, can you fire as much as possible with one bullet in your hand, killing an enemy and avoiding unnecessary waste.
In such a large-scale campaign, bullets are lacking, and the lack of bullets in other forms of battles can be imagined.
Because there were not many bullets, often when the bullets were gone, the Eighth Route Army had to choose to fight with the Japanese army for bayonets. You must know that when using guns, the enemy and us are a little far apart.
A distance of several hundred meters was isolated to shoot each other, and this distance was also suitable for gun battles.
However, hand-to-hand combat is not the same, hand-to-hand combat bayonet is close contact between the two sides, our Eighth Route Army appeared in front of them, and the Japanese could not fire bullets.
Be sure to be clear that when you fight the bayonet, the scene is chaotic, you have me, I have you. If you shoot a gun, you may not be killing your opponent or your own people.
The key is that their rifles have good penetration at close range, often killing each other, they will also penetrate the bodies of friendly troops, and such a gunfight is not worth the loss.
That's just one of them.
More importantly, the Japanese army was superior if it was a bayonet fight.
It should be known that the Japanese soldiers used the Type 38 rifle, which had an advantage of 1.275 meters with a bayonet, which was superior to the regular rifle bayonet used by the Eighth Route Army.
The so-called one inch long and one inch strong, coupled with Japan's good eating conditions, strong physical fitness, after special training. For the most part, they like to spell bayonets, and fighting bayonets japan will have a better advantage.
In this case, we are forced to fight bayonets and have no choice. You can only choose a battle that is beneficial to the Japanese army, and if you can kill one more, you can kill one more.
When we defend our homeland and defend our country, we do not consider life and death when we go to the battlefield, which is also the reason for our war of resistance.
The most important thing is that the Japanese 38-type rifle belongs to the bolt-action rifle, the penetration is very strong, if you do not retreat bullets in the process of fighting, if you accidentally touch, it is easy to go on fire and injure friendly troops.
In this regard, the Japanese army still suffered losses, so when they saw that the Eighth Route Army was going to fight for their bayonets, they could only choose white-knife warfare. The purpose of this type 38 rifle of the Japanese army, in fact, with the bayonet, is mainly to facilitate them and their opponents to engage in white-knife warfare.
Of course, in some cases, the Japanese army will also run out of bullets, after all, when fighting, it is impossible to carry too much weight. For example, if their heavy troops are defeated, there is no logistical replenishment and no ammunition. In this case, if you don't fight the bayonet, you can't wait for death.
Therefore, fighting the bayonet is a helpless choice for the Eighth Route Army, a contest between our weaknesses and the strengths of others, but we are defending our homeland and defending the country, and for the sake of our victory, we have to do this.