History is constantly developing, human beings are constantly progressing, the events that occur in the past history may also have a certain impact on our lives today, and the inheritance of history can bring us not only in the spiritual compensation, but also in the way we know the progress and retreat, the gains and losses, so the study of history, reading the history books can bring us tangible benefits, although the process sometimes seems to be boring, but if we study together to make progress, then it will not be so boring.
History records many things that happened in the past, as Engels said: "Man creates his own history by pursuing his own, consciously desired ends, regardless of the outcome of this history, and the result of these many desires to act in different directions and their various influences on the outside world is history." ”
Today's topic: the 3-hour battle of the War of Resistance Against Japan, 1500 soldiers were killed without firing a shot, but Japan instigated it
In 1943, in order to force the Nationalist government to surrender, Japan concentrated more than 100,000 people to the west, intending to capture Chongqing, in May, the Japanese army captured Yichang, the troops pointed directly at the Shipai Fortress, facing the Japanese Army's strongest field combat ability of the 11th Army, the Chinese army's main defense of Shipai is the 11th Division under the 18th Army, which later became one of the five ace main forces.
When it comes to the Japanese Army, it has to talk about the bayonet tactics, especially the group bayonet charge, which is obviously not in line with the mainstream tactics of the world at that time, it is considered to be the wartime tactics, but Japan advocates the so-called Bushido spirit, more importantly, in order to save resources, Japan is a resource-scarce country, it is not enough to support the war, the bayonet is naturally favored by Japan, to know that in the early stage of the all-out war of resistance, in the fight bayonet want to kill a Japanese soldier, we have to sacrifice 4 or even more fighters.
In addition, the mainstream Japanese 38-type rifle plus bayonet is about 10 centimeters longer than the mainstream medium-sized rifle and bayonet of the Chinese army, which is a huge advantage on the battlefield.
In the Battle of Shipai, there were 3 hours of gunfire in gaojialing near Cao Jiafa, the two sides were not fighting, but the battle was fierce, the two sides entangled together, launched a fierce white-knife battle, the largest white-knife battle in the Second World War broke out, 3 hours of fighting, 1500 soldiers of the Chinese army were killed, and the position was not lost.
As a result, the Shipai defense battle, the Defeat of the Japanese Army was revealed, and the final result of the battle, the Japanese army suffered more than 25,000 casualties, had to retreat and abandon the battle, thwarted the Japanese army's daydream of entering the gorge and moving west, smashed the Deployment of the Japanese Army to attack Chongqing, and curbed the Iron Hoof that the Japanese Army wantonly trampled on. At this time, Japan was also deeply involved in the Pacific Theater, and gradually lost its strategic advantage in Southeast Asia, and it was only a matter of time before it was defeated.
In fact, look at the Chinese Expeditionary Force at that time, after being equipped with American equipment and training, the Japanese army was not an opponent at all, in the face of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the Japanese army in Southeast Asia could only choose to defend, and the former prestige was nothing at all!