During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were in short supply of materials, weapons and ammunition were often exhausted in the middle of the battlefield, and whenever at this time the soldiers could only take machetes and fight with the Japanese army in close combat, sometimes they would suffer heavy casualties, the hardships of the War of Resistance Against Japan were unimaginable to us, and backwardness would be beaten.
In fact, at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the ammunition supply of our soldiers was mostly obtained through the capture of the Japanese army, but in the later period, the soldiers preferred to pick up the weapons of the Japanese army with their bare hands. We all know that when fighting a war, it is easy to have guns and ammunition left out on the battlefield, and if the soldiers pick up all these weapons, they can use them directly, but the anti-Japanese veterans say that they must not be picked up, because this is a trap set by the Japanese army.
The reason why our anti-Japanese resistance was so passive, in fact, had a lot to do with the fall of the three eastern provinces, after the Northeast Army did not resist, the Japanese army broke through the governor of the eastern three provinces to drive straight in, in fact, Zhang Zuolin had established an arsenal in the northeast before his death, this arsenal produced a lot of weapons and were very advanced, which also made the Japanese army at that time very afraid of Zhang Zuolin, but after the fall of the three eastern provinces, the Japanese army immediately blew up the northeast military factory, resulting in more difficulty in resisting Japan, and the soldiers did not dare to waste a bullet when fighting.
Later, after the Japanese army knew that our army's weapons and ammunition were very scarce, they would deliberately leave a lot of guns and ammunition on the battlefield and then quickly withdraw, waiting for our soldiers to go to the battlefield to pick up weapons, in fact, Japanese soldiers had already planted explosives around the battlefield, as long as our soldiers entered the battlefield, they would explode, at this time the Japanese army rushed out to kill all the soldiers of our army, so after suffering several losses, the soldiers no longer dared to go to the Japanese army, and they would rather have a shortage of ammunition and did not dare to take any more risks.