The lyrics at the beginning of The Guerrilla Song are:
We are all sharpshooters, and every bullet destroys an enemy
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The lyrics are artistic creation, and they must not be true, otherwise a shot will kill a ghost, and the war of resistance will not take 14 years.
According to statistics, on the anti-Japanese battlefield, killing a Japanese army consumed an average of 30 rounds of ammunition and 7 grenades. It can be said that throughout the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, ammunition supply has always been an important bottleneck restricting the Chinese army.
In 1937, Japan's annual industrial output value was 6 billion US dollars, the annual production of steel was about 5.8 million tons, the production of ammunition was 500,000 tons; China's annual industrial output value of 1.6 billion US dollars, the total output of steel was about 40,000 tons, guns, guns, bullets and other major military materials rely on imports to Germany.
German-style equipment of the Kuomintang army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
This gap is mainly due to the lack of china's production capacity and economic strength.
In China in the 1930s, the main component of industrial output was the light industry and handicraft enterprises established by foreign countries in China, and the military and heavy industry were basically zero.
After the sino-Japanese war, Hitler deliberately tightened arms exports, coupled with the imperfection of the government coordination mechanism in many aspects such as transportation and customs clearance, so from the late stage of the Battle of Songhu, Japan's military-industrial superiority began to show.
At that time, the supply of ammunition to the Kuomintang army was still tight, not to mention the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army under the leadership of the Communists, and many soldiers did not have a real gun of their own for a long time.
A force of more than 100,000 people, an average of 4 people own 1 gun, each gun is issued 20 rounds of ammunition, an average of 6 rounds per person. For a warrior without a gun, his weapons are large knives and spears.
Individual equipment of the Eighth Route Army
Even warriors with guns had to scare the enemy from time to time by stuffing broken sorghum rods into bullet pouches disguised as having enough ammunition.
By October 1938, the Eighth Route Army had 250,000 men, and supplies were even more strained.
The Kuomintang gave priority to replenishing its own army with war supplies, and provided the Eighth Route Army with very few bullets, with an average of at most 2 rounds per soldier per year.
The famous anti-Japanese hero Dong Cunrui joined the army and received only 5 bullets in the gun.
Even such a meager supply lasted only until 1940, after which the Kuomintang cut off all material support, and the source of weapons in the liberated areas across the country mainly depended on battlefield capture.
In the later period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our own arsenals in the rear were gradually put into operation, and due to factors such as technology and environment, the quality of homemade bullets was uneven, and grenades and mines were barely self-sufficient.
Throughout the anti-fascist war, the proportion of ammunition consumed by various countries is almost astronomical.
Individual equipment of the Japanese army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
In the Soviet-German War, the number of German casualties was about 13 million (70% of the casualties due to the bombing). For every German soldier wiped out by the Soviet army, it cost 30 rounds of artillery shells, 1300 rounds of ammunition, 9 grenades and 230 kg of air-dropped bombs.
In the war between the United States and Japan, the Japanese army suffered about 1.1 million casualties, and the Us army needed to consume up to 3 tons of ammunition for each Japanese soldier destroyed.
During the attack on the Pacific islands occupied by the Japanese army, the rich and powerful United States usually sent the air force as the vanguard force, first bombing indiscriminately, razing the Japanese fortifications to the ground, and then carrying out landing operations.
Fighting a war is about military strength, but it is also economic strength. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China's national strength was weak, and the personnel consumption of the United States and the Soviet Union in the anti-fascist war was much lower than that of our country.
However, the anti-Japanese battlefield behind enemy lines under the leadership of the Communist Party and the frontal battlefield under the leadership of the Kuomintang were in sharp contrast in terms of material consumption.
In the Battle of the Hundred Regiments in 1940, the casualties of the Japanese puppet army were about 25,000. The Eighth Route Army actually consumed about 700,000 rounds of ammunition and 126,000 grenades. On average, every 28 rounds of ammunition and every 5 grenades can destroy one enemy.
The Battle of Cheqiao, which took place in 1944, was the campaign to eliminate the largest number of Japanese troops in the New Fourth Army, destroying an enemy with an average of every 12 bullets.
Compared with the statistics of the United States and the Soviet Union, this proportion is negligible.
According to the statistics released by the Kuomintang after the war, the Nationalist army consumed 1.709 billion rounds of ammunition, 9.59 million shells and 23.59 million grenades in the course of the War of Resistance.
If calculated according to the 850,000 Japanese casualties recorded in Jiang Weiguo's book "Anti-Japanese Regrets", the Nationalist army can kill an average of 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 12 shells, and 30 grenades to kill a Japanese soldier.
The statistics are not necessarily accurate, and can only be explained in general. However, the gap between the many statistical data reflects the cruelty and hardship of the battlefield behind the anti-Japanese enemy lines in our country.
During the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and various guerrilla units went behind enemy lines and actively cooperated with the frontal battlefield with weapons and equipment that had no superiority to speak of.
Countless revolutionary martyrs threw their heads in the sand, spilled their blood, and relied on their tenacious will and sincere desire to serve the country and finally defeated the Japanese aggressors.
This year marks the 76th anniversary of the World Anti-Fascist War and the victory of the Chinese War of Resistance Against Fascism, and the purpose of revisiting history is to learn from history. Without a strong country, there is no safe homeland, and China's centuries of humiliation prove that strength is king.
In this prosperous world, no one will be bullied again!