Disguised reconnaissance, as a skill for completing tasks and adapting to the surrounding environment by changing the original appearance and form, and pretending to be a character, covering their own identity to complete reconnaissance and surveillance, obtain intelligence, special operations and other tasks, was used a lot in the process of Japan's invasion of China.
As early as the Sino-Japanese War, in order to obtain intelligence, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters sent agents to conduct secret operations in disguise. In June 1894, the Japanese agent Yamazaki Lambsaburo disguised himself as a Chinese drug dealer and secretly boarded a Chinese troop carrier to Seoul. Infiltrated the Qing army and stationed in the front line position of Asan for reconnaissance. Later, he was arrested by the Qing army for the map and compass he carried with him while bathing in the inn. He later escaped during his escort and then handed over the information he had obtained to the Japanese army, which changed its battle plan and eventually defeated the Qing army.
In July 1894, in order to obtain information from the Beiyang Marine Division, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters sent a special agent, Munakata Kotaro, disguised as a Chinese peasant, to mix into the Yantai Military Port. After General Munakata Kotaro grasped the situation of the Beiyang Marine Division in the port, he also boarded the Jiyuan ship, the Weiyuan warship, to conduct reconnaissance, and obtained top-secret information that the Beiyang Marine Division would go to Korea in two days. It was precisely on the basis of the information obtained by his disguised reconnaissance that the Japanese army set up an ambush in advance and raided the Chinese troop carrier Gaosheng, causing the Gaosheng to be sunk and more than 700 Qing troops to die.
The Japanese army obtained a large amount of intelligence through makeup, so that the Japanese army could grasp the movement of the Chinese army in advance, set up an ambush in advance, and at the same time avoid falling into the frontal defensive position of the Chinese side, reduce the losses of the Japanese army, and also greatly weaken the unfavorable factors of the Japanese army in the field of operation, grasp the initiative of the war, and increase the japanese army's chances of victory.
On the contrary, because the Japanese army had this detailed information, the Chinese army had no idea of the actions of the Japanese army, which made it passive in the course of the engagement. During the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army repeated the old drama and formed a special team of disguised agents, the most famous of which was the Mashiko Advance Team and the Okawa Advance Team formed by the Japanese 36th Division.
These two elite japanese special operations units, dressed in the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, fully armed, carrying radio carrier pigeons, went out day and night. During the operation, he did not take the main road, bypassed the village, tried to avoid the danger of being discovered, and carried with him a photo of the commander of the Eighth Route Army and his resume.
Among them, the operational task of the Yizi Advance Team was to destroy the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and assassinate Peng Dehuai, Zuo Quan and other leaders of the Eighth Route Army headquarters. The task of the Dachuan Advance Brigade was to sabotage the headquarters of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and assassinate Liu, Deng and other division leaders.
On May 24, 1942, the disguised Mashiko Advance Team and the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army were chased all the way, and they pursued and fought fiercely, causing a large number of personnel to die, including Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, and the largest loss suffered by the Eighth Route Army since the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In addition to using makeup as a special means of warfare against the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army also widely used it in the so-called "Qingxiang Movement" in the occupied areas. The Japanese army's clearance movement took the military clearance as the first step. In the japanese and pseudo-japanese aspects, if the military cannot expand everything else, nothing else can be implemented.
In the process of clearing the countryside in Japan and puppets, the Japanese army often used disguised as deserters, beggars to inquire into the news, and even disguised as the New Fourth Army to catch traitors, so that the common people could not distinguish between true and false. There are even some Japanese agents who have been covering up in various identities on weekdays, disguised as the owner of the shop, the rickshaw driver. In particular, we will inquire into the movements of party and government organs and the army and collect intelligence. Sometimes when they enter the house in plainclothes, they wear a kind of clothing when they go in, and change clothes when they go out, which makes it difficult to prevent identification. Moreover, in the process of clearing the countryside, Japanese plainclothes were particularly good at arresting anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians through disguise. In particular, he was good at grasping a point and continuing to follow and pursue until the entire contact line was exhausted, causing serious damage to the anti-Japanese struggle at that time.
The intelligence obtained by Japan through disguised reconnaissance played an important role in formulating practical and feasible combat plans, ensuring the implementation of tactics, speeding up the course of the war, and reducing their own losses throughout the war of aggression against China.
The lessons of history are at hand, and in the face of a sudden war, we must not slacken off in the work of preventing rape and secrecy. Now we must be more vigilant against the infiltration of foreign spy agencies, and national security is a top priority for the future.