Friends who have listened to the famous music composer He Luting's "Guerrilla Song" have said in the song "There is no food or clothing, and the enemy has sent it forward." Without guns and cannons, the enemy will make us" the lyrics will not be unfamiliar. This song, which was created during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, vividly and vividly reflects that the Anti-Japanese armed forces of the Eighth Route Army and the New Century, which lacked material conditions, used the captured enemy's materials to supplement their own details because of the enemy's funds.
As we all know, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army relied on its strong economic strength, and the army was armed to the teeth and very well equipped. In contrast, the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and other anti-Japanese troops only had millet plus rifles, homemade earth bombs and land mines to attack the Japanese. Therefore, great attention is paid to the capture of weapons and military materiel in combat.
Among the military supplies captured by the Eighth Route Army, clothes, medicines, food (mostly canned), blankets, water bottles, etc. were very popular, but the military shoes that had to be worn every day under the feet were rarely asked. What is the reason behind this?
The military shoes worn on the feet of the Japanese army invading China were designed and finalized in the Showa five years, and the Logistics Production Department of the Japanese Army also called them "Showa 5-year military shoes", which were the most important military shoes of the Japanese army invading China. This style of shoes in the anti-war film appearance rate is very high, the bottom of the shoe has more than 30 non-slip iron nails, the heel is also embedded with nearly 10 mm thick horseshoe-shaped iron palm, we often say "the iron hoof of the Japanese devil", are sourced.
Japanese military shoes are not only wear-resistant, but also have anti-slip effects. Kicking and injuring people with military shoes is also a common method of japanese violence. One foot down, the palm nails on the shoes are hanging on the clothes, and the blood on the legs is direct, which is not a lie. The famous writer Feng Deying's novel "Bitter Cauliflower" has a similar plot: "The devils looked at this old man and sneered a few times." Lifted his fur boots with iron nails and kicked him hard."
However, the Japanese military shoes are very bulky, it is inconvenient to wear, the soldiers feel that they are bulky, they are not willing to wear, and some simply throw them away. The commander of the 115th Division, Lin Division, also wrote in detail in the "Experience of the Battle of Pingxingguan" that the Japanese army "wore leather shoes to climb the mountain, which was simply not good." Although they had climbed to the middle of the mountain and we were still at the bottom of the mountain, we had to grab it first and give them a fierce grenade, and they only rolled down like a turnip."
Xiao Xiangrong, who was then the propaganda director of the 115th Division, also recalled after the battle that some soldiers of the Eighth Route Army ran too fast because of the charge and ran their shoes badly, so they put on the military shoes of the Japanese army, found that they were too heavy, and they also had foot pain, which was obviously not as neat and clean as cotton shoes.
Therefore, during the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the leaders of our army cherished the feet of the soldiers very much, especially after the large-scale production campaign was launched, and most of the troops were able to ensure that each soldier had sufficient supplies of shoes and socks. The scene of rural women collecting soles and making cloth shoes for the soldiers in front of them under oil lamps is very real.