In 1940, the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Japanese 27th Division stationed in Tianjin used the "Ten Thousand Dogs Array" in order to make up for the lack of troops. The Japanese gendarmes all went out to capture wild dogs in the wasteland, and before they could gather ten thousand dogs, there was bad news: "The Japanese army has been bitten and killed nearly a hundred people." ”
In 1939, the Japanese army was transferred to the southern front, and the northern front began to be empty. On the one hand, the Japanese army built various blockade ditches, pillboxes and other fortifications; on the other hand, it wantonly gathered local hooligans and acted as traitors and lackeys. In the Tianjin area, the Japanese troops stationed in the Japanese Army were the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Japanese 27th Division, and the strength of the troops was greatly reduced because of the transfer of troops.
Taking advantage of the weakness of the enemy's garrison, the 10th Military Subdistrict of the Eighth Route Army launched an attack on the enemy's artillery towers, roads, and occupied towns, recovering the vast territory and expanding the anti-Japanese base areas. In the course of the Eighth Route Army's attack, it concentrated its superior forces, looked for the enemy's weak position, and fought the snake seven inches, invincible.
Miyazaki TakenoDasa, the commander of the Japanese 2nd Wing, saw that the Eighth Route Army had changed from guerrilla warfare to a sabotage and siege warfare, and fell into panic. Because of the loss of important strategic points on many occasions and the blow-up of road and rail transportation lines, his superiors repeatedly scolded Takeyuki Miyazaki and asked him to "curb" the expansion of the Eighth Route Army's influence in the areas around Tianjin.
Takeyuki Miyazaki asked his superiors for troops, and his superiors did not have any extra troops in their hands, so he let him think of his own way. Miyazaki Returned to Tianjin in frustration and asked people to "recruit" puppet troops and use them as cannon fodder for the Japanese army. Most of the puppet army troops in Tianjin are composed of local hooligans, and if they have milk, they are mothers, which is extremely shameless.
The common people hated the Japanese puppet army to the bone, and after seeing the so-called "recruitment order" posted, they secretly tore it up at night. The puppet army did not recruit a few, and Miyazaki Takeshi frowned for several days, "sick and chaotic", and thought of a bad idea. In the "Battle History of the Second Wing of the North China Garrison Army" by the Japanese Kou, Miyazaki Takeyuki thought about it for a few days, saw that the "recruitment" of the puppet army was uneven, and thought of a strange tactic "Ten Thousand Dogs Array".
In Miyazaki's mind, the task of the Japanese 2nd Wing was to defend the safety of the southern section of the Beijing-Shanhaiguan railway and the Jinpu line. The railway line in the defensive zone of the 2nd Wing was hundreds of miles long, and although blockade ditches and strongholds were built along the line, the strength of the troops was still stretched.
If a company were put into defense and patrolling the railway line, the troops would be too dispersed and would be divided and attacked by the Eighth Route Army. If we engage in "key defense" and only hold a few key points, then only a ditch will not be able to stop the heroic soldiers of the Eighth Route Army. Miyazaki Tookyuki thought about it for several days, and finally came up with a "strategy", that is, to use the "Ten Thousand Dogs Array".
In his opinion, hundreds of miles of railway lines, every 50 meters put a dog. As long as the food is given to the dog, once someone crosses the blockade ditch, the dog will call a "warning", and the Japanese army will guard several points and provide timely support. In Miyazaki's imagination, this plan was seamless, but it was really just whimsical.
Under the orders of Takeyuki Miyazaki, the Japanese gendarmes went out en masse, some of which went to rob the housekeepers of the common people's homes, and robbed less than 2,000 of them. Takeshi Miyazaki looked at it, and the number of his own needs, there was still a huge gap. So he ordered the Japanese army to go to the villages and towns destroyed by the war and capture wild dogs.
The wild dogs have been completely rewilded, and they bite people when they see them, and the Japanese gendarmes have suffered greatly in the process of arrest. Before 10,000 dogs had been put together, hundreds of people had been bitten, and nearly a hundred had been directly bitten to death. Miyazaki Tookyuki hurriedly stopped, and then tied nearly 10,000 dogs to the side of the railway line blockade ditch, hoping that the dogs would act as "guards" for him.
But dogs are animals, and most of the japanese captured are wild dogs, and they can't understand human speech at all. Some dogs, in addition to eating and sleeping, wag their tails when they see people; some dogs bark all day long, causing the Japanese patrol to guard it every day; some dogs do not want to be leashed, break the rope, and flee.
The dog escaped partially, and Takeyuki Miyazaki let people catch it, and the so-called "Ten Thousand Dogs Array" completely turned into a joke. Comrades of the 10th Military Subdistrict in Jizhong have since crossed the blockade line and brought two meat bones on their bodies to feed to the dogs, and even the vicious dogs began to wag their tails. The Eighth Route Army passed through the blockade line unharmed, and from then on, when the dogs saw the Eighth Route Army wearing gray uniforms, they would "warmly welcome and shake their tails to bid farewell", and the Japanese blockade line "opened widely".