During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Eighth Route Army was divided into the Old Eighth Road, the New Eighth Road, and the Tu Eighth Road. The reason why Tu Ba Lu is called "Tu Ba Lu" is that they have not yet been incorporated into the battle series of the regular army, and the other is that their equipment does look a bit "earthy", however, you have to admit that although they are dressed very "earthy", they are undoubtedly the real heroes of that era! As shown in the following figure, the photographer's footage under the Tu Ba Road:
As shown in Figure 1, the photographer captured a rare group photo of "Tu Ba Lu" for us. They hardly had a regular military uniform, all white towels wrapped around their heads, and a civilian dress! Why do the Japanese often say that Tuba Road is cunning and difficult to catch? This costume penetrated into the crowd, which one recognized it as a common people or Tu Ba Lu? We enlarge the photo and you will find that their weapons and equipment are more "earthy", as shown in the following picture:
As shown in Figure 2, their weapons and equipment are almost all old sleeves and Hanyang-made that have been polished almost to the ground, and some of them don't even have guns, only a large blade in their hands! As shown in the following figure:
As shown in the picture above, a Soldier of The Eighth Road holds a large knife with an iron ring in his arms! The big knife slashed at the devil's head! The song of "The Song of the Big Knife" still echoes in our ears today. The legendary story of the Battle of Xifengkou of the 29th Army's big knife team has always been talked about. Zhuangzhi is hungry for meat, laughing and talking about thirst for The blood of the Huns! At that time, there were many heroes, even though they only had a large knife in their hands, they still slashed the enemy and sang triumphs, how heroic!
The best equipment may be the two Tu Balu in the picture, which are two Thomson submachine guns! This submachine gun fire is very fierce, especially suitable for tuba road melee combat, guerrilla warfare, and sudden encounters. During the entire period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, according to incomplete statistics, the Eighth Route Army wiped out more than 1,254,000 Japanese puppet troops, drove out the Japanese and Kosovo, liberated a large area of land, and made great contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
Hats off to these humble warriors! Hats off to these people's heroes!