The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was an extremely arduous war of anti-aggression in the history of the Chinese nation, and in this war, due to the large gap between weapons and equipment and the comprehensive national strength of the two sides, the Chinese army fought very hard in the face of the Japanese army's attack. In the first year of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression alone, half of the walls, rivers and mountains were lost, the entire Land of China was destroyed, hundreds of millions of people were displaced, and the people suffered unspeakable.
However, in many of the current anti-war dramas, they disregard historical facts, make things up indiscriminately, and blindly demean the Japanese army, which does not mean that some people are truly patriotic. A person who does not respect history and treats his opponent incorrectly is just grandstanding. For example, in the anti-war films we see, we often see such a scene, that is, a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, wielding a large knife to slash left and right in the Japanese army, killing and injuring a large number of Japanese troops, so can the big knife really fight the bayonet?
In fact, in the real battle, it is not an easy task to hack a Japanese soldier to death with a large knife, whether it is the Kuomintang Army or the Eighth Route Army, it is difficult to take advantage of the fight with the Japanese army. A veteran of the Eighth Route Army once said that a platoon of the Japanese army can overthrow the officers and men of a platoon of our army in ten minutes, and it is difficult for a large knife to gain an advantage in white-knife combat.
Let's first look at the Type 38 rifle commonly used by the Japanese army during World War II, which is 1.28 meters long, and when added to the Type 30 single-edged bayonet, it can reach 166.3 centimeters, and one of the characteristics of the gun is its length. Longer than any other rifle in the world, this one has an unrivalled advantage in close combat. Moreover, the Japanese army attaches great importance to assassination, all grass-roots units have assassination instructors, recruits must undergo long-term and rigorous training, the Japanese army's stabbing technology is not a simple stab, they are more mainly the ability of joint operations. Therefore, during the War of Resistance, three well-trained veterans formed a triangular formation that could rival seven or eight opposing soldiers.
Although the size of the Japanese army is short, but the food is very good, when fighting in the Chinese battlefield, they not only have staple foods such as rice and white noodles, but also canned beef, pickles and other side foods, so they are relatively strong, and they are very explosive when fighting thorns, and the Chinese army is not weak in logistics, especially the officers of the Kuomintang army withheld military salaries more seriously, resulting in the soldiers' bodies being very thin, and they suffered losses in the white-knife fighting with the Japanese army.
Many people have said that why did the 29th Army Sabre Corps cause heavy casualties to the Japanese army? This is mainly due to the poor equipment level of many Chinese troops at that time, and when there is a lack of sufficient firearms, it is only enough to use the traditional cold weapon of the big knife, which is also very simple to manufacture, and ordinary blacksmiths can create large knives. Moreover, many of the major victories of the 29th Army's large knife team were night attacks, and the Japanese army was cut off in its sleep, but in the white-knife fight with the Japanese army during the day, the casualties of the 29th army's large knife team were much higher than those of the Japanese army.
Many people will wonder, since the large knives are not as good as the bayonets of the Japanese army in actual combat, why does the Chinese army not equip the bayonets on a large scale? In fact, this reason is also very simple, not because you don't want to use it, but you can't make it, don't look at it as just a small bayonet, but with the level of Chinese craftsmanship at that time, it really can't make toughness and strength to reach the level of the Japanese bayonet.
To make a good bayonet, better steel is needed, and the requirements for machining and heat treatment are relatively high, and the rifle bayonet of the Nationalist army is often damaged and cannot be replenished for this reason, because the bayonet with substandard performance is made, and it is easy to break in the battle, so in the case of the process is not up to standard, it will not be easy to make the bayonet. On the contrary, large knives have low requirements for steel, and handmade blacksmith shops can be built, and the number of additions is easy. When the Eighth Route Army was first formed, the 115th Division was the best equipped, but it was only equipped with more than 2,000 bayonets.
In cold weapon combat, it was originally an inch stronger and an inch long, and the heavy knife was used to deal with the Bayonet of the Japanese Army, unless it was a soldier with a certain martial arts foundation, it was difficult to defeat the Japanese army. In the Shentouling ambush battle, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army annihilated more than 1,400 Japanese troops and captured 80 people, and the reason why such a great result was achieved was because Liu Bocheng and Chen Geng, in the absence of ammunition, arranged in advance for the troops to prepare a batch of spears up to two meters long, and the Japanese army with bayonets was confused.
In some film and television works, there has also been a phenomenon of the Japanese army retreating bullets before fighting bayonets, which is also pure fiction, which has not appeared in the Japanese army's "Infantry Exercise Code". The Japanese army also has no reason to give up their superiority and go to fight with the Chinese army to fight the bayonet, in fact, the Japanese army during World War II did not want to use submachine guns on a large scale, in the contest with the Us army and the Soviet army, they saw the advantages of automatic firearms, they also wanted to take submachine guns, machine guns strafing, but Japan's resources were poor, there was no way, only large-scale equipped with type 38 rifles.