During the War of Resistance Against Japan, a large number of patriotic generals emerged, and they made great contributions to defending the country. Officially, because of their courageous resistance, the iron horse of the Japanese army was driven out of China, and today's small editor is talking about Yan Xishan, who ruled Shanxi for 38 years.
Yan Xishan was a Qing Dynasty army infantryman, once served as the chairman of Shanxi Province, the minister of national defense and other important positions, but he also had his own set of rules for leading troops to fight, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, yan Xishan led the second theater to fight with the Japanese army, at that time only Yan Xishan's troops would do one thing after winning the war.
That is, instead of picking up the devil's weapons and ammunition, go and touch their pants pockets to see if there is a map inside. Many people will ask, during the war, weapons and equipment are the most valuable, but also a manifestation of expanding strength, not to mention, our army also has a map, why do we need a map of devils? This made the subordinate soldiers look at the monks one after another, confused.
In fact, this has a lot to do with the character of Yan Xishan, Yan Xishan in Shanxi 38 years, he developed a businessman's personality, that is, very attention to detail, at that time, when the Japanese army invaded China, it was a lot of preparatory work, and their maps can even be as accurate as a tree.
Although our army is said to be a native and relatively familiar with the terrain, after the baptism of war, many buildings have been destroyed, so the map is relatively not particularly fine. In contrast, the Japanese, in the five to ten years before preparing for war, will send a large number of agents to depict the terrain of our country, and they will also learn Chinese culture and customs to understand the Chinese.
Therefore, the map of Japan can be accurate to a deserted village, and even some unconnected mountain roads, which are recorded by the Japanese army to prepare for the war of aggression. Yan Xishan officially looked at this detail and got the latest military map of the Japanese army, which played a certain role in the subsequent war deployment.
During the Second Zhifeng War, The Fengjun Zhang Zuolin led 170,000 people to attack Wu Peifu's 250,000 direct troops, and at the beginning of the Fengjun fiasco, the young marshal Zhang Xueliang borrowed a military map of the Japanese army from the Japanese advisers at the time, and finally was able to find a mountain road that was not on the map to retreat, which shows how familiar the Japanese are with China's terrain exploration.
Yan Xishan officially took a fancy to this, after all, when cleaning up the war, it showed that our army had won a great victory, and those weapons and ammunition were all their own sooner or later, and the map of the Japanese army was collected at the first time, and then the map of our army was compared and filled. For Yan Xishan, who had fought all his life, he still saw the reason for this very clearly. What do you think about that?