During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army relied on advanced equipment to occupy a large amount of Chinese territory in just a few years, and although the Japanese army was excited, it always lost before the gap in weapons.
But in the 29th Army, there is such a group of iron-boned men, they rely on the machete in their hands, the Japanese army killed by the bitter heavens, this is the prestigious big knife team, but in the face of such a hero, but there is a professional soldier who angrily rebukes, can not mistakenly publicize the power of the big knife, is it really so weak on the battlefield, is the big knife really so weak?
Angrily rebuked reporters
In 1933, the Japanese army began to launch a fierce attack on Xifengkou, although it is not an important city, but its strategic location is very important, it can be said that as long as the Japanese army captures here, it is equivalent to opening the gate to the Central Plains, so the Japanese army gathered a large number of troops and began to attack.
In the face of the Japanese attack, although the Twenty-ninth Army at that time desperately resisted, but under the inferiority of weapons, it could only continue to retreat, in the face of such a scene, the commander of the Twenty-ninth Army at that time was very angry, he saw that the guns were hopeless, he angrily took out his machete, and prepared for a thrilling battle with the enemy.
At that time, there were many people who practiced martial arts, and there was naturally no shortage of soldiers who were good at using large knives, so he formed a special large knife death squad in the shortest possible time, each team member was equipped with a machete standard, carrying only a small number of short guns, and took advantage of the night to launch an attack on the enemy.
Perhaps in the frontal battlefield, the big knife team is the enemy's living target, but under the cover of night, the big knife team has played an amazing effect, the first action, it killed the enemy collapse, not only killed as many as 700 enemy people on the spot, but also blew up a large number of enemy cars.
For the sneak attack of the big knife team, the enemy can only vent his anger by bombing our army's positions through aircraft artillery, but the effect of this is that when the big knife team sneaks in again, it will work harder and kill more people.
In order to prevent the sneak attack of the big knife team, the Japanese army divided all the soldiers into two groups, and there were ordinary soldiers who were on duty at night, while all the soldiers did not take off their clothes and held guns in their hands, but the effect was still not good, and finally they could only speed up the progress to lay down the Xifeng Pass to stop the sneak attack of the big knife team.
After the battle, all kinds of media praised the big knife team one after another, and some media even claimed that the big knife team was the nemesis of the Japanese army, but such a happy news was angrily rebuked by the anti-Japanese general Huang Shaohu, who said bluntly to reporters, Your actions are undoubtedly against history, let us repeat the mistakes of the Boxers, why does he want to say such a thing, is he jealous of the achievements of the big knife team?
As a real anti-Japanese celebrity, his words are very well-founded, if the big knife team is really deified to the Japanese army nemesis, I don't know how many fighters will die because of this.
The real combat power of the Big Knife Team
While touting the big knife team, many people ignore a very important thing, that is, the reason for the establishment of the big knife team, but the commander of the Twenty-ninth Army has set up a big knife team, there is only one reason, their thermal weapons can not beat Japan, whether it is guns or cannons, the Japanese army at that time basically stood in a crushing position.
Therefore, the establishment of the big knife team is a helpless move, in the real situation, the big knife not only can not compete with the gun, or even with the bayonet, the most typical example of which is the anti-Japanese drama "Bright Sword".
In this drama, the frequency of machetes is still very high, and Li Yunlong also has his own unique machete, but will he take the initiative to use it? No, even when there was a company commander from the big knife team under him, Li Yunlong was constantly training the warriors to use bayonets.
For the battle situation of large knives and bayonets, someone has done a special test, and 40 fighters have been selected in the army, of which 20 are armed with machetes, and the other 20 are warriors with bayonets and machetes in their hands, and have also been trained and taught by martial artists.
But after the test, the result surprised everyone, the machete team that was given high hopes was not only quickly defeated, the whole army was destroyed, only three of the warriors using the bayonet were eliminated, and it was not fatally injured.
The disadvantages of the machete
In essence, machetes and bayonets are weapons of the two eras, machetes belong to the era of cold weapons, not even the best of the cold weapons era, he can prevail during the War of Resistance Against Japan, appear in many anti-Japanese troops, just because his cost is cheaper than many cold weapons.
The bayonet is completely different, the bayonet is to adapt to the modern war and the emergence of weapons, the bayonet body is a military dagger, the military dagger, whether it is hard or sharp, is far more than the machete, and the body of the knife is replaced by a gun, in the war of resistance against Japan, the bayonet with the basic rifle.
So where exactly are the advantages of the bayonet? The first is the attack distance, as the saying goes: an inch stronger and an inch long, in the two-person battle, the longer weapon means that there are more possibilities to kill the enemy, and the use of the bayonet is straight stabbing, the use of the machete is to swing, the straight line attack distance itself is long, and then with the strong body of the rifle, the machete can be directly crushed when attacking.
The second is speed, no matter how hard to slash, the attack speed of the machete can not exceed the bayonet, which is why the ancient martial artists used more swords, because the attack method of the sword also belongs to the straight stab, the attack speed is fast enough, under the premise of sharpness, the faster hit the target can completely end the battle in advance.
Generally speaking, after the bayonet is matched with the barrel of the gun, the straight-line distance can reach an astonishing 1.8 meters, coupled with the attack action of the hand, the attack distance can reach 2 meters, and the attack distance of the machete is less than half of the bayonet, on the battlefield, the two face each other, the machete basically has no chance of winning, as long as the dodge is not enough to be stabbed in any part of the body, there is almost no ability to resist.
In the early Days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were also many soldiers who were superstitious about China's machetes, but after experiencing the war, almost all the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were training bayonets, and it was precisely because they corrected their views in time that our army won victories in many large-scale white-knife battles, and this bayonet technology even made the US military suffer a lot in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Today, the machete has long bid farewell to the stage of history, but the bayonet is still the standard of various troops, and even many submachine guns are equipped with bayonet brackets to facilitate soldiers to carry out close-quarters hand-to-hand combat, the existence of each weapon is obtained through actual combat, it has proved that the bayonet not only has a strong attack power, itself is also used a lot, is an indispensable partner for every soldier on the battlefield.