Text/Old photo: This is the real weaponry of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, don't think about it yourself anymore
If someone asks you, "What kind of weapons and equipment did the Eighth Route Army have during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression?" What would you think of? Is it the "Millet Plus Rifle" or the "Second Battalion Commander My Italian Gun"? I believe that many history enthusiasts are relatively clear about the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance, but many netizens who love to watch anti-war film and television dramas without reading historical records are probably not clear, I believe that many netizens who do not know have imagined what the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army are like, right? No need to speculate anymore, today we will look at old photos while understanding what the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were like!
In many film and television dramas, it is not false that everyone has a rifle, and the fake is that they have not seen when they have been short of bullets. In fact, during the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, our army could basically reach the point where each person had a rifle, but the bullets could not be divided into a few rounds per person, and the only way to equip them was to rely on capture. And some film and television dramas are light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and even howitzers, in fact, even if these things are captured in our army's troops, it is difficult to find people who will use them!
Pictured above is the scene where the local militia units of the Eighth Route Army are fighting against the Japanese. As an important armed force, the militia units of the Eighth Route Army played a huge role in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and a large number of anti-Japanese heroes emerged. The Japanese in the photo enter the Chinese village and encounter the local militia troops, who are beaten and fleeing, next to a killed Japanese Kou, and the fighters are chasing the fleeing enemy.
Taking the Eighth Route Army as an example, at that time, the establishment of a regiment should be 1,000 to 2,000 ordinary regiments, 2,000 to 3,000 independent regiments, and more than 3,000 regiments as reinforcement regiments. A regiment of so many people can't even get a gun, and what is more important is that there is a lack of ammunition, no ammunition, and no matter how many guns there are, it is just a burning stick.
In this photo is a group photo of the Eighth Route Army and howitzers, and you may have heard that the lack of "cannon" shells of the Eighth Route Army at that time was very precious, but how precious was it? You may not know: a mountain artillery shell, comparable to the income of a middle peasant for two years, a shot, to be approved by the brigade commander ... If a certain unit of the Eighth Route Army has 50 rounds of ammunition for a machine gun and 20 rounds for a rifle, it is a very elite unit! In many cases, only 1/3 of this number. When Hu Zongnan attacked Yan'an, after the garrison brigade was broken, you may not be able to imagine how many bullets per soldier after the break has on average... Only a staggering three shots...
Just imagine, under such harsh conditions in those years, the ancestors still played so many battle results, which were completely spelled out by the ancestors with their flesh and blood! It is not inferior to the grandeur of "an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops"! Hats off to my loveliest ancestors! You are the ones we will never forget!