If you have watched the anti-war drama, you will know that the Eighth Route Army has always had the habit of leggings when marching and fighting, they use white cloth to wrap their calves to ankles layer by layer, and then use ropes to completely fix them, which has also become a fine tradition of the Eighth Route Army, but at the time of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the volunteers no longer had leggings, why did the soldiers have such a big contrast in these two wars?
In fact, the Eighth Route Army's preference for leggings is also a helpless move, because during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our country's military industry was very backward, and the materials of the Eighth Route Army were even more impoverished, so the soldiers not only did not have enough to eat, wear, or even have enough weapons and ammunition, not to mention that there were basically no means of transportation, so the soldiers could only rely on walking to fight, the mainland was vast, and the battlefield often changed when fighting guerrillas, so it was very normal for the soldiers to walk for several days and nights in a row.
Because long-term walking leads to soldiers' calves are very easy to bruise and swelling, so once the rest of the soldiers' legs will be painful and unbearable, can not march at all, so the soldiers invented the leggings method, through leggings to alleviate pain, but also to prevent varicose veins and blood stasis, but in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, soldiers are by train and car to the battlefield, no longer need to walk long distances, so the significance of leggings has not been great.
In addition, the opponents of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea have also changed, the Weapons and Equipment of the United States are more sophisticated than those of the Japanese Army, they invented a gasoline incendiary bomb at that time, as long as it is hit, it will quickly burn up, and the fastest way to extinguish the fire will quickly take off its clothes, if the soldiers leggings will delay a lot of time, there may be a danger to their lives, so for the safety of the soldiers, the volunteer army has no longer leggings.