In compiling a group of old photos of the War of Resistance, the author inadvertently found a very special phenomenon: during the War of Resistance, Chinese soldiers without exception carried two grenades on their bodies, while the Japanese army in the same period had almost none.
With a grenade hanging on your chest, aren't you afraid of being martyred when the bullet hits? Therefore, the author went to check the reason, and did not expect that the last reason was touching! Pictured, in August 1937, a standard Chinese soldier in the trenches of the front line of the Battle of Songhu had two long-handled grenades hanging from his chest.
In contrast, the Japanese army in the same period rarely saw them hanging two grenades. The author went to check the historical materials, summarized the reasons, and found that there were three reasons: The first reason was that the level of Chinese military production at that time was very low, and grenades did not need so complex processes and raw materials, and were easy to manufacture. The second reason is that grenades are easy to train, most of the Chinese soldiers are farmers, the level of education is low, as long as the veterans explain for 2 hours, basically the new recruits will make grenades.
The last reason is very touching. That was when the Chinese army generally lacked anti-tank weapons, while the Japanese army was equipped with a large number of armored units. How to deal with these tanks? The only way for the Chinese soldiers was to bundle up the two grenades each person brought and make them into cluster bombs to blow up the Japanese tanks; we look at the battles of the Chinese army, and almost all of them have such records. In the picture, a Chinese warrior in the Battle of Taierzhuang bundled 12 grenades to himself and used his flesh and blood to drill under the enemy tank to detonate.
How tragic! How touching! None of them feared that the bullet would explode, and none of them chose to retreat! In the Second World War, no other country's army relied so heavily on grenades to resist the enemy and did not yield until final victory!