According to the CCTV news client, in 1941, the situation of the anti-Japanese struggle was extremely difficult. The invading Japanese army began to change its military tactics and carried out large-scale sweeping operations in north China in an attempt to destroy the Communist Party of China and the anti-Japanese base areas led by it. In the face of the frenzied military operations of the Japanese army, the soldiers and people of the anti-Japanese base areas waged an extremely arduous struggle against "sweeping" and created mass guerrilla warfare methods such as mine warfare, tunnel warfare, and sabotage warfare, thus effectively dealing a blow to the arrogance of the enemy.
The militias are making their own mines
Militia fighters planted mines on the road
Movie "Mine Warfare": If there are fewer devils, we will do it, and if there are more devils, we will turn around. Hide in the dark to shoot cold guns, lay mines in the distance, the devils are bombed and beaten, and a figure cannot be seen! This is the way our militia fights, every village is organized, everyone is armed, as long as we persist in the struggle, we will certainly be able to protect our hometown and finally drive the enemy out...
△ Real photos of mine warfare, militia laying mines.
After the Japanese army invaded Haiyang County, Shandong Province, it frantically implemented the "three lights" policy, and the local soldiers and civilians who lacked guns and ammunition began to learn to use mines. In the spring of 1943, a special meeting was held in Nanbu Village, Haiyang, Shandong Province, attended by militia representatives from various villages in Haiyang County. Zhao Shaomin, commander of the militia company of Zhao Yan villagers in Haiyang, said that on this day, the villagers in Haiyang saw the landmines for the first time in their lives.
Zhao Shaomin: Our village sent 3 militiamen to the Jiaodong Armed Forces Department to study, and after returning from study, we set up an explosive group with only 6 comrades. Just came back with 3 iron mines.
△ Ubiquitous mine warfare
The initial successful attempts opened the prelude to the Haiyang mine warfare, which soon began to be waged throughout the county from point to point. For a time, in the Haiyang area, "villages and villages will make mines, and households will have stone mines", and the tricks of landmines will continue to be innovated.
Zhao Shaomin: There are more than 70 kinds of mines in the whole mine warfare. Pushing open the door is a "door opening mine"; the shovel is placed there, and a thunder can also be set below, and after taking it, the "shovel thunder" is sounded, and any object that can move can be set up.
△ Zhao Shoufu, the prototype of the "explosion king" Zhao Hu in the film "Mine Warfare", has developed more than 30 kinds of mines and is known as the "holy hand of explosion".
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the people of Haiyang, Shandong Province, fought more than 2,000 battles and annihilated more than 1,500 enemy troops, and the Haiyang militia also formed an expeditionary explosive team to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army in the base area on many occasions, and plunged the Japanese army into the ocean of people's war with the endlessly changing and ubiquitous mine warfare.
The theme song of the movie "Mine Warfare" "Militia are heroes": Militiamen are heroes, not afraid of hardships, not afraid of difficulties, fight Japan, protect our hometown, landmines are our good partners...
△ Oil painting "Mine Warfare"
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, landmines showed great might, not only writing a glorious page in the history of the revolutionary struggle of the people in Haiyang, Shandong, but also leaving a strong mark in the history of the Jiaodong War of Resistance. In 1962, the Bayi Film Studio filmed the film "Mine Warfare" against the backdrop of the anti-Japanese story of the Militia in Haiyang, Shandong, and in early 1963, this military teaching film was screened nationwide as a feature film, causing a huge sensation. Mine warfare has also become a microcosm of China's entire nation's resistance to Japan and national salvation, vividly demonstrating the infinite wisdom of the working people and the courage and determination of the Chinese people to defend their homes and defend the country.
Edited by Linzhi Sun