Preamble:
"Equip each class with a spear. ”
One day in 1938, 50 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army encountered 9 Japanese invaders, and the soldiers who had the advantage in numbers had more confidence in their hearts. I thought that 50 to 9 should be a complete victory for our army, but I never thought that the ending would be unexpected, most of our soldiers were killed and wounded, but the Japanese were complacent.
Yang Chengwu learned of this situation, summed up and reflected on the problems of the soldiers in the battle, in order to ensure that the soldiers reduced casualties in the subsequent battles, Yang Chengwu issued an order to equip each squad with a spear.
Why did Yang Chengwu give such an order, and what was the reason behind 50 defeats and 9 defeats?
Victory defeated
"Divide into three teams and carry out the encirclement. "In 1938, more than 50 soldiers of our army met 9 Japanese soldiers in Zhangjiawan, and the enemy was very red when they saw him, and our soldiers immediately clenched the weapons in their hands and prepared for battle.
However, in such a situation where the enemy was outnumbered, the Japanese army did not panic in the slightest, on the contrary, their faces were still relaxed, and after seeing what the leader of the Japanese army said, these 9 Japanese soldiers changed their formation.
They are in a group of three, one in the front and two behind, and after being divided into three groups, they form a "pin" formation as a whole, which not only covers each other but also changes flexibly.
Seeing the sudden change of the Japanese army's formation, our soldiers were also divided into three teams, ready to attack from different sides to surround them, "Rush!" Our soldiers rushed towards the Japanese soldiers with their weapons, and the Japanese soldiers also pulled the formation.
In the sound of bayonets colliding with each other, the white-knuckle battle began, and I thought that our army, which had a crushing advantage in numbers, would soon solve these Japanese invaders, but I never thought that many of our soldiers would be seriously injured or even died bravely under the first attack.
On the other hand, the Japanese invaders can be said to be unscathed, and this unexpected reversal greatly weakened the momentum of our army, and the Japanese invaders became even more complacent.
After regaining momentum, our army launched another attack, but no matter how many times our soldiers tried to break the changed and solid formation of the Japanese invaders, they did not return.
Even if our army had a platoon of troops, they did not dare to act rashly in the face of the impregnable defense of the Japanese invaders, so the Japanese invaders retreated from the front while maintaining their formation, and rushed out of the encirclement.
In the end, it was the arrival of our reinforcements, and all these Japanese soldiers were shot and killed, although the ambush was the final victory of our army, but such a victory was not what our army wanted, and in the white-knuckle battle that our army was most familiar with, it was not able to defeat the Japanese invaders, and in the case of a large number of people, they were even wounded by the Japanese invaders.
The surviving soldiers brought the bodies of their sacrificed comrades back to the army, Yang Chengwu looked at these sacrificed soldiers and felt heartache, but now is not the time to be sad, this battle gave everyone a profound and painful lesson, and also made Yang Chengwu notice the shortcomings of our soldiers.
"We are not as good as them physically, we are not as good as them in weapons, and this time it was actually a failure. Watching the soldiers report the situation and reflect on themselves like dead branches and leaves, Yang Chengwu said: "It's a good thing that you can find shortcomings now, but we need to make up for these shortcomings, otherwise this will still happen in the future battles." ”
Under the persuasion of Yang Chengwu, the soldiers began to discuss the problems in the battle one by one, and they summed up three points: weapons, physical fitness, and assassination skills.
The reason behind the failure
There is indeed no problem with the summary of the soldiers, and the soldiers of our army are still a little worse than the Japanese in terms of weapons, physical fitness, and assassination skills.
The weapon used by the Japanese in this white-knuckle battle was the "38 Dagai", which is the name in Chinese, and this weapon is called the "38 Type Rifle" in Japanese.
The Japanese began the production of this weapon in 1897, although in modern times many countries began to develop their own weapons and equipment, but among the many weapons and equipment, the "38 big cover" is definitely the most recognizable.
Because the length of the 38 cover is the most different from other weapons, the overall length of the 38 cover can reach 1.8 meters, of which the length of the bayonet alone can reach 0.52 meters, and the length of the bayonet is almost one-third of the length of the whole gun.
This weapon has extraordinary lethality, and it has an advantage in length alone, according to the evaluation of the U.S. military, "this weapon is a spear capable of firing bullets." ”
The Japanese also put a lot of effort into the production of bayonets, and almost every Japanese prisoner had a bayonet in their hands, and they were happy to produce bayonets.
"In our eyes, a bullet is equivalent to the existence of gold coins, and it is as valuable as gold coins. In the Japanese invasion of China, Toshiro once described the value of bullets to them in this way.
You must know that although Japan is an industrial country, it has always been called "the poorest imperialism", and this is because Japan itself is poor in resources.
At that time, they consumed a lot of resources in the equipment of the navy, and the equipment of the army naturally seemed to be a little stretched. Therefore, in the eyes of the Japanese at that time, bayonets were cheaper than bullets, and every shot was the same as shooting gold coins for them.
Moreover, the price of manufacturing a submachine gun can be said to be 3 times the price of a 38 cap, if you add the bullets equipped with each submachine gun, then the price of this set can completely make 5 38 caps with bayonets.
Therefore, the bayonet became an indispensable weapon for the Japanese invaders, and at the same time, in order to make better use of this weapon to maximize the lethality of the bayonet, they spent a lot of time on assassination training and training in white-knuckle combat formations.
Even in order to better train, they sometimes use live people as targets inhumanely, just to be able to master how to hit the heart with a bayonet, how to avoid the ribs, reduce resistance and improve accuracy.
The most commonly used formation is to work in groups of three, defending and attacking back to back, and changing the formation at any time according to the situation.
During the Battle of Taierzhuang, our army captured a notebook of Japanese invaders, on which it recorded that he and two other Japanese invaders were surrounded by many soldiers of our army.
This Japanese soldier and the other two Japanese soldiers attacked back to back in the same way as they had been trained and attacked from many sides, and in this mode of attack and defense, they killed 7 soldiers of our army, and finally successfully escaped the encirclement.
Therefore, although the bayonet was the choice of the Japanese "last resort", it also caused heavy casualties to our soldiers and made our army suffer a lot in this regard.
On the other hand, the mainland was unable to import advanced weapons for some reasons at that time, and at that time, the mainland was relatively backward in terms of industrial strength, and it was powerless in the production of guns and ammunition.
In addition, the longest bayonet used by our soldiers was only 1.6 meters, and our soldiers suffered a big loss in terms of length alone. Don't underestimate this 20 centimeter gap, it is this 20 centimeter gap that makes our soldiers often form a bayonet into the chest of our soldiers when they fight with the Japanese invaders before they touch the other side.
"Our bayonets are easy to break, and the soldiers often curl or break their bayonets after assassinating two or three devils. Yang Chengwu was keenly aware of the existence of this problem, and in order to solve the problem of white-knuckle warfare, Yang Chengwu racked his brains.
Sum up the experience and change step by step
Length is a must, and the ease of the weapon is also important," I decided to equip each squad with a spear in the future. After some thought, Yang Chengwu gave an order.
Compared to larger knives, the length of the spear can reach about 2 meters, and it only requires the strength of the arm, and does not require much swinging action or deep force.
It has been proved in practice that the appearance of the spear has deterred the opponent to a certain extent, and also reduced the damage of our side, but there are advantages and disadvantages, the length of the spear is too long and only suitable for a large combat space, once it reaches a relatively small space, the spear will be limited.
And the wooden pole of the spear can easily be cut off, and the weapon that loses its deterrent power will push the warriors to the brink of danger, and it is still necessary to rely on the bayonet.
For this reason, our army was determined to develop bayonets and train them in assassination techniques, and when the people learned that our army needed to make bayonets, they provided the soldiers with a large number of iron products and a lot of food.
Yes, our soldiers are not only inferior to the Japanese in terms of weapons and equipment and assassination skills, but also in terms of physical fitness and physical fitness of the soldiers.
Although the height of the Japanese invaders is not very high, they are rich in materials, eggs, meat, rice, etc., and the chickens, ducks, pigs and other livestock that the mainland people are reluctant to eat will be taken away by them and eaten.
Whether it is in terms of food and clothing or nutrition, it can be fully guaranteed, so the body of the Japanese invaders looks relatively strong.
The soldiers of our army are thin and thin, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and the long-term poverty and fighting of hunger and hunger have made the soldiers empty of a tall man but not much flesh on their bodies, and every hard battle depends on everyone's tenacious and unyielding, perseverance, and unyielding spirit and willpower.
After the gradual development of our army and the soldiers had bayonets, they began to train assassination skills day and night, and even during dinner, everyone discussed how to use bayonets better and what kind of formation was more advantageous.
In this way, with the concerted efforts of the whole army, our army quickly shortened the distance between itself and the Japanese invaders, and after fighting again and again with real swords and guns, one valuable experience after another was summed up, and our army began to move uphill as a whole, and the bayonet was no longer a stumbling block for our army.
Justice will always triumph over evil, and the dawn of victory finally shone on the land of the mainland, and in 1945, the Japanese who had vainly said that "China will be destroyed in three months" was driven out of China by the soldiers!
Summary:
The victory was not easy to come by, and it was the result of the soldiers who fought desperately and resisted in the darkness and mud with their flesh and blood, and they walked step by step to the plain and climbed to the top from the trough with their own feet.
May the motherland always prosper and salute the heroes!