Yesterday's latest news about the Sino-Indian border made many people in China laugh.
According to Indian media reports on the 17th, in the sino-Indian border confrontation area recently, the Chinese People's Liberation Army set up a number of megaphones to play the national divine comedy of the northern Indian state of Punjab to the Indian army on the opposite side for 24 hours.
Judging from the live reports of the Indian media, the music in the air is officially "Tunak Tunak Tun" by the famous Indian singer Darrell Mahadi. The song has a more popular name in China, "I Play in the Mud in the Northeast."
▲ I play mud in the northeast, although the northeast is not large
I don't have a home in Dalian, how cold!
This song has been accompanied by funny Chinese lyrics by Chinese netizens, coupled with a cheerful rhythm, and has been popular in the streets of China in previous years.
Although the Chinese netizens are cheerful here, the Indian side is a little overwhelmed, and the feelings are that they have never seen this situation.
The Indian media host indignantly asked: "Why do Chinese want to play Punjabi songs?" ”
In response to the news that our army has released songs, the Indian media speculated that the PEOPLE's Liberation Army's move may be to divert the attention of the Indian army, or it may be to reduce pressure on itself.
Some Indian netizens speculated that this was "the Chinese side is afraid, lowering its body to seek peace".......
In addition to playing Punjabi music, the PLA also shouted out to Indian troops in Hindi, mentioning how Indian soldiers were dying in an unwinnable battle and how they should fear the onset of winter.
India Today also claimed that before the outbreak of the self-defense counterattack against India in 1962, the PLA also played Bollywood/Hindi songs in the direction of the Indian army as a means of intimidation, and also showed the Indian army that they knew the Indian language.
There is a famous allusion in Chinese history called "Embattled Song", during the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, the Chu army led by Xiang Yu was surrounded by Liu Bang's Han army, but still stubbornly resisted.
The Han generals asked the soldiers to learn to sing the Chu folk songs at night, Xiang Yu heard chu songs coming from the Han army barracks, thinking that his base area of Chu had been captured by Liu Bang, and had no intention of fighting again, and the Chu soldiers were even more demoralized because they missed their hometown, and fled in tears, and the Chu army was defeated by the Han army.
Later, Chinese used the metaphor of "embattled" to be attacked on all sides, isolated and helpless, and in trouble.
In fact, this kind of voice attack, the "psychological warfare" that breaks the enemy's will to fight, has often been seen in previous wars.
During World War II, both sides engaged in "broadcast psychological warfare", most notably the "Tokyo Rose" of Japan's Tokyo Radio (now NHK)
In the face of the increasingly anxious war, the Japanese army became more and more unsustainable, so it tried to conduct a psychological war with the US army through the radio and destroy the psychological defense line of the American soldiers.
So they hired a group of sweet-sounding, addictive female announcers code-named "Tokyo Rose." Every day, radio broadcasts were sent to the U.S. military in the Pacific, and the voice tried to arouse the U.S. military's longing for its homeland, as well as dissatisfaction with the U.S. authorities and government, and war-weariness.
These female announcers created one golden sentence after another through the airwaves.
"At this moment, you are stubbornly resisting for the sake of the country on the battlefield, but have you ever thought that your wife at home is in bed for love and red apricots out of the wall?"
"Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. Your ship sank, how do you get home? ”
"The beach is full of mines, and you will be blown away by the mines."
The sound of "Tokyo Rose" did not save Japan from defeat, but made many American soldiers deeply fascinated. Let them have the urge to "hit Tokyo, catch Tokyo roses alive, and see what they look like."
When the New York Times reporter interviewed the U.S. military, a soldier said: "Her voice is so beautiful, for us American soldiers, she is as famous as Emperor Hirohito!" ”
▲ "Tokyo Rose" Toguri Yuko after being arrested and imprisoned
I don't know if the U.S. troops who rushed to Tokyo were disappointed
In fact, for this kind of "psychological warfare", the People's Liberation Army claims to be the second, and no one dares to call it the first. At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese Anti-War Alliance (Japan's Eighth Route) in the Eighth Route Army often ran to the bottom of the Devil's Artillery Tower, shouted at the Japanese army in Japanese, played Japanese folk songs, distributed leaflets and condolence bags.
▲Members of the Anti-War Alliance who still insisted on shouting to the Japanese army with a head injury
"We are Japanese friends sent by the Japanese Anti-War League in Yan'an to comfort you. In the past, we were also soldiers of the Japanese army, and three years ago we became prisoners of the Eighth Route Army and sent to the Japanese Workers' and Peasants' School in Yan'an to study. Now we understand that our enemy is not the Eighth Route Army, not the Chinese, but the Japanese warlords and chaebols, and it is too boring for us to fight for them.
It was the warlords and chaebols who benefited from the war, and it was you and the japanese toilers who suffered and suffered, and it was our families who suffered. I hope that you will join us in opposing the common enemy, the Japanese warlords and chaebols! When the Japanese army is completely defeated, it will be the day we return to Japan to reunite with our families..."
This is the scene where Kato, a member of the "Anti-War Alliance", shouts at the Japanese stronghold in Wucheng. The gunfire at the stronghold stopped, and later someone surrendered to the Eighth Route Army.
It was much simpler in the period of the War of Liberation.
As long as the Nationalist army was surrounded, and then steamed steamed steamed buns outside the position, there were pieces of nationalist troops running to surrender at night.
If anyone in the world can really understand the feelings of soldiers on the Indian border, it is not the national army on Kinmen Island.
"Wow! It's so big! ”
Every man who sees the giant loudspeaker on Xiamen Dadeng Island will offer the supreme admiration among men.
▲ Giant loudspeaker
During the period of military confrontation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, the horn with the reputation of "sound shells" used to be non-stop day and night, playing the role of "attacking the heart" that was difficult for steel shells to play.
The world's largest loudspeaker - the whole set of equipment is cast from lead and aluminum alloy, the maximum diameter is 2.86 meters, the length is 4.74 meters, and the weight is 1588 kilograms. Its maximum pronunciation power is 20,000 soundwaves, and the effective transmission distance can reach 12 kilometers!
▲The distance between Kinmen and the mainland
As soon as the loudspeaker in Xiamen sounded, the Taiwanese brothers on Kinmen Island had to obediently listen.
According to the announcer in charge of broadcasting to Kinmen Island, in the 1950s, as long as the wind was at three levels, the mainland broadcasting was non-stop day and night.
The most frequently broadcast is the "five guarantees and reward regulations" that call for surrender to the uprising: to ensure the safety of life, not to fight, not to scold, not to insult, not to confiscate personal property, to pay travel expenses for those who are willing to go home, and to arrange work willingly. If you bring a pistol back, you will be rewarded with 50 yuan, a submachine gun will be rewarded with 150 yuan, and if you fly an airplane, you will be rewarded with tens of thousands of gold.
Even more deliberate than policy offensives such as the "Five Guarantees" were the various radio programs carefully prepared by the announcers for the Defenders of Kinmen. Not only the traditional operas of various places on the mainland, but also the recordings and letters of the kuomintang officers and soldiers who stayed in the families of the mainland, all of which greatly stimulated the homesickness of the Guards of Kinmen, which can be called a deadly killing.
In those years, many officers and men of the Taiwan Army who left the mainland missed their hometowns and relatives and secretly crossed the sea to surrender their sincerity.
The most famous surrender is Lin Yifu, whose ancestors are from Fujian but was born in Taiwan in 1952, and he theoretically has little affection for the mainland.
However, when Lin Yifu was a company commander on Kinmen Island, he bought a semiconductor radio himself, and whenever it was late at night, he would quietly listen to the mainland radio, look at the lights on the other side, and his heart was surging with excitement, and he was full of infinite longing for the mainland of the motherland.
On the evening of May 16, 1979, he actually swam from Kinmen Island to the mainland alone to surrender, and later developed rapidly in the mainland by virtue of his own ability, serving as a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice president of the World Bank, chief economist, and professor of Peking University.
▲Lin Yifu (left)
In order to prevent the people from surrendering to the mainland broadcast, the Kuomintang had to strengthen its management of the entire Kinmen region.
On the one hand, it interferes with the broadcast on the other side, such as beating gongs and drums, internal broadcasting, running, etc.
At the same time, such items as radios are strictly controlled, and only a small number of people can have radios due to special work needs, and they must always have a "radio use permit" to cope with inspections.
The military and civilians in Kinmen, despite their excellent water quality, were also strictly forbidden to swim in the water to prevent them from escaping to the opposite shore.
On the other hand, the Taiwan region has set up a so-called "psychological warfare brigade" to broadcast broadcasts from Kinmen Island to the mainland for a "counter-offensive."
He often played the songs of Teresa Teng, who was on fire at that time, such as "The Moon Represents My Heart" and "Sweet Honey" and other songs. These songs were once loved by the people of the mainland, and Teresa Teng also won an award from the General Political and War Department of Taiwan's "Ministry of National Defense."
"Dear brothers of the Communist Army, you have been surrounded! There is a sea of fire in front and no way back after, so hurry up and surrender. Our "government" is lenient and will absolutely guarantee the safety of your lives. ”
This "mighty and domineering" shout is the word "persuasion" of the psychological warfare that the "Taiwan army" has been shouting for 30 years. And it appears every year in the "Hanguang Exercise".
▲ This sentence has finally entered the abolition procedure after several times it has become a joke
Because as the gap between the two sides of the strait in military strength has become wider and wider, many people in Taiwan have begun to question this kind of shouting: "The communist army" is now so powerful, will they really surrender when they are "armed reunification"? It should be us who surrender, right? ”
▲The scene of the Taiwan army shouting
Last year, the words in this "brother of the communist army" report were changed to "brothers of the enemy army, lay down their weapons and hold their heads with both hands."
However, even the people on the island could not listen to the sick phrase "brother of the enemy army" and complained one after another.
▲ The complaints of the people on the island
In addition to the specific shouts of heart war, a series of "surrender foods" announced by Taiwan's "heart war brigade" have made compatriots inside and outside the island laugh off their teeth.
▲"Surrender Food" produced by the Taiwan military
"Surrender Food" is a variety of food, in the food packaging with some propaganda text, highlighting the theme of "give up resistance, quick surrender".
▲ Taiwan experts: Mainlanders can't afford to eat tea eggs and instant noodles
So you developed the "Tou Cheng Instant Noodles" to seduce us?
This operation once made people scratch their heads, but when they thought that after all, in their eyes, mainlanders were still "a bunch of poor ghosts who couldn't even afford to eat instant noodles, squeezed vegetables, and tea eggs", so it was understandable to create such things as "throwing in the noodles" and "throwing in the egg rolls" to try to lure us into surrender.
▲Taiwan Army's "Surrender Tonchen Instant Noodles"
"The owner buys instant noodles!" "What brand do you want?"
"Unity!" "How many barrels do you want?" "Five barrels!"