In TV dramas related to the Anti-Japanese War, we can often see such a scene:When the Japanese army goes out to sweep, they often take a large number of puppet soldiers with them, and these puppet soldiers often ride bicycles, but the difference is that the Japanese army always runs behind the puppet army.
This has to make people feel a little magical, it stands to reason that the status of the Japanese army must be higher than those puppet army, so why can a traitor with a lower status ride a bicycle?This was actually based on the actual situation at the time.
We all know that in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the first could not stop the onslaught of the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield, and North China and Central China were quickly captured and became occupied areas controlled by the Japanese puppets.
However, this does not mean that there are no resistance forces in the occupied areas, and the anti-Japanese forces, mainly the guerrilla units formed by our party behind enemy lines, have been maneuvering with the Japanese army all along, making it impossible for the Japanese army to convert the manpower and material resources in these occupied areas into war resources.
At that time, the guerrilla warfare continued almost non-stop, which greatly consumed the strength of the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield and greatly interfered with the logistics supply of the Japanese front-line combat troops, so the Japanese army has been pulling the local puppet army to carry out sweeping operations.
However, this series of sweeping operations brought even greater losses to the Japanese army -- after all, the purpose of the Japanese army's training was not to fight law and order warfare and guerrilla warfare, so it suffered heavy losses in the face of the continuous attacks of our party's guerrillas.
In order to deal with this dilemma, the Japanese army later developed a tactic, that is, to use the puppet troops they recruited as auxiliary forces for sweeping operations. Generally speaking, when the Japanese army is preparing to go to the countryside to sweep, it will be composed of a squadron or a wing of Japanese troops, with almost three times as many puppet troops to carry out the sweep.
And most of the puppet armies will be equipped with bicycles, the purpose is to let these puppet armies have a certain degree of mobility, because if the puppet army fights our party's guerrillas on a frontal battlefield, the possibility of victory is almost non-existent.
Even if they are equipped with equipment retired from the Japanese army, because their combat spirit is infinitely close to zero, their daily training is not rigorous, and there are still problems such as corruption and laziness, in fact, to a certain extent, they are not an army that can conduct normal operations.
In the sweep war launched by the Japanese army, they played more of a supporting role (i.e., the role of reconnaissance), to put it bluntly, they used their familiarity with the terrain to gather some detailed information.
- And this requires these puppet armies to have strong mobility, otherwise even if they collect intelligence, it is useless to escape, so we can see that the Japanese army has equipped these puppet armies with bicycles on a large scale.
In the grouping of the Japanese army, the bicycle appeared to be more "chicken ribs". At that time, the level of infrastructure in China was not high, and the anti-Japanese guerrillas were generally hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, although the bicycles could drive in, the speed could be increased, but only for individual marches, and the bicycles were congested up the mountains, which would inevitably delay the marching speed of the large army.
And this not only fails to achieve the original military goal, but also is not easy to deal with the sudden ambush, and the target of riding a bicycle is more conspicuous and easy to be targeted, so the Japanese army sometimes prefers to give up the bicycle and walk more hard, because this can at least effectively reduce the **, as for the puppet army to die or not, it does not have much impact on them.
In fact, another important reason why the Japanese army dared to equip those puppet army troops with a large number of bicycles was that they established large-scale bicycle production factories in the occupied areas of Chinese mainland, and the production capacity of these production plants was very large.
We all know that before the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance against Japan, the three eastern provinces had completely fallen. In April 1936, Japan's Miyata Industrial Co., Ltd. established the Miyata Manufacturing Plant in "Manchuria", specializing in the production of motorcycles and bicycles, which was the beginning of the construction of bicycle production lines in the occupied areas of China.
In 1936 and 1942, two large bicycle manufacturers built bicycle production lines in the northeast of China. As of the eve of the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1944, the Japanese-funded enterprise Changhe had 300 sets of machinery and equipment for the production of bicycles in Northeast China, with 350 workers, and could produce 26,000 bicycles per year.
And this is just the output of a factory, plus some other machinery and equipment looted from the occupied areas, the Japanese army is enough to ensure the annual production of more than 100,000 bicycles in Chinese mainland, which is a very unbelievable figure.
At that time, China's transportation conditions were very backward, and bicycles were one of the few means of transportation that could move quickly, so bicycles could be seen in various cities in Chinese mainland.
Although many times our bicycles need to be imported from Western countries, the wealth of the Chinese people is still considerable, and many middle-class and citizen classes have bicycles at home.
The Japanese army and the puppet ** and puppet army forces they support will often plunder the wealth of the citizen class in the city, and the "hand-in-hand" bicycles they buy have become the pockets of these puppet army, which also leads to the popularity of bicycles in some puppet army units in North China can reach more than 60%.
- This shows that the puppet army has been able to guarantee that six out of ten people can ride bicycles, but they obviously did not use such convenience on the right pathAs Chinese, they are more often helping the Japanese army to find convenience, and such unrighteous people are destined to be spurned.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, most of the puppet army units were absorbed or dismissed by the Kuomintang, and they were basically wiped out in the War of Liberation. In fact, sometimes these puppet armies are even more cruel than the Japanese, but fortunately, most of these scum who have forgotten their ancestors have been duly punished.