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The secret of the people's anti-Japanese war Why did they come up with a "hot model" of tunnel warfare and mine warfare?
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was a period of suffering in Chinese history, and under the background of this war-torn historical background, the common people actually created a jaw-dropping anti-Japanese miracle - tunnel warfare and mine warfare.
Imagine that the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians at that time were waging guerrilla warfare on the Jizhong Plain, and in the face of the relentless attack of the Japanese invaders, how to protect themselves without any barrier and effectively destroy the enemy became a huge problem. As a result, the people of Jizhong have creatively created a tunnel war, just like an underground "Great Wall", which shuttles through the "three-dimensional" tunnel network of "three links" connecting villages and villages, houses, ground and underground, forming a combat tunnel system that can be attacked and defended, and can advance and retreat freely.
These tunnels originally originated from the hiding holes dug by the common people, and people jokingly called it "** squat". However, this hiding hole can only be concealed and defended, and cannot really fight the enemy. Therefore, the common people actively improved, widened and lengthened the double mouth hole, and the underground holes of the neighbors were interconnected, forming a huge underground passage. In January 1942, the Party Committee of the Central Hebei District issued a document clearly requiring the Central Hebei Region to carry out tunnel struggles, thus setting off an unprecedented scale of tunnel warfare in the history of warfare.
These tunnels are intricately constructed and contain necessities such as water, dry food, bedding and lights, as well as toilets for a few days. The entrances and exits of the tunnels are cleverly hidden, some are located in the kang, some are located under the grinding table and pot table, and some are located in the livestock dregs and behind the door. These tunnels lead not only to the wilderness, but also to some of the commanding heights in the village, such as tall houses and large trees, forming a vast and imperceptible network of tunnels. By 1943, the anti-Japanese soldiers in Jizhong used their own will and wisdom to build a stretch of 2The 50,000-mile tunnel has formed a real "underground Great Wall".
And in terms of mine warfare, this simple and lethal ** also exerted great power. Sun Yumin, the "Magnolia Girl" portrayed in the movie "Mine Warfare", became a hero in mine warfare. A small mine can threaten the spirit of the Japanese generals and make the soldiers crippled. Because a wounded soldier needed to be carried by many people and someone needed to cover it, as long as a team was killed or wounded by more than a dozen people after attacking, it had to retreat in embarrassment. Mine warfare has been carried out extensively, fully demonstrating the boundless creativity of the masses of the people. The arsenals in the anti-Japanese base areas produced very few standard mines, so under the organization of the anti-Japanese **, every household in various places mobilized to collect iron tools and make their own mines.
Many landmines themselves are the original utensils of the home, such as iron kettles filled with earth explosives to become iron mines, or a hole in the middle of a stone is filled with medicine to become stone mines. In order to prevent the enemy from clearing mines, the militia has developed a "child and mother chain mine", once the enemy raises the mother mine, the child mine will follow. In the face of the enemy's means of taking the people as hostages, the militia even cleverly designed "Lalei" to let the people go and bomb the enemy troops behind. Whenever the enemy came to "sweep up", the militia cleverly planted mines and bombed everywhere, making it difficult for the enemy to move an inch.
During the Anti-Japanese War, more than 10,000 enemies were eliminated in mine warfare, and Ranzhuang alone fought 157 battles with the Japanese army, destroying 2,100 enemies. Mine warfare played an important role in hitting the morale of the Japanese army and smashing the Japanese army's "sweep", especially in Haiyang, Shandong, which is known as the "Thunder Township", the militia invented 36 kinds of mines, killed, wounded and captured more than 1,500 enemies in the War of Resistance against Japan, and captured more than 600 pieces of various types, which effectively dealt a blow to the Japanese invaders.
Behind these forms of struggle was the boundless creativity of the masses of the people in the War of Resistance Against Japan. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was not only a great war of national liberation, but also a melting pot for tempering the national spirit with patriotism as the core. It is precisely this national spirit that has pushed the masses of the people to have the courage to rely on their own strength to defeat the aggressors, and to display the national creative spirit of pioneering and innovating and being good at opening up a new path of development in the face of danger. In the smoke of war, the masses of the people radiated their boundless creativity and created such magical forms of struggle as tunnel warfare and mine warfare, writing a glorious chapter in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.