Tunnel warfare, a classic tactic during the Anti-Japanese War in China, made great contributions to our army's resistance to the Japanese invaders. During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, our army still used this tactic to successfully defeat the US army.
The movie "Tunnel War" is based on real history and reproduces many thrilling battle scenes, but the tunnel battle scenes in the movie are still far from the real situation.
The tunnel war was born to counter the sweep carried out by the Japanese invaders against our army, and at that time the Japanese invaders implemented a cruel three-light policy, which caused our people to suffer deeply. In the early days of tunnel warfare, the Japanese used a variety of means to poison our people, resulting in the heroic sacrifice of many soldiers, but fortunately, we finally found a strategy to defeat the enemy, so that we were able to win the final victory.
So what is the real situation of tunnel warfare? What twists and turns has it gone through?
In the face of Gangcun Ningci's "three-light policy", the anti-Japanese forces of our army in the North China battlefield suffered heavy losses, and the local people suffered cruel **. Gangcun Ningci's strategy was to blockade and cut off the settlements, and to ask the soldiers to strictly implement the three-light policy, in an attempt to cut off our army's contact with the people and make it isolated.
However, such brutal acts cannot change the determination of our army to unite closely with the people and fight together.
After gaining superiority on the battlefield, the Japanese army began to promote this strategy on a large scale in North China, the number of strongholds and artillery towers in the Jizhong Plain has been close to 2,000, tens of thousands of kilometers of plains have set up a number of blockade lines, the Jizhong Plain has been divided into countless isolated points, the connection between the anti-Japanese armed forces has also been completely cut off, and the situation of the anti-Japanese war in the Jizhong Plain has become increasingly severe.
In the face of the enemy's brutal blockade, our army is actively thinking about ways to crack it. In the mountains, we were able to take advantage of the terrain to defend, but in the plains, there was no terrain to rely on, and once the enemy cut off contact, it would be difficult to establish a new base area.
Under such circumstances, the survival and development of our army will face tremendous challenges.
In the face of the grim situation, our army made a decisive decision to open up the battlefield on its own, and tunnel warfare came into being. On the Central China Plain, dense tunnels were intertwined like a network, which solved the problem of the Japanese blockade and closely connected the anti-Japanese base areas in various places.
In 1942, Gangcun Ningci launched a large-scale sweep in an attempt to completely eradicate the anti-Japanese forces in North China. At that time, the Japanese army was confident that the battle would be won.
They thought we were surrounded, and that they would defeat us by breaking through the blockades one by one. However, when they came to the village, they found no trace of us. It turned out that we had completed the construction of the tunnel the year before, and the anti-Japanese forces had been safely evacuated, and they had missed us before the sweep.
Faced with the embarrassment of the plan being discovered, the Japanese invaders became angry and ashamed, and took the defenseless masses as the object of anger, creating a number of tragic and tragic incidents. Our army hated the atrocities of the Japanese invaders, and could only seek justice for the villagers on the battlefield, but soon after the Japanese invaders were defeated, they discovered the secrets of our army.
In the process of searching Beitong Village, some Japanese soldiers discovered the entrance to the tunnel, and at that time, some of the wounded and villagers had not yet been completely evacuated, and the Japanese invaders did not hesitate to put gas poison gas when they saw this.
When the wounded and villagers tried to evacuate, the Japanese ruthlessly blocked all exits, resulting in more than 800 soldiers and civilians dying heroically in the tunnels. Those who escaped by chance were not spared, and were brutally killed by the Japanese army, and none of the 24 families in the village were spared, and this blood debt was deeply imprinted in the hearts of every Chinese.
Similar tragedies have occurred in other places, which has led our army to re-examine and improve its tunnel tactics. Subsequently, our army began to add lookout holes and ventilation holes in the tunnels to meet more serious challenges.
Through this measure, our army was able to grasp the dynamics of the enemy's forces in a timely manner and make full preparations. After that, no matter how the Japanese army burned or threw poison, it could not cause any damage to our troops.
With the successful implementation of tunnel warfare tactics, our army achieved greater superiority on the battlefield, repeatedly defeating the enemy army, leaving the Japanese at a loss.
After the improvement of our army's tunnel warfare, it has been widely popularized in the Jizhong Plain, and every family is closely connected by tunnels, and the concealment of entrances and exits has also been significantly improved.
Therefore, even if the Japanese army tried their best to search, they could not find the entrance and exit, but were repeatedly hit hard by our army during the search. These achievements are the valuable experience of our ancestors with blood and sweat, which are worth remembering and inheriting.
In the frantic sweep of the Japanese army, the soldiers and civilians in the Jizhong Plain were not afraid, and skillfully dealt with the Japanese invaders with innovative tunnel warfare tactics. Tunnel warfare has become a new battlefield opened up by our army here, through the tunnel, our army successfully carried out ambushes, transfers and liaison operations, although the enemy has advanced equipment, but can not cope with the tactics of our army, was beaten by our army in embarrassment.
In the anti-sweeping operation in the summer of 1942, the guerrillas in Lixian County, Baoding successfully used tunnel warfare to eliminate 30 Japanese puppet soldiers, and this victory greatly boosted the morale of our army and fully proved the feasibility of tunnel warfare.
Under the report of the local cadres, our party highly praised this achievement. Subsequently, he immediately issued a call for the promotion of tunnel warfare, and in March of the same year, he issued a "Letter of Instructions on Carrying Out Tunnel Warfare".
Since then, the entire central Hebei region has begun to promote large-scale tunnel warfare.
In April, Baoding Pili Village set off another upsurge of tunnel warfare. The guerrillas of the 9th Division fought a brave duel with the Japanese puppet army in the tunnels. They carefully set traps and then launched a night attack on the enemy.
When the enemy tried to counterattack, he was either intercepted by partisans from other directions or caught in a trap in the tunnel. The flexible movement of the partisans caught the enemy by surprise.
After several days and nights of fierce fighting, they successfully repelled the attacking enemy troops.
In the victory of Piri, our army not only captured a large number of ** baggage, but also successfully thwarted the enemy's attack. In September 1944, the Japanese army launched a "No. 1 operation" again, planning to concentrate tens of thousands of troops to sweep the central Hebei region, and even used aircraft and tanks and other modernizations.
The enemy first carried out a frenzied bombardment of the tunnel, and then searched for the entrance to the tunnel through hunting dogs and some detection equipment, and carried out targeted strikes against our army's tunnel warfare.