This heavy loss in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border region soon spread to the northwest of Hebei, and unlike the last attack on Fupanyugou, the organs of the Banyugou Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region lost thousands of people, and they did not even find out which Japanese troops came! It was only after more than a month that it was roughly ascertained through intelligence in the enemy-occupied area that it was attacked by the enemy's 110th Division.

This time, the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area was besieged by devils, and so many commanders and fighters were sacrificed, and the biggest gain was that after forming a part of the troops, two Japanese prisoners were brought out, and according to the confessions of these two Japanese prisoners, it was understood that this wing belonging to the 110th Division was the newly formed rapid special operations wing of the Japanese army!

For this reason, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army issued instructions to all military regions to prevent and pay attention to this rapid force of the Japanese army, and Yang Bangzi was quite happy when he heard that the commander of this Japanese wing was his old enemy Shimizu Dazuo, he was quite happy, he privately told Lao Feng that Lao Tzu had a hunch, and this Qingshui devil would have to come to Lao Tzu for revenge! Last time in Guojiabaozi, this kid suffered a big loss!

After all, seeing that it is October, according to the devil's action plan, it is time to start a move on the first sub-district, the eleventh sub-district and other sub-districts of Jin-Cha-Ji, Yang Bangzi and they have been working on various preparations for counter-sweeping since August, simply put, it is a large-scale military training, digging deep holes, accumulating grain, and making knives and guns.

It is easy to say that the ready-made soldiers have increased the intensity of training and increased the subjects of training, and the training methods of the special training camps have been used by other units as well. It's too late for the devil to come and practice!

Digging deep holes means digging tunnels, building defensive positions, and building the overall defense system of villages at strategic points in the entire sub-division, in villages, mountains and hills, and making active defensive preparations for the points and lines on the topography and landform of the 11 th sub-division that the Japanese army has marked.

As for the extensive accumulation of grain, it is best to understand that it is necessary to select hidden places in the whole region and build secret bases for storing food, ammunition, and other supplies. Dozens of places were repaired throughout the district. The people's grain accumulation is also arranged by the village committee to clear the wilderness, and it is necessary to ensure that not a single grain falls into the hands of the devils, and the grain reserves can sustain the troops and the people in the anti-sweeping struggle for more than three months.

On the surface, making knives and guns is to build their own broadswords and spears, but in fact, they are not. In fact, what Yang Bangzi wanted to solve was the problem of bayonets.

Don't underestimate this bayonet. If when the bullets are running out and hand-to-hand combat. The bayonet is the most handy guy, and it used to be said that our Chinese soldiers had a good brush, and they mistakenly thought that the broadsword could restrain the bayonet of the devil. This is an absolute misinterpretation! At the beginning, the 29th Road used a broadsword to deal with the bayonet of the devil, mainly because the use of bayonets by Chinese soldiers in white-knuckle warfare was far worse than that of Japanese soldiers, and the broadsword was simple to use, easy to use and easy to carry.

With the widespread availability of automatic weapons and the increasing firepower of the battlefield, the bayonet had little to say in most of the battlefields of World War II. But the Chinese battlefield is an exception. This is determined by the level of equipment, tactical thinking, and military traditions of the warring parties, among other things.

Many of the Kuomintang military and political leaders in the War of Resistance were educated in Japanese military academies, including Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan, but the Japanese army's emphasis on stabbing training did not have any impact on the Kuomintang troops. At the beginning of the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, political education was put in the first place, and the officers trained seemed to be inferior to the Baoding Military Academy of the Beiyang Department in terms of tactical quality, and the influence of Soviet-style spear skills on them was also extremely limited.

In the Sino-German military cooperation in the 20~30s of the 20th century, the Kuomintang army, especially Chiang Kai-shek's descendants, was deeply influenced by German military thought. The German Army traditionally placed more emphasis on the speed and consistency of infantry fire, and only in isolated cases such as street fighting or trench assault warfare did infantry use equipment such as grenades, daggers, and sapper shovels in hand-to-hand combat.

However, at that time, the Kuomintang army's firepower allocation, ammunition supply, and shooting skills were far behind those of the German army, and the German army's drill code was copied and the training for white-knuckle warfare was neglected, which showed serious shortcomings in the later anti-Japanese war. In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although the vast number of patriotic officers and soldiers fought to the death with their blood in white-knuckle warfare, they often suffered heavy casualties due to insufficient training in fighting stabs.

There are, of course, exceptions. Li Zongren's Guangxi Army was quite unique in white-knuckle warfare because it generally adopted a compulsory military service system in the province and retained a large number of experienced middle and lower-ranking officers in the army. In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Chinese army, with the Guangxi Army as the main force, defeated the Japanese army's elite division, the Sendai Division.

Another national army unit that is good at white knife combat is the 29th Army under the Northwest Army sequence. As early as 1930, during the Central Plains War, the "broadsword team" of the 29th Army was already famous, and their "eight knives of breaking the edge" have been passed down to this day. I specifically talked about the power of this knife technique earlier, but this is not something that can be practiced overnight, and the Northwest Army has been using the big knife for decades, which is a tradition.

As far as the army under the leadership of our party is concerned, white-knuckle warfare has always been a commonly used and good form of warfare. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, due to the extremely backward equipment of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, it could only rely heavily on cold weapons to solve its problems. In the early days of the establishment of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area, there were even "shuttle battalions" and "shuttle regiments".

There are more than 500 officers and men in a certain independent battalion, with only 60 rifles and more than 400 pike darts (red tassel guns). The Red Army's opponents were few skilled in white-knuckle combat, so the Red Army relied on strong will and strong morale to win in white-knuckle combat. However, in the course of a protracted campaign of movement, it is very difficult to conduct systematic and perfect training for officers and men at the grassroots level in white-knuckle warfare. After the proportion of firearms and equipment in the Red Army gradually increased, many fighters still carried broadswords or spears in white-knuckle combat due to the lack of bayonets. Carrying a broadsword on his back has become a classic image of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

After the Xi'an Incident, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in northern Shaanxi was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army (the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army under the leadership of the Nationalist Government), and went to the anti-Japanese front in Shanxi in the autumn of 1937. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, most of the weapons of the Eighth Route Army were no longer usable, and the rifles were still mainly old-fashioned "made in Hanyang" and other miscellaneous rifles. Zhou Shidi, chief of staff of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, recorded in his diary that the division's 4,092 rifles and carbines were equipped with only 117 usable bayonets. In many cases, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army still used heavy machetes in white-knuckle combat.

The war was fought until 1943, don't think that a bayonet can be used by everyone, this thing is really not a durable consumer product, I will get a handful, so that it will not be broken for several years, nonsense! Under normal circumstances, after a battle, the bayonet that stabbed several people will be bent, and it must be used again after entering the repair shop.

Some buddies said, isn't that thing iron, iron is not everywhere, and if there are materials for making big knives, you can make more bayonets. Not to mention, big knives are easy to fight, but bayonets are really not easy to make!

In terms of the difficulty of manufacturing, the bayonet has high requirements for processing technology, especially in the control of tolerances, and it is necessary to ensure that the size of the muzzle ring and tenon is consistent with that of the rifle, so it is difficult for ordinary blacksmiths to build. The production of bayonets in China, like firearms, developed very slowly; In the ten years since its establishment, the Hanyang Arsenal has produced 130,726 guns of all kinds, but only 2,310 bayonets. From the era of warlords to the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of bayonets of all kinds were purchased from European powers.

The self-made bayonets in China were mainly used by Hanyang-made and various Tuyang Mauser rifles. The bayonet made in Hanyang is single-edged, and its length and shape resemble the Japanese Meiji 30-year style. The bayonets of the Chinese and other Mauser rifles have two main types of blade shapes: the British 1907 and the Belgian 1924.

Due to the limited production, the manufacture of guns and bayonets was separated, so by the time of the war, many soldiers in the local troops did not have bayonets. For example, the Sichuan army that went to the front line, the record said that some of the bolts of the guns had to be tied with ropes so that they would not fall out, and the soldiers did not have bayonets. Some units simply issued soldiers with broadswords for use in close combat, at least the supply of large blades was self-sufficient.

I see, the difficulty of making a small bayonet is no less than that of a cannon and a machine gun, and the smelting conditions in the base area at that time were also limited, and it was not easy to make high-strength steel suitable for making bayonets, so most of the bayonets could only be repaired, and only when they encountered good steel would they consider making the last batch.

What Yang Bangzi pondered was how to give his troops a bayonet in their hands, go to Zhou Donggua in the military camp town for help, and get back a hundred and ten to the maximum, if you want Zhou Donggua to help with this, you have to feed him first!

It's not about bribing Minister Zhou, but you have to solve the problem of materials for him, how can you make a bayonet without good steel! Yang sticks: The best material they could think of at that time was to pick up the railroad tracks!

In order to pick up the railroad tracks, Yang Bangzi concentrated three battalions of nearly 2,000 troops in the area from Mancheng to Shunping, resulting in a situation to break the blockade of the devils, at this time the main force of the Japanese army was basically assembled in the northern line of eastern Hebei and the northwest of Shanxi, the southern line was concentrated between Dezhou and Xuzhou, and only the garrisons around Baoding remained.

These three battalions were used for bluffing, while the special training battalion, the engineer company, and the cavalry company, led by Yang Bangzi himself, interspersed through the blockade line, and with the cooperation of the armed engineering teams and guerrillas behind enemy lines, they picked up more than 10 kilometers of the narrow-gauge railway from Pinghan Road and Baoding to Mancheng overnight, and got back hundreds of railroad tracks.

Well, let alone build a thousand bayonets, tens of thousands are no problem! Yang Bangzi and Zhou Donggua said that if they were good, they would ask for 5,000 bayonets, and they would be made overtime, and he would take out canned food, sugar, or something to treat the laborers! The rest of the steel is at the disposal of Minister Zhou.

The steel used to make the bayonet is less than one-tenth of the total weight of this batch of rails, Lao Zhou naturally agreed, but the smelting conditions are still limited, and the batch of bayonets made by himself is still a little worse than the original bayonet in terms of hardness, that's it, Yang Bangzi wants to give Lao Tzu's troops, two bayonets per person, and replace one with another as soon as it is broken!

This kid is a goblin, one is not enough, and he has two hands, but this ghost quickly showed its correctness and power. (To be continued......)