In December 1942, Wang Kang, a platoon commander of a certain unit of the 26th Regiment of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, led his troops to hold a section of the communication ditch in the Battle of Zhujiagang, and after they repelled many Japanese charges, the troops suffered heavy casualties. In the face of the enemy's second attack, platoon commander Wang Kang inserted his large knife with red silk on the edge of the ditch, ready to make a final fight with the Japanese army, but he did not expect that the exhausted Japanese army saw such a weapon appear on our position, the big knife, and was frightened, until the end of the battle, they never dared to attack again, and finally the New Fourth Army miraculously held the position.
The big knife is the product of the era of cold weapons, such as Guan Gong's Green Dragon Yanyue Knife, etc. At that time, the knife was indeed a weapon to kill the enemy, but with the advent of the era of hot weapons such as guns and cannons, cold weapons like big knives have slowly faded out of the battlefield at the beginning of the last century.
The fact that the big knife once again became a weapon for killing the enemy should be attributed to the big knife team of the Twenty-ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In fact, it was also a helpless move to distribute large knives to soldiers, at that time, guns and ammunition were in short supply, and the use of large knives in battle was a manifestation of combat effectiveness.
In order to train a large knife team that can heroically kill the enemy, the Twenty-ninth Army also specially invited Li Yaochen, a dart master at the end of the Qing Dynasty, to be the head instructor of martial arts, and taught the backbone of the big knife team a knife technique, especially Master Li In order to improve the killing effect of the enemy, he combined with the traditional knife method and created a "wuji knife method", which was simple and effective with splitting and stabbing, and the action was simple and effective. When dealing with the enemy's bayonet with a large knife, a common move is: when the knife is made, the knife is obliquely to the lower right, the knife edge is facing itself, when the opponent's bayonet is stabbed directly, the large knife is tilted to the upper left, and the enemy gun is opened with the back of the knife, and the blade is immediately split forward, splitting and slashing into one, and the opponent is too late to defend, and the head has been separated.
The battle that made China's great knife famous took place at the Battle of Xifengkou on the Great Wall in March 1933. At that time, on the battlefield, with hot weapons, our army naturally could not defeat the Japanese army, and the fierce fighting for several days caused great casualties to the Twenty-ninth Army. In order to defeat the enemy's weakness with their own strengths and unexpectedly hit the enemy's rear, they thought of their own large knife team. The Twenty-ninth Army decided that Wang Changhai and Dong Shengtang would lead two large knife teams, a total of 500 people, with only large knives and grenades to infiltrate the Japanese camp in the dark of night.
On the night of March 12, two teams of men and horses infiltrated the sanjiazi village and the wolf cave and baitaizi artillery positions respectively, and sneaked into the sleeping Japanese soldiers, the Japanese army was caught off guard, and many people were confused and made ghosts under the knife. The attack of the two units surprised the Japanese army very much, and they quickly mobilized a large number of troops to counterattack, and the large knife team, which was inferior in numbers, was not afraid and continued to fight with the Japanese army. Subsequently, the big knife team burned the heavy grain and grass of the Japanese army, blew up the captured artillery and armored vehicles, and withdrew from the battlefield under the cover of follow-up troops, and the Battle of Xifengkou was a complete victory.
The deeds of the twenty-ninth army's large knife team in bravely killing the enemy and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of the people of the whole country to resist the war, and the composer Mai's blood boiled after the news, and he immediately composed a song: "The big knife cuts off the heads of the devils, the brothers of the 29th Army, the day of the War of Resistance has come, and the day of the War of Resistance has come!" There are the volunteer army in the northeast in the front, and the people of the whole country in the back, and our Twenty-ninth Army is not alone. Look at that enemy, destroy it, destroy it! Come on! The big knife slashed at the heads of the devils, kill! ”
And the Japanese? Since the blow, everyone has slept with the clothing holder, and even some wear steel helmets at night to prevent beheading.
As for what was said at the beginning of the article, the Japanese soldiers were too frightened to attack when they saw such an ancient weapon inserted in our army's position. In fact, Japanese soldiers are not afraid of death, you think of their "kamikaze commandos", but why they are afraid when they see the Chinese knife, mainly because they are superstitious.
The Japanese soldiers were the most superstitious, in addition to wrapping the "martial luck long" rising sun flag around their waists, they also wrapped the "thousand needles" woven by relatives and friends during the expedition, saying that they would not die. They also believe that if they are killed by guns on the battlefield, they can be reincarnated and reborn as human beings, but if they cut off the head of the knife, it will not only be a shame, but also never be overborn.
Therefore, if the Japanese see Chinese on the battlefield and are ready to use a large knife to fight meat and arm, they will try to avoid it, and when they save it, they will end up with a separate body and never be able to live again.