What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese puppet army set up strongholds everywhere in Jizhong, dug trenches and blockaded the Eighth Route Army. In order to counter the blockade, the Eighth Route Army and the guerrillas vigorously carried out mine warfare and tunnel warfare, and planted a large number of mines to block the enemy and prevent the enemy soldiers from leaving the fortress.
The Japanese army killed and injured many officers and men almost every day, and was overwhelmed by the mine warfare of the Eighth Route Army and the guerrillas, but it was even more difficult to find a mine buried in the ground, and there was no way to do it.
Why?
Because the mines planted by the Eighth Route Army and guerrillas are all kinds of things, there are all kinds of surprises. The Japanese army swept with a mine detector and could not find it, because the stone mine and the jar mine were not metal, and the minesweeper did not pronounce it when it encountered it, but it killed and injured the mine detector. The Japanese changed to a crusher to crush it, but when they encountered muffled thunder, they could not make a mine, or they were bombed. The Japanese army racked its brains on the "Chinese mines", but there was nothing they could do.
In the autumn of 1943, the North China Base Camp of the Japanese Army sent an engineer expert, Suzuki Shouzosan, to the Shimogi Valley Brigade stationed in Jizhong, and asked him to go to the Shijiazhuang area to study the method of mine warfare against the Eighth Route Army.
Suzuki is a well-known Japanese engineer expert, it is said that he graduated from the Japanese Army University, was also an engineering scholar, served as an engineer, company commander, and battalion commander, and was appointed as the director of the brigade engineers as soon as he arrived in the Miya Brigade.
As soon as Suzuki arrived in Shijiazhuang, he immediately added infinite hope to the Japanese puppet army in the surrounding counties, thinking that the sapper doctor had come, and he was no longer afraid of the land thunder of the Eighth Route Army, and regarded him as a lifesaver. The brigade commander shimogeya also issued a hand command, and all actions should be under the command of Suzuki.
In late August, The town of Botou and Shenxian successively reported that the Japanese army had been bombed by mines and suffered many casualties. Suzuki immediately sent three teams with detectors and police dogs to the scene for disposal. He personally got into the car and followed quickly after searching for troops.
At noon, they reached the vicinity of the bombed minefield. Police dogs walked in circles after a short walk on a stretch of road and grabbed the ground with their feet. Suzuki immediately ordered the advance to stop and ordered the mine detector team to go to the probe. However, the sappers searched back and forth for more than an hour, but found no suspicious signs. Suzuki said, "I must have encountered a muffled thunder, and I can't pass it." ”
As a result, the Japanese army listed this section of the road as a danger zone, and no vehicles and pedestrians were allowed to pass.
The next day, Suzuki brought in three rollers from Shijiazhuang and rolled back and forth on this section of the road, but the mine still did not explode.
On the fourth day, he transferred several bulldozers from Shijiazhuang to shovel and crush this section of the road, and finally shoveled a mine in the Fuzhuang area west of Botou Town.
Suzuki was overjoyed, personally rushed over, carefully lifted the muffled thunder out, and then ordered his men to take it to a temple north of Jiaohe County and personally observe it in the temple.
Unexpectedly, this mine is very strange.
Why is it strange?
The mine was made of a jar covered with a hat and a firefighter under the jar and was clearly visible.
Suzuki gently and carefully removed the muffled lightning transmitter and cut the fuse. This mine is obviously like a muffled mine, there is a flamer, why did the road roller crush, did not press it to detonate? So he judged it to be a timed mine, and took the doctor's stethoscope to measure the hearing, but there was no sound at all; was it Lare? And no rope!
Suzuki couldn't even figure out what type of mine it was, let alone crack it.
This little jar ray actually stumped the sapper doctor.
However, it also aroused suzuki's great interest, saying: "This mine is very valuable for research." ”
Therefore, he informed about 40 sapper leaders in the vicinity to meet and study the ruined temple north of the Jiaohe River, and showed them the process of studying and cracking it on the spot.
Before the meeting, Suzuki said unashamedly: "There is no secret in the world that the Imperial Army cannot crack." What a little landmine! It is just the lowest level of the most primitive explosives made by Tu BaLu. ”
Then he moved out of this mine, pointed at it, and said:
"Today I am with you to uncover its secrets. You see, the hat of this mine is used to prevent rain, and the jar is the lack of equipment on the eighth road, so the jar is used to fill explosives and is hastily made. The bottom is a flamer, which is pressed. ”
So, someone asked, "Why didn't the imperial army press press it?"
"Ha, you see, Tubalu installed the firefighters in the wrong position, they should have been installed on the upper level, they were installed underneath." Dr. Suzuki said, "The reason why The earth is earthy is that there is no scientific knowledge and do not know how to pretend to understand. ”
Speaking of this, in order to show his erudition, Suzuki asked everyone to gather around and see how the "Earth Eight Road" was equipped with the wrong fire tube, and skillfully turned the mine over, who knew that in this instant, "boom-- " there was a loud noise, and the mine exploded.
Suzuki and more than 40 sapper leaders, most of whom were blown up and flew into the sky, fell to the ground and broke up, leaving a small number of people seriously injured, with broken arms and legs, and screaming in pain.
This mine caused Dr. Suzuki to give his life on the spot.
Suzuki was a doctor and a well-known engineer expert in the Japanese army, why did he know so little about this mine and detonate it himself to kill himself?
The secret lies in the "fire tube" that Suzuki calls "misplaced."
It turned out that this jar of thunder was a device that combined earth and ocean. The Eighth Route Army placed a mine in the jar, filled with sulfuric acid detonator, called tumbling muffled thunder. Whoever it is, as soon as the mine is overturned, the sulfuric acid inside is poured back onto the detonator that is firing, causing an explosion immediately. If the mine does not tip over, no matter how it is crushed, the sulfuric acid does not come out, it will not ignite the detonator, and it will not explode. Although Dr. Suzuki learned a lot of mine knowledge in the university, he could not learn the wisdom of the Eighth Route Army when making mines, let alone the secrets of the mines made by the Eighth Route Army, and naturally suffered a big loss.
The "death" of Suzuki and dozens of sapper leaders shook Japan's north China base camp.
Subsequently, the Japanese Base Camp in North China issued an order informing all garrisons that all mines, shells, and grenades of the Eighth Route Army were not allowed to be used, and all of them were destroyed on the spot, and there must be no mistakes! As a result, those Japanese puppet troops were afraid of hitting the mines, hiding in the bunkers, and no longer dared to come out casually.