In many anti-Japanese TV dramas that we usually watch, such a scene often appears. That is, when the Chinese and Japanese armies are in a short contact, the Japanese army will take the initiative to withdraw the bullets and fight with the Chinese army, so many people praise the so-called Bushido spirit of the Japanese army, so is this really the case?
The reason why many people publicize this thing is because the Type 38 rifle used by the Japanese army has strong penetration at close range. White-knife wartime soldiers on both sides often overlap each other, the formation is dense, if you shoot or go off fire, it is very easy to kill and injure your own people after penetrating, due to the reduction of the speed of the projectile after the penetration, the projectile will form a tumbling and deformation after the second hit, causing more serious trauma, and the opponent who is penetrated and injured may not lose its combat effectiveness on the spot, and can still fight back. Moreover, the Bushido spirit of the Japanese army in World War II is very strong, and it will be done in order to show its spirit, which is indeed a bit reasonable to look at, but it violates a lot of common sense.
If you look at the Draft Infantry Drill Code of the Twelfth Year (1923) used by the Japanese invaders in China, the Draft Infantry Drill Code of the Twelfth Year of Showa (1937), and the Infantry Drill Code of the Fifteenth Year of Showa (1940), you will find that in all the textbooks related to the white-knife assassination, there is no provision on the withdrawal of bullets before the white-knife battle. On the contrary, it is clear that when the infantry charge, it is necessary to give full play to the superiority of the squad's firepower.
The Total Length of the Type 38 Rifle used by the Japanese Army is 1.28 meters, and if you add a bayonet, the total length is close to 1.7 meters, which is longer than the height of many Japanese soldiers. In the white-knife war, pay attention to one inch long and one inch strong, so the Large-scale use of the Type 38 rifle by the Japanese army will give them the advantage in hand-to-hand combat. But the reason why the Japanese installed the Type 38 rifle on a large scale was not that they did not want to use submachine guns, but that in order to save resources, they could only use this rifle, which although it showed great power on the Chinese battlefield, but if it fought with the Soviet army and the German army equipped with millions of submachine guns, it was obviously not an opponent. If they could have a powerful submachine gun, they would be willing.
In the 1937 Draft Infantry Code of the Japanese Army, it was required that the rifle be in a safe state when fighting, that is, to close the insurance. But in the 1940 "Infantry Code", this request was deleted, the Japanese army is not a fool, can be solved with guns, why do you have to fight with your bayonet? Fighting a war is not a group fight, and on the real battlefield, it is difficult to have a large-scale mix of people and horses on both sides.
For a long time in the early and middle stages of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army had the superiority in firepower, and the number of Japanese troops was limited, and it was impossible for them to give up their superior firepower and go to fight with the Chinese army. Even when they were ambushed by the Chinese army as a last resort, they did not have time to withdraw the bullets. In the battlefield where life and death are between the front lines, one more bullet is more hope of survival, and how can they wait for the enemy to rush to the front line of life and death and still be busy retreating, which is a very absurd thing in itself. On the battlefield, either you die or I die, and if the Japanese army really had the spirit of Bushido as they said, it would not have committed such a despicable incident as the 918 Incident, the July 7 Incident, and the Nanjing Massacre.