In the old movies, it is often seen that a few traitors dressed as hangers riding bicycles to "open the way" in front, followed by a large group of ghost soldiers, interspersed with several ghost officers carrying Japanese swords. This scene is not a fiction by the directors, but a real thing that really happened during the War of Resistance. So, why are the traitors so keen on bicycles, but the number of bicycles among the common people is very small?
In old movies, you can often see such a scene of traitors dressed up and bicycles together
In fact, when the Japanese devils swept the base areas, they maneuvered in trucks and came down to avoid being heard. However, due to the small number of Japanese trucks, most of them relied on the two-legged maneuver of the devils. At this time, the traitors who are local land snakes have become the eyes and ears of the devils, and in order to quickly maneuver around, the bicycle has become their good helper. Many times, Japanese devils also ride bicycles with these traitors. However, in the later period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, as these traitors were continuously eliminated by the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army, a large number of bicycles were also captured, so that the anti-Japanese armed workers generally rode bicycles, and in turn went to fight the devils and traitors.
Bicycles from the old movie "Little Soldier Zhang Ga"
A photo of a ghost riding a bicycle with a traitor
But the origin of the bicycle ridden by the traitor is very interesting. As early as the 1920s, Japan exported a large number of small textile machines to North China, such as the famous Toyota hand loom. At that time, the middle peasants in the rural areas of North China were making native cloth at home to earn extra money, and if they had a little money, they bought a Japanese bicycle, so that they could hang the chain on the loom as a power source, and they could also deliver it. The marginal cost of this kind of rural handicraft industry is very low, and the texture of the woven earthen cloth is similar to that of the factory in addition to the width and narrowness, so that the profits of Japanese-funded textile factories are squeezed. At this time, notice that the miraculous operation of the Japanese came, after 1937, the Japanese smashed the textile machine in the peasant's home, but the traitors could keep it, and they could also rob others, including bicycles, so the traitors generally had bicycles. However, later, the Japanese-funded textile factory simply destroyed the Chinese's native cloth shop and only allowed to distribute Japanese cloth, such as this plot in the fourth family. Originally, many people in north China before the war were not so disgusted with the Japanese compared to the Japanese who could bring them benefits and the Nationalist government, which only extorted money. However, after 1937, even the peasants in the areas destroyed by the devils in the whole of North China hated the Japanese to the bone, and even the traitors were mostly duplicitous.
An old bicycle produced by Toyota japan
Bicycles of the Eighth Route Army
After several rounds of tossing and turning, the japanese devils' operations in China became the more they ruled Chinese the poorer they became, the poorer they became, the more fierce the Chinese Chinese, the more fierce the resistance became, the more fierce Chinese the Japanese devils became, the poorer the Japanese people who made the Chinese, the poorer the Japanese had to put more resources into China, and the higher the cost of Japanese rule. After such a dead cycle, it is only a matter of time before the Japanese invaders are expelled from China.