Chapter 161 2. "Chemical Weapons" of the Eighth Route Army in Southern Hebei

During the Anti-Japanese War in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan base areas, the border region government mobilized the masses extensively to carry out guerrilla warfare, giving full play to the power of guerrilla warfare.During the Anti-Japanese War, the guerrillas, the broad militia, and the masses took advantage of the advantages of being born and bred and familiar with people, fighting on their own, and fighting on their own, using various guerrilla warfare methods such as mine warfare, tunnel warfare, sabotage warfare, and sparrow warfare. , harassing and attacking the enemy by surprise, effectively cooperating with the combat operations of the main force.

Mine warfare had begun as early as the spring of 1940 in the struggle against "mopping up".At that time, militiamen from Dongzhao and Xikou villages in Anguo buried grenades on the avenue, fired them with strings, and killed two puppet troops.Subsequently, militias from all over the country followed suit and used various local methods to make landmines.Some use waste artillery shells, waste grenades, broken iron pots, glass bottles, and jars as shells, and fill them with explosives; some make their own sulfur explosives and cast landmine shells by themselves.This kind of earth mine has become a powerful weapon used by the militia to destroy the enemy.

The most common landmines used by the southern Hebei militia were "iron watermelons" filled with black powder, which were actually big firecrackers, mainly wounding people with iron flakes and stones mixed in the explosives.This kind of landmine is not powerful enough to blow up the Japanese army.This became a big problem in the Eighth Route Army's war of resistance. How to do it?The only way is to improve the charge, and the superior handed over this work to Sun Guangrui. Sun Guangrui, a native of Hebei, was one of the leaders of the local Anti-Japanese War.Sun Guangrui originally studied textiles, which has nothing to do with chemistry.However, this kind of work of driving ducks to the shelves cannot be avoided by him, because there are too few educated people in the Eighth Route Army.

Sun Guangrui is a martial arts student, the night is dark and windy, killing the enemy and setting fire is his true nature, it will be difficult for him to return to books to learn.What's more terrible is that the lack of power refers to the black powder mines used by the militia and the kung fu of local firecracker craftsmen.Even if he could come up with a new formula, it would be difficult for them to learn - because few militiamen could tell what nitrate and benzene were. However, after much deliberation, Sun Guangrui finally came up with a solution. One day, Sun Guangrui entered Handan City with a few of his men. After some activities, he left the city and returned to his station.Then he divided the gains of this time into the city into big and small pockets, and handed them over to the militiamen in the villages, so that they could be mixed into the gunpowder of the landmines.

Since then, the devils in Handan have had a hard time. Going out of the city to sweep and step on a landmine, the power is still the same as before, "The devil suddenly turned into a black and smoky Stove Lord, screaming and jumping and jumping." However, things were different after that.The injury was not serious, but the injured area soon either festered in a large area, or itched, blackened, and necrotic.Not only were the military doctors helpless, but the wounded were in extreme pain. Some Japanese soldiers amputated their own limbs with bayonets. The Japanese army did all kinds of research, but they still couldn't figure out what was put in the landmines of the Eighth Route Army.The enemy and the puppets have rumored that the landmines of the Eighth Route Army are now "mysterious weapons", and the puppet troops call it "one-touch death".

What exactly was put in the mines of the Eighth Route Army? In fact, it is not mysterious at all. It turned out that Sun Guangrui was fond of reading miscellaneous books when he was young, and he knew that there was a passage in the history of the Song Dynasty, which said that the Tang family presented the emperor with "poison fire balls", which were weapons mixed with poison in ancient gunpowder weapons.So he had an idea, this thing can also be used now.So, he went into the city and went straight to several big pharmacies, and selected some chamaejasma, croton, arsenic and other medicinal materials.

In this way, the Eighth Route Army added these "condiments" to the landmines, and found it very effective after use.So the masses were mobilized to go up the mountain to collect them, and a large number of "traditional Chinese medicine landmines" were produced. The Japanese military doctors didn't know that there were medicinal materials such as wolfsbane, croton, and arsenic in the landmines, so they naturally didn't know how to prescribe the right medicine.Landmines have no eyes, and they not only bomb the Japanese, but also the Chinese.Soon, a special agent who was interpreting for the Japanese army was blown up by a landmine. Although the Japanese military doctor tried his best to diagnose and treat him, his legs began to rot soon, and he wailed every day, dying.

This agent is a local.His family asked people to find the Eighth Route Army's enemy industry department, begging the Eighth Route Army for an "antidote", and said that if he was cured, he must abandon the dark and turn to the bright, and secretly work for the Eighth Route Army. After deliberation, the Ministry of Enemy Industry thought this was a good opportunity, and it was rare to put a nail in the heart of the Japanese army, so they came to discuss with Sun Guangrui.After Sun Guangrui heard this, he rolled his eyelids and thought for a while, and said you should go and ask. If the thunder he suffered was buried before August 15th, I still have a solution. If it was buried after August 15th, then... …

It turned out that the militiamen were mobilized by Sun Guangrui's initiative and broadened their thinking: some militiamen added dried human and animal feces to the landmines, and found that the effect was amazing.Since August 15th, this kind of thing has become the standard charge of local landmines.If it was the original "traditional medicine landmine", Sun Guangrui could still say Ziwu Yinmao, and Chinese medicine still has a way, and with this thing, he would be powerless to help. The staff of the enemy industry department asked this spy. Unfortunately, he was hit by thunder after August 15th and there was no cure.The Ministry of Enemy Industry had no choice but to pinch this thread.Soon, the spy died.

The "Chinese medicine weapon" of the Eighth Route Army should be considered a "chemical weapon" today.