Characteristics of the armed workers team

Generally speaking, the melee weapons of the military engineering teams belonging to the military divisions were quite good at the time. Regardless of the captain or team member, they all have two guns. Some have two short guns, and some have one long and one short. The short guns are basically German-made box guns, and the long guns include carbines and American Thompson submachine guns with the butt removed. Some armed workers are even equipped with grenades and light machine guns. If the armed workers' team doesn't fight, why would they have such high requirements for actual combat experience and be equipped with such powerful weapons? You must know that the working environment of the armed workers' team is an enemy-occupied area, the enemy's rear control center with no base to support it. If you don't fight with the enemy, the enemy will not allow you to do so in his county or in his model security village. A person who posts slogans and gives speeches at meetings will not allow you to go to the homes of the traitors he supports and kill people. He will look for you and beat you. You don't have any skills on your body, and you don't have a few tools, so you just wait for the enemy to catch you and tie you up with nothing. Therefore, as Liu Bocheng said, the guys in the armed workers' team are not used to fight, but to provide protection for political attacks. In fact, although the armed workers team does not have the task of fighting, they often have to deal with close combat encounters. However, they will never love fighting, let alone take the initiative to open fire with the enemy as shown in movies and TV series. A head-to-head fight.

Of course, the focus of the work of the armed workers is in the countryside and at the lower levels of the puppet army. This is not absolute. As long as the conditions are met, they will never miss any opportunity to attack the enemy. The cities of Baoding and Tianjin are often visited by armed workers teams. The leaflets on the desk of Hebei Governor Wu Zanzhou and the late-night phone calls from Tianjin Mayor Wen Shizhen are all masterpieces of the armed workers teams, but they have nothing to do with their achievements in the countryside. In comparison, it seems insignificant.

As for the 9th Division Military Work Team of which Feng Zhi was once the team leader, from its establishment in the autumn of 1942 to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, its early activities were around Baoding, the capital of the puppet Hebei Province, and later it moved to Tianjin, where the Japanese army was garrisoned. In the suburbs, they entered and exited Baoding and Tianjin many times and achieved amazing results, but no one died and no one was seriously injured. If the style of play shown in movies and TV shows always appeared in places like Baoding and Tianjin, I don't think any of them would survive.

The focus of the work of the armed workers team is on the grassroots level in rural areas, not on the urban or upper levels. In movies and TV series, there is a tendency to always write down the level of the opponent higher and higher, from the former Japanese and puppet squad leader to the current captain, co-leader, brigade commander, mayor, governor. It seems that only by filming in this way can we express the luxury of mansions, banquets, foreign cars, and mansions, and can we express the cooing voices of concubines, ladies, bitches, and actors, and can we get higher ratings and make our own films more popular. My mouth watered with satisfaction. This is actually wrong. The focus of the work of the armed workers is in the countryside, in the stick ridges, in the tunnels, on the kangs, on the peasants with heads full of sorghum seeds and smelly sweat, and at the lower levels of the puppet army, puppet police and puppet organizations. Why? First, occupying the vast land of rural areas has always been the focus of China's armed struggle. Secondly, it was determined by the struggle environment faced at that time. In the vast countryside in enemy-occupied areas, there are political organizations at all levels established by the enemy, and lower-level units of the puppet army are stationed everywhere. If these maintenance presidents, self-defense regiment chiefs, secret service chiefs, puppet army squad leaders, and police branch chiefs do not do their jobs well, they will become stumbling blocks to the restoration and opening up of base areas. But if they do their jobs well, they can also serve as a stumbling block for us. He has become our inside line, so he has naturally become the number one target for the military workers to fight for and attack. Thirdly, this is also determined by the ability of the armed workers team. The upper-level urban pseudo-officials such as county governors, mayors, regimental leaders, and group leaders generally live in larger cities. Firstly, it is not easy for the armed workers to get close to them frequently. Secondly, these high-ranking officials are more affected by slavery and are more closely related to class hatred. Deep down, it is not easy to do a good job before we receive a severe blow and before there is a major change in the balance of power between ourselves and the enemy. In rural areas, most of the lower-level officials in the puppet army and puppet organizations, except for a few special agents directly supported by the Japanese invaders, did not regard the Japanese as their only backers, and it was easy to open a breakthrough from them.

As for the various "mass anti-Japanese organizations" in the countryside, they were originally coerced to join, and their members all had a blood feud with the Japanese devils. As long as the twenty-gun blast of the armed workers team was closer to them than the Japanese bayonets, it would show more power. , they are extremely willing to participate in secret anti-Japanese activities. As long as the leader of the self-defense regiment or the police substation pretends not to see it, the armed workers team is right in front of him, and he still shouts "It's all right." Later, after the "two-faced regime" appeared, although the names of these pseudo-regime organizations in the countryside remained the same, I had complete control over more of them. What the Military Workers Team is and what it does is explained very clearly in Feng Zhi's original novel "The Military Workers Team Behind Enemy Lines" with vivid stories one after another. However, it is a pity that such a legendary story that is unique in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, has been completely forgotten. Those directors and directors who like to plagiarize and fabricate but don't like to respect history but pretend to promote the main theme of history have been ruined.

The armed workers team was as unpredictable as Al Qaeda’s terrorist activities, but also had a close bond with the local people, as well as the purity and iron-ness unique to the Long Live the Motherland of that era. organizational discipline. However, to the enemy, he is an out-and-out "terrorist"; to the Chinese people, he is a national hero who can be praised and praised. The combination of these is the martial arts team.

The guerrillas have the task of fighting, but the armed workers have no task of fighting. Regardless of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu, Shandong, Shanxi-Suiyuan, or the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, not only did they not regard fighting as the task of the armed workers' teams, but they also repeatedly emphasized that the armed workers' teams were not guerrillas and could not overly stimulate the enemy and forget their main mission. Work. Liu Bocheng has repeatedly emphasized that the task of the Armed Workers' Team is a political offensive, not a military strike, and that they cannot make unnecessary sacrifices. Luo Ruiqing also criticized some leading cadres who were unfamiliar with the tasks of the Armed Workers' Team, and those who used the Armed Workers' Team as guerrillas. Division leadership. Why? Because the enemy is strong and we are weak in the area where the armed workers operate, they are restricted. If they insist on doing this, it is tantamount to committing suicide, and this is obviously not what the Eighth Route Army advocates. In film and television works, there are basically no scenes of bloody battles between martial arts teams and Japanese swords and guns that imitate Western gun fight movies.

Another point to note is that as the situation changed and the struggle developed, the structure of the armed workers' teams also changed. After the autumn of 1943, the struggle environment improved, and some armed workers' teams had begun to Expand the organization, build guard towers, build strongholds, and fight guerrillas. At this time, they are no different from guerrillas, but they are still called armed workers. Later, I don’t know whether it was because of the prestige of the armed workers’ teams or for other reasons. Many counties and districts also formed armed workers’ teams. Some village soldiers even formed armed workers’ teams. Some guerrillas and pistol teams simply changed their names to Military work team. I can't find any document that proves that higher-level agencies have ever issued such a permission, but there is also no one who explicitly disallows it. In fact, various types of armed work teams are tacitly approved by each base area, and it is hard to say which one is formal and which one is not. . However, the later armed workers' team was different from the previous armed workers' team in terms of organizational structure, staffing and weapons and equipment. What has been mentioned above is just a typical example of the military workers in the most difficult period before the situation started in the autumn of 1943. Western special forces often operate independently and do not expect the support and cooperation of the local people. They pay more attention to cutting-edge special agent equipment. Its delivery vehicles, communication methods, field survival equipment, etc. are all the most cutting-edge products in the current military world. The Armed Work Team is fighting in the context of the People's War, so it places special emphasis on relying on the masses and local party organizations. Apart from being equipped with sharper melee weapons than ordinary troops, they have nothing else. They rely entirely on local party organizations and mobilizing the masses for intelligence work, food, clothing, housing, and even cooperation in battle. This is the biggest difference between the Armed Forces and the special forces in the Western sense. There is no other such force at all times and in the world, even though it is full of old-fashioned and earthy flavor.