The big "flaw" in the anti-Japanese drama, where did the searchlights in the Japanese artillery towers get their power?

In recent years, the plot settings of some anti-Japanese-themed TV dramas have been criticized by people, and they have even been given the title of "divine drama". Putting aside those exaggerated plots, in fact Many such TV series have a big flaw, and that is the setting of searchlights on the Japanese gun towers.

The gun tower can indeed play an important role in daily security

The gun tower actually has its origins long ago. During the Song Dynasty, its predecessor, the fortress, had already appeared. As the saying goes, you can see far when you stand high. After building a gun tower, you can better observe the changes in the surrounding situation. When encountering an enemy surprise attack, you can detect their traces in time; not only that, if the enemy launches an attack, You can also attack it from a high position on the turret, which will get twice the result with half the effort.

It is precisely because of these advantages that during the Anti-Japanese War, after the Japanese army occupied an area, they would build tall gun towers in suitable places. Whenever our soldiers want to start a battle against the Japanese army, limiting the function of the artillery towers becomes the top priority. The best time to avoid the eyes of the Japanese troops on the turret is at night, and the dark night will become the best cover.

In the film and television series, in order to deal with this situation, the Japanese army will install searchlights on the gun towers. Correspondingly, we will also arrange for personnel to destroy wires and cut off the power supply. But there is a very unreasonable part in this. That is, with the level of China's infrastructure at that time, could the Japanese really find so many power sources to maintain the lighting of searchlights?

Stable power supply can only be achieved in large cities or places with relatively developed industries

There is a blockhouse in Zaozhuang, Shandong, which was built by the Japanese invaders in 1938. In the introduction to the gun tower, there is this passage: In 1938, after the Japanese army occupied Zaozhuang, they implemented fascist rule and created white terror. Artillery towers were built at important parts of the Zhongxing Company wall and the Zaozhuang outer wall, and power grids were set up. Searchlights were installed on the roofs of the buildings, and machine guns were mounted. Japanese and puppet troops were guarding each to wildly suppress the military and civilians. ?

From this passage, we can know that the blockhouses in Zaozhuang at that time had searchlights. But the reason why they can do this is that they have a close relationship with a company. That is ZTE, which also appears in this passage.

Zhongxing Coal Mining Company, whose full name is "Zhongxing Coal Mining Company", was established in 1878. In the 1930s, it was as famous as Kailuan and Fushun at that time and was one of the three largest coal mines in China. What is even more special is that it is the only national joint-stock enterprise among the three. It is considered to be the only Chinese coal company that can compete with foreign coal companies and has made great contributions to China's development. Unfortunately, in March 1938, it finally fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders, and all its assets were naturally occupied.

It was precisely relying on Zhongxing Company's coal and power generation equipment that the Japanese army was able to install searchlights on the gun towers.

Like Zaozhuang, other areas where searchlights can be installed are either larger cities or areas with more developed industries, because only complete power supply facilities can support the operation of searchlights.

Japanese gun towers in remote areas simply cannot achieve stable power supply

But in remote villages, installing searchlights on gun towers becomes an impossible task. Even after the founding of New China, the vast rural areas were still very poor, and many people had never seen an electric light in their lives.

In these places, there is no power supply at all. The Japanese military also had no intention or ability to help China establish such an industrial system. So for many blockhouses, it would be nice to have some oil lamps.

According to records, after many gun towers were occupied by our side, only an oil can and reflector were found in them. But in that era, oil was also a very scarce material, so more turrets could only be used during the day.

There is no power supply facility in the local area. Can I install a generator myself? First of all, generators at this time were also very precious. The strategic value of rural areas is not high and is not worthy of such a large investment. Secondly, most of the Japanese troops assigned to these remote areas do not have a high status in Japan. They are not well educated and cannot operate generators. With this kind of equipment, it would be a waste to ration things to them.

So, isn’t it okay to pull wires from nearby towns? This is even more impossible.

Not to mention how much manpower and material resources and time it would take to bring wires from such a long distance with the technology at that time; such a long-distance transmission line, according to the situation of the Anti-Japanese War at that time, could easily be destroyed by local soldiers and civilians, and it was impossible to prevent it. , it is simply not feasible.

So in general, the searchlights on the Japanese gun towers will only appear in big cities, and will not occur in a single gun tower. Although it is a small detail, it is closely related to the level of local industrial development.

In order to create conflicts and attract viewers, some current TV dramas often develop plots without investigation and research, and arrange plots as a matter of course, without making changes according to specific circumstances, resulting in many jokes. Although I don’t expect the screenwriter behind it to be meticulous about everything, I still hope there will be fewer errors in logic and common sense.