Mine Warfare

In 1942, when the Anti-Japanese War was more difficult, Zhaojiazhuang and other villages on the edge of the Jiaodong Anti-Japanese Base Area were often raided by the Japanese army. In order to reduce losses, Director Lei (Zhang Changrui) of the District Armed Forces Committee and Zhaojiazhuang Militia Captain Zhao Hu (Bai Dajun) pooled the wisdom of the masses and came up with a strategy to deal with the Japanese army: They united several nearby villages to form a militia to jointly defend and strengthen the armed forces. At the same time, they used homemade landmines to form various minefields, which dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army. In order to deal with the minefields, the Japanese army moved engineers into Zhaojiazhuang and burned, killed, and looted. The militiamen promptly summed up their experience, learned lessons, and constantly improved mine-making technology and mine-laying methods, making it impossible for the Japanese army to prevent them. Entering the wheat harvest season, the Japanese army originally wanted to take over Zhaojiazhuang while the militiamen were harvesting wheat, but the militiamen had already set up more sophisticated mine arrays.