During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Why Would Soldiers Rather Stop Fighting to Kill Certain Animals to Eliminate Them? The Lessons of Blood Are Never Forgotten

Animals have always been human's good helpers. In modern society, Golden Retrievers, Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, and other dog breeds, after being professionally trained, have become guide dogs to help the blind. However, in today's peaceful era, in ancient times, a period full of wars like the common horse riding cavalry, or's war mount giant panda fighting on the battlefield,

So it is said that in a battle, the situation of whether a war is won or lost actually depends on animals, which is not an exaggeration. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, soldiers would rather stop fighting to kill these animals first, and this is why?, The blood-like lessons of the past are never forgotten.

In ancient China, there are stories of 'pigeon mail'. At that time, the ancient Chinese were not as convenient as modern people for communication, and people separated by thousands of miles to miss loved ones could only communicate through letters or carrier pigeons.

Dogs recognize their homes, and pigeons recognize their nests. 'Pigeon mail' is simply using pigeons to return to their original nests after being taken to another place and released. Of course, these all require training.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Japan used these carrier pigeons to transmit classified information. This started in 1901.

In 1901, the Qing government and Japan's relations were not yet deteriorated, Japan bought about 300 carrier pigeons from the Qing government. These pigeons are very numerous in China, so 300 carrier pigeons were not something the Qing government could possess. But little did we know that these carrier pigeons became a major hidden trouble in the subsequent War of Resistance Against Japan.

Later, Japan quickly cultivated these purchased pigeons and continued to purchase pigeons from countries like Germany. By 1931, the number of Japanese carrier pigeons had reached thousands. Knowing that the most confidential information during war is intelligence, protecting this intelligence is a big problem.

The Japanese army was smart and knew that telegraphs or communication equipment could be intercepted. So they chose carrier pigeons, which are the most common, to transmit messages. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, many carrier pigeons appeared near Japanese military camps. These very common pigeons in China just didn't attract much attention, and the local people thought the Japanese didn't have anything to eat, so they ate carrier pigeon meat all day long.

Later, when the Nanjing Japanese pigeon management station was discovered by local people, it was discovered that the Japanese were using carrier pigeons to transmit intelligence, and these pigeon lofts were distributed across China's various territories. Who would have thought that these common pigeons were carrying important information? Everyone's attention was focused on how to eliminate the enemy or whether the Japanese used telegraphs and telephones to transmit intelligence.

Knowing the role of carrier pigeons, Chinese soldiers and local people naturally wanted to deal with these troublesome hidden troubles. Soldiers would rather stop fighting to kill these carrier pigeons, and local people willingly joined in, and even held activities to eliminate pigeons. 'You can't beat the Japanese, so beat these Japanese carrier pigeons, and cut off their 'tool' for transmitting messages to 'deflate' the Japanese.'

But carrier pigeons fly very fast, and human hands can't keep up with the fluttering wings of pigeons, plus there are a lot of pigeons, it's inevitable to have escaped ones. To avoid these escaped pigeons, the captain of the pigeon shooting team came up with a trick, that is 'straight down the dragon'. The captain pretended to flatter the Japanese, often giving them food, and had become familiar with them over a long time, so he slipped into the pigeon lofts while the Japanese were not paying attention, and poisoned the water for the pigeons.

As a result, the pigeons were poisoned, causing heavy losses to the Japanese and cutting off their method of using carrier pigeons to transmit information. Later, when the Chinese retook Nanjing, after the Japanese retreated, these pigeons were thrown in the management station, and local people rushed in to take the pigeons home. Many of these pigeons became the food of the local people.