Let's talk about why we fight with bayonets. If the enemy's firepower is higher than their own, in order to avoid some unnecessary war losses, fighting with bayonets on enemy positions can well offset this damage, which makes the Japanese army like to fight with Japanese military bayonets on the battlefield between China and Japan. However, the US military's firepower was suppressed too much, and it was always equipped with shotguns, which made the Japanese army useless in melee.

This tactical thinking of the Japanese army is based on the countermeasures formulated when the enemy's firepower is higher than that of the Japanese side. That is, through the tactics of charging at sea, we can quickly advance to enemy positions, turn positional warfare into hand-to-hand combat, and offset the enemy's firepower advantage. In the Russo-Japanese War that broke out in 1904, Nogi Maresuke divided some Japanese troops into 6,000 death squads, launched endless large-scale charge on Russian troops, and finally suffered a crushing defeat.

But this tactic is not easy to use in China. When the enemy's firepower is lower than Japan's, the Japanese will give full play to its firepower advantage. In the war with the United States, we can still be beaten in the early stage, neck and neck. At that time, the Japanese and American armies were still in a stalemate for air superiority.

Later, the United States began to gradually control the air superiority in the Pacific battlefield. If it hides in the position and exchanges fire with the American troops, it will be complete death. We had to fight the American bayonet, but the Americans didn't want to. The US Army also distributed "trench guns" (shotguns) to each infantry class to further enhance the close combat capability of the US Army.

In order to deal with Japanese soldiers who like to sneak attack, the US military is also equipped with flame throwers to "clean the grass and trenches" and burn them alive for barbecue before close combat with the US military.