Chinese bicycle troops, for the French and American soldiers have tasted.
source: the five Mu remains the first bicycle force in the world. Now poor to the Libya opposition, rich to the US soldier, still can see their push bicycles on the path of the figure.
at the beginning of the Pacific War, Japanese forces swept across Southeast Asia and quickly defeated hundreds of thousands of Anglo American forces. In this, the bicycle force set up "great work".
1941 December, the Japanese army launched the Malay campaign. Yamashita Wen led the 50 thousand Japanese army to land in the northern Malay Peninsula and launched a surprise attack on the British troops. The force is equipped with more than 10 thousand bicycles. Relying on these bicycles, the Japanese soldiers, carrying more than 10 kilograms of grain supplies, plus 20 kilograms of ammunition weapons, can easily pass through the jungle path and quickly push forward.
old China was backward in industry, bicycles were luxury goods, and there were few equipment in the army. After the founding of new China, China not only become the world's largest bicycle country, China bicycle also let the French and American soldiers have tasted.
at that time, the traffic condition in northern Vietnam to China was very poor. There were only jungle and mountain lanes. For this reason, 20 thousand bicycles have been reformed in China.