So when were dogs used in war?
Dogs used in war, that is, military dogs According to historical records, the earliest military dogs used in war were more than 2,400 years ago. In ancient Egypt, Babylon and the Roman Empire, dogs were trained to fight. At that time, military dogs seemed to be mostly big-boned European mastiffs. According to records, the ancient Romans at that time put these military dogs in armor and put them in front of the army. This is the earliest historical record of using military dogs in war.
Personally, I think that using dogs in war can greatly reduce the casualties of soldiers and increase the combat effectiveness of the army. Like Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, he marched eastward into India. However, due to the strong fighting capacity of Indian elephants, Alexander "had to send his troops back to China."
In China, the use of dogs for military purposes also has a long history. As early as the Warring States Period, Mo Zhai, a famous national defense expert in China, devoted a chapter to discussing the role of dogs in defensive warfare. When the enemy is digging a tunnel outside the city, the whole city of Mo Zhai will dig wells, and every wellhead will send warning dogs on duty, so as to "know the cave position carefully and dig a hole to meet the enemy".
In the Tang Dynasty, the word "police dog" was used for the first time in the book "General Code", and the article "General Code, Military Discipline and Siege Wars" said, "I am afraid that the enemy will ride into the city at night, and the headlights will be hung in the center of the city every 30 steps outside the city and inside the city, and police dogs will be placed on the city to prepare grease, oil and fire at the barking place ...".
Secondly, in the modern history of China, a large number of military dogs participated in the war. For example, during the Sino-French War in the late Qing Dynasty, a dog domesticated by Liu Yongfu, the leader of the Black Flag Army, made great achievements in the battle of lang son. This dog named Hei Hu bit the throat of the French aggressor soldiers who carried the flag in the famous lang son War, which made the French soldiers afraid of the flag. In the northern suburb of jieshi town, Lufeng, Guangdong, Liu Yongfu's "righteous dog burial" still stands impressively. Secondly, the dog domesticated by Deng Shichang in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 also sank with him. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, both Japanese and national armies used military dogs to fight wars.
To give a well-known example, I believe everyone is familiar with the domestic movie "King Dog". Both China and Japan fight with dogs. Moreover, in major anti-Japanese dramas, whenever a devil comes to the village to offer sacrifices to sweep, there will be several big German shepherd dogs. The German shepherd dog trained in Japan during World War II is a German shepherd dog, and its combat effectiveness in actual combat is not as good as that of the "bench dog" trained by the national army. It was Dong, the originator of China modern police dog, who domesticated this "bench dog".
During World War I, all the participating countries used military dogs for war. At that time, there were 40 thousand German military dogs serving in the army. In World War II, the Soviet Union domesticated military dogs to blow up enemy tanks, while the "K-9 Force" composed of 20,000 American military dogs cooperated with various services and arms to carry out tasks such as mine detection, reconnaissance, command, vigilance, sentry duty and sledding. At the same time, there are 250,000 military dogs in the whole Allies and Axis countries, so military dogs were used in the war a long time ago, which played an indispensable role during World War I and World War II.