A Hundred Years Moment丨The "September 18th" Incident

"One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party"

"September 18th Incident Memorial Hall"

On the evening of September 18, 1931, Lieutenant Kawamoto Squadron of the Kwantung Army's Island Main Battalion Kawashima Squadron led several men In the vicinity of Liutiao Lake, about 800 meters south of Beidaying, Shenyang, 42 packs of yellow explosives were placed on the Nanman Railway track, and three corpses in Chinese soldier uniforms were placed. At 10:20 that night, Moshou Kawamoto detonated explosives and a hole was blasted through the Nanman-Manchurian Railway. Hearing the explosion, the long-planned Japanese army immediately launched an offensive on the Northeast Army station of the Northeast Chinese Army in the name of the Chinese army's bombing of the Nanman-Manchurian Railway. The "September 18th" Incident that shocked China and foreign countries broke out.

The scene of the Liutiao Lake section of the Nanman Manchurian Railway that was bombed by the Japanese during the September 18th Incident in 1931.

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Du Lingyun: It must be another landmine explosion, this Why do you help the Japanese always engage in drills in the middle of the night?

Soldier: Yes, how many days have passed since the Japanese military exercises are endless. We listen to their guns and go to bed every day.

Du Lingyun: This group of Japanese, and we are not looking up, I really don’t know what they are doing. No, this is not a drill, the Japanese really fought over. Quick, inform the Ministry of Tourism, quick!

The northern camp in Shenyang, destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, has only ruined walls

In the previous ten years, the Japanese army conducted 301 exercises in the northeast one after another, and there were nearly 30 exercises in July and August of 1931, until September On the night of the 18th, the people in Shenyang thought it was just another exercise for the Japanese army.At 4 o'clock in the morning on September 19th, the 5th Brigade of the Japanese Independent Defense Forces from Tieling arrived at Peking Camp to join the battle. As Northeast Army followed the Kuomintang’s non-resistance order, the 8,000 defensive troops of Peking University were quickly defeated by the Japanese army with only about 300 men. In just 8 hours, Shenyang fell.

Guo Hongmao, director of the Institute of Japan, Jilin Academy of Social Sciences: Japanese imperialism has regarded Northeast China as its own territory.

On September 19, 1931, the armored units of the Japanese invaders invaded Shenyang, and then attacked Jinzhou

. Later, in less than half a year, the Japanese army invaded the three northeast provinces one after another, and the entire northeast was occupied. . In 1932, Japan established a puppet regime of the Puppet Manchukuo in Northeast China, and began a 14-year enslavement and colonial rule on the people of the Northeast. Since then, more than 30 million compatriots in the Northeast have suffered from the suffering of subjugated slaves.

In less than half a year after the "September 18th" Incident, the Japanese army successively invaded the entire three northeastern provinces

Li Yuqing, a historical witness and a citizen of Suizhong County, Liaoning Province: That kind of hatred, neither Expressing, but not being able to talk, that kind of anger, that kind of resentment, I think when I can turn it over this day. What is it? What is subjugation? You can’t understand. As a nation, you can forgive, but as people who have experienced the hatred of subjugation, this shadow is difficult to eliminate.

Map of Japan's invasion and occupation of the three northeastern provinces

The "September 18th" Incident was the beginning of Japanese imperialists' attempts to conquer China by force, and it was also the first war of aggression ignited by fascist countries in the Far East . Since then, the Chinese nation has embarked on a bloody struggle for 14 years and opened the prelude to the world's anti-fascist war. After the September 18th Incident, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued declarations one after another, calling on the people of the whole country to resolutely combat Japanese imperialism.At the time of national crisis, the strongest voice of the whole nation's resistance was made.

Anti-Japanese slogans on the streets of Shanghai after the "September 18th" Incident

Anti-Union veteran Zheng Dejian: At that time, the little Japanese devil could fight hard.

Zhao Shangzhi's nephew Li Long: He said that the Japanese devils didn't fight, so how can I have a face?

Yang Jingyu's grandson Ma Jimin: I often study this " on protracted war " and organize everyone to resist the Japanese invaders according to the topography and geomorphology of our northeast and the harsh climate environment!

The "September 18th" incident has sounded the alarm for the people of the whole country. "The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time" has increasingly become the consensus of the whole nation. To this day, alarms will sound in many places across the country on September 18 to remind all Chinese people to remember history and not forget the national humiliation. An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, the gunpowder is far away, and the alarm bell is ringing!

Source: CCTV News Client

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