At 5:23 a.m. on June 4, 1928, when the special car taken by the Warlord Zhang Zuolin passed the Sandong Bridge at the intersection of the Beijing-Fengfeng and South Manchuria Railways, there was a sudden loud noise, and a granite pier in the middle of the bridge was exploded, and the steel rails on the bridge and bridge were blown to the ground. Zhang Zuolin's special carriage was blown up to the iranian nuclear chassis, and he was blown out three miles away and seriously injured. When he was sent to the Grand Marshal's Mansion, he was already dying, and said to Lady Lu: "Let the little sixth son come back quickly, and tell him to put the country first and do a good job!" After saying that, Zhang Zuolin lost his breath, which is the famous "Huanggutun Incident".
Who was Zhang Zuolin's killer? Why kill him? This puzzle lasted until 1953, when a man named Kawamoto Daisaku told the truth about the "Huanggutun Incident" at the Taiyuan War Criminals Management Center.
Daizo was born in Japan into a wealthy family with many mountains and land. At the age of 14, despite his family's objections, he entered the Osaka Army Local Kindergarten School. After 6 years, he began his military career. When the Russo-Japanese War broke out, he went to northeast China as the leader of the 37th Infantry Regiment of the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army.
Later, he greatly admired Akashi Motojiro and Aoki Nobunaga, masters of the invasion strategy, and was determined to become a figure like them, using conspiracies and assassinations to supplement force to achieve the "mainland policy" . In October 1907, he was transferred back to Japan. In 1926, Kawamoto returned to Tohoku as a senior staff officer at the Kwantung Army Command, and in August he was promoted to Army Daisaku. From the end of June to the beginning of July of the following year, Japan held a key meeting in Tokyo to step up its aggression against China, the "Oriental Conference."
In the chaos of warlords in China, Zhang Zuolin had to "pro-Japan" in order to maintain his rule. Subsequently, Japan demanded the right to railway from Zhang Zuolin and forced him to solve the "Manchu-Mongolian unsolved case." In September 1927, 20,000 people in the northeast marched and demonstrated, calling for "the overthrow of the General Cabinet of Tian." Influenced by this incident and national consciousness, Zhang Zuolin did not agree to Japan's demands and resisted them.
Zhang Zuolin's resistance aroused strong dissatisfaction in Japan, and he hated him to the bone. On June 2, 1928, Zhang Zuolin was defeated by the Nationalist Army and announced that he would withdraw from Beijing and return to the northeast. At this time, Japan gave him an ultimatum to force him to agree to Japan's demands. Zhang Zuolin believed that he had hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands and was not afraid of Japan, so he did not let up at all.
Therefore, Japan decided to remove this thorn in the eye on Zhang Zuolin's way back to the northeast. Hebei Dazuo said: "We will catch all the pro-Japanese warlords." Help when there is value in use, and try to get rid of it when it can't be used! In a letter he had written to his friend, he bluntly revealed his plan and determination to kill Zhang Zuolin, even if he was dismissed from his post.
At that time, those who wanted to assassinate Zhang Zuolin were Qin Zhenci, the head of the Fengtian secret service, and Kenji Toihara, Zhang Zuolin's military adviser. Kawamoto decided that their previous assassination plan was not feasible, so he rearranged the layout and carefully selected the location of the assassination. In the end, it was selected in Huanggutun, where 200 kilograms of high explosives were buried and the "Death Array" was laid.
After Zhang Zuolin's death, the secretary of the Marshal's Mansion did not send a funeral, and the Japanese army sent people to inquire about the news many times, but found nothing. It was not until Zhang Xueliang returned to Fengtian and stabilized the situation in the northeast that the news that the boss marshal had died was announced. Due to Japan's internal contradictions and public condemnation, at the end of the year, the opposition party challenged the Tanaka cabinet and demanded that the truth of the incident be investigated. Even after the Japanese knew who the murderer was, under the protection of the backbone officers of the Young Zhuang faction of the army's central department, the war minister, and other heads of the general staff, Kawamoto was only dismissed from his post.
After the "918 Incident", Kawamoto spent most of his time in China, frantically plundering China's coal mine resources. After Japan's surrender, Kawamoto's heart did not die, trying to wait for the opportunity to relive the old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". He continued to stay in Shanxi and defect to Yan Xishan to deal with our Party.
When Taiyuan was liberated, Kawamoto was finally arrested. Before that, he destroyed a lot of incriminating evidence, faced the trial, and refused to confess guilt. With the education and help of the instructors of the War Criminals Management Center, he gradually confessed to the crimes he had committed. In 1953, when he was seriously ill, he told the beginning and end of the "Huanggutun Incident". Soon after, 73-year-old Daisaku Kawamoto died in the war criminals management center.