On June 4, 1928, at 5:30 a.m., Zhang Zuolin, who finally decided to take the train after several choices, led a group of retinues through Huanggutun, and when the train came to the Sankong Bridge of the Beijing-Fengnan-Manchuria Railway, a large-scale explosion occurred, and Zhang's carriage was blown up on the spot, leaving only an empty shelf. Zhang Zuolin was urgently pulled to the Shuai Mansion by the convoy of the Shuai Mansion, and on the way home, he still did not resist a life cry. This is the Huanggutun incident that shocked the world. After this incident, it caused a great sensation in China, and Zhang Zuolin, as the head of state at that time, died in such an inexplicable way, making the tense situation in the northeast even more tense.
What people don't know, however, is that the Huanggutun Incident was not an official Japanese operation, but an incident privately planned by Daisaku Kawamoto, a staff officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army. It is precisely because in this explosion, Zhang Zuolin died, causing a series of chain reactions in Japan at that time, and the consequences for them were actually not very light. According to Kawamoto's vision, after Zhang Zuolin's death, the Northeast Army was leaderless, and then took the Northeast without any effort, but unexpectedly, Zhang Xueliang quietly took over the Northeast Army, and continued to maintain the role and superiority of the Northeast Army in the Northeast, and could carry out large-scale retaliation against the Kwantung Army at any time. Not only that, but it also further triggered the northeast Yizhi, allowing Zhang Xueliang to defect to Chiang Kai-shek. This put Japan on the verge of passivity in an instant.
Japan's invasion of China was planned, and at that time Tanaka Yoshiichi had a deep relationship with Zhang Zuolin, and he attempted to achieve the goal of gradually invading China by controlling Zhang Zuolin. Tanaka Yoshiichi advocated a gradual invasion of China, and Zhang Zuolin repeatedly received the full support of the Japanese Kwantung Army, but the Japanese military was very dissatisfied with this. Daisaku Kawamoto, a senior staff officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and Shotaro Muraoka, commander of the Kwantung Army, believed that Zhang Zuolin must be eliminated, and tanaka Yoshiichi relied on Zhang Zuolin as an unreliable illusion. Therefore, there are actually two invasion plans within Japan, one is the gradual invasion of Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka, and the other is the assassination plan within the Japanese Kwantung Army.
After the news of Zhang Zuolin's death in the bombing reached Japan, Tanaka wrote to Jotaro Yamamoto with tears in his eyes: "It's all over! Tanaka's tears were not because Zhang Zuolin was killed, but because all his plans were disrupted, and it also meant that Japanese politics began to break away from Tanaka's control. Yoshiichi Tanaka later scolded Kawamoto, "Real bastard! I don't understand the heart of a parent! Not only that, when Emperor Hirohito of Japan learned of this, he was even more angry, why did Zhang Zuolin's death have such a big impact?
The Japanese emperor did not have a personal relationship with Zhang Zuolin, he was furious because the Japanese military department conspired to report this matter, and there was also the assassination of Zhang Zuolin that eventually caused the entire Feng clan to oppose Japan, which not only forced the Bong clan, but also cut off the entire retreat of Japan, and finally could only take the road of forcible occupation by force. The Japanese Kwantung Army, led by Daisaku Kawamoto, reflected a problem because of this incident, the Japanese government lost control of the army, and eventually made Japan go further and further down the road of militarism, the Japanese emperor was of course dissatisfied with this, and it was normal to be angry.
Under this pressure, Minister of War Shirakawa Yoshinori finally had to resign to apologize, and Tanaka Yoshiichi also chose to resign after insisting for a period of time, this person not only resigned, but also depressed after a few months, Zhang Zuolin's death was a thunderbolt for him, he, the Japanese prime minister, could not bear it, but could not make up for it, and there was only one death waiting for him.
The Emperor was afraid, the Prime Minister was dead, and the Minister of War resigned, and the fire had not yet been extinguished, because the Kwantung Army, the initiator of the Imperial Gutun Incident, was still there, and in May 1929, the Supreme Commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Muraoka Shotaro, left the Tohoku and returned to China to be dealt with. The implementer, Daisaku Kawamoto, was expelled from the Japanese active duty force and became an unemployed vagrant. Since then, the tsunami caused by Zhang Zuolin's death in Japan has finally come to an end. Tohoku, which Japan has painstakingly managed for decades, has once again returned to the state it was in before the Russo-Japanese War, which is also the most direct reason for the outbreak of the 9/18 Incident.