The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was an extremely arduous war of anti-aggression in Chinese history, in which the Chinese paid a terrible price in order to resist the aggression of Japanese imperialism. Throughout the War of Resistance Against Japan, millions of Chinese soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country, 35 million casualties, and hundreds of millions of people lost their homes.
On August 15, 1945, after Japan's surrender, the Chinese army and ordinary people did not carry out large-scale retaliation against Japanese soldiers, except for a very small number of high-ranking Japanese war criminals who committed the most heinous crimes, the rest of the people were not punished, and most of them were safely sent back to China. However, at that time, there were still Japanese people who swung butcher knives at the kind Chinese people, and the Tonghua incident in the northeast was a typical act of revenge.
Tonghua is located in the southeast of the northeast of the Changbai MountainOus Area, which is not only rich in resources, but also very geographically located, and can enter the Songliao Plain, retreat can defend the Changbai Mountain, which has been a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times. After the September 18 Incident, the Japanese gathered heavy troops here. Later, when the Soviet army attacked the Japanese Kwantung Army, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army and the capital of puppet Manchukuo were also moved to this place. After Japan's surrender, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, which was reorganized from the Eighth Route Army, quickly entered Tonghua, disarmed the Japanese puppet army here, liberated Tonghua, and established people's power here.
At the end of 1945, the Northeast Military and Political University, the Aviation School, the Artillery School, and the organs of the Liaodong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China were successively moved to the Tonghua area. However, the Kuomintang agents lurking in Tonghua at that time were very unwilling, and they always wanted to seize Tonghua, and finally they secretly colluded with tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners of war in the city when the main force of the Eighth Route Army went out of the city to suppress bandits, and finally reached a secret agreement on the establishment of a "Sino-Japanese coalition government" on the condition of the establishment of a "Sino-Japanese coalition government" after the success of the riot, and decided that after the success of the riot, Tonghua would be jointly managed by the Kuomintang side and the Japanese army.
On the evening of February 2, 1946, a few hours before the riots, a complacent agent told the story, and the Northeast Democratic United Army acted quickly, on the one hand, ordering the troops outside the city to urgently enter the city to provide support, on the other hand, ordering all the party, government, and military organs in the city to stop their vacations and Spring Festival celebrations, and all personnel were urgently mobilized, fully armed, entered the position to listen to orders, arrested the leaders of the riots, eradicated the internal traitors, and collected the weapons of the Japanese puppet army left behind.
In the early morning of February 3, also on the first day of the Chinese New Year of this year, before dawn, Shihiko Fujita, chief of staff of the 125th Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army, commanded tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners of war to launch a riot, wielding samurai swords, wooden sticks and a small number of light weapons, and launched an attack on the headquarters of the Tonghua Detachment of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, the airport, the telephone bureau, and the administrative office building. At that time, the Japanese medical personnel of the Japanese army field personnel reorganized by the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army also participated in the riot, killing hundreds of wounded members of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army with scalpels, scissors and other medical equipment, and the means were very cruel.
At the most critical time of the situation, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army outside the city, the Korean Volunteer Army, entered the city to support, and immediately suppressed the rioters; when searching for the rioters, anyone who could not answer the password was shot; those who hid in a hole or hiding place went in without saying a word and went in to ask Hou Hou. At that time, there were tens of thousands of Japanese expatriates in the city, these people were unwilling to hang up the Spring Festival in China's traditional festival, but also sheltered the mob, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army and the Korean Volunteer Army carried out a key investigation of the families who did not want to hang the Spring League, all adult men were kidnapped and interrogated, the slightest resistance will be killed, until noon the next day, the headquarters issued an order to only arrest and not kill, the counter-rebel officers and soldiers were restrained, but in less than a day, the Japanese mob was killed more than 4,000 people.