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 Japanese Aggression, China paid the price of 35 million casualties, millions of soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country, and after the end of the War of Resistance, China punished only a few senior Japanese generals, and did not retaliate against the absolute majority of Japanese. However, some Japanese people, instead of thanking the Chinese people, once again swung the butcher's knife at the kind Chinese people, and the Tonghua incident was one of them.
Tonghua is located in the northeast of China on the edge of Changbai Mountain, where the military position is very important, you can enter the Songliao Plain, and you can retreat to defend the border of Changbai Mountain. Coal, iron and forestry resources are abundant here, with developed industry and convenient transportation. After the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army gathered heavy troops in this place. At the end of World War II, after the 1.5 million Soviet Red Army launched an attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army entrenched in the northeast region of China, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army and the capital of puppet Manchukuo were also moved to Tonghua.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a certain unit of the Northeast Democratic United Army, which was reorganized from the Eighth Route Army, was stationed in Tonghua City, and later important units such as the Liaodong Provincial Committee of the CPC, the Northeast Aviation School, the Artillery School, and the Northeast Military and Political University all moved into Tonghua. At that time, the situation in Tonghua was not good, and there were tens of thousands of bandits on the mountains outside Tonghua, and under the instigation of Kuomintang agents, they often attacked the Northeast Democratic United Army, posing a great threat to Tonghua, so the Northeast Democratic United Army sent out the main troops to suppress the bandits. Seeing that the city was empty, the Kuomintang agents targeted tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners of war in the city, and they wanted to use the Japanese prisoners of war in the city to seize control of Tonghua, and finally they reached an agreement with the Japanese prisoners of war to jointly manage the city after regaining control of Tonghua.
On the night of February 2, 1946, a few hours before the Japanese army launched a riot, a complacent agent leaked the news, and the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army quickly strengthened its defense, shooting dozens of internal elements and secret service leaders, and ordering the Northeast Democratic United Army and the Korean Volunteer Army outside Chengwai to enter the city to support. In the early morning of February 3, before dawn, tens of thousands of Japanese troops wielding samurai swords, wooden sticks and a few cold weapons attacked the Tonghua Administrative Office Building, the Tonghua Detachment Headquarters, the airfield, and the important German units of the Telephone Bureau.
Although the Democratic Coalition Army carried out a certain degree of defense, due to the enemy's outnumbered enemy, it still encountered great danger, and the Japanese medical personnel of the Japanese hospital retained by the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army killed all the wounded soldiers. At that time, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army transferred the location of more than 100 Japanese commanders who were detained, but in the end they leaked the news, they were besieged by the Japanese army, and only one squad was responsible for guarding the task, and the squad leader resolutely ordered that all the more than 100 Japanese commanders who wanted to cooperate with each other be killed with machine guns, so as not to further worsen the situation.
At the most tense time, the Tonghua Detachment of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army outside the city, the Korean Volunteer Army entered the city to support, quickly suppressed the rioting Japanese army, arrested a large number of rioters, and shot and killed more than 4,000 people. At that time, many Japanese expatriates in the city participated in the riots, and were also arrested by the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army and received due punishment.