During the fourteen-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese paid a terrible price in order to resist the aggression of Japanese imperialism. Throughout the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chinese made great sacrifices. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China punished only a very small number of high-ranking Japanese prisoners of war, and did not embarrass other Japanese prisoners of war, but after the end of the War of Resistance, some Japanese prisoners of war once again swung their butcher knives at the kind Chinese people, and the Tonghua incident was one of them.
The Tonghua Incident was located in the southeast of Jilin Province, where the military position was very important, and it could enter the Songliao Plain and retreat to defend the Changbai Mountains. After the September 18 Incident, Japan gathered heavy troops and a large number of military supplies here, and it was in this place that the anti-Japanese name Yang Jingyu was sacrificed. After the victory of the War of Resistance, the ordinary people of Tonghua at that time went to the Japanese military camp and wanted to take back the materials that the Japanese army had robbed them, but the Japanese not only burned the materials, but also beat these ordinary people. Later, Tonghua was reorganized by a certain unit of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, which was reorganized from the Eighth Route Army, and after the Northeast Democratic United Army entered the city, tens of thousands of Japanese troops in the city were incorporated.
After the formation of the Tonghua Detachment of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, important units such as the Old Northeast Aviation School, the Artillery School, and the Liaodong Provincial Committee of the CPC also moved into Tonghua. At that time, there were tens of thousands of bandits armed on the mountains near Tonghua, and the Kuomintang agents often used these bandits to frequently attack some important units in Tonghua, so at that time, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army used the main troops to suppress the bandits, and did not care about the Japanese army in the city.
On the evening of February 2, 1946, a few hours before the riots, a complacent Kuomintang agent was arrested and confessed to their plot to exploit the Japanese prisoners of war riots. The Northeast Democratic Coalition Army immediately ordered troops outside the city to enter the city to support, and arrested several major riot leaders and executed hundreds of traitors and traitors.
In the early morning of February 3, before dawn, tens of thousands of Japanese thugs armed with wooden sticks, samurai swords, and a small amount of light weapons launched an attack on important units such as the artillery school, the airfield, the Tonghua Administrative Office building, the Tonghua detachment headquarters, and the telephone bureau. Due to the outnumbered enemy, which caused great pressure on the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, a location for the detention of the Japanese commander was leaked at that time, and only one squad was detained, and the squad leader decisively ordered that all more than 100 Japanese commanders be killed, avoiding further deterioration of the situation. However, some units did not react, causing heavy losses, when the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army first entered the city, in order to treat the wounded, the Japanese military hospital was completely taken over, and even the Japanese medical staff did not take over all of them, but after the Tonghua incident, the Japanese medical staff of this hospital killed all the wounded of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army.
The Soviets held Japanese prisoners of war
At the height of the fighting, the Tonghua Detachment of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, the Korean Volunteer Army and other troops entered the city and quickly suppressed the rioters. At that time, there were tens of thousands of Japanese expatriates in the city, and these Japanese were unwilling to hang up the Spring Festival in China, so the officers and soldiers searched all the families that did not hang the Spring Festival, and some Japanese nationals who resisted the slightest resistance would be shot on the spot.
9/18 Incident
The next morning, the riot was quelled, and Fang Hushan led the Korean Volunteer Army to escort more than 1,000 Japanese prisoners of war to the ice outside the city, shot one by one, and stuffed them into the ice cave that had been hewn. The next year the fish in the river were big and fat, but no one dared to eat them.