On February 3, 1946, in Tonghua, Jilin Province, there was a riot incident, also known as the Tonghua Incident. The insurrection was premeditated and planned, and a total of more than 10,000 old Japanese soldiers joined forces with the local Kuomintang reactionaries to launch an attack on the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army.
Fortunately, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army had an early warning in advance, obtained intelligence from relevant quarters, and made some preparations. After the riots, the doctors in the hospital were very cruel, and they brutally killed the wounded of the Tohoku Democratic Coalition Army, who were seriously injured, in an attempt to cooperate with the old Japanese ministry outside.
The Northeast Democratic Coalition Army reacted quickly, first controlling the internal responders, then dismantling the riot headquarters, and then using its effective forces to suppress the uprising. In this riot, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army killed more than 3,000 Japanese people, severely punished the saboteurs who participated in and implemented the plan, shot and killed those who took the lead in provoking trouble, and the shooting lasted for two days.
A well-planned riot?
Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has become increasingly powerful, and they have ambitions for expansion, targeting China, North Korea, and so on. Since the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army began to invade the northeast region of China, ruling it for fourteen years, bringing great disasters to the people of northeast China.
Until 1945, when Japan announced its surrender, after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were still some Japanese soldiers who remained stubborn, colluding with the Kuomintang reactionary forces and extending their black hands to our army. The famous Tonghua incident was when more than 10,000 old Japanese troops carried out armed insurrection at the instigation of the Kuomintang.
Tonghua is located in the southeast of the Changbai Mountains in the northeast, adjacent to the Yalu River in the south, and a wide plain area in the north. In terms of materials, Tonghua is rich in natural resources, has a large number of industrial resources such as iron and coal, and has developed transportation, which is a place where soldiers and families must compete.
In the early years, during the japanese rule, they attached great importance to Tonghua, and since the Japanese Emperor announced the unconditional surrender, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army quickly stationed in Tonghua, received the weapons of the Japanese army, allowed them to surrender unconditionally, and ensured their safety. Soon, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army began to establish its own armed forces in Tonghua, and soon moved the major organs and schools in the northeast to Tonghua, intending to make this place the center of the revolution.
The stationing of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in Tonghua caused dissatisfaction among the reactionaries, who attempted to use the surrendered Japanese army to retake Tonghua from the Hands of the Northeast Democratic United Army. In order to make our army withdraw from Tonghua, Lao Jiang thought of many ways, including disguising himself as a puppet army, arming bandits, launching an attack on Tonghua, and the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army struggling to resist, all of which repelled those reactionary troops one by one. At that time, old Chiang Kai-shek's army was not in the northeast, and Chiang Kai-shek's army did not have many troops in the northeast, so they could not rely on their existing strength to drive the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army out of Tonghua.
In view of this situation, the Kuomintang reactionaries intended to take advantage of the Japanese, and at that time, Tonghua had about 6,000 Kwantung Army troops who had already disarmed, and Nakato Shihiko Daisaku Fujita was a speculator in the Kwantung Army, who was unwilling to let the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army occupy Tonghua and join forces with the Kuomintang reactionaries, and the two factions agreed to jointly establish a "Sino-Japanese coalition government" after the successful insurrection.
In order to increase the success rate of this riot, the Japanese army also plotted against the doctors and nurses in the Tonghua City Hospital, so that they could respond internally and cooperate with the riot. Everything was ready, and the Kuomintang reactionaries and the Japanese army were waiting for an opportunity to act at the moment when the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army was slack.
Conspiracy exposed, punish those responsible?
The conspiracy of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the reactionaries was noticed by our army at the beginning, and before the uprising, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army captured an enemy personnel, and after strict interrogation, the man confessed the entire process of the riot, at this time, only ten hours before the enemy rioted. After learning of the enemy's specific plan for a riot, the top brass of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army quickly made full preparations, dispatched troops, and issued weapons to meet the enemy.
In the face of the impending riots, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army first eliminated the internal traitors, and the personnel of the relevant units withdrew as soon as possible, and at the same time adopted the method of counterattacking in self-defense and collecting the weapons of the Japanese puppet army, consolidating the Tonghua defense line and preventing the enemy from sabotaging. On February 3, 1946, the enemy began to move, and thousands of Japanese Kwantung Army shouted and shouted to kill, approaching Tonghua from all directions.
Because the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army was prepared first, and at the same time superior to the Japanese army in terms of weapons, even though the Japanese army had thousands of people participating in this uprising at that time, the momentum was huge, and in the face of the heroic resistance of our army, the Japanese army quickly could not resist and began to retreat. Inside the city, more than a hundred former commanders of the Kwantung Army, who were planning to cooperate with each other, also participated in the riot in prison.
At that time, the strength of the force guarding this prison was only one squad, and the squad leader immediately made a decision, in order to prevent the situation from becoming serious, he used machine gun fire to kill more than a hundred former commanders of the Kwantung Army who planned to cooperate with the outside world in the prison, so as to avoid the deterioration of the situation.
In Tonghua City, just when the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army was fighting with the insurgents to the death, the mobile units of the Korean Volunteer Army came to reinforce our army, the two armies attacked inside and outside, the rioters were defeated, a small number of escaped, most of the Japanese troops participating in the riot were killed, the entire Tonghua City was bloodied, and the corpses in the government building were everywhere.
In this riot, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army was prepared in advance, knew the general plan of the enemy's rebellion, and avoided many casualties. At the same time, the reinforcement of the Korean army was also an important factor in the ability of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army to quickly suppress the Japanese uprising. In the end, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army and the Korean Volunteer Army, at the cost of a small number of casualties, killed more than 4,000 Japanese thugs, avoided the expansion of the situation, and won a victory against the riots.
What people did not expect was that the Japanese doctors and nurses in Tonghua City also participated in the riot, formed a team in the hospital, and on the day of the riot, killed the wounded in the hospital, and those soldiers who were seriously injured and recuperated in the hospital died at the hands of these Japanese doctors and nurses.
Afterwards, the people in Tonghua City were very angry, they organized themselves, took weapons, and fought when they saw the Japanese, and some Japanese people who did not participate in the uprising were also killed and injured. After the matter calmed down, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army punished the relevant responsible persons, carried out a public trial meeting, and shot the relevant responsible persons involved in the riots immediately after the public trial.
After the incident, Sun Gengyao was shot, Fujita Shihiko hid in the attic and was arrested, and the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army left this living mouth, tied him to the street and exhibited him in the street to admit his crime.
Afterwards, Fujita Shihiko also regretted it very much, because the riot he organized involved the local Japanese residents, and every time he saw a Japanese, he would bow and apologize, saying "I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry." Soon, Fujita Died in shame in prison.
According to the tonghua citizens' recollection, from the execution of the shooting, the gunfire sounded by the river for two days, presumably shooting a lot of Japanese, these Japanese thugs paid the price for their crimes, and the end of being shot was purely self-inflicted.
epilogue?
The Northeast Democratic Coalition Army resolutely implemented the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners and gave corresponding preferential treatment to the Japanese troops who had laid down their weapons, but the other side was not only ungrateful, but also organized a riot and killed many civilians and soldiers in Tonghua City. In view of the behavior of the Japanese thugs, we do not need to be polite anymore, the shooting that should be shot, the detention that should be detained, cannot be weaker.
Chinese has always been peace-loving, but we are not afraid of the threat and aggression of the enemy, and once we are annoyed, we are bound to pay a corresponding price. In the Tonghua incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army could only lift a stone and drop it on its own feet, not to mention the heavy casualties, but also affected the local Japanese civilians.