Zhang Zuolin, the head of the Feng clan warlords, took a special train from Beijing to prepare to return to Shenyang on June 4, 1928, but did not expect that when passing through Huanggutun on the outskirts of Shenyang, after a deafening noise, the car turned into ashes, and the roof of the train where Zhang Zuolin was located flew out, and in a flash of smoke, Zhang Zuolin was seriously injured and died shortly after being transferred to Shenyang.
Zhang Zuolin's sudden death shocked the whole of China and shocked Britain, the United States and Russia. Japan already regarded Zhang Zuolin as a thorn in the eye, but was it Zhang Zuolin they assassinated? There is no definite information in Japan, and they feel that it is likely that it is the "self-made" of the Kwantung Army.
At that time, Zhang Zuolin was the Grand Marshal of the Army of the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China, exercising the power of the President, equivalent to the head of the Beiyang Government. Therefore, as soon as the news of his assassination came out, there was an international uproar, and there were calls at home and abroad to find out the truth and severely punish the murderer.
For Japan, if it is really the Kwantung Army's willful act, it is also a violation of military orders, which is not the meaning of the Japanese high-level, and Japan is thinking of "unifying Manchuria and Mongolia", and assassinating Zhang Zuolin is not conducive to their next move. So, who exactly is the black hand of the Huanggutun incident?
Let's think about it, if Zhang Zuolin had retreated to the northeast region at that time, whose interests would have been violated? The Japanese Kwantung Army and tens of thousands of Japanese expatriates obviously did not want Zhang Zuolin to go to the northeast, and they were afraid. The commander behind this operation of the Kwantung Army was actually Daisaku Kawamoto, a senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army Command in Japan.
He graduated from the Japanese Army University, participated in the Russo-Japanese War, and has remained in China ever since, with strong reconnaissance ability and rich combat experience, and has been engaged in espionage work in the Japanese army for a long time.
Daisaku Kawamoto
Twenty-one years after the Huanggutun Incident, Taiyuan was liberated, and Kawamoto Daisaku was taken in by the People's Liberation Army to the War Criminals Management Center. Previously, he was protected by Yan Xishan and served as a senior consultant to Shanxi Industrial Co., Ltd. At the War Criminals Management Center, Daisaku Kawamoto revealed his crimes—"The plan to assassinate Zhang Zuolin, I am the leader." ”
In 1928, the Feng army was defeated by the Nationalist army and had to retreat to Guanwai. According to the plan, 300,000 troops will be assembled in Fengtian, which will put pressure on the Japanese Kwantung Army. The Japanese had wanted to obtain various privileges in northeast China, but Zhang Zuolin was not all satisfied, so the Japanese felt that Zhang Zuolin could not be fully trusted.
At this time, the number of the Kwantung Army was already 1.2 million, and it was reasonable to say that there was no need to be too afraid of Zhang Zuolin's Fengzhi Army, but because the interests of the Japanese expatriates in the northeast region had been infringed to a certain extent at that time, the Kwantung Army believed that only by assassinating Zhang Zuolin and disrupting the Fengzhi could Japan's interests be guaranteed.
Led by Kawamoto Daisaku, the assassination was set at the junction of the Bongshan Line and the Mantetsu Line near Huanggutun. On May 28, they planted explosives at the junction point, installed electrical lights on the lookout, and installed two disconnectors on the Fengshan line.
In the early morning of June 4, Zhang Zuolin's special train arrived at Huanggutun, and the Iron Man of the Eastern Palace pressed the electric door, and the thunder explosion sounded, and the fire soared into the sky. This is one of the crimes committed by Japanese militarism in China. Japan's invasion of China actually began at that time.
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