"Huang Xiansheng: The first shot of the 918 Incident rebellion, and the Japanese raided his home twice to vent his anger", the title itself is full of curiosity. Who is Huang Xiansheng? Why did he rebel against the Japanese army? Why was the Japanese raiding their homes twice to vent their anger? There must be a story behind this. The September 18 Incident was an important event during the rule of the warlords in Northeast China in the thirties of the 20 th century, and it was also the beginning of Japan's full-scale invasion of China. In this turbulent era, Huang Xiansheng, as a general in the Northeast, stood up when his homeland was invaded, fearless of strong enemies, and bravely resisted. Although the war eventually engulfed the Northeast, Huang Xiansheng's heroic behavior became a hymn to national pride. So, what kind of baptism of war did this Northeast son experience? How did he organize the people to resist the Japanese army? And why was it so severely retaliated by the Japanese army? Let's find out.
1. Huang Xiansheng's family background and early experience
Huang Xiansheng was born in 1896 and is a native of Northeast China. His hometown is located in Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province, and his family has been farming for generations. Since he was a child, Huang Xiansheng has grown up in this beautiful land, and he has been exposed to the simple and simple Northeast folk customs.
In 1918, Huang Xiansheng was admitted to the preparatory class of Peking University with excellent results. In this year, patriotic students ignited the May Fourth Movement in Beijing. As a vigorous young student, Huang Xiansheng was soon involved in this wave of national awakening. The slogans of the May Fourth Movement, "National Self-Help" and "Down with Imperialism," were deeply imprinted in his heart, and since then he has established his firm belief in devoting himself to the revolution and serving the country.
In 1921, Huang Xiansheng resolutely gave up his studies and returned to his hometown Shenyang to participate in the training of the third artillery department of the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall. The Northeast Lecture Hall was an important institution for cultivating military talents in Northeast China at that time, and Huang Xiansheng received strict military training here, and also learned the revolutionary ideas of patriotism.
Since then, Huang Xiansheng has started his military career. He successively served as a company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, and the chief of education of the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall. Because of his outstanding military qualities and firm revolutionary will, he soon attracted the appreciation of Zhang Xueliang, the de facto ruler in Northeast China at that time. In 1928, Huang Xiansheng was appointed by Zhang Xueliang as the commander of his guard brigade, and began to personally accompany Zhang and became his important military staff officer.
2. Preparations before the September 18 Incident
In April 1931, Zhang Xueliang suddenly appointed Huang Xiansheng as the chief of the Liaoning Provincial Police Department and the director of the Shenyang Municipal Public Security Bureau. This personnel change demonstrates Zhang Xueliang's high trust and importance to Huang Xiansheng. As the de facto commander of the Northeast Army, Zhang Xueliang was well aware of the intimidating aggressive conspiracy of the Japanese warlords. Therefore, he handed over this important police town to the loyal and reliable Huang Xiansheng, undoubtedly in order to prepare for the struggle against Japan.
After taking office, Huang Xiansheng quickly set about rectifying the police system in Liaoning Province. He first banned the corruption that was prevalent in the police system and replaced a number of corrupt officials who had long been resentful of the people. After that, he implemented a strict evaluation system for the police officers throughout the province, eliminating the good from the inferior, and greatly improved the quality of the police force.
At the same time, as the principal of the Liaoning Police Academy, Huang Xiansheng also vigorously cultivated and trained a number of high-quality police personnel and enhanced their understanding of Japan's conspiracy of aggression. These well-trained police officers will make an important contribution to the future anti-Japanese armed struggle.
In addition to rectifying the system, Huang Xiansheng also focused on enhancing the actual combat capability of the police force. He asked Zhang Xueliang for instructions and distributed more than 200,000 old-style rifles, each equipped with 50 rounds of ammunition, to the public security bureaus of 58 counties in the province. This laid a solid material foundation for the armed resistance against Japan in the future.
The rearmament of the armed forces was accompanied by intelligence gathering and diplomatic struggles. Huang Xiansheng always watched every move of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and had fierce diplomatic conflicts and armed confrontations with it many times. In March 1931, when the Japanese army surrounded a police station in Shenyang and seized guns, Huang Xiansheng quickly reported to Zhang Xueliang and coordinated with the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Liaoning to jointly lodge solemn representations with the Japanese consulate, which finally forced the Japanese army to expose its crimes and return the robbed guns.
In addition, Huang Xiansheng also personally presided over the anti-narcotics operation, extinguished the drug smuggling activities of a number of Japanese puppet officials, and safeguarded the dignity of the nation. Because of Huang Xiansheng's heroic and tenacious fighting spirit, he has cultivated a strong national hatred in the hearts of the Japanese puppet authorities, and has become the "Eyes target" that they desperately want to eradicate.
3. Bravely resist the Japanese invasion
At dawn on September 18, 1931, when Huang Xiansheng was on duty at the Shenyang Public Security Bureau, he suddenly received multiple phone calls calling the police, saying that the Japanese army had begun to attack the military fortress in Shenyang. This was the long-planned sound of the Japanese Kwantung Army's call to launch a full-scale invasion of China.
Huang Xiansheng did not hesitate and quickly reported to the provincial government and Zhang Xueliang. After receiving the instructions, he immediately ordered martial law throughout the province and ordered his police to be on standby. At the same time, he personally led the police force of the provincial capital to the area of Wicker Lake and directly encountered the invading Japanese army.
In the ensuing street fighting, Huang Xiansheng personally charged into battle, commanding the police to fight the Japanese army for several hours. Despite the obsolescence of our weapons and limited firepower, we still caused many Japanese casualties. It wasn't until the Japanese army's heavy artillery bombarded indiscriminately that Huang Xiansheng reluctantly ordered to evacuate.
A few days later, the Japanese laid siege to the headquarters of the Shenyang Police Department. Wong Hsien Sing personally commanded 410 police officers to hold the fortification, and fought with the Japanese for several days, until the last bullet ran out, and they were forced to lay down their arms. Before being captured, Huang Xiansheng smashed the Japanese officers with a gun, and after being arrested, he refused to cooperate, showing his unyielding spirit.
After the 918 Incident, the Japanese army began to expand wildly in the northeast, and Huang Xiansheng did not give up the struggle. The remnants of the police force were reorganized in Jinzhou and were active in the Japanese army in western Liaoning. He first mobilized his subordinates to exterminate the traitor forces, and then led the police force to attack and harass the Japanese army many times. In a battle, more than 60 people under Huang Xiansheng fought alone, killing and wounding dozens of Japanese soldiers.
Huang Xiansheng's tenacious resistance not only dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army, but more importantly, inspired the confidence of the people along the road to resist Japan. Everywhere he went, he called on people to form self-defense forces to fight the Japanese army together. Soon, the anti-Japanese armed forces headed by Huang Xiansheng grew to several thousand and became a national armed force that could not be ignored in western Liaoning.
In the face of the unprecedented national armed movement led by Huang Xiansheng, the Japanese army saw a change of color. At one time, they used heavy troops to encircle and suppress Huang Xiansheng's subordinates, but in the end they returned in vain due to Huang Xiansheng's unexpected guerrilla tactics. Since then, Huang Xiansheng has become famous in western Liaoning and has become the nemesis of the Japanese army.
Fourth, the difficult process of forming an anti-Japanese volunteer army
Despite some successes in western Liaoning, Huang Xiansheng was soberly aware that it was difficult for his limited armed forces to resist the heavy Japanese army. In order to completely get rid of the iron hooves of the Japanese army, it is necessary to form a larger and well-trained national armed force.
At the beginning of 1932, Huang Xiansheng began to plan to organize a regular volunteer army in Jinzhou. He first restored his old headquarters, which he had served as the commander of the Shenyang garrison, and recruited a large number of veterans and displaced residents to join. Soon, the force grew to several thousand men.
But with this came a shortage of weapons and equipment. Although Wong Hsien-sing issued a batch of old guns to the police force during the 918 incident, with the continuous growth of the anti-Japanese forces, these outdated equipment could no longer meet the demand. In order to solve the urgent need, Huang Xiansheng had to adopt some illegal means, such as looting a batch of weapons and ammunition of the Japanese puppet garrison in the Panjin area.
In addition, logistical reserves are also a major problem. The anti-Japanese volunteers had no factories and no food sources, so they could only rely on levying and paying military salaries along the road. In order not to gradually disperse the morale of the army, Huang Xiansheng had no choice but to adopt the operational policy of circulating and transferring, allowing the troops to guerrilla in all directions and taking supplies on the spot.
As the strength of the Japanese army continued to increase, Huang Xiansheng's headquarters was soon besieged. In July 1932, thousands of Japanese troops sniped Huang Xiansheng's defense line by different routes, and the two sides fell into a difficult positional battle in southwest Jinxi. The firepower of both sides was only a stone's throw away, and the battle was at a stalemate for a while. At this moment of crisis, Huang Xiansheng personally charged ahead, led his subordinates to fight against the same enemy, and finally broke out of the encirclement and transferred his position to the northwest of Jinxi.
In 1933, Huang Xiansheng led his subordinates into the Dandong area and joined forces with the local anti-Japanese forces. After many crossfires and fusions with local forces, Huang Xiansheng's forces have reached tens of thousands. With this main force, he began to reorganize the army and strive to improve his military quality.
However, due to the lack of unified leadership and long-term funding, this volunteer army has never been able to consolidate and grow. In addition, due to the destruction of the remnants of the Kuomintang in the northeast, internal strife continued, and finally in March 1934, Huang Xiansheng's troops had to withdraw from the northeast and go to the Shanhaiguan area to seek a convergence with the CCP army.
5. The house was raided twice by the Japanese army and the final fate
Because of Huang Xiansheng's heroic resistance in the northeast, he has long become the "number one rival" in the eyes of the Japanese army. Therefore, during the occupation of Northeast China, the Japanese army specifically took inhumane revenge on Huang Xiansheng's family.
In February 1932, when the Japanese troops occupying Liaoning learned that Huang Xiansheng had reorganized the anti-Japanese armed forces in Jinzhou, they held a grudge and decided to severely punish his family. They first raided the ancestral house of Huang Xiansheng's hometown in Xiuyan County, arrested and imprisoned his father, Grandma Huang, and his younger brother Huang Zhensheng, and tortured him.
In the face of brutal abuse, Huang Zhensheng was undaunted and still shouted "you are aggressors" to the Japanese army. The angry Japanese punished them for not being allowed to sleep and not being given food for a long time. Despite such torture, no one in the Huang family betrayed Huang Xiansheng's whereabouts. Finally, after several months in detention, the Huang family was released from prison.
However, the Japanese army's persecution of Huang Xiansheng's family did not stop there. In May 1933, the Japanese army once again surrounded Huang Xiansheng's hometown and captured his 80-year-old mother and other nine people, in an attempt to force Huang Xiansheng to surrender. This time, the Japanese army's torture of Huang's family to extract confessions was even more cruel, and they even wanted to burn his mother alive.
Under the months-long torture, although his family members fell into a coma and lost continence, they never revealed Huang Xiansheng's whereabouts. In the end, with the testimony of the traitors, the Japanese army confirmed that Huang Xiansheng was no longer in the northeast, and only then did he release his family. However, due to the severe torture she endured, the mother died shortly after returning home, and the rest of the family was physically and mentally exhausted.
At this time, Huang Xiansheng had already led the remnants into the anti-Japanese base in North China, and joined the CCP army in September 1934. From then on, he became a member of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, fighting for the class struggle and national liberation. He was killed in battle in July 1936 at the age of 40.
In the face of the inhumane persecution suffered by Huang Xiansheng's family, the people of Northeast China at that time were all furious. It can be seen that under the iron hooves of the cruel Japanese army, the tragic experience experienced by Huang Xiansheng's family is just like the suffering endured by compatriots of all ethnic groups in Northeast China, becoming a microcosm of the atrocities of the Japanese army. It was the perseverance and unyielding heroism of the Huang family that inspired more sons and daughters in Northeast China to stand up and fight bravely to recapture their homeland, and finally won the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.