Chapter 8 Section 6 September 18 Incident

In June 1928, the Japanese Kwantung Army killed Zhang Zuolin at the Huanggutun Station of the Nanman Railway. On September 18, 1931, the Japanese army occupied Shenyang overnight, causing the most painful incident in modern Chinese history. "Mukden Incident".For my mother, who thought she had come to the end of all hardships, it was a thunderbolt from the blue sky. The ice and snow land full of lonely memories just said goodbye has become a hometown that cannot be returned. It will be difficult for her parents who love her to see her again. For my father, it seems that this day will come sooner or later; since he was five years old and saw the shells of the Russo-Japanese War falling on the back of my house, since Guo Songling fought to change the fate of the Northeast and was exposed to the dead in Shenyang Square after his defeat, Xiong After Zhang Zuolin who occupied the Northeast was killed, his son Zhang Xueliang hastily inherited the hegemony. He had neither the ability nor the courage to protect the huge territory.The ruin of the hometown is at the ignorant hands of the "family world".How sad and indignant!

Since the beginning of the century, the Japanese built the South-Manchuria Railway to run through the northeastern half of the country, and they have been waiting for this day for thirty years.The Japanese Kwantung Army has controlled all external information since September 18, and all railways, highways, and telecommunications have been cut off.But from Shenyang to Heilongjiang, they were resisted by local self-defense forces all the way, and they were all occupied a year later.By 1934, Manchukuo was established as the starting point of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" in 1940, preparing for a full-scale aggression against China.In this long year, where is Zhang Xueliang?Where is Feng Jun, who runs across the world, now?

Overnight, China seemed like a giant whose feet had been cut off in its sleep. It suddenly woke up and marched across the country, shouting the slogan "Down with Japanese imperialism! Swear to the death and restore the country!" But only I heard the shout.At that time, the world was still in the colonial era, and the powerful countries with sanctions were almost all colonial countries (India, which was colonized by Britain, did not achieve independence until 1947, and Annan of France did not gain independence under the name of Vietnam in 1945, They were all exchanged by tens of millions of dead souls during the Second World War).At that time, the League of Nations formed a "Lytton Investigation Team" for the September 18th Incident, but there was no result, and there was never any real justice in the world.

In the year after the September 18th Incident, my father thought over and over again, thinking about the various possibilities of actual work.In the two years since he joined the central government, most of the staff he contacted and arranged in the Northeast were educational figures. After the fall of Shenyang, they all withdrew to Beiping and established an exile office; some people also went to Nanjing to report the situation in their hometown and called on the central government to effectively Aid the volunteer army surging in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces.The essence of Fengjun inherited by Shaoshuai Zhang has been withdrawn into the customs under the condition of "non-resistance" he claimed.The slightly more prestigious one is called the Volunteer Army Anti-Japanese War.

Countless teenagers refused to receive Japanese education and fled to Pingjin one after another; some sought refuge with relatives and friends, and some wandered in various places.At that time, the central government had no understanding of the situation in the Northeast and no countermeasures. My father knew that the only thing he could do was to go back to the north by himself, go deep into the tiger's den, and understand the real situation.This is a desperate gamble that Northeasterners call "drying with your head in your arms." He first resigned from his job at the central government, and in extreme secrets (only Chen Lifu knew it) took a boat from Shanghai, used the passport of a businessman surnamed Zhao who was going to Germany to do business, went to Kobe, Japan, changed boats, and transferred to Vladivostok, Russia, and took a train every two days. Suifenhe to Harbin.When I arrived in Harbin, I stayed in a hotel run by a White Russian, and found the Jilin comrade Xu Zhen (director of the telephone bureau, who became the chairman of Liaoning Province after the victory. When he retreated to Taiwan in early 1949, he was taken by Shanghai The Taiping ship, the whole family sank in the Taiwan Strait in a shipwreck), Zang Qifang (director of the Dimu Bureau) and Zhou Tianfang (director of the Education Bureau) and other secret workers were able to learn more about the recent situation of the anti-Japanese movement in their hometown after September 18.Almost all of Liaoning was occupied by the Japanese, only Jing Kedu, Xu Junzhe and Shi Jian (Zi Motang, at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, were arrested by the Japanese and sentenced to death. His general, the young lawyer Liang Surong, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Fortunately, he was freed, and retreated to Taiwan to have another struggle) and others used their identities as civilians to cover the development of the Volunteer Army.

In Jilin, Han Qinglun and Gai Wenhua were the most active before the Japanese occupation. They planned the combination of the local Northeast Army and civilian forces to form a mighty volunteer army to resist the Japanese northward advance. After a month of bloody battle in Changchun, they were finally defeated. The Japanese occupied, Gai Wenhua and eight comrades were arrested, and their severed heads were hung on the city tower. Qi Shiying set off from Harbin and passed through Hailun, the temporary provincial capital of Heilongjiang, the northernmost stronghold in charge of the five brothers Wang Binzhang and Yuzhang. The situation was precarious; the rest of the Zhang family's army had stopped resisting, and the central government was thousands of miles away, and the traffic had been cut off.Since the overall situation is hopeless, his only achievement in this trip is to persuade them not to surrender. Force cannot be used by the enemy, nor should they be sacrificed recklessly.After the Japanese occupied Heilongjiang in 1932, he assisted in arranging for Ma Zhanshan and Su Bingwen to enter the customs. They were received and welcomed by national heroes in Nanjing and Shanghai, which greatly encouraged the anti-Japanese people in the future.

It was no longer possible to go directly to the Northeast to work, so he made contact arrangements for the work behind the enemy lines and returned to Nanjing.Chairman Jiang told him that the government established the Northeast Association in Shanghai, and from then on he was in charge of the contact between the central government and the underground anti-Japanese work in the Northeast, as well as the resettlement of personnel entering the Northeast.Make long-term plans and never give up.