On February 3, 1946, Tonghua City, Jilin Province, ushered in the first Spring Festival after experiencing the baptism of the Anti-Japanese War. On this day, the citizens of Tonghua felt the peace and tranquility that they had not seen for a long time, which was the life they had been looking forward to for a long time.
Without the aggression and encroachment of the enemy, they can celebrate this special day and enjoy the hard-won peace and tranquility.
While they were celebrating the Spring Festival, they did not expect that their peaceful life would be destroyed again, and thick smoke suddenly appeared on the Jade Emperor Mountain.
Dense gunfire suddenly rang out over Tonghua City, and tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners broke through the boundaries of the "prison" and instigated the "February 3" riot in Tonghua.
On August 15, 1945, the Japanese Empire officially announced its unconditional surrender, however, the Japanese captives had a crazy ** behavior, which was incredible.
In this riot, what is the sound of gunfire? Who is behind all this? Let's take a closer look at this famous riot.
Tonghua, a small village on the border between China and North Korea in the southern part of Jilin Province, was chosen for its rich iron ore and forest resources after the Japanese invasion of Northeast China, and became a stronghold for Japan's large-scale development.
Tonghua has a unique geographical location, and the Japanese have taken a fancy to its geographical advantages of being easy to defend and difficult to attack, as well as its abundant strategic resources, and intend to use it as a strategic rear base.
They have drawn up an ambitious development plan, committed to building Tonghua into a metropolis with more than one million mouths, and relocated mining machinery from Fushun, Benxi and other places here.
They even planned to relocate the emperor in the event of a crisis on Japanese soil.
In August 1945, the Soviet Red Army entered the northeast of our country strongly, and in just 7 days, hundreds of thousands of Japanese Kwantung Army were completely defeated by Soviet soldiers.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Soviet army escorted most of the Japanese prisoners of war to the northeast for labor reform, but due to transportation restrictions, about 70,000 prisoners of war were still left in Tonghua, China's northeast.
The situation in Tonghua City was complicated, not only were there many Japanese expatriates, but also 70,000 prisoners of war, and outside Tonghua City, a large number of Northeast bandits were gathered, and some remnants of the Kuomintang were secretly cultivating spies, and the whole Tonghua was very chaotic.
Although the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army is trying to guard the prisoners of war and maintain order in Tonghua, the slightest carelessness may lead to accidents.
On February 3, 1946, a riot broke out in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, triggered by Japanese prisoners of war. These prisoners of war, instigated by the Kuomintang agents, suddenly launched a rebellion, causing a lot of chaos.
This was the "February 3rd" riot in Tonghua.
After a night of fierce fighting, our troops managed to quell the riot. In this incident, more than 4,000 Japanese prisoners of war were either killed or captured by our troops.
The Tonghua riots occurred mainly because of the collusion between the Kuomintang and the Japanese invaders. Even though the Communists had already occupied Tonghua, Chiang Kai-shek still remembered the geographical location and abundant resources of Tonghua.
After the liberation of Tonghua, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army developed rapidly in this area, and moved the Military and Political University, Aviation School, and Artillery School into Tonghua, making it a base area.
The Kuomintang attempted to gain something for nothing, sent a large number of spies to infiltrate Tonghua, colluded with the Japanese invaders, and vainly attempted to make a comeback and occupy Tonghua.
In the captured enemy documents and the kidnappers' confessions, the behind-the-scenes of the "23" incident were revealed, and they were the Kuomintang Liaoning Provincial Party Headquarters and the Tonghua City Party Department, while the Japanese side was instigated by Fujita Minoruhiko Daisa, chief of staff of the 125th Division.
The reason behind the Japanese side was that the Kuomintang had made a definite promise to the Japanese side, saying that if the uprising was successful, it would immediately establish a Sino-Japanese alliance headed by Sun Gengxiao and Fujita.
The members of the team were determined by mutual consultation between China and Japan, with Mr. Sun in charge of political and administrative affairs and Mr. Fujita in charge of military affairs.
Japan's performance shows that their long-standing intention of invading China has not changed.
Although this was an attraction for Japan, the insurrection was so highly motivated that Fujita even demanded that all Japanese men under the age of 35 in Tonghua participate.
After many secret training and field exercises, Fujita is already very familiar with military deployment and personnel movements in the Tonghua area. He believes that this is the perfect time to launch a riot during the Spring Festival, when everyone is immersed in a joyful atmosphere and the vigilance is relatively low.
On 3 February, three long whistles sounded in Tonghua City, and heavy fighting broke out in the city, with gunfire incessant. A total of about 5,000 troops were involved in the uprising, of which 4,000 were sent by the Japanese Kwantung Army, and about 1,000 were from the local Kuomintang forces, as well as 160 internal responders.
Under the command of Fujita, a group of Japanese prisoners of war who had been rebelled by Kuomintang spies, armed with machine guns and submachine guns, appeared on the streets, and they launched fierce attacks on important places such as administrative buildings and public security bureaus.
They are fully prepared for battle, equipped with a variety of ** equipment such as pistols, machine guns, grenades and rifles.
Both the Kuomintang and the Japanese had sufficient reserves of military supplies for the uprising, and they hoped to use it to capture Tonghua and achieve their goals.
Although the large army of the Democratic Alliance Army was sent out of the city and into the mountains to suppress the bandits, the number of the coalition troops in Tonghua City was only more than 500 people, and there was a huge disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, but the soldiers resolutely picked up the ** and put up arduous resistance with the riot forces until the last moment.
While resisting the siege of the Japanese, the prison squad leader made an extremely cruel decision to shoot all the high-ranking officers of the Kwantung Army with machine guns, leaving not a single one behind.
Such acts constitute a grave violation of international law and human morality, and we must resolutely oppose and condemn them in order to protect human rights and promote peace. We should work to promote a just and peaceful solution and avoid the recurrence of similar incidents.
In **, the internal forces of our army should collude with the enemy, and the situation is very serious. Commissioner Jiang Yaquan led a company of soldiers in front of the Tonghua Administrative Exclusive Building to engage thousands of enemy troops fiercely.
After arduous resistance, Commissioner Jiang Yaquan successfully killed the enemy's internal guards and fought side by side with the soldiers, showing a heroic and fearless fighting spirit.
In the case of inferior equipment and materials, our army bravely resisted with a small but capable personnel. When the bullets ran out, the rioters quickly occupied the second floor, and fierce hand-to-hand combat began.
Although our army was inferior in numbers, at the critical juncture when Tonghua City was about to be lost, the rescue detachment of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army dealt them a fatal blow from behind the Kwantung Army, showing perseverance and excellent fighting skills.
After 10 hours of hard resistance, our troops managed to quell the riot and protect our safety. Although our troops consisted of only about 500 men from two regiments of the People's Self-Defense Army and two companies of the Korean Volunteers, we withstood the fierce attack of 5,000 men from the other side, demonstrating our strong determination and heroic spirit.
In the fierce battle, they never flinched, and with firm determination and heroic fighting spirit, they successfully repelled the enemy army, eliminated more than 200 enemy troops, captured more than 3,000 enemy soldiers, and captured more than 100 pistols and other military supplies.
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