Everyone in China knows that China's national humiliation day is "9-18", and the ceremony of accepting the surrender of the Japanese army in Tokyo Bay was specially arranged at 9:18 a.m. on September 2, 1945. But there is also a "9:18", but it happened on the Bac Ninh line, which is no less a shame. After the Japanese army took control of the Beining Line, they arranged a moment of humiliation for the Chinese, and the time for the train from outside the Guanxi Line to arrive at Beiping Station was "9:18".
Before the outbreak of the Pingjin War, Liu Zhensan, commander of the 113th Brigade of the 38th Division of the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was stationed in Langfang. He was very disgusted with this "9:18 a.m.", so he found Chen Juesheng, the director of the railway bureau in charge of Beining Road at that time and a "little traitor" who was working for the Japanese, and said that his soldiers were stationed in Langfang and Nanyuan, and that the train must be stopped in Langfang for two minutes so that his troops could change guards. In the end, the arrival time of the train in Beiping was delayed by two minutes, and it was changed to "9:20".
In fact, Liu Zhensan's garrison in Langfang was ordered by Song Zheyuan to prevent the Japanese army from transporting troops to Beiping by railway, and second, to destroy the railway and highway at a critical moment. Before the war between the two sides, the Japanese army used sea transportation to transport the soldiers to the Haiguangsi barracks, and then transported them to Beiping by train. The Chinese army stationed in Langfang did not allow it to pass, and said that if it was forced to pass, it must be fought!
However, Chen Juesheng said that according to the "Xinchou Treaty", the Japanese should be allowed to transport troops. Liu Zhensan asked Chen Juesheng rhetorically: "Under what treaty did the Japanese occupy the three northeastern provinces?" ”
Because the Japanese army was not ready, they were afraid of fighting in Langfang first, so they did not transport troops through the Bac Ninh Railway before the start of the war. History