Why is September 18th also called Wicker Lake Incident?
The "September 18th Incident" was a war of aggression against China deliberately created and launched by Japan in the northeast of China, and it was the beginning of Japanese imperialist aggression against China.
After the "September 18th Incident", the Japanese army invaded Shenyang and successively occupied the three northeastern provinces. 1February 932, the whole northeast fell. From then on, the Japanese established the puppet regime of Manchukuo in the northeast of China, and began to enslave and colonize the northeast people for 14 years.
The "September 18th Incident" was the inevitable result of Japanese imperialism's long-term policy of aggression and expansion against China, and it was also an important step to turn China into its exclusive colony. At the same time, it marked the beginning of the world anti-fascist war and kicked off the eastern battlefield of World War II.
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1931September 18 In the evening, Company 3, Battalion 2 of the Japanese Kwantung Army Hushitai Independent Garrison left Hushitai Barracks and headed south along the Nanman Railway. At about 22: 20 p.m., a team headed by Captain Kawamoto, captain of the Liutiaohu detachment of the Japanese Kwantung Army Railway Guard, detonated small explosives in the southern section of Liutiaohu Railway, which is 7.5 kilometers north of Fengtian (now Shenyang) and 800 meters away from Beidaying, where the Northeast Army is stationed, and blew up a short section of the railway.
And put the bodies of three China people dressed as soldiers of the Northeast Army on the scene as evidence that the Northeast Army destroyed the railway, falsely claiming that the China army destroyed the railway and attacked the Japanese defense team. This incident is called "September 18th Incident". Because the northeast of China was called Manchuria at that time, the Japanese called this incident "Manchuria Incident". ?
At the same time of the explosion, Chuan Dao's squadron leader, who stayed in the civil servant village about four kilometers north of the railway explosion point, led his troops south and began to attack Beidaying. After the explosion, Japanese soldiers stationed in China Beidaying and Shenyang City were divided into two roads, north and south, and attacked China Beidaying.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-September 18th Incident