Apocalypse World War 2: The Mukden Incident, a country that invaded for reasons of self-defense has... See More
Apocalypse World War 2: The Mukden Incident, a country that invaded for reasons of self-defense has been around for a long time!
What is written in history about the occurrence of the second world war may be very familiar with September 1, 1939, when millions of Nazi German troops invaded Poland, but if we refer to the Asian front where the war took place, the actual conflict was very far from that date, but the right start to mark is the second Sino-Japanese war on July 7, 1937 with several incidents that started it, such as the Mukden incident.
We can probably see the picture of the Mukden incident to this day where a country invaded under the pretext of simply wanting to defend itself, but the incident in Mukden on September 18 1931 was very controversial because what has been described up to now was that this action occurred due to the attitude of Japanese subordinate soldiers and middle officers who were known to be very temperamental and always wanted the best for the sake of the country and its unity, one example of how when there were rumors that Emperor Hirohito wanted to announce his surrender in 1945, several Japanese officers in Tokyo immediately became furious and tried to coup the emperor. themselves.
This incident was the earliest of several incidents before the outbreak of full-scale war in 1937, starting from the increasing strength of Japan in occupying Korea and Manchuria after winning the war against Russia until it had the power to supervise and take resources from the region, one of which was managing and guarding the railway line there with a company that had lease rights, namely the South Manchuria Railway railway company, a branch of the China Far East Railway. China.
Coupled with the short victory of the Soviet Union in 1929 over Zhang Xueiliang's troops, the Japanese officers further opened the curtain on how strong the Chinese army was at that time. The Kwantung soldiers saw on one hand the danger that sooner or later they would be attacked by the increasing strength of the Red Army, while on the other hand they saw a huge potential that they had to take as quickly as possible before the Red Army took any further action.
Several Japanese officers, one of whom was Colonel Itagaki, wanted to immediately launch an invasion of Manchuria by first using propaganda incidents because he realized that the Chinese would not respond to the provocation so they had to make it themselves. With careful planning, the officer chose to sabotage the railroad tracks near Lake Liutiao about 800 meters from the Chinese garrison of Beidayin.
It was very appropriate and convincing because if the explosion was heard, of course the Chinese soldiers would come out to investigate so that they could be accused of being the cause of the attack on the railway line, and that was the perfect time for the Japanese army to have an excuse with its strength to protect this very vital railway line.
The plan was (probably) executed by first lieutenant Suemori Komoto of the 29th regiment at 22:20 on 18 September 1931 which placed the bomb so far from the tracks that it had so little impact that a train could still pass along the track the next day.
A day later, September 19, with the excuse of responding to the incident carried out by the Chinese army, 500 Japanese troops immediately crossed the border and attacked Zhang Xueliang's garrison which was guarded by 7 thousand personnel, but this number was no match for the Japanese soldiers who were full of experience until in the afternoon the battle was over and Mukden was controlled by the Japanese army through fierce fighting which cost the lives of 500 Chinese soldiers and only 2 soldiers on the Japanese side died.
Maybe this tragedy can be a reference, even though warlords from various countries also know that war can happen at any time, this tragedy indicates the very need for a country to have a strong army and continue to strengthen their armed forces to such a strong level in order to minimize the very serious destruction caused by a lack of self-awareness in facing various threats!
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