4hw.com.cn: July 7, 2018 is the 81st anniversary of the July 7 Incident. Every year today, we will recall that unforgettable history and understand how hard our peace has come. Let's learn about the July 7 Incident.
Brief introduction to the July 7th incident
The July 7th incident, an important battle in the Japanese War of aggression against China, got its name because it took place on July 7, 1937. It took place in Wanping county and Lugouqiao in Beiping city at that time, also known as Lugouqiao Incident. In the July 7th incident, Tianjin and Wanping were occupied because the 29th army of the Chinese garrison refused the Japanese garrison to enter Wanping City to search for the missing Japanese soldiers. In history, the July 7th incident was defined as the beginning of the all-round invasion of China by Japanese imperialism and the beginning of the all-round Anti Japanese War of the Chinese nation.
In order to occupy China, the Japanese army launched a comprehensive war of aggression against China. Since June 1937, the Japanese troops in Fengtai have held military exercises continuously. On the night of July 7, 1937, the Japanese garrison of Lugouqiao held the so-called military exercise near the Chinese garrison position without informing the local authorities of China. It said that a Japanese soldier disappeared during the exercise and asked to enter Wanping county (now Lugouqiao town) southwest of Beiping for search.
The Chinese garrison rejected the request. The Japanese opened fire on the Lugouqiao area and attacked the Chinese garrison in the city. The 219 regiment of the 37th division of the 29th army of the Chinese garrison returned fire. This opened the prelude to China's all-round Anti Japanese war. After the Japanese occupation of Northeast China in 1931, in order to further launch a comprehensive war, they successively sent troops to the customs. By 1936, the Japanese and puppet forces had surrounded Peiping (now Beijing) from the East, West and North.
The Chinese garrison and Japanese troops fought fiercely at Lugouqiao, and Japan sent a large number of reinforcements to attack Tianjin and Beijing. Tong linge, deputy commander of the 29th army, Zhao Dengyu, commander of the 132nd division, died successively in the war. In July, Tianjin fell.
On the morning of July 8, Japanese troops surrounded Wanping county and attacked the Chinese garrison at Lugouqiao. The 29th officer of the Chinese national revolutionary army fought back. Shen Zhongming, the platoon leader, went to the front to command the battle and died. A company stationed in the north of Lugou bridge has only four lives left, and the rest have all died bravely.
The influence of the July 7th incident on China
1. After the July 7th incident, the whole country united to launch the Anti Japanese War
The Lugouqiao Incident is a turning point from the confrontation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to the national calamity. Only two months and 15 days after the incident, the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party with unity and resistance as the core content was fully formed. Since then, for eight years, the armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have made immortal contributions to the liberation of the Chinese nation, with the front battlefield and the rear battlefield as the main body.
Pingjin is in danger, North China is in danger, and the Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous moment. The gunfire of Lugouqiao became the clarion call of the general mobilization of the Chinese nation. The whole Chinese people, regardless of party, class, nationality, religion, occupation, gender and age, have consciously participated in the flood of Anti Japanese and national salvation.
The first Anti Japanese beacon lit between the White Mountains and the black waters immediately spread all over the Great Wall, North and south of the river, both sides of the Yellow River, and the whole land of China is full of Anti Japanese anger, forming an unprecedented grand situation of unity, resistance and aggression in the history of the Chinese nation.
2. After the July 7th incident, the whole nation made every effort to support the Anti Japanese War
In the eight years of Anti Japanese War, the working class in the rear area braved air strikes to adhere to production and support the front line, showing a high sense of responsibility and ownership. The contribution of the peasants to the Anti Japanese war is moving. The soldiers of the bloody battlefield mainly came from the peasants. The continuous supply of troops mainly comes from farmers. The peasants supported the development of the Anti Japanese base areas with hard production and coordinated operations, and supported the consolidation of the rear area with thrift and hunger.
Before the war, intellectuals and young students were the pioneers of the Anti Japanese national salvation movement. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, when the motherland called and the situation required, they did not hesitate to join the army and rushed to the battlefield. During the Anti Japanese War, because of the enemy's current situation, Chinese capitalists and landlords also responded to the call of the government for money and strength, and offered themselves to serve the country by increasing production and agreeing to reduce rent and interest rates respectively.
3. After the July 7th incident, China's major parties cancelled the anti Jiang program and unanimously supported the National Government
On July 10, 1937, the third party put forward eight proposals to the national government for unity in resisting aggression and resisting Japan and saving the nation. In October, Li Jishen and Chen Mingshu automatically dissolved the Chinese National Revolutionary Alliance to express their "support for the government" and "enhance national unity".
In April 1938, Zhang Junmai, the leader of the National Socialist Party, and Zuo Shunsheng, the leader of the youth party, wrote to Chiang Kai-shek successively, saying that "the survival of the nation today is urgent, and there is no way to rise from the dead to the living except for the unity of all people and the support of the national government.". In addition to supporting the government's fight against Japan, the various intermediate parties have also carried out a series of fruitful work in the fields of founding newspapers and magazines, carrying out Anti Japanese propaganda, and supporting the Anti Japanese war.
4. After the July 7th incident, the ethnic minorities and overseas Chinese went out to help the Anti Japanese War
Ethnic minority compatriots share the same fate with Han compatriots. After the Lugouqiao Incident broke out, in addition to the Manchus and Koreans who had been fighting in the northeast, Hui, Dai, Zhuang, Gaoshan, Shui, Miao and other ethnic minorities also stepped into the battlefield of Anti Japanese salvation.
According to statistics, in the eight years of Anti Japanese War, nearly 40 ethnic minorities directly participated in the armed operations against Japan. Although overseas Chinese live in a foreign country, they always share the same fate with the people of their motherland.
After the Lugouqiao Incident broke out, overseas Chinese from all over the world organized to support the cause of the Anti Japanese War of the motherland. In addition to the donation of money and goods, the majority of overseas Chinese also shouted a strong slogan. Many people gave up their superior living conditions, and the enthusiastic young people ended their studies, returned to the motherland thousands of miles away, and directly participated in the sacred cause of Anti Japanese war in the motherland.
5. Foreigners say the July 7th incident was a time when China was more united than ever in history
Half a year ago, both of them took part in the "Guangdong and Guangxi incident" against the Nanjing government and fought against Chiang Kai Shek's forces. Now when they talk to the British, they say that an aggressod country has no right to bargain and must resist the Japanese at all costs.
"A year and a half ago, China was threatened by another massive civil war. Now, several British people traveling feel that the country is more united than ever before. For the first time, public opinion is gathering in China. This is the impression of China in the war on the West nearly two months after the July 7th incident.