Due to the very important geographical location of this place, both China and Japan have sent troops here, which can be said to be seen without looking up, and the relationship between the two countries is very tense, and the soldiers often fight with weapons, so they almost go off the rails.

The day of the fire is today. That night, while the Japanese were conducting exercises, a soldier named Kikujiro Shimura disappeared from Setsuro Shimizu's troops. Next, according to Setsuro Shimizu, he "felt" that bullets were coming from the direction of the Chinese garrison, and he also saw the flashlights in the hands of the Chinese defenders at the head of Wanping Castle shaking incessantly, as if to release some kind of signal. Of course, this is all an excuse he made after the fact.

Setsuro Shimizu immediately sent a herald to Toyodai to report to his captain Kiyonao Ichiki, but as soon as the herald left, the missing soldier Kikujiro Shimura returned.

Here is a brief introduction to the protagonist of this incident, Kikujiro Shimura, who is from Akita Prefecture, Japan, once worked in a newspaper, and his biggest dream was to become a writer. No one can say where he went that night, some said he had diarrhea, some said he had a faint, but no matter where he went, he changed the course of the Sino-Japanese war tonight.

We must know that the Japanese plot to invade China has been planned for a long time, even if there is no missing soldier, they will find other excuses, but it is just a matter of time, but the disappearance of this soldier has made this day come early.

This Japanese soldier named Shimura Kikujiro was recalled to China after the incident, and later in 1944, when the Japanese army was tight, he was sent to Burma, and was killed in the jungle by Sun Liren's department or the British ** team.

The disappearance of a soldier is not a trivial matter in any army, and the captain of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Wing, Ichiki Kiyoshi, directly reported to his superiors while leading the team to the place of the incident.

His superior was the commander of the 1st Wing, Mutaguchi Ryoya, because the commander of the Japanese Infantry Brigade of the Tun Army, Major General Shozo Kawabe, was not in Beiping at this time, so the highest commander of the Japanese army at that time was the Wing Commander of the 1st Wing of the Infantry Brigade Mutaguchi Ryoya.

After receiving the report from his subordinates, Mutaguchi immediately called Matsui Kutaro, the head of the Japanese secret service in Beiping, asking him to immediately negotiate with the squadron and ask the squadron to allow Japan to enter Wanping City to search. It was already midnight when Murataguchi Ryoya called, and the exact time should have been 0:20 a.m. on July 8. However, because this series of events was caused by the disappearance of Japanese soldiers on 7 July, the historical circles collectively refer to this major event that changed Chinese history as the "77 Incident." ”

At the same time, Mutaguchi also immediately reported to his superior, the Chinese garrison headquarters stationed at Haiguang Temple in Tianjin. Because Tashiro, the commander of the Japanese Chinese garrison, was hospitalized, their chief of staff, Hashimoto Group, presided over the affairs of the headquarters.

After receiving the report, the Hashimoto group immediately convened an emergency military meeting to discuss the next steps. At the meeting, Hashimoto's subordinates, staff officers and Chitaka II proposed a tough policy toward China, which was adopted.

Subsequently, on the one hand, Hashimoto ordered Major General Shozo Kawabe, the commander of the infantry brigade of the Chinese garrison army in Qinhuangdao, to immediately rush back to Beiping to preside over the overall situation, and on the other hand, urgently sent reinforcements to Beiping City.

At the highest-level meeting of the Japanese army invading China, the Japanese set the goal of "disarming the squadron east of the Yongding River." ”

However, it was said that under Wanping City, Shimizu Setsuro's top boss, the captain of the third brigade of the first wing, Ichiki Kiyonao, had brought people to Wulidian to join him.

This captain of the Ichiki Kiyonao Brigade was bent on establishing immortal miracles, and he probably regarded himself as Ishihara Waner at the time of the 918 Incident, so after coming to Wulidian, he asked his subordinate Shimizu Setsuro to immediately send troops to occupy Ichimon Mountain in the east of Wanping City.

However, Setsuro Shimizu poured cold water on his immediate boss at this time, telling him that the missing soldiers had returned to the team, and the Japanese seemed to have no reason to continue the attack.

However, Ichiki Kiyoshi did not intend to withdraw his troops just now, the purpose of his coming here was to make things bigger, and then fish in troubled waters, how could he just withdraw his troops? If there is no reason, make up a reason.

As a result, on the grounds that the so-called Japanese troops had suffered "illegal shooting" from the squadron during the exercise, Ichiki Kiyoshi demanded that the squadron withdraw from Wanping City and retreat to the line of Changxindian, west of the Yongding River.

At this time, guarding Wanping City was the 3rd Battalion of the 219th Regiment of the 110th Brigade of the 37th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and the battalion commander was named Jin Zhenzhong. Although this battalion is a battalion-level unit, it is a reinforced battalion, and its strength is about the same as that of a regiment. The battalion commander, Kim Jin-jung, sternly rejected the unreasonable demands of the Japanese.

At five o'clock in the morning of 8 July, the embarrassed and angry Japanese troops launched an artillery bombardment on Wanping City. All the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion bravely fought back under the leadership of battalion commander Kim Jin-chung. Since then, China and Japan have officially opened fire.

After the incident, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui urgently summoned the Japanese ambassador to China to protest. Chairman Chiang, who was in the officer training regiment of the Lushan Office, was also taken aback, and immediately sent troops to North China, and transferred all the generals under his command, such as Sun Lianzhong and Tang Enbo, to the direction of North China.

However, at this time, Chairman Chiang was still unclear about the Japanese intentions, and did not know whether the other side was just provoking to get some advantage or sending troops to invade China. As he wrote in his diary on July 8, "He will take advantage of the fact that my preparations are not yet complete, and force me to submit? ”

After the incident broke out, the high-level officials of China and Japan began to negotiate, and in Wanping City, the officials of the two sides in charge of negotiations were not idle, and the two sides were fighting and talking.

After receiving a telephone call from Yoshiya Mutaguchi, Kutaro Matsui, director of Japan's Peiping secret service, immediately lodged "representations" with the Chinese side. China sent Wang Lengzhai, magistrate of Wanping County, to the headquarters of Japan's Beiping secret service to negotiate with Kutaro Matsui.

As soon as the two met, Matsui Kutaro said aggressively: "The Imperial Army soldiers are missing, and County Magistrate Wang must know the seriousness of the matter. When the Imperial Army soldiers went missing, the Shimizu Squadron we were exercising may have been attacked from behind by your squadron, and you must be responsible for the disappearance of the soldiers. ”

Wang Lengzhai was unceremonious, and immediately retorted-for-tat: "Your drill is in the middle of the night, and the gate of Wanping City has long been closed, will your soldiers still not be able to fly?" What you said may have been attacked by the squadron, what is the concept of 'maybe', I'm afraid you can imagine it. Moreover, we have investigated clearly, the defenders did not shoot, and there were no missing soldiers in the city. ”

Japanese adviser Tokutaro Sakurai said: "County Magistrate Wang, you don't seem to realize the seriousness of this matter. ”

Wang Lengzhai sneered and said, "It's the opposite. ”

The Japanese were puzzled and asked, "Would you like to hear about it?" ”

Wang Lengzhai said unhurriedly: "Recently, your army has been surrounding our Wanping exercises, part of the day and night, isn't this serious? If our army were to go to Tokyo and do this, you wouldn't have agreed to it. "Japanese spy nemesis