Jinzhou:::On January 3, 1933, the Japanese Kwantung Army invaded and occupied Jinzhou, and the Chinese troops withdrew to Qinnei. So far, the entire territory of the three northeastern provinces has fallen.

On December 29, 1932, the 3rd Light Bombing Squadron of the Japanese Kwantung Army Flying Group bombed Panshan. On the 30th, the 1st and 10th Combat Squadrons attacked and bombed armored trains near Dahushan and Goubangzi. As a result of the 10th squadron flying low, the 1 "Bautez" aircraft crashed due to a small arms hit by the ground forces of the Northeast Army, and two pilots were killed. On 30 December, enemy reconnaissance planes discovered that the Northeast Army near Goubangzi had begun to withdraw westward, but there were still troops fortified near the Daling River Iron Bridge; Jinzhou station is relatively chaotic, and quite a number of trains have been formed in the station, some of which have already moved westward.

On 31 December, the Kwantung Army Flying Team successively dispatched 10 reconnaissance planes to conduct a more thorough reconnaissance of the vicinity of Jinzhou, and found that there were no defenders in the fortification groups on both sides of the Daling River. No large troops or newly constructed field fortifications were found in or near Jinzhou City; The uncovered train composed of Jinzhou Station is full of people. Based on several days of aerial reconnaissance and the report that military trains were going west in the direction of Shanhaiguan, the Kwantung Army Headquarters believed that the Northeast Army would take the initiative to withdraw from Jinzhou. Therefore, Honzhuang Fan ordered the 20th Division and the 28th Brigade to immediately burst out from Shenyang by train to Goubangzi, and gather troops in the area of Shishan Town and Xie Tun in the southwest of Goubangzi.

On January 1, 1933, aerial reconnaissance confirmed that the Northeast Army had made a large-scale retreat from Jinzhou to the west. So Honjo ordered the 20th Division to capture Jinzhou, and the 2nd Division to assemble near Goubangzi to make the necessary countermeasures, and prepare to reinforce the 20th Division. After the 20th Division reached the outskirts of Jinzhou, the units entered the pre-divided siege area to prepare for the attack, and the artillery also entered the position according to the division of firepower. However, according to the reconnaissance reports dispatched, the Chinese defenders have not been found. In this way, the 20th Brigade of Tatsujiro Kamura of the 39th Division entered the city of Jinzhou without resistance at 10:40 a.m. on January 3, 1932. Mi Chunlin, who was acting chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Government at that time, had already led his organs to retreat to Luan County, Hebei Province. Subsequently, the Kwantung Army was divided into the 20th Division and the 20th Division of the Yongshan Division

Common name: Chao. Date of compilation: December 24, 1915. Place of formation: Yongsan. Supply Military Region: Gyeongseong (Seoul). Location at the time of surrender in World War II: Papua New Guinea. Surrender unit: 18th Army. Infantry Wing (when formed): 77th (Pyongyang), 78th (Yongsan), 79th (Yongsan), 80th (Daegu). The 78th (Yongsan), 79th (Yongsan), and 80th (Daegu) infantry wings (at the time of surrender) were formed in 1915 as a garrison in Korea, along with the 19th Division.

and the mixed 8th Brigade attached to the division

The 8th Reconnaissance Squadron and other units were stationed in Jinzhou to serve as guards in the direction of Shanhaiguan and Rehe. The 2nd Division returned to Liaoyang

Infantry Wing (when formed): 4th (Sendai),

No. 16 (Shinhata), No. 29 (Aizu Wakamatsu), No. 30 (Takada). 13Jiro Tamon (December 22, 1930 ---- August 1, 1933)

14 Minoru Higashikure (August 1, 1933 ---- August 1, 1934)

15 Qin Zhenji (August 1, 1934 ---- August 1, 1935)

The 2nd Division landed at Canton Bay in 1943

Division Commander 16 Umezu Yoshijiro (August 1, 1935 ----March 23, 1936)

17 Ninji Okamura (March 23, 1936 ---- June 23, 1938)

18 Toji Yasui (June 23, 1938 ----November 6, 1939)

19 Sadaichi Yoshimoto (November 6, 1939 ---- April 10, 1941)

20 Masayo Maruyama (April 10, 1941 ---- June 10, 1943)

21 Kiyozaburo Okazaki (June 10, 1943 ----March 1, 1945)

22 Keishinobu Manamu (March 1, 1945 ----August 15, 1945)

Yingkou Garrison: (no information)

At the time of 9.18, the number of the Kwantung Army was not more than 10,000 (some sources say that there were only 10,300 people on September 18), but as the Northeast became the base of Japan's invasion of China, more and more Japanese troops were transferred to the Northeast, and in 1931 the Kwantung Army had only 3 divisions, and in 1932 it reached 6.

From 1933 to 1936, the strength of 5 divisions and regiments was maintained, with 100,000 men

In 1937 there were seven, in 1938 nine in 1938, in 1939 there were 11 and in 1940 there were 12. The strength of the Japanese army at that time in 1937 should have been more than 200,000.

In 1941, the Kwantung Army did reach 850,000 men, and it was first-class in terms of personnel and equipment, but with the outbreak of the Pacific War, many of these troops were transferred, and in 1945 it was no longer able to resist the Soviet attack. Although it claimed to be 750,000 in terms of numbers, most of the troops were poorly equipped and of much worse quality, and it was natural that they could not resist the Soviet attack.

The following is quoted from Wikipedia:

commander

Koichiro Tachibana (1919~1921)

Kawai Gym (1921~1922)

Ono Minobu (1922~1923)

Yoshinori Shirakawa (1923~1926)

Nobuyoshi Muto (1926~1927)

*Muraoka Chotaro (1927~1929) - Huanggutun Incident

Eitaro Hata (1929~1930)

*Ryokari Takashi (1930~1931) - 918 Incident

Shigeru Honjo (1931~1932)

Nobuyoshi Muto (1932~1933)

Takashi Hishikari (1933~1934)

Minamijiro (1934~1936)

Kenkichi Ueda (1936~1939)

Umezu Yoshijiro (1939~1944)

*Yamada Otozo (1944~1945) - Commander-in-Chief at the end of the war, later imprisoned by the Soviet Red Army.

On May 6, 1930, the Sino-Japanese Tariff Agreement was signed. Under the agreement, Japan still enjoys preferential country treatment; The Nationalist Government of China has been granted tariff autonomy, but it has also stipulated that 110 imported Japanese goods will not be taxed for the time being.

In February 1931, Japan established a consulate in Zhengzhou.

At the beginning of July 1931, the Japanese created the Wanbaoshan Massacre. In the Wanbaoshan area of Changchun County, Japanese troops forced North Korean expatriates to dig up fertile fields to divert water to build dams, and shot and arrested local farmers.

On September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army blew up the "South Manchurian" railway at Liutiao Lake on the outskirts of Shenyang, falsely accusing the Chinese army of doing it, and brazenly launched an attack on the nearby Beidaying and Shenyang City, creating the "September 18" incident. Due to Chiang Kai-shek's policy of non-resistance, he ordered the Northeast Army to "absolutely not resist" and withdrew to Shanhaiguan. On the 19th, the Japanese army invaded Shenyang. Chiang Kai-shek's policy of non-resistance made the Japanese army even more successful, and quickly attacked the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. By January 1932, the entire Northeast had fallen.

On January 28, 1932, the Japanese army provoked the "January 28" Incident (also known as the Shanghai Incident) in Shanghai. On the night of the 28th, the Japanese army launched an attack on Zhabei in Shanghai. The Chinese 19th Route Army stationed in Shanghai fought back and began the Songhu War of Resistance. The Japanese army suffered a heavy blow, with more than 10,000 casualties and four commanders. Due to the Nanjing Nationalist Government's insistence on the policy of non-resistance, the Songhu War of Resistance was destroyed. In early March, the Japanese army landed at the Liuhe River in Taicang, and the 19th Route Army was forced to evacuate. On March 24, with the intervention of the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and other countries, Japan and the Chinese Nationalist Government began armistice negotiations in Shanghai. On May 5, the two sides signed the Shanghai Armistice Agreement (also known as the Songhu Armistice Agreement) in Shanghai. The agreement stipulated that Shanghai was a "demilitarized zone," and that China was not allowed to station troops in the area from Shanghai to Anting, Kunshan, and Suzhou, while Japan could station "several" troops.

On March 9, 1932, the puppet regime created by Japan, the puppet state of Manchukuo, was proclaimed in Changchun. Pu Yi is "in power", and the year name is "Datong". On the 10th, Pu Yi sent a letter to the commander of the Kwantung Army, "entrusting" the Japanese army to maintain national defense and law and order, manage the railway, and hire Japanese advisers.

On March 13, 1932, Chiang Kai-shek issued a statement on the establishment of the puppet "Manchukuo", saying, "The establishment of the puppet state in the northeast was completely handled by the Japanese side. Although the government hated Pu Yi and others as puppets, if it crusaded, it would inevitably expand the war, and considering the results, it would not issue a crusade order for the time being" and continued to implement its policy of non-resistance.

On March 16, 1932, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Shigeru Honjo, declared that the "all decrees" of the puppet "Manchukuo" could only be implemented with the permission of the Japanese military headquarters and secret services stationed there.

In March 1933, Japan and the puppet Manchurian government signed a "contract for the appointment of management", handing over all the railways and all the property owned by the railways to the "Manchurian Railway".

In March 1933, after the Japanese army captured Rehe Province, they attacked all the mouths of the Great Wall on a large scale. The Northeast Army once resisted the Japanese army in the area of the Great Wall, and later because Chiang Kai-shek suppressed the anti-Japanese movement, the Japanese army drove into the Luanping area and approached Pingjin.

On May 31, 1933, the Nationalist Government of China and the Government of Japan signed the Tanggu Agreement. According to the agreement, the Chinese troops withdrew to the areas west and south of the line connecting Yanqing, Changping Gaoliying, Shunyi, Tongzhou (present-day Tongxian), Xianghe, Baoda Linting Town, and Ninghe Lutai, and demarcated the area north and east of the above-mentioned areas to the area along the Great Wall.

From July to October 1933, the Chinese Nationalist Government and Japan conspired to jointly "encircle and suppress" the anti-Japanese armed forces in Luandong and attack the anti-Japanese allied forces led by Fang Zhenwu and Ji Hongchang.

From October 8 to 24, 1933, in order to force the Chinese Nationalist Government to recognize "Manchukuo", Japan sent representatives to hold several talks with Chinese representatives in Beiping, Nanjing, and Tokyo. The Nationalist Government promised to establish transportation and postal links with the puppet Manchurians, and banned all anti-Japanese activities.

On December 11, 1933, four Japanese ships sailed into Majiang, Fujian, and cooperated with Chiang Kai-shek's army to occupy Xiamen and suppress the anti-Japanese People's Government of the Republic of China established by Li Jishen, Jiang Guangnai, and Cai Tingkai in Fujian.

On March 1, 1934, the puppet Manchu government and the Japanese government exchanged official documents on the implementation of the imperial government of the puppet Manchurians. On the same day, "Manchukuo" was renamed "Manchurian Empire", and Pu Yi was proclaimed emperor in Changchun, with the year name "Kant".

On April 17, 1934, Eiji Amaba, Minister of Intelligence of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issued an "unofficial statement" on its China policy in the form of a conversation with reporters, saying that Japan had a "special status" in China and would not allow other countries to take joint action against China. Maintaining the "East Asian peace order" is Japan's sole authority and does not require interference from other countries; If China uses a policy of razing and destroying Japan, Japan can only reject it, and if other countries secretly help China fight against Japan, Japan has no choice but to oppose it.

On October 21, 1934, Japan convened a meeting of the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, the Tibetan Minister, the Land Minister, and the Maritime Minister, and decided to adjust Japan-China relations and "realize mutual assistance and cooperation among Japan, Manchuria, and China," so that China would abandon its anti-Japanese policy and eradicate the anti-Japanese movement.

On January 22, 1935, Japanese Foreign Minister Hiroki Hirota delivered a speech at the Diet, saying that he would be "friendly" with China. Accordingly, the Japanese envoys to China met with Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek on 29 and 30 July. On February 22, Chiang Kai-shek issued a statement in which he believed that Hirota was "sincere" and said that he would "punish anti-Japanese acts as a sign of friendship." Subsequently, Wang Jingwei also expressed his willingness to settle the Sino-Japanese dispute by peaceful means, and sent Wang Chonghui to Japan for talks. On February 27, Chiang and Wang issued a joint directive strictly prohibiting anti-Japanese activities.

On May 17, 1935, the Nanjing Nationalist Government and the Japanese Government announced that the diplomatic relations between the two sides would be upgraded from the rank of minister to the rank of ambassador.

On May 29, 1935, Sakai, chief of staff of the Japanese Tianjin garrison, made representations to the Nationalist Government under the pretext that the Chinese Nationalist Government had aided Sun Yongqin's troops of the Volunteer Army, demanding that he have the actual control over North China, and at the same time send Japanese troops from the northeast to the customs to threaten with force.

On June 9, 1935, Umezu Mijiro, commander of the Japanese North China Garrison Army, formally submitted a memorandum to He Yingqin, acting chairman of the Beiping Branch of the Military Commission of the Chinese National Government, and the reply was limited to three days.

On July 6, 1935, after secret talks with the Japanese side, He Yingqin replied to Umejin expressing his acceptance of all conditions, commonly known as the "Ho-Mei Agreement". According to the agreement, most of China's sovereignty in Hebei and Chahar was lost, and the Chinese were prohibited from carrying out anti-Japanese activities.

From October to December 1935, Japan created the "North China Incident". On October 22, Japan instructed traitors to riot in Xianghe, Hebei Province, and occupied the county seat. On November 7, he instigated Song Zheyuan and others to carry out the "Autonomy Movement of the Five Provinces of North China". On November 25, he instigated Yin Rugeng and other traitors to establish a "self-government for the defense of the communists" in eastern Hebei in Tongzhou, announcing their separation from the Nanjing government. On December 18, the Nanjing Nationalist Government, in disregard of the opposition of the people of the whole country, instead assigned Song Zheyuan and others to set up a "Jicha Political Affairs Committee," with Song Zheyuan as chairman, in order to meet Japan's demand for "special political power in North China."