The Zhanggufeng Incident (1July 30, 938-August 65438 1 1) was a short-lived military conflict that took place at the junction of Japanese-occupied Manchukuo (northeast China) and Hasan County in the Far East Primorsky Krai of the Soviet Union, and lasted only about 10 days. At dawn on July 30th, 1938, the Japanese (Korean) Army 19 Division began to advance, and an infantry battalion occupied Zhang Gufeng. On July 3 1 day, another Japanese infantry battalion occupied the sand grass peak. On August 2, the Soviet Union began its first counterattack. On August 6th, the Soviet Union launched a second wave of counter-attack on a larger scale with two divisions. Then the Japanese army was repelled after a five-day offensive. On August 1938, 10, Japan proposed an armistice peace agreement to the Soviet Union. On August 1 1, the two sides formally ceased fighting and the incident ended.

Historical background

After the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army has always regarded Russia as an imaginary enemy country. 1938 At the end of June, the Soviet Union suddenly occupied Zhang Gufeng, built fortifications and laid barbed wire on the mountain. The Japanese who classified northeast China as a puppet "Manchukuo" and North Korea as their own colony believed that the Soviet occupation of Zhang Gufeng was equivalent to having a strategic position to control North Korea and northeast China. However, because the Japanese army is preparing to attack Wuhan, it is difficult to have a large-scale conflict with the Soviet army because of the frequent mobilization of Japanese troops from all walks of life. The base camp had to order the Japanese Kwantung Army to enter the first-class combat readiness state, and at the same time, the cabinet instructed the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, Shigemitsu Mamoru, to mediate with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union made it clear that it was impossible to withdraw its troops from Zhang Gufeng. Shigemitsu Mamoru's diplomatic mediation reached a deadlock. The Japanese base camp is determined to recapture Zhang Gufeng. In order to avoid the further expansion of the situation and lead the war to the northeast, thus affecting the decisive battle with the south Korean army in Central China, the base camp ordered the Japanese troops in China to complete this task.

Final results

On August 1938, 10, Japan proposed an armistice peace agreement to the Soviet Union.

1August 938 1 1, both sides have no intention of expanding the war. The Japanese side intends to explore that the main focus of the war is still on the battlefield of aggression against China, while the Soviet side only defends itself, threatens and shows its strength, and has no intention of aggression. So the two sides formally stopped fighting through the negotiations of diplomats, and the incident ended.

Historical influence

This incident did not get much attention from the west, and Japan, which launched aggression in Asia, did not count this incident in World War II. However, the war losses of the Soviet Union in this campaign are of great significance, because the Japanese army considered the Soviet Union weak from the results of its engagement with the Soviet Union (28 Soviet troops were injured, 1 Japanese soldiers were injured in the bayonet battle). Please refer to the Battle of Nomenham (65,438+0939) the following year for the resumption of fighting. The heavy losses of Soviet troops made Stalin very angry with Marshal Brewer, who was later arrested and executed. It is said that he was tortured to death.