1931September 18 On the night, the Japanese Kwantung Army blew up a section of the Nanman Railway near Liutiao Lake, about 800 meters south of Shenyang Beidaying, claiming that China troops had destroyed the railway.

The Second Brigade of the Japanese Independent Guard launched an attack on Peking University Camp, where the Northeast Army stationed in China. The next day, the Japanese army occupied Peking University Camp. This is the "September 18th Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries.

The Northeast Army stationed in the Northeast accepted Chiang Kai-shek's instructions not to resist. In the face of the sudden attack of the Japanese army, except for a few spontaneous heroic resistance, all the others retreated without a fight.

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Wicker Lake is not a lake but a village name, covering an area of nearly 8 square kilometers. Most of them are swamps with willow forests, and there are a few vegetable fields and crops, and there are about 20 households scattered around.

Beidaying is about 5 kilometers away from the old city of Shenyang. It used to be a big barracks of the Northeast Army in the Zhang period, with more than 10,000 soldiers. The whole camp is square, two kilometers long, surrounded by mud and deep trenches.

The Japanese army carefully chose the place where the September 18th Incident happened, because Liutiao Lake and Beidaying are the military important places in the northeast, and because the geographical position and terrain here are convenient for the Japanese army to find excuses for the incident and launch it easily. Beidaying is 5 kilometers away from downtown Shenyang, 500 meters away from Liutiaohu Village and only 300 meters away from the nearest Nanman Railway.

According to Tiamatot, one of the three key figures of the Japanese army who participated in the planning of the wicker lake incident, he described in the document Showa History:

18 night, the moon is almost semi-circular, and the sorghum field is dark; The stars are scattered, and the sky is falling. Kawamoto, the captain of Chuan Dao Squadron of Shimamoto Brigade, led several people to Liutiaogou in the name of inspecting the railway line.

While observing the barracks of Beidaying from the side, he chose a position about 800 meters south of the barracks. He Ben personally put the small explosives used by cavalry under the railway tracks and lit the fire. Time has passed 10, and the rails and sleepers were blown away with a bang.

After the war, the judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East has also clearly determined that the wicker lake incident was "planned by the Japanese." ?

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