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september 18th incident monument

93 years ago today, japan launched the september 18th incident and invaded our three northeastern provinces, marking the beginning of the anti-japanese war. long before the incident, the ccp deployed intelligence forces to closely monitor the actions of the japanese army and gave early warning of the september 18th incident. based on the intelligence, the chinese communist party accurately grasped the japanese invasion trends and took the lead in raising the banner of armed resistance against japan.

red agents open up a battlefield against japan

japan had been planning to invade china for a long time. after the russo-japanese war, japan forcibly designated the southern part of northeast china as its sphere of influence, and exercised comprehensive political, military control and economic plunder in northeast china. faced with japan's aggression, the beiyang government and the nationalist government were helpless and allowed japan to press forward step by step. in response, the central committee of the communist party of china instructed the secret front to send important forces to northeast china to strengthen the local intelligence work and underground struggle against japan.

former site of northeast army military academy

at the end of 1928, the central special branch, the intelligence and security department of the party central committee, sent cai boxiang (shao fumin) from shanghai to shenyang to develop intelligence and security work against japan in northeast china. after cai boxiang arrived in northeast china in 1929, he led zhao weigang and others to establish a group of important intelligence forces with extensive social connections in the upper class of shenyang, focusing on intelligence collection against the aggressive activities of the japanese army and secret agencies. in 1930, cai boxiang took advantage of his expertise in medicine and founded the shoushan hospital, a cover base for secret work. as a doctor, he made extensive friends with the military and political leaders in northeast china and learned a lot of new information.

intelligent use of the "central bureau" to conduct investigations on the japanese army

in 1930, the warlords of the kuomintang factions fought for power. the northeast army was waiting for a price and waiting for an opportunity to move, which made chiang kai-shek "very worried". chiang ordered xu enzeng, the head of the kuomintang party affairs investigation section (the predecessor of the central bureau of investigation), to conduct a secret investigation of the northeast army. xu enzeng sent qian zhuangfei and hu di (the two were actually intelligence officers of the central special branch) to undertake this work. after the central committee of the communist party of china learned of this, it decided to take advantage of this opportunity and sent chen geng, the chief of the central special branch intelligence section, to the northeast with qian zhuangfei and hu di. in name, they were investigating the situation of the northeast army for the kuomintang party affairs investigation section, but in fact they were conducting a comprehensive investigation of the japanese army's conspiracy to invade china.

chen geng, then head of the central special branch intelligence section

in shenyang at that time, japan had established a huge army, police, military police and secret service system, with spies everywhere. especially in the area around the railway station, adjacent to the japanese residential area, the security was even stricter, and the tracking and interrogation of foreign population was extremely detailed. with the assistance and cover of the local underground party, chen geng conducted an investigation of the japanese military in the northeast. with the cover of the kmt secret service documents, they not only obtained a large amount of important confidential information about the northeast and north china, but also mastered the dynamics of the japanese army in the northeast in detail, and successfully completed the task of the party central committee.

sounding the alarm: "the japanese are about to take action"

on the eve of the september 18th incident in 1931, our underground party discovered during reconnaissance at the nanman railway station in shenyang that the japanese had expanded warehouses, built many temporary military tents around the station, dug a large number of bunkers, used wooden boards instead of barbed wire to cover the training grounds, and heard the movement of the japanese army conducting large-scale exercises inside. in order to further verify the dynamics of the japanese army, they went to siping, jilin, and found similar phenomena. the number of japanese sentries beside the railway and water tower continued to increase. intelligence obtained from the enemy also showed that japan was planning a major military operation. the underground party immediately reported to the superiors: "the japanese are going to take action!" this intelligence warned the september 18th incident one month in advance. the central committee of the communist party of china, which learned of the situation, made relevant policy preparations and combat preparations in a timely manner. at the same time, our underground party reported the situation to zang shiyi, the then chairman of the liaoning provincial government, through various channels. however, chiang kai-shek was busy with internal warlord melee and "encirclement and suppression" of the red army. he adopted a compromising policy towards japan, demanding that the northeast authorities "not resist" and watched the japanese conspiracy succeed.

after the outbreak of the september 18th incident, the communist party of china immediately called on and led patriotic soldiers and civilians to wage a resolute struggle against the japanese invaders. on the one hand, it established anti-japanese armed forces in the northeast and launched local resistance; on the other hand, it widely established underground party organizations in the occupied areas and fought against japan in hidden battlefields, becoming the backbone of the northeast's anti-japanese war.