1On the night of July 7th, 937, when the Japanese army was exercising near Lugou Bridge in the southwest of Beiping, they asked to enter Wanping County for a search on the pretext that a soldier was "missing", but 29 army, the defender of China, refused. The Japanese army then shot at the defenders of China and shelled the ancient city of Wanping. The 29th Army rose up against Japan. This is the July 7th Incident that shocked China and foreign countries, also known as the Lugouqiao Incident.
The July 7th Incident was the beginning of Japanese imperialism's full-scale war of aggression against China and the starting point of the Chinese nation's full-scale war of resistance.
Causes and extended data of Lugouqiao Incident;
1936, the Japanese troops stationed in North China occupied Fengtai by despicable means and set the next target at Lugouqiao.
On the eve of the July 7th Incident, the north, east and south of Beiping were controlled by the Japanese army: the north was part of the Kwantung Army deployed in Jehol and Chadong; There are about 40 thousand people in 8 divisions of the puppet Mongolian army controlled by the Kwantung Army in the northwest; To the east is the pseudo "Jidong Defence Autonomous Government" and its pseudo-security team of about17,000 people. To the south, the Japanese army has occupied Fengtai, forcing China troops to retreat.
In this way, Lugou Bridge has become the only channel for Beiping to open to the outside world, and its strategic position is even more important. In order to occupy this strategic place, cut off the traffic between Beiping and the south, and then control the authorities of Hebei Province, so that North China can be completely separated from the central government of China, the Japanese army has been conducting provocative military exercises near Lugouqiao, and a storm is coming.
Baidu Encyclopedia-July 7th Incident