How did Hong Kong fall during the Anti-Japanese War?

As Hong Kong is a British colony, when the Japanese invaded Chinese mainland, they did not attack Hong Kong easily. As a result, people regarded Hong Kong as a paradise and moved to Hong Kong from the mainland, and the population of Hong Kong soared from 800,000 to 2 million.

1938 10 in October, the Japanese army occupied Guangzhou, and Hong Kong was in jeopardy. In order to defend Hong Kong, the British government specially transferred an army from Canada and organized a protection group to maintain order. Nevertheless, Hong Kong still lacks real security. The success of Hitler's Blitzkrieg made the European powers retreat one after another. 1940 On September 27th, Germany, Italy and Japan concluded a military treaty of secession in Berlin, which made Japan even more fearless.

194165438+February 8, sunny. As soon as Hong Kong residents got up, they heard someone shouting, "War is over!" It turned out that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the base of the American Pacific Fleet, and the Pacific War broke out. On the same day, the Japanese air force bombed Hong Kong and Kowloon, and the Japanese army also launched an attack on Hong Kong from Guangdong.

Knowing that Hong Kong was attacked, the National Government sent a plane to Hong Kong on the evening of February 8, 65438 to pick up the government personnel stationed in Hong Kong and relevant important people. The plane took off from Chongqing and 10 landed at Kai Tak Airport in Kowloon.

Due to the limited seats in the plane, there were a large number of people leaving Hong Kong by plane. Before the plane took off, the Executive Yuan determined a list of evacuees, which was finally examined and approved by Chiang Kai-shek, including the second daughter of Hu He, the director of Ta Kung Pao. The relevant personnel heard that the plane was coming to pick up the plane and flocked to the airport to board the plane. Fang Zhenwu, a well-informed general living in Kowloon and the New Territories, immediately went to Kai Tak Airport after hearing the news, but because he was not on the list, he was stopped by Kong Jia and refused to board the plane. Khan Chan, the former chairman of Guangdong Province, entered the cabin, panting, and was run over by Miss Kong Er's 17 foreign dog. Once in power, Chen is now alone and unarmed. She is naturally inferior to Miss Kong Er, who is fierce and spicy by nature. She can only look at the opportunity and sigh. The life-saving plane has almost become Miss Kong Er's special plane, and nannies, guards and countless household imports such as boxes, toilets and bathtubs have all been transported to Chongqing. Miss Kong Er's prestige caused a sensation in the mountain city, and satirical articles such as "people are not as good as dogs" appeared in various newspapers.

(Kong Lingyi)

The Hong Kong Garrison, plus Canadian and Indian troops, has only a few thousand people, and it lacks a safe base for air defense forces, and it is not backed by warships and aircraft carriers. The Canadian army is only 1500. When they first arrived in Hong Kong, they were born in two places. Indians look big, but they are very fragile. What's more, neither Canadians nor Indians are willing to sacrifice to defend Hong Kong.

Only the people of China, taking defending Hong Kong as their own duty, secretly organized a team of more than 200 teachers and soldiers, hoping to unite with the Hong Kong Garrison, help each other in the same boat and fight against the enemy together. However, the British rulers discriminated against and feared China people, made it difficult for teachers, soldiers and China workers in many ways, leaving Hong Kong compatriots with no choice. At that time, Fang Zhenwu and Weng Zhaoyuan, famous anti-Japanese soldiers, were both in Hong Kong, and they could only sigh that heroes were useless. They called on the China Air Force to try to transport China troops across the sea to fight in Hongkong, but they all went up in smoke. The gun of the reserve police was issued only when it was in danger, and it was too late to bite the navel.

As for teachers and soldiers, the Hong Kong government made an excuse: "They have no common sense of fighting and frontline experience. When they hear the sound of guns and bombs, they will panic and they can't go to the front side by side with the British. " As a result, only a few bags of rice were distributed to teachers and soldiers, and some work such as saving lives, helping refugees and maintaining order in the rear was arranged in the trenches in Central.

On the first day of the war, the Japanese invaded Kowloon New Territories, and 12 fell into Kowloon. 13, the Japanese army has arrived. The Indian army retreated step by step and the Japanese army advanced step by step. The British army raised the flag.

On June 5438+08, Japanese planes bombed the central market, destroyed many shops, and bombed the oil pool in the central and western corners, igniting a raging fire. Traffic and electricity near Queen's Road have been cut off, so the alarm can only be used by hand. Westerners and more advanced China people used to live in the hilltop area. The higher their status, the higher their residence. They are even more embarrassed now that water and electricity are cut off. In order to prevent the materials from falling into the enemy's hands, the British army shelled the material warehouse on the other side and blew up all the materials and equipment in the warehouse.

Due to the poor planning of the British army and the loopholes in its operational deployment, the Japanese army landed easily in North Point, and the British army was defeated by Lien Chan. By the 24th, the British army was a spent force, and the fall of Hong Kong was a foregone conclusion. Governor Yang Li was overwhelmed and decided to surrender. At 7: 50 that evening, the Governor surrendered and all Hong Kong defenders laid down their weapons.

On February 25th, 65438+, Christmas was supposed to be the happiest day for the British, but on that day, the rice flag on the top of Taiping Mountain in Hong Kong fell to the ground. On the afternoon of the 28th, the Japanese army held a ceremony to enter the city. 57 Japanese planes circled and roared in the sky, dropping leaflets; The Marine Corps and the Army swaggered around the busy market for a week, and then went to the Government House for a meeting to celebrate the victory in the occupation of Hong Kong. Taisuke Iwatani, who was defeated in Taierzhuang, was appointed as the governor of the occupied area of Hong Kong.