1937年7月7日晚，日本駐屯軍在蘆溝橋附近演習。駐豐台日軍宣稱演習中一名士兵「失蹤」，要求進宛平城搜查，遭拒絕後，即攻擊城西盧溝橋。當晚10時40分，結束演習之日軍聲稱演習地點傳來槍聲，並有一名士兵叫志村菊次郎「失蹤」，要求進入宛平城搜查，遭守城的國民革命軍第二十九軍（前身之一為西北軍）拒絕。

中國駐軍第二十九軍奮起抵抗²。翌日清晨5時許，日軍炮轟宛平城^[。隨後發生了平津作戰。第二十九軍在之後的平津作戰中戰敗，撤退至保定，平津地區為日本佔領，第二次中日戰爭隨後全面爆發。

The Marco Polo Bridge Incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge Incident or the Double-Seven Incident, was a July 1937 battle between Chinas National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army. It is widely considered to have been the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War^] and by extension, sometimes given as an alternative starting date for World War II (as opposed to the more commonly-cited one of September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting the European theater of the war)^]

 

 

1937年七七蘆溝橋事變,日本侵華戰爭.

主力部隊跨越蘆溝橋,向華北地區進攻.只如今台灣當局民進黨反中,將歷史課本有關日本侵略中國的戰爭,犯罪行為,完全剃除,

讓台灣學生遺忘歷史.這樣一來數典忘祖必然遭到天遣,日本侵華戰爭,燒,殺,擄,掠,無所不為,當年台灣同胞亦奮戰不懈,抵抗日本的侵略,也被台灣當局民進黨抹去歷史的記憶,一昧著良心親日,

親美,有朝1日台灣省再度被中國收復,重返中國的懷抱,勢在必行,熱烈舉辦紀念七七蘆溝橋事變,以慰犧牲的全國軍民同胞.

 

 

中國軍隊奮戰不懈反擊日本軍隊

 

中國軍隊出動打擊日本軍隊.

 

One of the most important 
battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War – despite relatively low casualties – the Marco Polo Bridge Incident flared up on July 7, 1937, directly leading to Japan’s occupation of Tianjin and Wanping (today part of Beijing’s Fengtai District). It is generally regarded as the ‘official’ start of China’s resistance against Japanese aggression.

The Japanese army controlled the north, east and south sides of Beijing but the Marco Polo Bridge remained in Chinese hands. 

In order to cut off Beijing entirely, Japan needed control of the bridge. Thus they manufactured a provocation that could be used to justify an escalation of hostilities.

The army held a military exercise without informing Chinese authorities, during which, according to an intelligence officer, a Japanese soldier was reported missing after gunshots were heard during the drill. 

The Japanese used this as a reason to enter Wanping to search for the AWOL soldier – which China refused.

日本軍隊佔領蘆溝橋.

蘆溝橋在北京西南郊，跨永定河（舊稱蘆溝河）上。蘆溝橋始建於1189年，成於1192年，長266.5米，寬約7.5米，由11孔石拱組成；橋旁建有石欄，其上共有精刻石獅485個。蘆溝橋高10餘米，兩旁欄柱石獅精工雕琢，形態各異，經馬可孛羅推崇，西方人稱為馬可孛羅橋。全國重點文物保護單位，其旁另建有新橋；橋東附近宛平城，1937年「七七蘆溝橋事變」從這裡開始^[。

 

The War That Started 83 Years Ago Wouldnt Happen Today. We Can Still Learn From It.

One of the larger wars in human history broke out 83 years ago Friday, in an armed clash at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing between Chinese and Japanese troops. We have many dangers to fear in the world today, and some of them, like tensions between China and its neighbors, parallel the situation in the 1930s. But a glance at the origins and consequences of the incident at the Marco Polo Bridge also makes clear what a different world our parents and grandparents were living in then.

Conflict between China — an ancient empire then suffering from a long decline — and Japan, an island nation that had decided to modernize in the 1860s, had begun in 1894 when Japan attacked China and also secured part of Korea and Taiwan. It had continued during the First World War and afterwards. The Japanese sought full equality with the great powers of the West — especially after defeating Russia in 1904-5 — and by the 1930s were claiming a special role as the leader of Asia. In 1931 they had seized Manchuria, and had begun extending their influence into China. Meanwhile, in China, a new political movement, the Kuomintang, had put an end to the Chinese empire and tried to unify the country under Chiang Kai-shek.

After the First World War, the western powers, led by Britain and the United States, had endorsed the idea of a free, independent and unified China, but Chiang had not really been able to establish such a state. Meanwhile, the Japanese in 1937 had increased their troop presence around Beijing. With no clear boundaries, Chinese and Japanese troops were bound to clash, as they did early in the morning of July 8, 1937. While the initial clash was insignificant, both sides turned it into a test of strength, and full-scale war broke out by the end of the month.The war, which went on until Japan surrendered to the Allies after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ranks as one of the most significant wars of the 20th century, if not of all time. Various sources reckon China’s losses at several million killed.

日本軍隊火炮支援作戰進攻宛平城.

 

 

Marco Polo Bridge .

 

日本軍隊跨越蘆溝橋

 

 

蘆溝曉月及蘆溝橋兩畔的石獅子,默默的記錄歷史的一切,見證日本軍隊與中國軍隊,在此地作戰.

歷史的恥辱莫忘記,有朝1日,必當加倍奉還,日本人的侵華戰爭.