How many troops did the Japanese army put into the September 18th Incident?

There are several theories about the forces invested by the Japanese army during the September 18th Incident.

The book Memoirs of China compiled by Japan's "East Asian Literature Alumni Association" says that the number of Japanese troops is 6.5438+0.04 million.

The book History of the Pacific War says that there are 6.5438+0.5 million people.

Shigeru Honj, commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, said in an appendix to his diary that there were fifteen thousand or six thousand people.

I checked the information at home and abroad. During the "September 18th Incident", in addition to 15000 and 6000 of the Second Division and the Independent Guard Corps, 39 brigades were transferred from North Korea on September 2nd1day to take charge of the guard mission near Shenyang. In this way, its total strength is less than 20 thousand.

The Japanese army attacked Shenyang Peking University Camp, where there were about 7,000 elite 7th Brigade 6 19, 620, 62 1 3 brigades, with brigade commander Wang Yizhe.

The Japanese attacked from 1931September 18 night 1 1: 50, and completely occupied Peking University Camp at 5 am on19. The officers and men of the Seventh Brigade did not resist withdrawing from Peking University Camp, and 320 people were massacred by the Japanese army.

19 attacked Shenyang Dongdaying at 8 am, and occupied Dongdaying around 1 1.

From the night of September 18 to the morning of September 19, the Japanese army launched an all-round attack along Nanman Road and Anfeng Road, and successively occupied Fuxian, Haicheng, Yingkou, Liaoyang, Tieling, Siping, Gongzhuling, Anton (Dandong), Fengcheng, Benxi and Fushun.

19 at 5: 30 pm, the Japanese army occupied Nanling after a short battle and Changchun fell.

On September 2 1 day, the Second Division of the Japanese Army marched eastward along Jidun Road and occupied Jiaohe and Dunhua. During this period, Yanji, Hunchun, Wangqing and Helong in eastern Jilin were also occupied by the Japanese.