On this day, 86 years ago, on June 6, 1939 (April 19, 1939, the Japanese army captured Shantou. The Japanese Army captured Shantou On June 6, 1939, the Japanese Army base camp ordered the capture of Shantou. At 2 a.m. on the 21st, more than 20 Japanese aircraft and more than 40 warships and motorboats, covering more than 10,000 people from the 137th Brigade and Marine Corps of the 104th Division, landed near Xinjin Port and Fuzhou on the coast of Shantou. Hua Zhenzhong, commander of the Independent Ninth Brigade of the Fourth Theater Theater and commander of the Shantou Garrison, only used local teams to resist. The brigade withdrew from the defense line. On the 22nd, the Japanese army captured Shantou. On the same day, a spokesman for the Military Committee of the Kuomintang Government told reporters in Chongqing: The enemy's capture of Shantou is of no value in military terms. The main purpose of the Japanese army's occupation of Shantou was to "invade the rights and interests of various countries on the Pacific coast and expel the influence of Europe and the United States in China."