After listening patiently to Ying Detian's speech, Vice Chairman Zhou calmly replied: "We understand the particularity of the Northeast Army and the importance of Deputy Commander Zhang in the Northeast Army, and we understand the importance of Deputy Commander Zhang in the Trinity, and we are also very willing to rescue Deputy Commander Zhang." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Speaking of this, Vice Chairman Zhou changed his tone and said: "But in the current situation, if both sides insist, our Trinity will definitely demand that Deputy Commander Zhang be released, and Chiang Kai-shek will definitely not be released. ”

"We are not afraid of war, we just want to fight to Nanjing and rescue the deputy commander!" Sun Mingjiu said impulsively and loudly.

"Hehe, if it causes a war, it is not in line with Deputy Commander Zhang's original intention of launching the Xi'an Incident, hoping to achieve the original intention of uniting the War of Resistance and causing a war, it will not be beneficial for Deputy Commander Zhang to restore his freedom and come back, it is obvious that once the war starts, they will not let Deputy Commander Zhang come back." Vice Chairman Zhou smiled and patiently explained.

"Deputy Commander Zhang will not come, and we resolutely refuse to agree to withdraw from the army!" Ying Detian said.

"Although we are retreating now, as long as our trinity unites well, maintains this powerful force, and continues to insist on demanding, Deputy Commander Zhang will always come back sooner or later." Vice Chairman Zhou is still very patient.

"You communists must not cross the river and tear down the bridge!" Miao Jianqiu saw that Vice Chairman Zhou was always soft, so he interjected.

Vice Chairman Zhou slowly looked around at the young generals of the Northeast Army with his wise and profound gaze, and finally fixed his gaze on the Three Musketeers.

"Our Communist Party and Chiang Kai-shek are a blood feud, and we will never forget it! We will never forget the flesh-and-blood relationship between the Communist Party and the Northeast Army and Deputy Commander Zhang!

There should be many ways for us to ask Deputy Commander Zhang to come back, and we do not necessarily have to adopt the present way and insist that Nanjing let him come back immediately.

If such a persistence is carried out now, once a war is caused, not only will Deputy Commander Zhang not be able to return, but it will also very easily cause an even more chaotic situation, and this will not be beneficial to the future of the country, to the future of unity to resist Japan, to the future of the Northeast Army, and to the future of Deputy Commander. ”

After making trouble like this for 3 or 4 hours, seeing that it was not a way to continue to drag, Vice Chairman Zhou had no choice but to say: "Don't make noise, don't make trouble, this issue is very important, let us discuss it carefully, and reply to you tomorrow." ”

After sending out this gang of young Zhuang faction, the leaders of the Red Army felt the gravity of the situation.

In order to prevent accidents, Vice Chairman Zhou decided that night to transfer most of the CCP staff in Xi'an to the Sanyuan Red Army garrison, leaving only Ye Jianying, Li Kenong and others.

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General Yang Hucheng agreed to the request of the Northeast Army's young Zhuang faction, which made his wife Xie Baozhen very anxious, Xie Baozhen knew that at this critical moment, the party organization would definitely send her superior, Nan Hanchen, to find Yang Hucheng.

Sure enough, Nan Hanchen already knew Yang Hucheng's statement to the Northeast Army Young Zhuang faction, and as soon as the Northeast Army Shaozhuang faction left, Nan Hanchen came to the Yang Mansion and met General Yang Hucheng.

Yang Hucheng had a cold face, looking preoccupied, and Xie Baozhen was busy pouring tea for Nan Hanchen.

"General Yang, as soon as I came to Xi'an, I heard people say that you are for the country and the nation, so I decisively fell into this stall in Xi'an.

Nan Hanchen seemed to have just noticed Yang Hucheng's face, and then asked, "What?" General Yang, what happened just now that made you unhappy? ”

Yang Hucheng said: "Mr. Nan, it's not that I don't want to be happy, I can't help but be happy, Deputy Commander Zhang Xueliang has been detained in Nanjing, and when I think of Lao Jiang's character, I don't regret arresting him at all." ”

"Good, good! That's it! Nan Hanchen praised.

"Today you come, I have something important to talk to you, between you and me, part of it is a pure friend relationship, part of it is a political relationship, political, for more than ten years I am worthy of you, you came to Xi'an this time, I have no objection to you standing on the position of your party to speak, but you also have to think about it for me, a peaceful solution is to sacrifice me Yang Hucheng."

Yang Hucheng said it very bluntly.

Yang Hucheng soberly realized that he and Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident together, although they had their own starting points, and they also had the side of treating the CCP and the Red Army as friends and sticking knives into their friends.

Unexpectedly, the development of the incident was unexpected, and now, the first result of peace is that the Red Army and the Central Army have ceased fighting, peace talks have begun, and the Xi'an incident is beneficial to the Red Army.

The second result of peace was that Zhang Xueliang personally sent Lao Jiang back to Nanjing, and although Zhang Xueliang lost his freedom, he was exempted from the death penalty.

The third result of peace is that I, Yang Hucheng, have become the sole culprit bearer of the Xi'an Incident, and it goes without saying that he was dismissed from office, and now, not only the central army is targeting itself, but even the spearhead of national public opinion is also aimed at himself, and if this continues, he will inevitably die without a place to be buried.

Nan Hanchen understood Yang Hucheng's distress very much, and did not explain too much, he fully understood Yang Hucheng's contradictory mood at this time.

Nan Hanchen thought to himself that Yang Hucheng was talking angrily at this time, and after calming down, he could still understand the CCP's good intentions to peacefully resolve the Xi'an Incident.

In fact, Yang Hucheng's choice between 'war' and 'peace' is very contradictory and difficult.

In addition to Southern Hanchen, there were also CCP members Zhao Shoushan, Wang Bingnan, and Shen Bochun in the Northwest Army, all of whom opposed the civil war and advocated peace.

At the same time, the steady Sun Weiru and others, as well as his wife Xie Baozhen, are even more inclined to peace.

But on the other hand, Yang Hucheng also has a group of radical young Zhuang factions around him, such as Song Wenmei, Li Jianzhong, Xu Quanzhong, Xu Weilie, Zhang Ziqi, Ren Yunzhang, etc., these people have a close relationship with the Three Musketeers of the Northeast Army, have similar interests, and are the main battle faction, so Yang Hucheng's position is always swinging around.

At this time, Yang Hucheng was indeed in a difficult situation.

In terms of military affairs alone, Yang Hucheng has found that both the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army are facing the danger of splitting, and within the Northwest Army, the biggest problem is Feng Qinzai, who originally shared life and death with him.

Although at present, Feng Qinya and Yang Hucheng still maintain a relationship with the same 17th Route Army on the surface, this relationship is already very fragile.

After the Xi'an Incident, Feng Qinya's personal relationship with Yang Hucheng had been severed, and at present, once he fought with the Central Army, it would inevitably cause Feng Qinzai to openly raise another banner and split the Northwest Army.

In addition, the Second Garrison Brigade, which played a major role in the Xi'an Incident, was not originally a descendant of Yang Hucheng, and although Kong Congzhou, the brigade commander of the Second Garrison Brigade and commander of the artillery regiment, was unswervingly loyal to Yang Hucheng, the other two regiments were not to mention.

Shen Xiting and Tang Deying, commanders of the other two regiments of the Second Garrison Brigade, were originally half-brothers, and when they were ordered to attack the central government office in Xi'an on 12 December, although they ostensibly obeyed the orders of the brigade commander Kong Congzhou, they already showed reluctance.

On the second day of the Xi'an Incident, the brothers Shen Xiting and Tang Deying not only secretly let go of the arrested Major General Gong Bingfan of the Central Army, but also revealed to him before leaving that the two regiments of the Second Garrison Brigade were willing to defect to the Central Committee.

In addition to the Second Garrison Brigade, the local militia groups controlled by Yang Hucheng also prepared to turn against the water and secretly threw themselves at Lao Jiang.

Yang Hucheng also found that what was serious at the moment was that Shen Ke's 106th Division of the 57th Army of the Northeast Army and the 10th Cavalry Division of Tan Zixin had secretly colluded with the Central Army and had a suspicious attitude.

Although Yang Hucheng's 1st Garrison Brigade and 3rd Garrison Brigade were in check with the 106th Division and 10th Cavalry Division of the Northeast Army, Yang Hucheng knew that his 1st and 3rd Brigades were by no means opponents of these two Northeast Army.

Once the showdown, Yang Hucheng's two brigades will not only be difficult to get out, but will even become sacrifices to Shen Ke and Tan Zixin!

The three garrison brigades under Yang Hucheng's direct command are now scattered, so that only the 17th Division, which can be indirectly commanded, is more loyal under Yang Hucheng.

However, Sun Weiru, the commander of the 17th Division, was the main peacemaker, and many officers had the same attitude as Sun Weiru.

What worries Yang Hucheng even more is that this Sun Weiru will still listen to his command now?