Yang Hucheng's worries were well-founded, on the third day of the arrest of Jiang in Xi'an, Sun Weiru had secretly suggested that Yang Hucheng unilaterally snatch out Lao Jiang and ask Nanjing for merit and reward. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as Lao Jiang returned to Nanjing, he took the initiative to show favor to Sun Weiru and promoted Sun Weiru to the chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Government and the commander-in-chief of the 38th Army.

This 38th Army, but the 17th Division has changed its brand, and its strength has not increased or decreased, but it has promoted Sun Weiru's official position, and now, Yang Hucheng wants to let this 17th Division go to war with the Central Army, which is simply unimaginable!

Moreover, the 17th Division, which has only three brigades in total, has also undergone major incidents recently, and it turns out that the commander of the 49th Brigade of the 17th Division, Wang Jinzai, has been very abnormal recently.

Since December 25, Wang Jinzai has pulled the team through the meridian valley of the Qinling Mountains, and is currently in constant contact with Liu Zhi of the Central Army, but has cut off contact with Yang Hucheng, seeing that the 49th Brigade is about to defect to the Central Army and has no return.

Yang Hucheng's inner torment in the past few days, who can know?

Hit, many of the above factors are unfavorable to Yang Hucheng.

If he didn't fight, Yang Hucheng felt that what the young Zhuang faction said was reasonable.

And, seeing that Zhang Xueliang had no hope of coming back in a short time, and Zhang Xueliang entrusted the Northeast Army to himself when he left, for this Northeast Army, if he wanted to mobilize the veteran faction, it was basically hopeless, but in the Northeast Army, there was an aggressive young Zhuang faction, thinking of the scene of this group of people crying to himself, how could Yang Hucheng not be tempted?

Yang Hucheng thought about it, he might as well follow the meaning of the young Zhuang faction of the Northeast Army, and let the Northeast Army fight a battle with the central government, no matter whether the result of the battle is victory or defeat, it can only be the veteran faction in the Northeast Army that is difficult to control.

At this time, although Yang Hucheng was militarily overstretched and did not have many soldiers and horses, he still insisted on fighting, and he couldn't listen to the persuasion of his old friend Nan Hanchen at all.

Just when Yang Hucheng was talking to Nan Hanchen, whether it was Yang Hucheng or Nan Hanchen, none of them expected that the 10th Division of Tan Zixin Cavalry of the Northeast Army had already defected to the Central Army.

Regarding the unhappiness between her husband and Nan Hanchen, Yang Hucheng's wife Xie Baozhen was very unhappy.

When Xie Baozhen sent Nan Hanchen to the gate of the Xincheng Building, she quietly warned Nan Hanchen: "Mr. Nan, please leave Xi'an quickly, Hucheng will be unfavorable to you." ”

In fact, Nan Hanchen also heard the smell of danger from Yang Hucheng's words, but he couldn't make his own decisions and leave his post without the instructions of the party organization.

"Thank you for sending me, thank you for telling me the truth, but I think about it, since my behavior is above board, I should face it calmly, and I will never take personal life and death too seriously." Nan Hanchen said.

So the two cherished each other and said goodbye to each other.

The situation was urgent, and Nan Hanchen, regardless of his personal danger, rushed to the residence of the CPC delegation overnight and reported Yang Hucheng's abnormal behavior to Vice Chairman Zhou.

At this time, it was already more than 2 o'clock in the morning on the 28th, that is, an hour after Sun Mingjiu's team left the CCP delegation.

On the morning of 28 January, Vice Chairman Zhou took a car to the Red Army Headquarters in Yunyang Town, Weibei Province, for a meeting.

"As long as the Northeast Army agrees, unites, and insists on demanding, our Red Army will definitely adhere to it with you, and under no circumstances will we take a step back, we will never be sorry for Deputy Commander Zhang, and we will never be sorry for the two friends of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army."

At first glance, the CCP's attitude towards peace seems to have changed, and it seems to be leaning towards the position of the main belligerent.

However, after careful consideration of this reply, the attitude of the Chinese Communist delegation is premised, that is, "the Northeast Army has the same opinion and unity."

The reply is very clear, and the implication is that the unilateral attitude of a few of you Shaozhuang faction is not counted, without the consent of Wang Yizhe and He Zhuguo, there is no saying that "the Northeast Army is unanimous and united", of course, this is the same for Wang Yizhe and He Zhuguo, it depends on the opinions of the Shaozhuang faction.

Regarding Vice Chairman Zhou's statement, Yang Hucheng, Ying Detian, and Miao Jianqiu all heard the voice, and Sun Mingjiu and others interpreted this reply as the CCP and the Red Army had also changed their attitude, opposing the withdrawal of troops from the Weinan front, and also did not oppose the war against the Central Army.

This statement of the Chinese Communists made the main battle faction think that the obstacles to war had been removed, and they were very excited, so they happily split up and went to the northeast and northwest armies to further agitate in tandem and prepare for war with the central army.

When he saw Miao Jianqiu, he asked curiously: "Why did you suddenly cry so sadly when you petitioned twice yesterday?" ”

"Mr. Zhou, if your party members die, will you cry? If you don't cry, isn't this inhumane, isn't it almost cruel? Miao Jianqiu asked rhetorically.

"Oh, I see! However, since the Xi'an Incident, almost all the dead and wounded are people around Chiang Kai-shek, and it seems that no one has died in your Northeast Army? ”

Vice Chairman Zhou was very skeptical about the crying of Miao Jianqiu and others.

"Every step we take today is bought with the blood of the martyrs, and we have no reason to show our respect for the dead with cheap tears, and we can only redouble our efforts to carry out the revolution to the end in order to be the best and greatest comfort to them.

In particular, in the face of the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, the imminent realization of internal peace in the whole country, and the great situation of joint resistance against Japan abroad, we should not excessively use tears to hype up some minor unpleasantness, and we should not deliberately use bitter tears to exaggerate the sadness. ”

Vice Chairman Zhou patiently persuaded Miao Jianqiu, if he knew that the night before yesterday, Miao Jianqiu and others had secretly assembled, opened a long list of assassination blacklists, and plotted to instigate a riot, he would definitely admire the acting skills of the person in front of him.

You must know that the purpose of the Xi'an Incident was to force Lao Chiang to agree to stop the civil war and unite the whole country to resist Japan.

At the moment when the situation of peaceful and joint resistance against Japan in China was about to take shape, Ying Detian, Sun Mingjiu and Miao Jianqiu gave up the original intention of stopping the civil war and unanimously resisting Japan, and in turn rejected the peace plan, and did not hesitate to take the risk of trying to provoke a civil war.

Is there a huge conspiracy hidden in this that is not known to outsiders?

Vice Chairman Zhou was very skeptical and puzzled about what the Three Musketeers had done, could these people have been used as guns by those who are afraid of peace, afraid of stopping the civil war, and afraid of unanimous resistance to Japan?

Vice Chairman Zhou's suspicion is very reasonable, in fact, the Three Musketeers have long been targeted by Japanese spies, and on the day of the Xi'an Incident, Ryuichi Hiraoka of the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai already felt that the opportunity had come.

That night, after reporting to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ryuichi Hiraoka arranged for Taro Matsuo of the consulate to sneak to Xi'an with two entourage, carrying radio stations, disguised as silk merchants.

Matsuo Taro was Sun Mingjiu's classmate when he was studying at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School in 1928, and the two had a very good relationship during their studies.

Hiraoka Ryuichi wanted to take advantage of this relationship with Matsuo Taro to get close to Sun Mingjiu, and adopt the technique of splitting a thousand catties in four or two to take the opportunity to destroy the fragile trinity relationship between the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army and the Red Army.

Taro Matsuo, under the alias Song Wei, arrived at Xi'an City on the evening of the third day with Shoji Aida Aida and Saika Motoki under the pseudonym Mu Saika.

Matsuo Taro connected with the Japanese spies lurking in Xi'an, rented a small courtyard near the Bell and Drum Tower, and the three of them lived.

The next day, Matsuo Taro came to the northwest alone and met Sun Mingjiu.

Sun Mingjiu was stunned when he saw Matsuo Taro for the first time, he didn't understand what the purpose of his Japanese classmate was coming to Xi'an at this moment.

"Matsuo......, ...... you?"

"Mr. Sun, I am now in the silk business, I came from Hangzhou the day before yesterday, and I saw in the newspaper that you have now become a big hero, so I came to congratulate you." Matsuo Taro saw that there was someone beside Sun Mingjiu, so he hurriedly interrupted him and introduced himself first.

"Thank you, please inside!" Sun Mingjiu let Matsuo Taro into his office.