September 18, evening.

"Commander, Shenyang is in an emergency, there is an abnormal movement in the Kwantung Army!" Adjutant Hu Ruoyu came in with a telegram.

Zhang Xueliang was stunned for a moment, and said, "Read!" ”

Hu Ruoyu said: "One unit of the Kwantung Army left its garrison and advanced south along the South Manchurian Railway, and its specific intentions and goals are unknown. ”

Zhang Xueliang instructed: "Order the Beida Battalion and the local garrison troops not to respond to the battle in case of provocation by the Kwantung Army, and not to give the Japanese army an excuse to send troops on a large scale." ”

"Yes!" Hu Ruoyu was ordered to leave.

Since the beginning of this year, the Kwantung Army has been stirring up all kinds of trouble in the northeast, and Zhang Xueliang is almost numb to this.

In the spring, a Chinese named He Yongde defrauded 12 farmers near Wanbaoshan into land and illegally subleased it to 188 North Koreans to grow rice. The North Koreans dug canals and dammed the flow of water, seriously harming the interests of local farmers. More than 200 peasants filed a complaint with the government, and the Jilin provincial government ordered North Korean expatriates to appear on camera. The Japanese sent police to stop them, and by July, local farmers had no patience and joined forces to tear down the North Korean dam.

Subsequently, North Korean reporters distorted the facts, saying that the North Koreans were killed at Wanbaoshan Mountain, setting off a large-scale anti-Chinese campaign on the Korean Peninsula, killing and injuring hundreds of local overseas Chinese, but the Japanese government falsely accused the Chinese of harming the North Korean nationals.

This was the "Wanbaoshan Incident", which was an accident at the beginning, but the follow-up development was planned and arranged by the Kwantung Army in order to create public opinion about sending troops to the Northeast.

Then came the "Nakamura Incident", where the Kwantung Army Captain Nakamura Zhentaro conducted a secret military investigation in the Xing'an Mountains, was captured and detained by the deputy head of the local reclamation army, and ordered Nakamura Zhentaro to be secretly executed. Japan seized the opportunity to claim that the Northeast Army had killed the soldiers of the Kwantung Army, coerced China to hand over its deputy head Guan Yuheng, and wantonly created public opinion among the Japanese people to fan the flames.

Not only Zhang Xueliang was very vigilant about these incidents, but even Chang Kaishen did not dare to relax, and specially transferred Jiang Zuobin back as a minister to Japan, wanting to solve the Northeast crisis through diplomatic means.

Jiang Zuobin was still very powerful, he quickly reached a consensus with the Japanese foreign affairs department, and put pressure on the War Department through the Japanese cabinet, and all contradictions seemed to disappear into nothingness. It is precisely because of this that Zhang Xueliang and Chang Kaishen agreed that although the situation in the northeast is deteriorating, as long as there is the help of the Japanese cabinet, a major incident will definitely not break out.

Some time ago, the Kwantung Army even conducted military exercises near Shenyang, and artillery fire continued to bomb indiscriminately, but no excesses occurred.

At night, around half past ten.

Zhang Xueliang was about to go to bed, and Adjutant Hu Ruoyu came in again to report: "Commander, the Kwantung Army has blown up the small section of the Wicker Lake Railway!" Kitaying asks for instructions. ”

The section of Wicker Lake of the South Manchurian Railway is very close to the Beida Battalion of the Feng Army, and the Kwantung Army is equivalent to messing around under the nose of the Feng Army.

Zhang Xue's conscience was shocked, and Zhou Hexuan's warnings for several days sounded, and he took a deep breath and said: "Order the officers and soldiers of the Beida Battalion to strictly guard the barracks, and ignore the provocations of the Kwantung Army." ”

Hu Ruoyu hurried back to the telegraph room, and there was still time for the telegraph operator to send the order. The telegraph operator was suddenly stunned and exclaimed: "Adjutant Hu, the Beida Battalion is in a hurry, the Kwantung Army is storming the Beida Battalion, and the Seventh Brigade is defenseless and has been taken by surprise." Ask the Commander for instructions! ”

Hu Ruoyu didn't even bother to take the telegram and newspaper, and rushed back frantically and said, "Commander, the Beida Battalion has been attacked!" ”

Zhang Xueliang was like hearing a thunderbolt from the sky, and things were really as Zhou Hexuan expected, the Kwantung Army actually launched an invasion plan in advance after the conspiracy was exposed. His face changed, and after pondering for a few seconds, he said: "Order all the departments of the Northern Battalion not to resist, and all retreat and transfer!" ”

The elite of the 8,000 Feng Army, the Beida Battalion, which was responsible for the town guard, was captured by 500 people of the Kwantung Army.

Zhang Xueliang couldn't sit still anymore, so he personally ran to the telegraph room and ordered: "Send a telegram to the Nanjing government, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japanese Legation in Japan, informing them that the Kwantung Army has invaded Shenyang Beidaying without reason!" ”

Chang Kaishen was woken up from bed, he had the same idea as Zhang Xueliang, and hurriedly sent a secret message to Zhang Xueliang not to resist and try to avoid the situation from worsening. At the same time, he also ordered Jiang Zuobin, minister to Japan, to immediately question the Japanese Foreign Ministry and contact the Japanese cabinet to properly resolve the matter.

The Japanese cabinet reacted very quickly, rebuking the War Ministry with extraordinary anger and ordering the Kwantung Army to withdraw its troops immediately, and the Japanese politicians and military men quarreled.

In the early morning of September 19, while Japan was quarrelling, the Kwantung Army launched attacks on Shenyang, Yingkou, Phoenix, Andong, Changchun, Erdaogou, Nanling and other places. By 10 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army had captured 18 cities and towns, including Shenyang.

The speed was too fast, and Zhang Xueliang and Chang Kaishen couldn't react at all. They wanted to use non-resistance in exchange for the support of the Japanese cabinet and Britain, France, and the United States. But in just half a day, Fengjun's hometown of Shenyang was lost, and Japanese politicians and soldiers continued to quarrel.

The defenders on the Changchun side spontaneously counterattacked, but the combat effectiveness of the garrison was low, and the city of Changchun was still broken by the Kwantung Army after a hard day and a night. And Xicha, the deputy commander of Jilin's border guards, this guy's surname is Aixin Jueluo, and he directly defected to the enemy and became a traitor, and the Kwantung Army easily took the whole province of Jilin.

When Zhang Xueliang heard the news of Xicha's surrender to the enemy, the whole person was stunned, not only Jilin Province, but also Jilin's tens of thousands of garrison troops and the Reclamation Army-Kwantung Army was expanded several times as a result.

In just two or three days, the Kwantung Army was in a state of strength in the three eastern provinces, wantonly attacking cities and conquering cities. In addition to Zhang Xueliang's policy of non-resistance, it was also because the elite of the Feng army were all in North China, and the local garrison troops could not bear it at all. Coupled with the fact that traitors have defected to the enemy to lead the way, the situation in the Northeast is eroding at an unimaginable speed.

Chang Kaishen had already reacted to this situation, and the Japanese cabinet was unreliable at all, so he hurriedly sent a secret telegram to Zhang Xueliang to send troops to counterattack. Zhou Hexuan also chased Zhang Xueliang to Jinzhou, and advised Zhang Xueliang to stick to the city every day and not let the Kwantung Army continue to expand.

However, the situation was completely out of control, and countless traitors emerged among the generals of the Feng army, and the elite of the Northeast Army transferred from North China was temporarily unable to support Heilongjiang and Jilin.

This is equivalent to saying that Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces are basically no longer under Zhang Xueliang's control, and only some patriotic soldiers are still spontaneously resisting.

In early October, the Japanese Shaozhuang faction military officers staged a coup d'état, and although the coup failed, it marked the complete loss of control of the Japanese cabinet over the military. The Japanese prime minister, who has always opposed the invasion of China by force, began to make concessions to the military in order to prolong the life of the current cabinet.

Zhang Xueliang, who was waiting for the Japanese cabinet to solve the problem, finally waited for the result that he regretted - the Japanese cabinet turned a blind eye to it and acquiesced in the actions of the Kwantung Army.

By mid-October, the Kwantung Army basically occupied Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, and began to concentrate its forces on a large-scale offensive in western Liaoning. Not only that, Japan also sent local troops and Korean divisions to reinforce it, and Jinzhou, which Zhang Xueliang personally guarded, was surrounded by regiments.

Zhang Xueliang wanted to resist at this time, but he was powerless to resist. He originally thought that even if the strategy of compromise and forbearance failed, he could organize forces to attack. But he never expected that in just half a month, the situation in the Northeast would no longer be under his control.

20 days, only 20 days! Heilongjiang (Harbin has not been lost) and Jilin have all fallen, and Liaoning has also been swallowed by the Kwantung Army.

If Zhang Xueliang can be transferred back to the elite garrison of the Feng Army as soon as possible, then the offensive of the Kwantung Army will not be so smooth. More than 100,000 local garrison troops, and more than 100,000 cantonment troops, seem to be a lot of numbers, but they are distributed to the four northeastern provinces (including Rehe Province) like a sieve full of loopholes, and the Kwantung Army can easily break through each of them.

If there were not so many traitors in the Feng army, then the offensive of the Kwantung Army would not have gone very well. These traitors led their troops to surrender to the Japanese army in formations, so that the Kwantung Army, which had its own meager strength, grew like a snowball.

However, the reality is not so many ifs!

Saying that Zhang Xueliang gave up the Northeast as soon as he couldn't grab it is nonsense. Zhang Xueliang is still holding on to Jinzhou, and he has discarded his unrealistic ideas since the day of the Japanese cabinet's treachery. He still wants to fight the Northeast back, but he has no way to do so.

Historically, Zhang Xueliang held on to Jinzhou for nearly three months. But in the face of the Japanese army's day and night onslaught, in the face of Chang Kaishen's order to stick to it, in the face of the persuasion of Gu Weijun and many other old friends, and in the face of countless subordinates asking for war, Zhang Xueliang finally gave up Jinzhou - he deeply felt that the general trend had gone, and he could not win the war again, so he could only give up the Northeast.

In general, on the "918 Incident", Zhang Xueliang and Chang Kaishen had similar views at the beginning, and they both hoped to use diplomatic means to solve it. After the situation deteriorated rapidly, they all wanted to resist and hold on, but unfortunately it was too late.

The difference is that Chang Kaishen hopes that Zhang Xueliang can hold on to Jinzhou, which is the last barrier in the northeast. As long as they hold here, the Japanese army will not be able to completely occupy the northeast.

As for Zhang Xueliang, he wanted to hold on at first, but gradually lost his confidence in victory. Because the Kwantung Army was fighting more and more, even Japan sent troops to reinforce it. Unable to win at all, Zhang Xueliang turned to preserve his strength and simply lost all of the Northeast to the Japanese, at which time most of the Northeast had essentially fallen.

When Zhou Hexuan attacked Jinzhou by the Kwantung Army, he did not continue to advise. Because persuasion is useless, the general trend has gone, and Japan's occupation of Northeast China is a foregone conclusion.

Even if Zhang Xueliang served the country with enthusiasm and took all the elite of the Feng Army, it would only delay for a few months at most and increase the casualties of the Kwantung Army - Japan could increase its troops without restrictions, because a month after the Kwantung Army besieged Jinzhou, the Japanese cabinet was forced to resign, and the Japanese military could do whatever it wanted.

Japan, the militarist machine, has already been violently mobilized.

Not to mention the Northeast, those Japanese soldiers who went crazy were still making trouble in Tianjin and wanted to occupy Tianjin, and even sent troops to attack Shanghai - the "128 Incident".

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