Chapter 50: The Turning Point (5)
On 15 December, the teaching corps crossed the Yangtze River by ferry, boarded a northbound train at the Pukou Coal Port on the other side, and headed for Zhengzhou along the Jinpu Line and the Longhai Railway. Fastest updates
At the same time, in order to be able to smoothly resolve the Xi'an Incident, it was also prepared in the national government to use both hands to appease and suppress. In Song Meiling and Song Ziwen, the main peace faction had already sent foreign friends to take the opportunity to Xi'an to negotiate with Zhang Xueliang and others; After the main battle faction exhorted Zhang Xueliang to no avail, the political committee set up a rebel army, appointed He Yingqin as commander-in-chief, Liu Zhi as commander-in-chief of the East Route Group Army, and Gu Zhutong as the commander-in-chief of the West Route Group Army.
After getting off the bus from Huayin, the whole team quickly assembled, walked through the county seat of Huaxian, and arrived at Dongzhao Township in the east of Weinan on the afternoon of the 18th.
Weinan is the gateway to the east of Xi'an, where the 107th Division, the strong brigade of the Northeast Army, is stationed, and this division belongs to the 67th Army, and the commander of the 67th Army is a person who is familiar to Xiao Linghu and Wen Sen, he is Yi Wei's father Yi Zhonglun.
Before the battle started, Yi Wei came to the camp of the three regiments and one battalion, and when he saw him with a worried look, Xiao Linghu knew why he came.
"Is it for your father?" Without waiting for Yi Wei to speak, Xiao Linghu asked.
Yi Wei nodded: "I'm really afraid that I'm going to be his enemy." ”
Xiao Linghu was silent for a while, and said: "Actually, you think too much, you are only the platoon commander of the engineer company now, and you don't want you to charge into battle, how can you fight with him?" ”
Yi Wei said: "I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about him!" ”
Xiao Linghu was stunned, in his impression, Yi Wei rarely mentioned his father in front of others, and he didn't know about his family situation from his father Xiao Huang until Yi Wei got married. However, at Yi Wei's wedding, he saw Yi Zhonglun, not a cowardly and incompetent mediocre talent, on the contrary, in his impression of Yi Zhonglun, he felt that he should be a hot-blooded man who dared to act and dare to fight, he still remembers that at that wedding banquet, Wen Sen was embarrassed by Yi Zhonglun, and Yi Zhonglun was really drunk that day.
"Actually, you're thinking too much!" Xiao Linghu said: "Your father is in such a high position, he just gives orders, and he won't directly participate in the battle, so he will be fine!" ”
Yi Wei said: "I'm not worried that he will have any accidents in the battle, I just think that he is aiding Zhang Xueliang by following him, Zhang Xueliang must be unpopular and doomed to failure, I am only worried that he is too stupid and loyal, and he will be ruined when the time comes!" ”
Hearing that he had this kind of thought, Xiao Linghu was solemn, it was indeed under the nest, and Ann had finished his eggs?
"I have never understood, why didn't you join the Northeast Army? If you are in the Northeast Army, how can you become a company commander now? And you also graduated from Chung-Ang University, do you have to go to the army military academy? Xiao Linghu asked the doubts in his heart again. He asked Yi Wei this question more than once, but Yi Wei's answer was obviously perfunctory.
After being silent for a long time, Yi Wei said, "What do you want me to say?" I always thought that the loss of the Northeast was Zhang Xueliang's fault and the Northeast Army's fault, so I had a big quarrel with my father about it. Hehe, you may not believe it, but in my eyes, Zhang Xueliang is a gentleman, a playboy, and a sinner of the Chinese nation. However, in the eyes of his father, he is the lord who will always be loyal to him! I don't have a common language with him. He forced me to go to Chung-Ang University and wouldn't let me join the army, but that wasn't what I liked. At this point, he let out a long sigh and continued: "This is the reason for the discord between me and him!" ”
Only then did Xiao Linghu know that Yi Wei's application for the Nanjing Army Military Academy was done without his father, so it's no wonder that he has never returned home in the past three years?
However, now it seems that Yi Wei is not cold-blooded to his father, he still has a concern for his father, after all, he is connected by blood.
"Don't worry!" Xiao Linghu could only comfort him and said, "We don't know how we will fight this battle!" I believe that the Xi'an incident will not drag on for too long, maybe if we put pressure on Zhang Xueliang, he will be soft? Hehe, everyone knows that he is a soft egg! ”
Yi Wei nodded: "I hope that's really the case!" ”
"Actually, there are many things that you and I can't control, and I think the same is true for Lord Lingzun. However, even if Zhang Xueliang is defeated, what can he do? Look at Feng Yuxiang, look at Duan Qirui, they don't have power, don't they also live well? ”
Hearing Xiao Linghu say this, Yi Wei's heart was a little more relieved, he nodded, didn't say anything more, and silently left the barracks of the three regiments and one battalion.
Looking at Yi Wei's somewhat lost back, Xiao Linghu felt that he was really happy sometimes, at least not as much as Yi Wei's foresight.
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The next morning, at six o'clock in the morning, the sky had just dawned, and it was still a little dark, and the attack of the teaching corps on Weinan began.
The main attack was naturally the first and second regiments that were fully formed, and the third regiment became the reserve of the headquarters because there was only one battalion.
However, Xiao Linghu does not have a little fighting **, although he is not very old, he is only twenty-three years old after the age of one, but he is a veteran who has been in the army for seven years, he knows very well that as long as he goes to the battlefield, there will be casualties, who knows how big his life is?
The first regiment mainly attacked the east gate of Weinan City, the second regiment attacked the north gate of Weinan City, and the teaching corps also had a cavalry regiment, which was responsible for flanking and detouring, and the most skilled weapons of the teaching corps were five German light tanks.
At the beginning of the battle, both the 1st and 2nd regiments tentatively attacked near the two city gates in Weinan under the cover of chariot fire, and soon tested the position of the opponent's key firepower, and even the firing points of their few cannons.
After receiving the coordinates of the front, the artillery carried out accurate howitzer strikes, and with the rumbling of artillery fire, the enemy's fire positions were destroyed one by one.
Although the Northeast Army occupies a geographical advantage, it only has the power to parry such a fierce attack by the Teaching Corps.
After the artillery fire was over, the 1st and 2nd regiments attacked the enemy almost simultaneously, this time no longer a temptation, but a real charge. The officers and men of the teaching regiment rushed over like tigers descending from the mountain with rifles and machine guns, and the rebel soldiers of the Northeast Army defending the city fled from behind the positions one after another, even the military law corps guarding behind them could not prevent such a defeat with machine guns, and soon the first regiment took the east gate of Weinan and advanced into the city.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the 107th Division felt that it could not resist, so it had to abandon Weinan City and lose in the direction of Xi'an.
Soon, the teaching corps occupied the entire city of Weinan.
The losses in this battle were minimal, only thirty-nine soldiers were killed and fifty were wounded.
When Gui Yongqing was full of confidence and was ready to continue to advance in the direction of Xi'an, he received an urgent telegram from He Yingqin, the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, asking the teaching corps to stand by in place, because under the current situation, the Xi'an incident is very likely to be resolved peacefully.
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The Xi'an incident was indeed resolved peacefully.
Under the constant condemnation of the people of the whole country, the armed attack of the Central Army from both sides, and the clear opposition of the Soviet side, Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng had no choice but to put away their tough posture and negotiate with Song Meiling, Song Ziwen, and other members of the state government who flew from Nanjing.
Although Zhang Xueliang hoped that the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, and the Northeast Army would establish a three-in-one military-political separatist organization in the northwest, they did not get the consent of the first party, and finally the three parties jointly put forward a six-point proposal.
However, Chiang Kai-shek has been reluctant to sign, and in desperation, Zhang Xueliang, as the main leader of the Xi'an Incident, finally changed the six articles that asked Chiang to accept and guarantee the implementation to only the Song brothers and sisters to guarantee it; He also changed the conditions of the six propositions of withdrawing troops first and releasing the seven gentlemen to as long as Chiang ordered the withdrawal of troops.
On December 26, Zhang Xueliang accompanied Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, and the Xi'an Incident was resolved peacefully.
Although the Xi'an Incident did not really achieve the desired goal of Zhang Xueliang and **, it also ended the civil war that lasted for ten years and laid the foundation for the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
A new page has been turned in history!
(End of Volume 1)
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