Chapter 38: The Xi'an Incident (3)
At the same time as the Huaqing Pond action, the Xijing Guest House in Xi'an is one of the few high-end hotels in Xi'an, with complete facilities and elegant environment, specially used to entertain all parties who come to Xi'an, celebrities and wealthy businessmen.
The Nanjing military and political officials who arrived in Xi'an with Chairman Chiang naturally did not have the qualifications to live in Huaqingchi, so they had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and stay at the Xijing Guest House.
This also brought convenience to Yang Hucheng's 17th Route Army, focusing on the arrest of these military and political officials, in the early morning, the quiet Xijing Guest House, suddenly surrounded by a large number of armed soldiers, here on duty and standing guard, it was originally Yang Hucheng's troops.
The members of the national government who were woken up from the sweet dream opened their eyes in a daze, their heads had been held against the muzzles of several black holes, and the room was full of soldiers with loaded guns.
These members of the Nationalist Government, including Chen Cheng, Wei Lihuang, Yang Yongtai, etc., were all gathered in a large room, surrounded by soldiers with loaded guns, and some people proposed to see Zhang Xueliang or Yang Hucheng, but helplessly, these soldiers didn't care about you at all.
Some of the officers, seeing their identities, disdained to deal with these ordinary soldiers, and were about to rush out of the room angrily to find Zhang Yang to theorize, but as soon as they arrived at the door, they immediately retreated back, and a few black muzzles were on their chests.
These members of the national government were dazed and panicked, and no one knew what their fate was, only that they had become prisoners, and their lives were in the hands of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng.
Yang Hucheng's 17th Route Army, when solving the armed forces of the Central Army of the other Nationalist Government, did not bother much, they were all in their sleep, surrounded and disarmed, and almost did not encounter resistance, only when they solved the third regiment of the military police, there was a fierce gun battle.
Jiang Xiaoxian, commander of the Third Regiment of the Military Police, was an extremely hostile and arrogant person who hated the Chinese Communists and was arrogant, and he faithfully carried out all the instructions of Chairman Jiang and regarded him as Guigao, because he was a noble member of the system, and he usually did not look down on the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army, which belonged to the miscellaneous series.
The officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army all said that the Third Regiment of the Military Police was the palace of the king of Hades, standing in and lying out, and being able to leave half a life and a breath left, that was the grace of the king of Hades.
Therefore, the two sides formed an insoluble grudge, usually when they met, their eyes were on fire, and when they heard the shouts of the 17th Route Army outside, the fire in Jiang Xiaoxian's heart came out, let him disarm, I'm phew! Call me, the gendarmes of the 3rd Regiment of the Gendarmerie, grab their weapons and fire first.
After a fierce battle, the third regiment of the gendarmerie could not stand it, and finally raised the white flag, the casualties of the gendarmes were not large, but the regiment commander Jiang Xiaoxian was shot indiscriminately, was shot several times, and was killed on the spot.
This was also the most intense of the few bloody clashes in the Xi'an Incident, and Jiang Xiaoxian also became the highest-ranking officer in the Nationalist Government system who was killed by Zhang Yang's troops in the incident.
At dawn, the sporadic gunfire in the whole city could no longer be heard, and the armament of the national government system stationed in Xi'an had been completely resolved, and the city of Xi'an was completely in the hands of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng.
Xincheng Building, the temporary headquarters of the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, who did not close their eyes all night, breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, opened their bows and did not turn back, what they were most worried about was that in the chaos of the army, Chiang Kai-shek's life was in danger, if the soldier killed Chiang Kai-shek on the spot in order to vent his dissatisfaction, it was possible.
If that happens, it will go against the original intention of the two of them to launch a "military admonition", and it will also make the situation dangerous and complicated, and it is very likely that China will immediately fall into a large-scale civil war, and they hope to achieve their goal without bloodshed, or with as little blood as possible.
Now, Chiang Kai-shek was detained in a room on the third floor of the Xincheng Building, under strict protection, and neither Zhang Xueliang nor Yang Hucheng had any intention of meeting Chairman Chiang.
According to the prior plan, after the arrest of Chiang Kai-shek and the control of Xi'an City, he immediately sent a telegram to the whole country, explaining the purpose and requirements of launching this "military admonition."
The telegram listed a total of eight political proposals: 1. Reorganize the Nanjing Nationalist Government, accommodate all political parties, and be jointly responsible for saving the country; 2. Stop all civil wars and keep the guns on the outside; 3. Immediately release the arrested patriotic leaders in Shanghai, namely the "Seven Gentlemen" headed by Shen Junru; 4. Release all political prisoners; 5. Opening up the people's patriotic movement; 6. To guarantee the political freedom of assembly and association of the people; 7. Earnestly follow Premier Sun's medical advice; 8. Immediately convene a National Salvation Conference to discuss the great plan to resist foreign enemies.
Once the power is issued, it is no less than a bombshell, stirring up an uproar and a monstrous wave in the delicate and complicated and intertwined domestic situation.
There are political factions, local forces, and those who have their own agendas, and those who are filled with righteous indignation, those who are stunned, those who are incredulous, those who wait and see, those who gloat, those who fish in troubled waters, and those who rob while the fire is hot, and so on.
The Xi'an Incident quickly spread and spread to both home and abroad, and newspapers all over the world reported in detail the shocking news of the Xi'an Incident in a conspicuous position on the front page, with the "Yomiuri Shimbun" in Tokyo, Japan, being the most sensational.
According to the news sent back by our correspondent in China, Chiang Chung Zhengjun, the head of the Republic of China and chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT), who was detained in Xi'an a few days ago, was shot dead by the rebels and his body was left in the suburbs of Xi'an.
The intentions of the Japanese authorities are clearly revealed, that is, they want to add chaos to chaos, and China will be divided into several as a result, and the local forces in an independent or semi-independent state are the best, and they can calmly clean up one by one.
Or if a civil war breaks out, all kinds of forces are fighting to the death, and their vitality is greatly damaged, and it is best that China's army is consumed in the civil war, and they will save a lot of energy, hoping to take the opportunity to expand the Chinese civil war in order to realize their ambition of destroying the whole of China.
On 15 December, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoyo Matsuoka convened reporters from various countries in Tokyo to hold a news conference, at which Yoyo Matsuoka, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor and the Government of the Imperial Japanese Empire, expressed deep concern over the military incident in Xi'an.
On behalf of the Imperial Government of Japan, he issued a solemn statement, in which he stated: "His Majesty the Emperor, that is, his own government, is extremely concerned about the events that took place in Xi'an, and it is unheard of in the history of the world to commit such a crime. ”