Chapter 40: The Xi'an Incident (5)
Not only that, Yan Xishan also sent a telegram to him jointly signed by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng inviting them to come to Xi'an to discuss the righteous deeds, and copied them to the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and at the same time published them in the newspapers.
On 17 December, seeing that the Nationalist government army had already reached the vicinity of Tongguan in Shaanxi, he was afraid that Zhang Yang would be forced to press, so he released Chairman Chiang and sent a telegram to Zhang Yang.
"Han Qing, Hucheng my brother, now the national government army is pressing, my brother and the national government army a battle, it is inevitable, the war is open, there will be no safe place in Shaanxi, the safety of the Jiang family, it is difficult to preserve, then my brother's crime is confirmed, Baichuan is willing to take risks, willing to be the host, mediate, please send Jiang someone to Taiyuan, after the brother and the national government army have a showdown, welcome the brother to come to Taiyuan to discuss state affairs."
Chief Yan was a well-intentioned man, he wanted to come up with a modern version of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes", to take Chairman Chiang into his own hands, as a trump card manipulated and manipulated by him, and he also had the capital to bargain with the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and if possible, he would change Taiyuan into the capital of the Republic of China.
It's a pity that he is not Cao Cao, Chairman Jiang is not Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng are not Dong Zhuo, the wish is good, but the result is disappointing to him, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng have long seen through his face and intentions, they are not fellow travelers at all, they feel tired from the heart, and they don't even bother to reply to him with a false telegram.
This matter will not be over, otherwise, Chief Yan will definitely happily shout a few words in Qin to express his extremely excited mood.
Qin Feng, who was in Shanghai, has been closely following the situation and movements in Xi'an and at home and abroad in the past few days, and the intelligence department has closely monitored the movements of the Japanese. Therefore, people are going all out and stretching their tentacles to all corners, especially the movements of the Japanese army in North China.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoyo Matsuoka issued a statement in Tokyo on the Xi'an incident and expressed the attitude of the Japanese government, Yang Hucheng snorted lightly, the Japanese are afraid that China will not have civil strife, the neighbor's house is on fire, you carry a gasoline barrel to fight the fire, what are An's thoughts, not obvious, take advantage of the fire to rob, rob my Chinese thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, rich products is really a good dream?
European and American countries are unwilling to let China's big fat meat be monopolized by the nouveau riche little Japan, and their interests in China will be harmed, and Chairman Chiang has the value of use, and a China that maintains the status quo is in line with the interests of the European and American powers.
Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of the new Gui lineage, wishing that Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng would kill Chairman Jiang and move this big stone on the head of the Xingui lineage, without the suppression of the first strongman of the Republic of China, the Xingui line will rise rapidly, and the ambition to win the Chinese political arena will also be extremely inflated, and China will fall into a new civil war.
As for Han Fuyu and Han Qingtian, Yang Hucheng thinks he is just messing around, this trip to troubled waters, can a person like him be able to do it? If you can understand the Shandong in your hands, thank God, a good Shandong, in the hands of this kind of person, is a waste.
He also wanted to take the opportunity to make a profit, and expand his power outside Shandong Province, at the western foot of Taihang Mountain, that was to find his own way to death, and he was impatient, and he didn't know if it was the bad idea given by the senior staff under him, didn't this push Han Fuyu into the fire pit and put the road to a dead end?
It was Yan Xishan's performance that made Yang Hucheng breathtaking, this prince is definitely a generation of geniuses, good at calculation, seeing the wind and making the rudder, reaping benefits inside and out, and understanding the master of the way of thick black learning, that is, his face is thick enough, he simply has the urge to bow and worship.
On the night of Luoyang, Chief Yan was the east, and the conversation between several people at the banquet was still in his ears, and he felt that Yan Xishan had the intention of instigating and agitating Zhang and Yang, but Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng at that time were severely reprimanded at the military meeting and were removed from office.
and then was forced by Chairman Jiang to take the lead, as cannon fodder, the dissatisfaction in his heart has reached an unstoppable level, rising to the level of hatred, Yang Hucheng's words, the two of them may not be able to listen, but they have a grudge.
Yan Xishan openly sent a telegram accusing Zhang and Yang of showing it to the Nanjing side, and publishing Zhang Xueliang's telegram to him in the newspaper and selling Zhang Xueliang to the people.
In the future, Chairman Chiang will be grateful, and he will repay the favor with his chief Yan, and sure enough, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will meet each other with swords and soldiers, and the brothers will fight to the death on the battlefield.
General Xu Xiangqian, a famous general of the Nationalist Government, swung his army to the west, fought Linfen in World War I, fought in Jinzhong and Taiyuan in World War II, Chief Yan lost all his old book, and ran to Nanjing alone, Chairman Chiang did not dislike him as a general of the defeated army, and entrusted him with the important responsibility of president of the Executive Yuan.
This is equivalent to the role of the current premier of the State Council, I am afraid that during the Xi'an Incident, the good fate formed by Chief Yan was replaced by other local powerful factions, so embarrassed, especially those who have gaps in history and are entangled, have long been beaten into the cold palace by Chairman Jiang, and it is quite good to have a bite to eat.
But then Chief Yan's performance made Zhang Yang and the others laugh, he was whimsical, and even proposed to send Chairman Jiang to Taiyuan, wanting to be a modern version of Emperor Han Xian and Cao Cao, to "coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes", the trump card in hand, all directions.
He thought that everyone else was an idiot and a brain-dead, although Zhang Yang and the two were not as cunning as he was, turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands for rain, but such a simple truth, elementary school students all understand, I really don't know if this is too smart or too stupid.
On 16 December, according to intelligence, the main force of the Nationalist Government Army, which had been stranded in the Lingbao and Lushi areas of Henan, suddenly divided into two routes and approached the areas around Shangluo and Tongguan in Shaanxi Province.
Feng Jiwu, commander of the Southbound Corps and chief of staff of the Independent Division, sent a telegram asking for instructions on how to deal with the current situation and whether to take advantage of the dangerous terrain of Luling Pass to stop the Nationalist Government Army's attempt to seize Tongguan.
Yang Hucheng understood that since the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, within four days, 300,000 Nationalist Government troops had been stranded in place, without any action, and seemed at a loss.
Now, if there is a sudden action, it must be a certain person with real power in Nanjing who has issued an order to the troops, and this person can only be He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs, and he is the only one because of this authority.