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Chapter 1187 Preemptive Strike (11)

December 17, Xi'an, Zhang Mansion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Xueliang, who was in a state of turmoil, was extremely shocked after reading the urgent telegram from his eldest brother Song Ziwen, and slowly walked up to the balcony on the second floor, looking at the gray sky from afar, without saying a word.

In order to avoid the outbreak of a large-scale civil war, Zhang Xueliang released his friend Jiang Dingwen yesterday and asked him to fly back to Nanjing with his sincerity and determination to resolutely resist Japan.

Zhang Xueliang believed in Reina's ability and influence, because the famous journalist and international activist Reiner had helped the Xinhai Revolution, served as a senior adviser to the Beiyang government, and also served as a senior adviser to himself and his father, and maintained a deep friendship with Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.

However, the development of the situation far exceeded Zhang Xueliang's expectations and far beyond his ability, and now not only the leaders of various factions across the country have criticized him verbally and in writing, but even all the famous and virtuous people in the intellectual and educational circles of the country have also sent a joint telegram to severely criticize Zhang Xueliang's righteous deeds and demand that he immediately release Chiang Kai-shek. Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident in the name of resisting the enemy, but in fact, he damaged the Great Wall and was a sinner of the country and the nation. ”

What completely defeated Zhang Xueliang was the declaration of the International Communist Party criticizing the Xi'an Incident, the criticism and stern warning of Zhang Xueliang by the Supreme Leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, and the statement in the public declaration issued by the Soviet Government yesterday:

"Soviet Russia has nothing to do with Zhang Xueliang in recent years, and there is nothing that can be helped, but I hope that the incident will be resolved as soon as possible. The Chinese government suspects that Soviet Russia is related to Zhang Xueliang, and this kind of suspicion is really not friendly, and the only way for Soviet Russia to assist the Chinese government is to let China know the attitude of the Soviet Russian government"!

At this point, the last glimmer of hope in Zhang Xueliang's heart was shattered, and the once strong and solid spiritual pillar also collapsed.

What made Zhang Xueliang even more worried was that An Yi, the leader of the Young Zhuang faction, who had not expressed his position since the incident and did not reply to Zhang Xueliang's three telegrams, actually sent 50,000 elites under his command to attack Hanzhong without warning, forcibly occupy Shangluo, and in the blink of an eye, cut off the existing passage in southern Shaanxi, and stationed at the Hanzhong airfield, the Southwest Air Force sent new fighters and bombers to hover over Xi'an and fly over the headquarters of the 17th Army at low altitude again and again, brazenly carrying out intimidation and deterrence without any announcement.

Subsequently, a telegram from more than 10 generals of the Sichuan army was sent again, unexpectedly saying that hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Sichuan army had made all preparations, and as long as the situation in Xi'an deteriorated, the officers and men of the Sichuan army would be loyal to the country together with the forward troops of the Anjia army.

Early this morning, Song Ziwen's urgent telegram came again, clearly informing Zhang Xueliang that Nanjing was under the strict control of Feng Yuxiang, Li Liejun, Zhu Peide, An Yi and other members of the Standing Committee, and the 16th Division of the An Jiajun was stationed in the capital and ordered to implement martial law. This means that the An Yi Group, which has always been a cold bystander, suddenly made trouble after making all preparations, and launched a thunderbolt operation in Nanjing, Xi'an and even the overall situation, not only did not give He Yingqin, who was authorized by the Central Committee to deal with the Xi'an Incident, any face, but also did not give Zhang Xueliang any face.

Miss Zhao Si came to Zhang Xueliang's side distressedly, put her arm around him, and brought him into the warm room: "It's too cold outside, it's going to snow." ”

Zhang Xueliang sighed, tightened his arms, and smiled gently: "You are not in good health, you need to rest more." Don't worry about me, I've already thought about it, so I'll go and see the chairman and talk to him again...... What about the cold pine? ”

Miao Jianqiu, who was standing outside the door, replied: "Young Marshal, an hour ago, Han Song was ordered by you to send those experts and engineers from the Syrian Military Factory to the airport, and the plane of Southwest Airlines has been waiting all night. ”

Zhang Xueliang remembered this, nodded and said helplessly: "Xi'an is too chaotic, it doesn't matter if the people in An Jiajun leave, it's okay to leave." ”

Miao Jianqiu took a step forward: "Young Marshal, since An Yi is unsympathetic and suddenly attacked the line from Hanzhong to Shangluo where the garrison of the 17th Route Army is stationed, posing a huge threat to our defense of Xi'an and the troops deployed on the Eastern Front, and daring to send planes to threaten and harass him, why don't we take more than 100 of his engineers as hostages?" Han Song was unwilling to let go of An Jiajun's ...... so easily"

"Nonsense! Don't talk about this kind of bastard in the future, don't you think it's enough for us to make enemies? No brains! Go, inform Liu Ding and them, I will go to the Gao Mansion next to the headquarters to meet Chairman Jiang, and prepare the car! Zhang Xueliang scolded harshly.

Twenty minutes later, Gao Guizi Mansion.

On the second floor of the heavily guarded small western-style building, warm as spring, Chiang Kai-shek sat straight behind the big table, without saying a word, his cheekbones and deep sunken eye sockets made his whole face look thinner, and his bloodshot eyes stared at Zhang Xueliang who was sitting opposite him.

Zhang Xueliang coughed lightly and said apologetically: "Brother, you need to eat something, your body is important!" ”

Seeing that Chiang Kai-shek did not speak, Zhang Xueliang hesitated slightly, and said in a low voice: "The plane buzzing in the sky just now was sent by Brother An Yi, and I heard that the Central Army Air Force stationed in Luoyang has stopped bombing us under the strict order of General Zhu Shaozhou, and has not come to Xi'an City to drop bombs since last night. ”

Chiang Kai-shek's eyebrows trembled, his tightly closed lips opened slightly, and he immediately understood that Zhang Xueliang's seemingly understated report actually meant that there had been major changes in the entire periphery of Xi'an and even Nanjing, with Chiang Kai-shek's understanding of An Yi, if he intervened, it would never be as simple as just sending planes, and the Luoyang Air Force had stopped bombing last night, but An Yi's planes were flying around over Xi'an City, which was enough to prove that An Yi had intervened strongly and showed a strong posture.

Zhang Xueliang added: "Brother, the younger brother received an urgent call from Brother Ziwen this morning, the third brother Ming and Mr. Rena had flown to Nanjing last night, but ...... Brother Ziwen said that the 16th Division of the An Jiajun had entered the capital and, together with the garrison, controlled the whole of Nanjing. ”

"Huh? What the...... Seeing that I am not there, is he going to openly rebel? Yes? Chiang Kai-shek could no longer sit still, stood up and asked anxiously.

Zhang Xueliang also stood up: "Brother, please sit down, please relax!" From the analysis of the contents of Brother Ziwen's telegram, it is estimated that Brother An Yi did not rebel, and he flew back to Nanjing from Baoding yesterday, and in the evening, together with Vice Chairman Feng Huanzhang, member Li Xiaru (Li Liejun), and member Zhu Yizhi, who rushed to Nanjing from Kunming, and others, issued a "Letter to the Military and Civilians of Nanjing" and imposed martial law through a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission. The younger brother guessed that there might have been a fierce battle without gunpowder in Nanjing City, and the result was that Brother An Yi had the upper hand. ”

Chiang Kai-shek, whose face changed rapidly, sat down slowly, his hands and ten fingers stirred together, and unconsciously put them on the table, trembling slightly. His face was an ugly blue and white color under heavy pressure, which was enough to show his extremely nervous and panicked mood at this moment.

"Brother, the day after tomorrow at the latest, Brother Ziwen will come here with the third brother Ming and Mr. Rena, and work hard to smoothly solve the problem of military advice, please wait patiently, do not go on a hunger strike, and do not try to order the Central Army that is slowly besieging the periphery of Xi'an to take the initiative to provoke a war. Yesterday afternoon, when the two spies of the central government stationed in Xi'an were out of the city, they were shot dead by our garrison because they evaded inspection and resisted by force, and the impact was very bad, and the younger brother was worried that he would not be able to control the anger of the officers and men of the whole army. Okay, brother, please take a good rest, and the younger brother will come back to see you. ”

Zhang Xueliang stood up and turned to leave, he was very jealous of Chiang Kai-shek scolding him again.

This time, Chiang Kai-shek did not scold his mother, but sat in his place in a daze, looking out the window at the bare branches that were constantly swaying in the cold wind, his heart was fluctuating and extremely worried.

This sat for two hours, and a few faint conversations came from outside the closed door, and the heavy door slowly opened, and Chiang Kai-shek still did not come out of the thoughts of turning over the river and the sea.

The tall and handsome Li Hansong, still wearing the uniform of a colonel of the Northeast Army, came to the opposite side of Chiang Kai-shek, put a delicate rattan basket in his hand on the table, quietly observed Chiang Kai-shek for a while, and saw that he did not react, so he could only whisper:

"Chairman, the young marshal commanded that if the chairman has any requirements, they must all be met."

Chiang Kai-shek came back to his senses, turned his head to look at the young colonel in front of him who led Zhang Xueliang's guards and Gao Guizi's guards to guard him, and then turned his eyes to the delicate small rattan basket on the table, snorted coldly, and replied indifferently:

"Take it all, why don't I want it."

Li Hansong turned around and saw that it was his henchmen standing outside the door, so he turned to Chiang Kai-shek with confidence, took out a neatly folded note from his arms, and respectfully sent it over with both hands:

"Commission, a friend entrusted his subordinates to send a small gift to the commission, please read it and put it away, so as not to let others find out. Please take care, and your subordinates have taken their leave. ”

Chiang Kai-shek didn't take the note, looked at Li Hansong and quietly went out and closed the door after saluting, frowned and thought about it, then picked up the note on the table, opened it slowly, and saw that the head of the note turned out to be the message format of the Second Route Army of the An Jiajun, the whole person was like an electric shock, suddenly stood up, glanced around nervously, and then sat down to read:

Headmaster:

Shocked to hear that the principal was in trouble, the students were anxious, and they were running for the principal to get out of trouble every day.

However, the civil strife, the pro-Japanese faction took the opportunity to seize power, and the senior members from all walks of life took the president to be more auspicious and less auspicious, and under the suspicion, they appeared one by one, clinging to the pro-Japanese faction for their own interests, controlling the government, setting up the military and political elders of the Central Committee, holding the Central Committee meeting hostage to usurp military power, disregarding the safety of the president and using the army to crusade, instigating the army under the leadership of our party and state to kill each other, and dared to scold the master and wife in the high hall of the Central Committee, forming a party and forming a faction, and the students were frightened, they had to take decisive measures to unite the patriotic and loyal generals of the armies in North China, Persuade General Baichuan and the generals of Sichuan, Hubei and Henan to defend the unity of the country to the death, be loyal to the party and the state, be loyal to the leader, and go all out to peacefully solve the Xi'an problem and rescue the principal to return to Beijing safely.

Principal, Han Qing is confused, he has remorse but it is difficult to ride a tiger, I hope the principal will forgive him for his rebellious behavior, do more collusion, and do more negotiations.

In addition, the military and political power of the Central Committee has now returned to the collective hands of the Military Committee, with General Huanzhang, General Yizhi, General Xia Ru and students leading the four people, and all military orders are issued by the collective meeting, please rest assured.

Before, our Central Army and the army of Qinwang from all walks of life were slowly encircling Xi'an, and the special meeting of the Military Commission strictly controlled this, not only to put strong pressure on the rebellion, so that the people of the world could see the importance and appeal of the principal in the country and the army, but also to pay attention to strategy to prevent the rebellion from taking risks under the heavy pressure, and ordered Brother Ziwen and the elders to fly to Xi'an as soon as possible to carry out mediation, multi-pronged, and make unremitting efforts for the safe return of the principal.

The students arbitrarily mobilized troops to be stationed in Nanjing, and this ultra vires was purely helpless, and it was not enough to deter Xiaoxiao, and I implored the principal to punish him.

Student: An Yi nodded.

Late at night on December 16, the 25th year of the Republic of China.

Chiang Kai-shek looked at it again and again, his hands trembling with excitement, and it took him a while to fold the letter transcribed on regular telegraphic paper and put it in his inner pocket.

Chiang Kai-shek took a deep breath, turned his gaze to the small rattan basket on the table, hesitated, reached out and opened the lid, a burst of fragrance came to his nose, the fragrance was so familiar, but so ethereal.

Chiang Kai-shek quickly brushed aside the covered green leaves, full of fiery red lychees came into view, Chiang Kai-shek held the basket with trembling hands, his nose was sore, and tears welled up in his eyes......