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Chapter 1208 is chaotic

The aftermath of the Xi'an Incident finally erupted on 2 February. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Two days ago, Yu Xuezhong, chairman of Gansu Province, the principal general of the Northeast Army, learned that internal contradictions would be aroused at any time, and immediately rushed to Xi'an by plane from Lanzhou, and at the same time prepared to hold talks with Gu Zhu, director of the Xi'an camp stationed by the central authorities, to further implement the central government's resolution and agree on a time for implementation.

Yang Hucheng, the leader of the Northwest Army, supported the views of the Young Zhuang faction in the Northeast Army, but Yang Hucheng himself did not have any binding force on the Northeast Army cadres Miao Chengliu and Liu Duoquan, who supported Zhang Xueliang's tendency to the central government, and the generals of the Northeast Army's Young Zhuang faction, who agreed with the armed struggle to the end, sought to use Yu Xuezhong to replace Wang Yizhe, the general of the Northeast Army, who advocated peace negotiations, and pinned his hopes on Yu Xuezhong, who remained neutral, to return to Xi'an and lead the Northeast Army to fight to the death with the Central Army, which was pressing forward step by step.

After returning to Xi'an, he made it clear that he did not agree with the opinions of the main battle faction, and reiterated his position: Before the young marshal returned, he supported Wang Yizhe as the acting commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army.

Yang Hucheng and a cadre of the Northeast Army Shaozhuang faction officers were taken aback, so after the high-level meeting between the two sides ended at the official residence of Yizhe, the king of Xi'an City, they were disappointed, broke the jar, gathered the main battle faction in the army, secretly discussed, and mutiny again.

Obviously, the main peace faction did not pay enough attention to this, believing that no matter how the Young Zhuang faction jumped and shouted, as long as they firmly controlled and grasped the front-line troops, the matter would be finally resolved satisfactorily, and this was also the advice that Zhang Xueliang gave to the generals of the Northeast Army.

After receiving the promise of the communist delegates to "advance and retreat together," Yang Hucheng did not publish the peaceful communication voltage negotiated at the supreme meeting of the two armies, but advocated fighting and then seeking peace. The Northeast Army Commander and the generals believed that Yang Hucheng had ulterior motives, did not take care of the interests of the Northeast Army and the entire group, and tried to consume the Northeast Army and the Central Army by launching a large-scale civil war, so as to profit from it.

The high-ranking generals headed by Wang Yizhe, He Zhuguo, Yu Xuezhong, Jiang Bin, and Gao Chongmin once again advocated acting in accordance with the instructions of Zhang Xueliang's letter to Yang Hucheng on 1 January 1937, avoiding civil war, unanimating their guns on the outside world, opposing a rash war with the Central Army, and accepting the reorganization conditions put forward by the Central Committee and withdrawing from Tongguan to the north. However, the middle- and lower-level young Zhuang faction officers headed by Sun Mingjiu, Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, and others resolutely advocated that the central authorities first let Zhang Xueliang return to Shaanxi and then withdraw their troops, otherwise they would not hesitate to meet the central army and burn all the jade. In the end, the meeting broke up unhappily, and the contradiction was on the verge of erupting.

On 1 February, the generals of the Shaozhuang faction of the Northeast Army, who were advancing rapidly, took the lead in attacking, and took advantage of the convenience of mastering the guard troops of Xi'an City to send a regiment of troops to surround Yu Xuezhong's residence. He Zhuguo was furious, scolded bitterly, and finally threatened with "military law" before letting the Shaozhuang faction withdraw his troops and leave.

At this point, it is inevitable that the Northeast Army will be unavoidable.

Jiang Bin, a senior general in the Northeast Army, is a native of Yutou Village, Guhuai Township, Changle County, Fujian Province, graduated from the Baoding Military Academy, and served as a company commander, battalion commander, traffic brigade commander, and transportation director of the Northeast Electric Power Administration in the Feng Army. In August 1932, when Zhang Xueliang served as the acting chairman of the Beiping Military Branch, Jiang Bin served as the chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Beiping Military Branch, the director of the Beiping Telegraph Bureau and the director of the Military Dog Pigeon Training Institute, and other important positions, assisting Zhang Xueliang to do a lot of work. Zhang Xueliang served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Northwest Suppression Headquarters" and appointed Jiang Bin as the director of the Communications Division of the "Suppression Headquarters" to be in charge of wired and wireless communications in the northwest, and concurrently served as the director of the Xi'an Municipal Telecommunications Bureau and the chief director of the radio station. After the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, he was ordered by Zhang Xueliang to assist Wang Yizhe in commanding the troops, and he is currently the fifth person in the Northeast Army after Wang, Yu, and He.

In the early morning of February 2, Sun Mingjiu sent someone to find Mrs. Jiang Bin, extorted 100,000 yuan, and threatened to pay money to release her. It was later learned that on the evening of January 1, when the military meeting attended by Yang Hucheng and the Shaozhuang faction of the Northeast Army was dismissed, Jiang Bin had already been taken hostage by Sun Mingjiu's henchmen and put into a car, first hidden in Xi'an City, and then imprisoned in a hut on the upper floor of the Xi'an East City Gate where the guard battalion was stationed.

On the morning of February 2, the mutiny broke out, the young Zhuang faction in the city led thousands of officers and soldiers to act quickly, the whole city of Xi'an was in chaos, the gunfire was loud, the army under the command of the Shaozhuang faction who succeeded in the attack controlled the whole city, Sun Mingjiu ordered the killing of Wang Yizhe, Song Xueli, the chief of the Northwest Suppression Chief, Xu Fang, the chief of staff, and Huang Niantang, the chief of the transportation department of the Northwest Army, and other generals, and then Sun Mingjiu personally went to the city gate, dragged Jiang Bin out of the hut, and ordered him to hand over the military power.

Jiang Bin was not afraid of danger, angrily reprimanded Sun Mingjiu for launching ***, and issued the most serious warning to him. Sun Mingjiu was annoyed and embarrassed when he heard this, and fired several shots at Jiang Bin, shattering Jiang Bin's teeth, and shooting him in the chest at close range. Sun Mingjiu, who killed the red-eyed, actually ordered Jiang Bin to be buried alive at the foot of the city wall only a dozen meters away from the hut.

He Zhuguo, who was alerted quickly, escaped because he dodged in time, and two important powerful figures of the Northeast Army, Wang Yizhe and Lieutenant General Jiang Bin, died in Huangquan.

In addition to the Southwest Bank, which was heavily guarded by the Anjia army, the Bank of China and the Xi'an Frontier Bank were all looted, and if it were not for the resolute resistance of the guards and officers, the losses would be unpredictable.

The riots and looting continued until the early hours of the next morning, but Yang Hucheng, who was in charge of the garrison, did nothing.

The news of the death of Wang Yizhe and other generals reached the front line, and Liu Duoquan, commander of the 105th Division, on behalf of all the officers and men of the Northeast Army, sent a telegram to warn Yang Hucheng, claiming that if he did not arrest the rebels, the Northeast Army in front would return to Xi'an to quell the chaos. The 10th Cavalry Division of the Northeast Army stationed in Pucheng was the first to attack and disarmed all Yang Hucheng's militia regiments in Pucheng with an absolute advantage. Almost at the same time, the 106th Division of the Northeast Army stationed in Zhouzhi and Meixian also announced its service to Nanjing and seceded from the Xi'an Military Government. Immediately afterwards, Liu Duoquan's troops also turned to the various departments of the Tongguan Central Army, arrested and shot Gao Fuyuan, who had actively assisted Zhang Xueliang and the Communist Party, and other Shaozhuang faction officers, and aimed their guns at Xi'an City.

Seeing that the situation was out of control, Yang Hucheng finally issued an order to arrest Sun Mingjiu and other leading evildoers, so as to stabilize the morale of the army and save the situation of the Northwest Army and the Northeast Army falling apart. Sun Mingjiu, Miao Jianqiu, Ying Detian and others, the leaders of the Young Zhuang faction in the Northeast Army, saw that the general trend had gone, so they fled from Xi'an City overnight.

When the news broke, the whole country shook.

The whole people strongly condemned the mutiny and called for severe punishment of the murderers and a thorough investigation of the culprits. The Central Army and the Anjia Army Air Force frequently flew to the skies over Xi'an to reconnoiter and scatter leaflets, and the Yang Hucheng Department and the Northeast Army, which had intensified the contradictions and were in chaos, urgently evacuated Xi'an, and Deng Baoshan and other rebellious generals flew to Nanjing after taking the lead, reporting to the Central Committee and making clear their position of obeying the orders of the Central Committee.

An Jiajun also received an order to send troops, Yang Bin flew to Hanzhong on the morning of the 3rd, and together with Wu Liheng, he commanded the 136th and 137th Divisions of the Second Route Army to slowly go north and oppress Xi'an.

On the third day, the central government in Nanjing made a decision ordering all the units of the Northeast Army that had declared their loyalty to the central government to remain in their original defensive positions, while the rest of the Northeast Army was transferred eastward to Henan and Anhui to be reorganized. The officers and men of the Northeast Army, who were originally neutral or in the main battle, were killed by "two? The "two" incident was deeply stimulated, and Yang Hucheng turned against him, and quickly lost his trust in **. The rumor that Sun Mingjiu and the other four people were taken by Liu Ding to the Red Army garrison to avoid trouble soon became known to the senior generals of the Northeast Army, so that the Northeast Army generally suspected that these four people were instructed by the **, and it was even rumored that the surviving general of the Northeast Army was still the target of assassination. The Northeast Army was panicked, infighting broke out frequently, and the generals found that their troops were in the crater of all sides, and in panic, they all thought that they must quickly leave this barren place of right and wrong, and no one was willing to mention the call for Zhang Xueliang's release.

An Yi, who was dealing with the poisoning incident, soon received Chiang Kai-shek's urgent order to "use all forces to take revenge on Lin Yunxiang, the poisoner who was bribed by the secret service," and flew from Syria to Hangzhou on 7 February to attend a special meeting of the Standing Committee.

During the two-day meeting, An Yi was surprised to find that Chiang Kai-shek, like himself, had judged in advance the occurrence of the "22 Incident" from the various signs that had occurred in Xi'an, and on the day of the incident, he had obtained a large amount of evidence and taken a huge amount of photographs through various means, and at the meeting on 8 July, he unanimously approved the arrest of dozens of rebels, smashers, and looters in the incident.

On the morning of the 9th, at the end of the meeting, An Yi accompanied Chiang Kai-shek to see off his colleagues from various ministries and strolled side by side on the embankment of the West Lake in front of Chenglu.

Chiang Kai-shek was in a bad mood and looked solemn, and after instructing An Yi to closely supervise the eastward retreat of the Northeast Army, he asked very seriously: "I heard that on the morning of the second day of the incident, that Li Hansong led the recruits of the armored regiment and a brigade directly under the Northeast Army Command to quickly leave Xi'an, go south to Hanzhong, and devote themselves to your 137th Division?" ”

"Yes, not only one brigade and one regiment, but also a teaching regiment with a total number of more than 6,400 officers and soldiers, and the students have ordered General Wu Liheng to transfer these people to General Yang Bin for management and pacification, and General Yang Bin is responsible for reporting to the principal, and how to deal with it in the end remains to be decided by the principal himself." An Yi answered truthfully. The Northeast Army was too chaotic, and at this time, he didn't want anyone except Li Hansong in his heart.

Chiang Kai-shek's expression was much more relaxed: "Well, you handled it very well, I still have the impression of this Li Hansong, he is still loyal to the party-state, unlike the Red stragglers of the Northeast Army, who kept fleeing to ***, which is absolutely unforgivable!" I estimate that those who are lost in doctrine and go to the twilight will not have any good results when they get to ***. ”

An Yi nodded silently, his heart was very chaotic, and his mood had been bad, so he didn't say anything in the past few days.

Chiang Kai-shek didn't seem to notice that An Yi's mood was very wrong, and he was still expressing his dissatisfaction: "That Yang Hucheng is simply a red element, before and after the Xi'an Incident, this person is already a traitor to the party-state, a traitor!" This time, he panicked and led his troops to flee north, thinking that *** would take him in and give him *** Houlu, but what about the facts? Not only did he quickly clear up his relationship with the Er'er Incident, but he didn't take him in, a lost dog, but he also ended up with a dismal end of betrayal and separation, and almost became the commander of the light pole, and now he finally understands who he is, right? Hmph, I gave him *** Houlu, and I allocated him a large amount of military salary every month, but he was so obsessed with his mind that he was still obsessed with it under the repeated persuasion of the party-state...... I'm going to see what he does. ”

An Yi asked in a low voice, "Will he officially join the *** army?" ”

"Impossible! What is the biggest purpose now? Is it to negotiate peacefully with us, is to strive for unity and unity, at this time, do you think *** will provoke our central government and army for the sake of Yang Hucheng? Chiang Kai-shek asked An Yi very confidently.

An Yi pondered for a moment, let out a long sigh, and didn't say anything more. He looked at the clear lake under the gloomy sky, and his heart was even heavier.