Chapter 8: A Turning Point

At 08:00 on December 12, on Chang'an Avenue in Xi'an.

The gunfire stopped, and the streets calmed down. The Xi'an incident seems to be over, and the next thing is how to deal with Chiang Kai-shek. But the incident in Xi'an was only the beginning, Nanjing; **; Japan; The world is watching the continuation of this event. Shaofan's spy company was also in action, and they devised a bold rescue plan in Shaohua Mountain, which was one of the keys to Chiang Kai-shek's safe return to Nanjing.

Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng telegraphed the whole country and put forward eight proposals, mainly calling for unity and common resistance against Japan. The Nanjing government can be said to have become a mess of porridge, Soong Meiling and others tried their best to rescue Chiang Kai-shek, at this time, the National Youth League spies sent a report to the Nanjing government Song Ziwen for several days, explaining the current situation in Xi'an and asking for instructions for the next step.

The pro-Japanese faction headed by He Yingqin had already started their killing plan, and the 300,000-strong army had already circled over Xi'an with dozens of sorties of planes a day near Tongguan, and He Yingqin kept saying that he wanted to blow up Xi'an to rescue the chairman of the committee, but in fact he was Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knew that he wanted to try to blow up Chiang Kai-shek to replace him.

For this reason, Song Meiling and He Yingqin also quarreled, and then on the 14th, when he asked foreign adviser Duan Na to go to Xi'an, he brought a letter to Chiang Kai-shek, indicating that "Nanjing is a play within a play, and He Yingqin wants to conspire to seize the throne." On the 17th, the Central Committee officially announced that Zhou Enlai would be sent to Xi'an to seek a peaceful solution to the Xi'an Incident, and at the same time, it also became the target of the special service company's operation.

Seven or eight days have passed since the Xi'an Incident on the 20th, but the negotiations still did not have any satisfactory results, but He Yingqin's 300,000 troops went to Tongguan non-stop. As soon as the escalation of the incident was about to erupt, Zhang Xueliang wrote a letter to all the officers and men of the Northeast Army: Our dear soldiers: The Double 12 Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement has been brewing for a long time, and it has now been unveiled for seven or eight days. Why are we launching such a campaign? Is it for turf? No. Is it to vent anger? Neither is it. We oppose the humiliating diplomacy of the government, the country is dying, and we are still killing each other here. That's why the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement was put forward, with eight proposals. The core of our proposition is to gather the strength of all parties and factions across the country and use the general mobilization of the people to resist Japan and save the country.

Some people may suspect that the Suiyuan army has already resisted the Japanese there, and I heard that some central troops also participated there, and it was very victorious. It can be seen that the central government is already there to resist Japan, why do we still want to launch it like this? No! No! The truth is by no means that simple. The Central Army was placed between the Jin Army and the Sui Army, and there were only two divisions. Vice Chairman Yan requested 200,000 troops to aid Sui, but the central authorities replied that they could not be dispatched. However, the civil war of the Red Army in the northwest brought hundreds of thousands of troops. Isn't it clear from this fact that what they say about resisting Japan is just a way to deceive the people, and there is absolutely no real determination to resist Japan?

On the day of the Double 12 Movement, dozens of central planes were launched to Xi'an to reconnoitre, but in the bloody battle of resistance against Japan in Suiyuan, there were no Chinese planes.

According to them, it was because the weather was too cold and it was not easy for the aircraft to start, but how could the enemy's planes be launched? Maybe our planes are not good, so why do we need to buy such bad planes? And how can the plane in the northwest, which is about the same as Suiyuan, be able to start and use it? Who cannot see this deception clearly to those who have knowledge and eyes? We are all Chinese, and who does not know that the life of the plane is sacrificed to resist Japan. Because of the goal of resisting Japan, the masses were so enthusiastic. Now we have planes but they don't open to the public, so that our anti-Japanese fighters are helplessly bombed by enemy planes. Is this anti-Japanese, is this really anti-Japanese? If this is considered to be anti-Japanese, when will our four northeastern provinces, our six counties in northern Chabei, and our twenty-two counties in eastern Hebei be recovered? This is a perfunctory and deceitful anti-Japanese resistance, and it is definitely not the outright anti-Japanese resistance that we demand.

There may still be people who believe in the "theory of preparation" to resist Japan, but this is even more wrong. Let's not take Japan for a fool and think that we will prepare, and others will not prepare. To be honest, we have been prepared for less than five points, and people have already prepared to ten points, so what's the use of this kind of preparation? Isn't this waiting for others to be ready to annex our China entirely? Besides, we are never allowed to prepare. In the process of our preparations, we have been shackled tightly with economic, political, diplomatic, and military shackles, teaching us not to move our bodies or lift our heads. How can we prepare? Isn't that a dream?

Because we did not trust the theory of anti-Japanese preparations for the disguised traitors, or at least the fear of Japan, and because we saw through the fact that Nanjing's anti-Japanese resistance was a deception and at least a means of perfunctory to the people, we persuaded Chairman Chiang to change his erroneous policy with great enthusiasm. But our bold and sincere exhortations have failed time and time again. In order to obey the public opinion of the potential majority of the whole country, and to implement our proposition of resisting Japan and saving the country as well as the whole people, we have launched this Double 12 incident.

Our hope is only to gather the strength of the whole country to resist Japan and save the country, which is absolutely pure, absolutely heartfelt, without any selfishness and no background. Anyone who sympathizes with our ideas, regardless of his party or faction, we are willing to welcome him wholeheartedly.

Our aim is external, and we absolutely do not cause a civil war, and we do our best to avoid it. However, if there are traitors who go against the will of the people and oppress us by force so that we cannot carry out our ideas, then in order to sweep away the elements that have misled the country and the people and to fight for the final survival of the nation, of course we must defend ourselves and smash this evil force. It was not that we caused the civil war, but that we carried out the cleansing work of resisting Japan and saving the country.

Our dear soldiers! The facts have been placed in front of us, and our country has reached a life-and-death juncture. We must consolidate our anti-Japanese front and save the country, and fight against all the evil forces that have undermined us, so that we can realize our propositions, recover our lost territory, and avenge all our national humiliation. It is time for us to put it into practice by theory, we need unity, we need to struggle, and we must sacrifice all glorious victories.

Our foundation is the people, and we must love them with all our wisdom. What we want to implement is what we stand for, so we must be convinced of our basic theories. We need to break through all our difficulties with a spirit of recklessness, and this is the spirit and courage necessary for our loyal comrades on the anti-Japanese and national salvation front.

Our dear soldiers! Dear soldiers with a strong national consciousness, this is our time to get up! White Mountain, Black Water Soup, our glorious victory, just now, we must go to Huanglong to drink.

Our dear soldiers! Our dear soldiers, who are boiling with enthusiasm, we must sacrifice all hardships and dangers to fight for the liberation and freedom of the Chinese nation and achieve our final victory!

Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, a special agent company equipped with special equipment in the Shaohua Mountains had slowly sneaked out of the mountains and began to fight hard for this oath, they did not have a trace of political emotion, but they were carrying out a task that ordinary people could not understand for the order and his oath.

It is said that Chu Huaiyue took more than 100 soldiers of the National Youth League who broke through from Huaqingchi to Shaohua Mountain, but he did not have time to join Bai Xiaolong's department, but fortunately, when they broke through, several telegraph operators from the telegraph section of the guards broke through with them, and they also became another source of news from the central government in Xi'an. In fact, Bai Xiaolong led his troops to sneak into the suburbs of Xi'an on the 13th, becoming a sharp knife that could be inserted into the enemy's chest at any time, plus the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army, which were only concerned about the defense of He Yingqin's army in the past few days, had no time to take care of everything in the city, and besides, they also thought that the military and the central command were all controlled by them, and they would not play any tricks, so that Bai Xiaolong and Chu Huaiyue had an opportunity to take advantage of it, so that Chiang Kai-shek could still cheer on the Chinese political stage for several years.

There is a Great Wall of Han in the eastern suburbs of Xi'an, which is some distance away from the inner city of Xi'an, and it is rare for people to intersect, and Bai Xiaolong's spy company is hidden here. Not far from the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, there is a Zaoyuanfang, which is a supply base of the Northeast Army, and the technical reconnaissance platoon that operates with the spy company is observing their situation under the nose of the Northeast Army.

Zhou Sai and two soldiers lay on a small mound and looked at Zaoyuanfang with binoculars and said, "Good guy, it's a supply base." It doesn't seem small! ”

"Platoon leader, is there a car in there?" A soldier asked.

Zhou Sai said: "You're not fucking nonsense. The supply base is so good that there are no cars? Write it down: the gate opens to the south, there are two sentry posts in front, and there are searchlights and machine gunners at all four corners of the garden, and it seems that the number of men is not too much to estimate the strength of a company to guard. The base extends to the north as if it has not been fully built, and the other end of the base leads directly to Longhai Road. ”

Zhou Sai looked at it again and said, "It's an arsenal and a supply center for food and medicine. ”

The soldier was carefully recording, and Zhou Sai patted his steel helmet and whispered, "Hey! Did you write it down? ”

The soldier nodded in motion. Zhou Sai also gave a thumbs up and waved his hand to signal to leave, and the three of them quickly withdrew from the mound.

Bai Xiaolong was in a blockhouse on the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, which was a defensive structure used to garrison soldiers in ancient times. There was a fire in the middle of the tower, and a shelf was set up on it, and a marching pot was boiling, and on a closer look, it was wild vegetables and a little bit of meat. Bai Xiaolong and several classes; The platoon commander was looking at the map and discussing his next steps.

the class in the grassroots system of the National Youth League; The platoon commanders are all experienced veterans and squads in the former warlord troops; The platoon commanders are not all scholars, all of whom do not know how to fight. In previous training, these classes; The platoon commander really played a big role. For example, Zhou Sai is a good platoon commander, after graduating from Xi'an Institute of Geology, he worked as a reconnaissance squad leader in the Gui army, and later dissatisfied with the style of the warlord army, left the Gui army, and defected to Shaofan's National Youth League. If it all depends on Shaofan; Zhiyu and other Whampoa were born to hand over the soldiers, then they were very busy, that is, they had a squad like Zhou Sai; The platoon commander of the National Youth League can grow so fast.

Bai Xiaolong's spy company is a specially trained unit, in combat situations, they are all compressed biscuits and canned food to satisfy hunger, but generally only equipped with three to five days of rations, but Bai Xiaolong's spy company stayed in the Qinling Mountains for half a month, and after the Xi'an Incident, they scurried around in Shaohua Mountain and the surrounding mountains, and the soldiers had long run out of rations, so they had to take wild vegetables on the spot; wild things; As long as you can eat mountain fruits and other fruits, you will receive them all according to the order. A force of 100 people is equivalent to traveling behind enemy lines without any foreign aid for more than half a month, not only was not discovered by the Northeast Army, but also maintained a very strong combat effectiveness, which was really unbelievable at that time. Similarly, the spy company led by Chu Huaiyue also unbelievably contained a large number of reconnaissance troops of the Northeast Army near Shaohua Mountain without food and no foreign aid, and achieved the strongest cover for Bai Xiaolong's successful completion of the mission.

Zhou Sai and the two soldiers returned to the city and came to Bai Xiaolong, panting for breath, and two soldiers gulping water to quench their thirst. Zhou Sai said: "Not far from here, there is a supply center of the Northeast Army, it seems that there is only one company stationed, and there is a railway in the supply center that runs through the north gate of the center of Xi'an, and the Northeast Army has a convoy to the supply center every day to load and unload goods. ”

This news suddenly lifted Bai Xiaolong and several classes; Platoon leader. Bai Xiaolong hurriedly unfolded the map and looked at it, and Zhou Sai pointed it out to Xiaolong on the side. One of the squad leaders said, "We can use the train to get to the north gate safely." ”

Zhou Sai asked, "Then what should we do when we get to the north gate?" The center of Xi'an City is now heavily guarded, and the north gate must be the military pass of the Northeast Army. ”

Bai Xiaolong nodded and said, "What Lao Zhou said is right, the train can't be directly mixed into Xi'an City, but the action is too limited. ”

"White Company Commander!" Zhou Sai said: "We can use the military vehicles that go to the supply center every day to load and unload goods into Xi'an City, but we have more than 100 people, and I am afraid it will be a little difficult to enter the city." ”

"Military vehicles?" Bai Xiaolong looked at Zhou Sai, his face full of questions.

Zhou Sai unfolded the map and said: "The supply center of the Northeast Army is called Zaoyuanfang, and this supply center is very large, and the north is about to extend to the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty where we are now. I have observed that the convoy that comes to the supply center every day is Daqing Road, enters Zaoyuan Road, and then goes out from Zaoyuan Beifang, goes up Longhai Road to Daxing Road, and goes to Beiguanzheng Street. I suspect that this convoy was a convoy of troops that supplied Xi'an every day, and they set off from the west gate of Xi'an and entered Xi'an from the north gate of Xi'an. We can set up an ambush at the junction of Zaoyuan Beifang and Longhai Road, seize the last car, and then follow the military vehicles in front of us into Xi'an City. As he spoke, he gestured on the map, and after a while, he sighed: "The only thing about this plan is that once we start the operation, we can only complete our mission within 12 hours. ”