The news of Zhang Xueliang's secret arrest was not leaked out immediately, because Tu Feiyuan still had to give Shui Chongyang some time, and if he could kill Zhang Xueliang in a short period of time, it would be the ideal thing.

At that time, the place where Zhang Xueliang was under house arrest at this time was Song Ziwen's mansion in Nanjing. Because at this time, Song Ziwen was still in Xi'an to discuss the specific content of the agreement with Yang Hucheng and Zhou Weiren.

At the same time, if the Northwest Red Army joined the War of Resistance Against Unification, how to deal with the original base areas of the Northwest Red Army, and how to change the establishment of the Red Army, although it was inevitable that Zhou Weiren would come to Nanjing to meet with Commander Chiang in the end, Song Ziwen, as the vice president of administration, had to negotiate with the Northwest Red Army and Yang Hucheng first.

And it was while Song Ziwen had not yet returned to Nanjing that Commander Jiang unexpectedly imprisoned Zhang Shaoshuai in the Song Mansion. This greatly surprised everyone. No wonder even the Japanese did not find Zhang Xueliang's address.

Because everyone paid all their attention to the various military camps, prisons and secret service headquarters in Nanjing. Even Dai Li's official residence has become the target of Japanese reconnaissance, but the Song Mansion, which has no owner at home, has been forgotten by everyone, which is the legendary darkness under the lamp.

Ten days after Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned, that is, on January 5 of the 37th year, the Japanese side carried out an action to startle the snake because they could not find any trace of Zhang Xueliang for many days.

On the 5th of January, the Japanese newspapers in Nanjing and Xi'an published in a very subtle way the false news that Zhang Xueliang had been killed by Commander Chiang in Nanjing.

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was shocked. Because the Chinese people now know that Zhang Xueliang personally sent Commander Chiang back to Nanjing, although Zhang Xueliang's military mutiny was unanimously condemned by the people of the whole country, the people of the Republic of China have initially possessed the awareness of the law.

Everyone hopes that Zhang Xueliang's guilt will be judged through a fair and just trial, rather than killing him quietly. Therefore, the Chinese people are still denouncing Zhang Xueliang for Commander Chiang, and now it has only been a few days, and everyone has returned to support Zhang Xueliang and hope that he can get a fair trial.

And the false news that Zhang Xueliang was killed for no reason also made waves again in the northwest that had just been stable. Commander Jiang, who had no choice, could only arrange for Zhang Xueliang to reappear in front of the public. However, not in the capacity of deputy commander-in-chief of the National Army, but in the capacity of a prisoner.

The military tribunal of the Nationalist government prosecuted Zhang Xueliang and convicted him of a coup d'état in an attempt to subvert state power. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. However, then Commander Chiang issued an amnesty for Zhang Xueliang, and then continued to put Zhang Xueliang under house arrest.

Tu Feiyuan's plan succeeded, and as soon as the news of Zhang Xueliang's house arrest came out, the Northeast Army was fiercely divided into two factions, and the old faction, led by Wang Yizhe, insisted on the peaceful rescue of Zhang Shaoshuai.

The young officers and men of the new faction believed that it was most practical to rescue them by force, and the two sides could not fight for it again and again. In the end, the officers and soldiers of the Shaozhuang faction had too little political experience and were taken advantage of by the Japanese.

On February 2, 37, the Northeast Army, headed by Sun Mingjiu, head of the Shaozhuang Guards, and Ying Detian, Zhang Xueliang's personal secretary, took advantage of Wang Yizhe's unpreparedness to kill Wang Yizhe at his home.

Also killed were Xu Fang, chief of staff of the General Headquarters, Song Xueli, director of the Adjutant General's Office, and others.

After Sun Mingjiu and others successfully killed Wang Yizhe and other veterans, they continued to go to the Northwest General Headquarters in an attempt to kill He Zhuguo, the commander of the cavalry of the Northeast Army.

Fortunately, Yang Hucheng of the Northwest Army, Zhou Weiren of the Northwest Red Army took action and directly stopped these Sun Mingjiu and others who were killing indiscriminately.

When Yang Hucheng and Zhou Weiren pointed out to Sun Mingjiu that this was a conspiracy of the Japanese, they found that the officers and soldiers of the Shaozhuang faction who had been fooled regretted it.

But the big mistake has been made, and it was at this time that the old and new factions of the Northeast Army finally split. Among them, Wang Yizhe's old army defected to the Northwest Red Army, and a small part of He Zhuguo's army defected to the Northwest Army.

Seeing the civil strife in the Northeast Army, where would Commander Chiang let go of this good opportunity to annex the Northeast Army, under the premise that Commander Chiang paved the way with money again, the Northeast Army, which had long wanted to climb another high branch, whether it was a new faction or an old faction, began to throw a flattering eye at the Central Army.

At this time, Yang Hucheng was also removed from his post by Commander Jiang and investigated, and was forced to go abroad for investigation, and then the officers and soldiers of the 17th Route Army also began to throw themselves into the arms of Commander Jiang.

Some generals even went directly to Nanjing to declare their allegiance to Commander Chiang. Commander Jiang looked at the so many generals of the two armies who wanted to defect to him in front of him, and he was also very proud in his heart.

Commander Jiang did not expect that after the Xi'an Incident, he would be a blessing in disguise, although he let the family capture alive and lose face, but in just three months, he did not spend a single shot to annex the two most powerful warlords in China, the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army.

It is a pity that the civil war was stopped, and the unanimous agreement with the outside world was signed and announced, and the people of all ethnic groups in the country were thus more united, and their prestige and status not only did not decline, but rose to the top.

Although I always feel that if the Red Army in the Northwest is not eliminated both physically and mentally, sooner or later it will be a big problem for the henchmen.

However, the hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army and Northwest Army have let themselves be cleaned up, and the 100,000 Northwest Red Army is not missing, as long as they dare to join the ranks of the National Army, it is not a matter of minutes to annex them.

Just like the annexation of those miscellaneous armies in the past, when the Northwest Red Army joined the ranks of the national army, and saw this flowery world every day, were you afraid that they would surrender if they didn't tie their hands?

After so many years, his money has paved the way, beautiful women accompany him, and how many enemies have he eliminated for him with his unstoppable three-plate axe?

I don't believe that the Red Army of the Northwest did not throw itself into my arms like other warlords?

yes, why didn't you think of this before? knew that the encirclement and suppression were encircled and suppressed, and as a result, they lost their own troops, and the Red Army did suppress more and more, and let the Japanese take advantage.

In the past, I regarded the Red Army as a beast of prey, so why did I forget what my ancestors said, it is better to deal with floods than to be sparse?

Fortunately, it is not too late to come back to my senses, and it just so happens that the Red Army is going to send Zhou Weiren to negotiate with me, so I will treat them well and let them rest assured of me, and I will deceive them in first.

As long as the Red Army joins the united front, then I want to mix it with sand or mud, and I don't knead it as much as I want.

Commander Jiang, who finally figured out the key here, laughed heartily in his office for the first time.

Who would have thought that less than three months after Zhang Shaoshuai was arrested, the powerful Northeast Army would fall apart. At this time, even if Commander Jiang released Zhang Xueliang, he would also be a bare-bones commander. It is simply impossible to make much more waves.

At the end of February of the same year, Zhang Xueliang was personally escorted by Dai Li of the Military Command Bureau to the China Travel Service in Xuedou Mountain, Xikou Town, Fenghua, Zhejiang, Commander Chiang's hometown.

And with Dai Li's move, intelligence departments all over the world knew Zhang Xueliang's specific whereabouts.

When Zhang Xueliang had just arrived at the China Travel Service in Xuedou Mountain, Xikou Town, Fenghua, he had not stayed for a few days, and the Wang Mansion in Nanjing took advantage of the opportunity that Wang Jingwei was not in the Wang Mansion for a few days when he went out to visit friends.

Under the pseudonym Liu Zhiguo, the head of Japan's Nanjing spy Zishui Chongyang, in the lobby of the Wang Mansion, was inviting several Japanese guests to tea. After taking away the housekeeper of the Wang Mansion.

Shui Chongyang said solemnly: "A few people have worked hard, we finally have Zhang Xueliang's whereabouts, and now the generals of the Northeast Army are actively mediating with the national government, we can't let them reach an agreement, so it is urgent to kill Zhang Xueliang." ”

"Vice President Shuishui should know that we came to Nanjing this time to kill Zhang Xueliang and revive the prestige of our Black Dragon Society. You just give the order, this time our four elders will strike together, and we will definitely not miss." Just wait for our good news. An old man in a black suit said.

"Mr. Hetian, don't be careless, our Black Dragon Society has suffered a lot of losses in China in the past few years, and there are only eight of the sixteen elders of the two sects inside and outside the Black Dragon Society, who have only died in China.

So you must succeed this time, and you can't make any mistakes, if our Black Dragon Society fails again this time, then the prestige of the first gang in Japan will be ceded to the Taiping Society. Chongyang said solemnly.

"The salted fish of the Taiping Society can't turn over, even if there are no four of us, the strength of the Japanese Black Dragon Society alone can still stabilize the Taiping Society.

And before we came here, Toushan Man's advisor had already told us to act when the opportunity was taken, and if we couldn't do anything, we should take the preservation of strength as the first criterion.

In the past few years, our Black Dragon Society has been hit hard repeatedly, and it is true that we can no longer afford the loss of high-end combat power. So although we are the main force of the assassination this time, we hope to get the help of your Nanjing agents.

It's best that you also set up an assassination team, we have a two-pronged approach, once we miss, you will attack it, in short, killing Zhang Xueliang is the most important thing, as for the lives of a few of us, we don't care about it. Another old man in a white suit said.

"Oops! How can this be, I will not let you be the personnel of the first wave of operations, it is like this, when Li Tie was assassinated in Xi'an a few months ago, all the agents of our Nanjing Department were wiped out.

The new agents are not familiar with the situation in China yet, so I have asked Miss Nanzo Yunzi from the Shanghai Department to bring someone over herself.

This time it will be their Shanghai department that will carry out the assassination, and we will serve as a reserve. In addition, General Dochihara also took this assassination very seriously, and he had already sent us a few sharpshooters from the military headquarters.

It is estimated that we will arrive in Nanjing in a few days, and as soon as these gunmen and the people from the Shanghai Department arrive, we will immediately set off for Fenghua, and this operation has so many imperial elites participating, I believe we will succeed. "Chongyang on the water is full of confidence.

"We also believe that the agents of the Empire are invincible." Several old men in suits said.

"In order to wish us victory, I toast you with tea instead of wine." Chongyang said with a smile.

"Cheers!" Everyone drank the tea in their cups, unbeknownst to them, a round iron pipe secretly leading to the basement in an inconspicuous corner of the living room.

At this time, in the basement of Wang's Mansion, the housekeeper who had just been taken away was also drinking tea while listening to their conversation with Chongyang on the water.