At 4 o'clock in the morning on December 12, 36, the senior generals of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army had gathered at the Northwest Bandit Suppression Headquarters for a meeting the night before, but did not return to the barracks.

Last night, they were summoned together by Zhang Shaoshuai and Commander Yang Hucheng, and then, when the generals were defenseless, Zhang Shaoshuai suddenly announced that he would launch an army in the early morning of the 12th.

It is only thirty kilometers from Xi'an to Huaqing Pond, where Commander Chiang lived in Lintong. The commander of the 1st Cavalry Division has been ordered to lead the 1st Cavalry Division to Lintong to capture Commander Jiang at 3 o'clock in the morning, and there are still more than a dozen officers accompanying Commander Jiang in Xi'an City.

Major Marshal Zhang directly gave an order to everyone, ordering every general present to send their own guard troops to their respective targets at five o'clock on time to capture the corresponding targets.

Among these targets, except for Commander Chiang, who must be captured alive, the rest of the people will be killed if they resist.

Most of the generals of the Northeast Army present agreed with Major Marshal Zhang's decision, and only a few were undecided, believing that launching a military admonition at the time of this national crisis was really trapping the Northeast Army in injustice, and even more so trapping themselves in the realm pointed out by Qianfu.

It's a pity that Zhang Shaoshuai has already made up his mind, not to mention that Bai Fengxiang's troops have already set off for an hour, and it is too late to recall them now.

Therefore, the generals of the Northeast Army, who knew that they had been tied to the anti-Chiang chariot by Zhang Shaoshuai, had no choice but to accept their fate and arrange their own troops to prepare for the attack.

Seeing that the generals of the Northeast Army were receiving their own orders, the generals of the Northwest Army had no other ideas, and everyone was used to listening to General Yang Hucheng's orders. Anyway, Yang Hucheng asked everyone to fight whoever they wanted.

So the Northwest Army received an order to disarm Commander Chiang's guards outside Xi'an. Yang Hucheng's order to the Northwest Army was to try not to exchange fire without exchanging fire, not to seek to kill the enemy, as long as he besieged Commander Chiang's guards.

When the news of Commander Chiang being captured alive came, the guards naturally surrendered without a fight. And now everyone understands that the real key to this military admonition is whether Bai Fengxiang's 1st Cavalry Division can launch an attack on time at 5 o'clock in the morning.

At the same time, he was able to capture Commander Jiang alive at the first time. If Commander Chiang escapes or dies in the war, what awaits them in the Northeast and Northwest armies will be dead without a place to be buried, and there will be a stench for thousands of years.

Winters in the northwest were also very cold, and even though the stove in the headquarters was red, the air in the room was even hotter. However, the dozens of high-ranking generals present were all sweating in their heads.

Everyone looked at Zhang Shaoshuai and Yang Hucheng, who were sitting in the middle of the command room, Zhang Shaoshuai looked at the map of China in front of him with confused eyes, and everyone could not see the joy and sorrow.

General Yang Hucheng was sitting on his solid wood chair, holding a cup of tea in his left hand, and slowly scraping the tea leaves floating in the teacup with his right hand.

From time to time, I blow gently with my mouth, and it seems that General Yang Hucheng is really in his chest. Everyone saw Yang Hucheng sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, and the generals unconsciously settled their snacks.

Everyone also sat in the command room, looking at the wall clock in the command room from time to time, watching the time tick away.

"Knock, knock, knock" The wall clock on the wall rang five times, and everyone turned their eyes to the phone in front of the office.

Now everyone is waiting for Bai Fengxiang's call. Whether this war is successful or not depends on what news comes from this phone call.

At this time, in the Huaqing Pond in Lintong, Commander Jiang was living in his bedroom in the five halls of Huanyuan and woke up early, and for some reason he was always restless this morning.

He wondered if something bad was going to happen to him. "I have been indebted to the Jiang Chuebol for a long time, are they going to collect the debt?

Or maybe the Japanese think that they have completely digested Northeast China and want to invade North China again? Or is it that little ambiguity between himself and the female secretary that makes Mrs. smell something? ”

Commander Jiang thought about it repeatedly for a long time, but he didn't understand why he was upset. This kind of uneasiness had only occurred once before on the eve of the Northern Expedition.

Then came the night of Mr. Sun Yat-sen's death, and he was worried about his future and had such a bad feeling.

But now that the leader of your country, his prestige and power are even more prosperous, where can anything bad happen?

Commander Jiang took out the pocket watch next to his pillow and found that the time was only five o'clock, and the sky was not yet bright. He couldn't help complaining that this bitter cold place was not welcome, and even the sun was much later than in the south, and if it was in the south, he could get up and work in the fields at this hour.

Anyway, he couldn't sleep, Commander Jiang simply lay on the bed and imagined the mobilization meeting after dawn, what did he have to say? I don't know if Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng didn't sleep well last night?

These two guys were just dismissed from their jobs yesterday, maybe they didn't sleep all night? Hum! Just be content, I didn't swallow their soldiers directly, even if I miss the old feelings very much.

After a while, I will go to Xi'an to give a speech to the Northeast Army, which is the sixth general mobilization to encircle and suppress the Red Army.

It's not easy, after so many years, he has encircled and suppressed the Red Army five times, the first four times were defeated, and only the fifth time was a victory, but it did not achieve the expected goal.

Fortunately, after the fifth encirclement and suppression, the Red Army was already seriously injured. Now that he was hiding in the barren northwest, he finally saw the dawn of the complete elimination of the Red Army.

Just when Commander Jiang was still thinking about the lines of the mobilization order in his back, he suddenly heard fierce gunfire outside Huaqing Pond.

Commander Chiang, who had been fighting for many years, suddenly came out of his back. He could hear that the gunshots were ringing out from outside the gate of Huaqing Pool.

And almost instantly, the gunshots in Huaqing Pool also continued to sound, and the gunshots were getting closer and closer.

"It's not good, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng want to rebel!" Commander Chiang, who was experienced in politics, judged the source of the gunfire almost instantly.

Commander Jiang didn't say a word, immediately opened the door and was about to walk out of the door, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw his chief guard Qian Dajun running in from outside with an adjutant.

"Commander, let him take you out of the window and run along the rockery behind the five halls to the mountain, the brothers can't stop the Northeast Army, they sent cavalry.

The front door of the five halls is already within the enemy's range, please the commander flee immediately, I will lead people to organize a defense outside the hall, resist desperately, attract more enemy firepower, and strive to give the commander more time to escape, please take care of the commander. After Qian Dajun finished speaking, he pushed Commander Jiang and his adjutant into the room and closed the door.

Then Qian Dajun ran out of the five halls, and Qian Dajun's shout was immediately heard outside the five halls: "Brothers, the chairman of the committee is in the house, his old man is usually not kind to our brothers, and this time he has entrusted his life to us."

The Chairman's guard was just outside the city, and as soon as the sound sounded, they would soon come to reinforce us, and everyone was desperate to resist me. ”

Commander Jiang knew that Qian Dajun was boosting morale, and his guards were outside the city, but Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng were both people who had led the troops for many years, since they wanted to rebel, could the guards outside the city not be taken care of?

Don't say that the troops outside the city can't come, it's a question of whether they can protect themselves. Although Commander Jiang is old, at this time of life and death, his potential suddenly collapsed.

I saw that Commander Jiang didn't even have time to put on cotton clothes, so he wore his cotton pajamas, hurriedly put on his boots and jumped out of the back window. But after all, Commander Jiang is fifty years old, and he has not exercised for many years, so how can he compare with when he was young.

Therefore, Commander Jiang and his adjutant jumped out of the back window, and then jumped over the rockery, as long as they jumped over the trench behind the rockery, they could directly drill into Lishan, as long as there was enough time, it was entirely possible for him to turn out of Huaqing Pond from Lishan, and then he would be able to escape.

Unfortunately, when a man jumped over the trench, he was old, and he got up early in the morning and his body was stiff, and when he jumped over the trench, he did not stand firm at the edge of the trench, and his body suddenly lost his balance and fell into the trench from the edge of the trench.

Although the trench was not too deep, it was full of hard stones, and Commander Jiang fell heavily to the ground, but fortunately, his back hit the ground first, so Commander Jiang did not fall out of danger of his life.

Commander Jiang endured the huge back pain, and with the support of the adjutant, he walked towards the back of the rockery step by step.

At this time, Bai Fengxiang, the commander of the First Cavalry Division of the Northeast Army, had already surrounded the entire Huaqing Pond, and he personally led thousands of cavalry to storm the various buildings in the Huaqing Pond.

Wherever there were guards, they did not let go of the cavalry division, shouting three times to surrender and not killing, and those who resisted were shot on the spot after a strong attack.

Because the 1st Cavalry Division was already marching quickly with horsepower, and at the same time it was prepared, so the firepower was strong, and soon the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division had rushed to Commander Chiang's residence, Wujian Hall.

At this time, outside the five halls, more than 100 soldiers and staff of the guard battalion were already strictly guarded according to each building.

When Bai Fengxiang came here, the vanguard of his 1st Cavalry Division had already attacked Wujian Hall three times in a row, although most of the more than 100 guards were wiped out by the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division.

However, there were still dozens of people hiding in the five halls under the leadership of Qian Dajun, because they were afraid of accidentally injuring Commander Chiang, the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division did not attack again, but formed several layers of semi-encirclement in front of the five halls.

Although several small-scale attacks were also organized during this period, because the timid investment of troops and firepower was limited, the limited attacks were repelled by the guard battalion led by Qian Dajun.

Seeing Bai Fengxiang's arrival, the cavalry battalion commander who was in charge of the attack immediately took the initiative to ask Bai Fengxiang for his guilt, and Bai Fengxiang asked him why he hadn't attacked the five halls for so long.

The cavalry battalion commander said aggrievedly: "Division commander, you said that you wanted to catch them alive, but now they are desperately resisting, and the brothers dare not kill them?"

"Stupid, let you capture Commander Jiang alive, and didn't let you capture these guards alive. If there is anything that does not dare to die, throw me with a grenade and sweep with a machine gun. Bai Fengxiang gave the latest order.

"But behind them is Commander Jiang's bedroom, what if they hit Commander Jiang?" The cavalry battalion commander asked.

"If Commander Chiang was still in the Five Halls, he would have come out and ordered all the soldiers to surrender, so he would not have made such a senseless resistance.

These soldiers are so desperate, it seems that they are buying time for Commander Chiang, and if my guess is correct, this Commander Chiang should have escaped through the back window. Bai Fengxiang squinted his eyes and said affirmatively.