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Zhang Xueliang read Zhang Xuewu's telegram over and over again, and every sentence and word hit his heart like a hammer. This was something that Zhang Xueliang had never expected at all, but his personal pain could not be compared with the pain of the country and the nation.

At first, he wanted to kill Chiang Kai-shek to alleviate the crisis of being encircled and suppressed, because Chiang Kai-shek was the most resolute advocate of suppressing the Communists, but Stalin, who was sitting in Moscow, believed that Chiang Kai-shek was the only leader who could lead China's resistance, and Stalin was worried that once Chiang Kai-shek had an accident, China was likely to fall into a situation of warlord secession, and lacked leaders with sufficient prestige, qualifications and ability to dominate the overall situation and lead the resistance to the capital, if China was unable to resist the capital, It was said that the resources plundered in China's vast territory could be used as a reserve, and the strength to attack the Soviet Union's soft underbelly in the Far East.

The Soviet Union was most worried about the expansionist ambitions of Hitler in Germany in the West, the aggressive German Third Reich had shown its fangs and claws at the end of 1936, and the Soviet Union was unable to fight on both sides at the same time.

After many days of conversations with Mrs. Soong Meiling and Chiang Kai-shek, and Zhang Xueliang also read some of Chiang Kai-shek's notes, he suddenly realized that Chiang Kai-shek's attitude towards Chiang Kai-shek was not to appease and seek peace, but was really due to the huge disparity in national strength between China and China, and the first thing Chiang Kai-shek wanted to do was to eliminate [***] and local factional separatist forces, and unify the military and political power in the country.

Zhang Xueliang put down the telegram and walked to the window, now the Northeast Army has some signs of all kinds, the troops below are not stable, not all people are optimistic about the Northwest United Russia and the Communist Party, after all, many of the Northeast Army generals in the Middle East Road incident are still in pain, the most fundamental thing is that the policies and propositions of [***] are also disagreed with and difficult to accept by these generals, the strength of the 17th Route Army is not enough in the eyes of the generals of the Northeast Army, so Yang Hucheng naturally has no strength to speak, [*** Because of the opposition of the Soviet Union, the common comrade-in-arms became a mediator, and Zhang Xueliang became the center of the entire Double 12 Incident!

For a while, it can be said that the wind and waves are high, especially Zhang Xuewu's sentence that you and I have a grudge against me to kill my father made Zhang Xueliang finally make up his mind, Zhang Xuewu's father was killed when he was suppressing bandits, and many bandits were secretly funded by Yue himself at that time, so the death of Zhang Xuewu's father is also closely related to Yue himself.

Release Chiang Kai-shek and declare a peaceful settlement of the Double 12 Incident? Zhang Xueliang was a little hesitant, but he couldn't discuss it with Yang, Zhou, Ye and others? Ask Song Ziwen and others? I'm afraid it's not good, since the Central Army bombed Tongguan today, it also shows its attitude, Zhang Xuewu's department is obviously approaching Yan'an, but in fact it is guarding the back door for himself, so that his Northeast Army will not finally retreat and go to a dead end!

However, Chen Cheng, Shao Lizi, Jiang Dingwen, Chen Tiaoyuan, Wei Lihuang, Zhu Shaoliang and others are still in the hands of the 17th Route Army, Zhang Xueliang has realized that as long as Chiang Kai-shek is safe, the safety of these people will be guaranteed, and it seems that it is not appropriate to hold too many troops in his hands, especially this time that Kou is heavily armed, I am afraid that there is no more lack of mobile troops than Zhang Xuewu, and the officers and soldiers of the Northeast can burst out with amazing combat effectiveness when they enter Rehe, and it is the greatest wish of every Northeast officer and soldier to go back to his hometown.

The original 115th Division, the 116th Division, the 117th Division, and the 118th Division were four divisions in the headquarters of the 53rd Army, of which the 115th Division was heavily damaged in the process of advancing and suppressing, and the 115th Division number was canceled by the Ministry of Military Affairs. He Zhuguo was also transferred from the 57th Army at the time of reorganization to the commander of the cavalry corps formed separately, although there was one more army in the organization, but the strength was less than 30,000 people, and the Nanjing political axe not only did not replenish the troops, equipment and ammunition, but revoked the numbers of the 109th Division, the 115th Division, the 120th Division, and the 129th Division. This made Zhang Xueliang angry.

If it is said that he will give away his troops, Zhang Xueliang is indeed a little reluctant, cheap outsiders are not as cheap as cheap Zhang Xuewu, at least in this matter, he sees much farther than himself, and the various interests during the period are also very well balanced, Zhang Xueliang even regretted it a little, he knew this, he should have discussed more with Zhang Xuewu at the beginning, instead of avoiding him behind his back.

Zhang Xueliang decided to hand over the 53rd Army and the 57th Army to Zhang Xuewu, which can be regarded as a brother, after all, after he released Jiang this time, he also wanted to go to the United States to go abroad without asking about political affairs, Zhang Xueliang drafted a secret telegram and sent it to Yuncheng, and was directing the Zhanyang Department to attack and advance from Ordos to Yulin.

Zhang Xuewu breathed a long sigh of relief at Zhang Xueliang's final decision, and said that Zhang Xueliang wanted to hand over the 53rd Army and the 57th Army to himself? Zhang Xuewu was also taken aback? Not to mention that one of these two units was later transferred to the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the personnel composition of the 57th Army was even more complicated, and it could be said that it was indispensable compared to Wang Yizhe's 67th Army.

If Zhang Xueliang gave Zhang Xuewu the 67th Army, Zhang Xuewu would categorically refuse, but the foundation of the 53rd Army and the 57th Army was very good, especially the grassroots officers below the grassroots battalion, so Zhang Xuewu called Zhang Xueliang back, as long as he was an officer below the battalion, the two armies would be reorganized immediately after arriving in Yuncheng, and all the weapons would be returned to Nanjing Political Axe, and the troops would be transported to Rehe in the name of the military reclamation farm, but the time must be cooperated. Before the two armies were handed over and disarmed, they could never be after the Xi'an side announced the release of Chiang Kai-shek, but only before it.

Zhang Xuewu's consideration is very reasonable, the six divisions of the 53rd Army and the 57th Army plus the directly subordinate troops must have a total of more than 55,000 people, and he only needs a few outstanding battalion commanders to retain all company and platoon-level officers, so that it is convenient for him to change his outfit and reorganize training, and besides, although this batch of weapons looks red, but after all, he has not reached the time to turn his face against Nanjing, and the rebels can deal with their personnel by themselves, and the weapons must also be handed over to the Ministry of Military Affairs.

So, on January 3, under the deliberate arrangement of both sides, Zhang Xueliang also concealed Zhang Xuewu's true purpose, so at the welcome meeting, all the officers above the battalion level of the 53rd Army and the 57th Army were disarmed.

Zhang Xuewu was not angry at all, and then he detained all the members of the comrade association among the company and platoon-level officers, and sent troops to escort them back to Xi'an, which can be regarded as a benevolent and righteous to these people, because Zhang Xuewu himself knows very well that what he needs now is absolute control in the form of a warlord who reads talents, and Zhang Xuewu will never allow another organization or small group that is not synchronized with him under his command, Any small negligence will lead to tragic consequences, this Zhang Xuewu understands better than anyone else, what is learning from history? This is to learn from history!

Zhang Xuewu's tactical actions of receiving the 53rd Army and the 57th Army lifted He Yingqin's spirits, and also frightened everyone in Xi'an, but to everyone's surprise, Zhang Xueliang announced the release of Chiang Kai-shek after Yang Hucheng's secret talks and peacefully resolved the Xi'an Incident.

Zhang Xueliang's actions made [***] really relieved, but at the airport, Zhang Xueliang actually thought that he was a soldier, and he was forced to regret such an act, in case someone had ill intentions and decided to escort Chiang Kai-shek to Nanjing on the same plane?

Zhang Xueliang's actions frightened Yang Hucheng, Zhou, Ye and others, and when they rushed to the airport, the plane had already taken off! The only remaining three armies of the Northeast Army, 120,000 horses, suddenly fell into a leaderless situation at this moment, and the Sixth and Eighth Artillery Brigades in Tongguan fell directly to the Nanjing National Political Axe on the day after Zhang Xuewu left.

Zhang Xuewu thought that since the Double Twelve Incident had become resolved peacefully, and two of the five main armies of the Northeast Army had also been brought into his own hands, it seemed unlikely that the civil strife in the Northeast Army would break out? Still, Zhang Xuewu clearly underestimated the radicalism and ambition of young people.

Without waiting for the 2nd day of February and 10th of January in history, Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, Sun Mingjiu, and others of the Northeast Army's Shaozhuang faction, who did not care about the overall situation, suddenly attacked and killed Wang Yizhe, commander of the 67th Army, Xu Fang, chief of staff of the Northwest General Headquarters, Song Xueli, deputy director of the Northwest General Headquarters, and Jiang Bin, director of the Communications Division.

However, to Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, and Sun Mingjiu, what surprised them was that first of all, these Shaozhuang factions could not control the troops at all, and the entire cavalry army fell to the Nanjing Nationalist Axe, and the 10th Cavalry Division began to attack the militia formed by the 17th Route Army, and hunted down and killed [***] members and officers of the Shaozhuang faction.

The frightened Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, Sun Mingjiu and others fled to the [***] delegation residence the next day to express great repentance to Zhou, saying that they could not grasp the situation in time, etc., Zhou considered that Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, Sun Mingjiu and other three people had close contacts with Liu Ding and others on the [***] side and had long-term contacts, which would inevitably implicate the [***] personnel, so Zhou directly arranged for a vehicle to secretly send Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, Sun Mingjiu and others to the Sanyuan Red Army station, and secretly sent a letter to Peng and other leaders. The people brought by Liu Ding must be engaged in secret, and they are not allowed to meet with anyone at this time.

(To be continued)