On the same day, major domestic newspapers also published Zhang Xueliang's remarks to Chinese and foreign reporters at Union Hospital.

"On the night of the 18th, the Japanese army suddenly attacked Shenyang and occupied it and the rest of Manchuria into a single combat operation, which was completely unjustified and unprecedented. This incident has been instigated in Japan for several weeks, and it was carried out at a time when China was torn apart by floods, complications and civil war. After Yu saw that the Japanese army planned to have some kind of action in Manchuria, he ordered his subordinates that if the Japanese army attacked, the Chinese military and police must not resist, and the ordnance and ammunition must be stored in the warehouse. When the news of the Japanese attack came, they immediately ordered the ordnance to be confiscated and no retaliatory action to be taken, so when the Japanese opened fire and bombarded Beidaying and other places with artillery, the Chinese army did not retaliate in an organized manner. According to the Japanese side, there is a direct reason for their move, but the fact that the whole world has seen that they had caused war before the incident proves the hypocrisy of this statement. The Japanese side has now launched a campaign, but the Chinese side has no intention of being a belligerent group, and China only seeks the judgment of public opinion in the world and hopes that justice will be upheld. ”

Zhang Xueliang's interview with Ta Kung Pao and his remarks to Chinese and foreign reporters clearly showed Zhang Xueliang's views on the nine papers. The level of awareness of the 18th incident, and his response measures. That is, "no provocation," "no conflict," "no retaliation," and "no resistance" to the out-and-out and outright, and only to seek "the judgment of public opinion" and "the upholding of justice" throughout the world, and he believes that this is the best way to deal with this incident.

On the same day, Zhang Xueliang issued a telegram, in which Zhang Xueliang solemnly stated: "...... The Northeast Frontier Army Commander's Office and the Liaoning Provincial Government are unable to exercise their functions and powers, so the Northeast Frontier Army Commander's Office and the Liaoning Provincial Government are hereby temporarily set up in Jinxian County, with Zhang Zuoxiang acting as the commander of the Northeast Frontier Army, and Mi Chunlin as acting chairman of Liaoning Province.

As soon as Zhang Xueliang's telegram to the Nanjing Government and his interview speech were released, domestic public opinion and the students immediately exploded, and they really understood at this time that a large area of the Northeast had been lost overnight, and that it was the Northeast Army that had been ordered not to resist the countrymen, and in particular, the students' grief and indignation suddenly turned into full anger, and the news media and the students who were demonstrating in various places turned the spearhead of their attacks to Zhang Xueliang......

The news media in the Pingjin area were better, and when they criticized Zhang Xueliang, they saved Zhang Xueliang some face, but the news media in central and southern China were not as literary as the news media in North China, and many newspapers and periodicals published articles that scolded Zhang Xueliang as a "general who did not resist" and "a traitor." During the march, the students in Shanghai even shouted slogans demanding that the Nationalist Government remove Zhang Xueliang from his post as deputy commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force of the Republic of China, and remove him from his post and investigate him.

However, explosive news soon came out of some small newspapers. The general content of the message was, 'According to well-informed sources, nine. On the night of the 18th Incident, the reason why Zhang Xueliang ordered that the Northeast Army should not be allowed to resist was because he received a secret telegram from Chairman Chiang in Nanjing instructing Zhang Xueliang not to resist the Japanese army's provocation, and this secret telegram is now on Zhang Xueliang's body. In order to maintain Chairman Chiang's prestige and prestige, Zhang Xueliang is now enduring humiliation and carrying the black pot for Chairman Chiang. ’

Moreover, according to the so-called sources, in order to maintain the prestige of the leader, Zhang Xueliang vowed that no matter how much he was wronged, he would never admit that he had this secret message, let alone show it to others.

The news immediately poured a scoop of cold water into boiling oil, and immediately exploded, and public opinion throughout the country was in an uproar again, and the spearheads of the students and the media pointed at the Nationalist Government and the Guangzhou Government one after another, demanding that the Nationalist Government and the Guangzhou Government strike a boycott of the army and make peace, unite with the outside world, and recover the three northeastern provinces by force.

This time, the Nanjing government appeared very calm, and only a brief statement was issued by the Central Daily. In the statement, he said that Chiang Kai-shek only received the news of the Japanese invasion of Northern Mongolia on his way to Nanchang on 19 September, and that the so-called secret telegram on the night of the September 18 incident was completely false. …,

Immediately afterwards, the Nationalist Government issued a telegram accusing the Kwantung Army of launching the Nine. At the same time as the 18th incident, the 9th is emphasized. The 18 Incident was only committed by the Kwantung Army, and the Japanese Government did not support it, and instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to actively negotiate with the Japanese side. In addition, the Chinese diplomats in Brussels have been called to appeal to the League of Nations, hoping that the people will remain calm and wait for diplomatic mediation.

However, there is still such a paragraph in the electrification, "The red bandits that endanger the survival of the nation must be eradicated." In other words, although the foreign enemy has invaded, the CCP will never relax.

On the second day after the Nationalist Government sent a telegram, the Shanghai Provisional Central Committee of the CPC issued a telegram on 18 September, calling on the vast numbers of patriotic compatriots to resolutely resist the Japanese aggressors, while also demanding that the rule of the Kuomintang be overthrown without relaxation. and made a resolution to "seize the disappointment and anger of the broad masses against the Kuomintang and organize them to lead them to the struggle to destroy the rule of the Kuomintang"

Chiang Kai-shek said: "To conquer the outside world, we must first secure the interior, and only by reunification can we resist insults, and those who cannot unify without a country can win over the outside." And the CCP said: "Only by overthrowing the national government of the landlord bourgeoisie can we truly carry out a national war."

The two sides pointed to Mai Mang, and no one made the slightest compromise.

In essence, everyone thinks the same, they all want to defeat the internal enemy first, so that they can devote the strength of the whole country to resist the foreign enemy without distraction. But the question is, on the premise of destroying the other party, how can the opponent be willing to compromise if he goes to the war again?

Since this is the case, encirclement and suppression and counter-encirclement and suppression must be continued. Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army naturally could not have been drawn out in large numbers to resist Japan.

However, Chiang Kai-shek's methods were much softer for the Cantonese faction. Now that the Japanese have already entered the party, the struggle within the party is different from the suppression of the Communist Party, so it is not so life-and-death. And at this time, it is impossible to say that there will be a civil war within the party again. As a result, Nanjing and Guangzhou agreed to send three people each to start negotiations in Hong Kong.

However, the negotiations were not so easy, and the conditions put forward by the Guangzhou side were very harsh, that is, Chiang Kai-shek must go into the wilderness. The two sides are fighting for the four explosions, and the key issues are certainly difficult to discuss for a while. But one thing quickly came to fruition. That is, to readjust the Beijing-Shanghai garrison organization.

The Guangdong side raised this issue because it was frightened by Chiang Kai-shek. Not to mention that Hu Hanmin's family banquet with Chiang Kai-shek was detained this time, in 29 years, Li Jishen, who was in control of Guangdong, was also invited to Nanjing to meet with Chiang Kai-shek. With such a credit index of Chiang Kai-shek, no matter how he tried to find a Chinese person, no one dared to go to Nanjing to negotiate peace with Chiang Kai-shek.

If you want to merge the two sides, go to Nanjing to organize a unified government. Unless there is a solution, the troops stationed in the vicinity of Nanking and Shanghai are relatively neutral.

The representatives on both sides thought about it, and there really was such an army that met this requirement and could be accepted by both sides, and that was the 19th Route Army.

This is because, first of all, Chen Mingshu, the head of the 19th Route Army, was on Chiang Kai-shek's side. This Chen Mingshu, when Chiang Kai-shek was still in 27 years to clarify the party, broke away from the Wuhan government and ran to support Chiang Kai-shek, and won Chiang's trust, and this time, Chen Mingshu was also one of the three negotiators in Nanjing. Therefore, his troops took over the defense of Beijing and Shanghai, and Chiang Kai-shek was relieved.

On the other hand, the 19th Route Army was the Guangdong Army, and Chen Mingshu himself was also a Cantonese person. The 19th Route Army originated from the 10th Division of the 4th Army of Ye Ting's Iron Army during the Northern Expedition. During the Northern Expedition, the Fourth Army of the Guangdong Army produced two divisions, one was Zhang Fakui's 12th Division, and the other was Chen Mingshu's 10th Division. Ninghan split, after the division commander Chen Mingshu defected to Chiang Kai-shek. The successor division commander is called Cai Tingkai. This Cai Tingkai was also pulled into the gang by fellow villager Ye Ting and participated in the Nanchang Uprising. He also served as the vanguard of the Nanchang rebel army and went south first. …,

It's just that as soon as he got out of Nanchang City, this division commander Cai cleaned up his Communist Party members and led the team to Fujian. Soon, Chen Mingshu, an old governor in Nanjing, sent a Jiang Guangnai to pack up the troops, and everyone drove back to Guangdong together. After several battles, this 10th Division evolved into the 19th Route Army. Although the old commander of the 19th Route Army supported Chiang Kai-shek, after all, the 19th Route Army was an army from Guangdong, and there were still many family members, relatives and friends of officers in Guangdong. Therefore, the 19th Route Army is stationed in Nanjing, and Guangdong is also relieved.

In this way, Nanjing and Guangzhou did not come up with many results, but the 19th Route Army received an order to take over the defense of Nanjing and Shanghai.

Chinese students have always been rich in patriotic traditions, and when the September 18 Incident occurred and a large part of the northeast country fell, it was impossible for the students not to rise up and fight. This was supposed to be a good thing, but it made Chairman Chiang feel very troubled.

On September 24, representatives of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress of various universities in Shanghai went to Nanjing to petition, and Chiang Kai-shek's diary contained the words "Shanghai students are frenzied." Immediately afterwards, more than 1,000 students from the Central University in Nanjing petitioned the Kuomintang Central Party Headquarters, and later to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Foreign Minister Wang Zhengting avoided the students because of the inconclusive negotiations with the Japanese side, which caused the students to be angry, and they rushed into Wang's office, smashed it, and injured Wang in the head.

Wang Zhengting, who felt extremely aggrieved, immediately resigned to Chiang Kai-shek, and although Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly retained him, Wang Zhengting was determined to leave his post and said that he would concentrate on doing a good job in the work of the Olympic Committee. Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to agree to Wang Zhengting's resignation.

The next day, more than 5,000 students from Fudan University in Shanghai arrived in Nanjing, together with students from Central University and Jinling University, to petition the Nationalist Government. Although Chiang Kai-shek believed that "it must be instigated by the reactionaries and have a political role." The current situation is extremely serious, internal and external troubles, forced to this point, people's hearts are fluctuating and chaotic, and the country is doomed!" However, in order to calm the anger of the students as soon as possible and to give an explanation to domestic public opinion, Chiang Kai-shek met with tens of thousands of students who had entered Beijing to petition.

In his speech to the students, Chiang Kai-shek declared, "I am also determined to live and die with the people." Zhuge Kongming went out to Xinghan, and Yue Wumu was loyal to serve the country". It is also said that the petition distracts the government and asks students to return to school; If you wish to join the army, you can be assigned to the volunteer team for training. On the same day, students returned to Shanghai in large numbers.

This comforted Chiang Kai-shek a little, and his diary said: "Isn't it the best phenomenon for young people to be patriotic and know how to abide by the law and discipline!" In the past few days, about 20,000 students from all over the country have been receiving lectures, and Yu has exhausted all his energy to cope with them. Fortunately, there was no accident, and under the influence of [receiving] a few good things, it is the most difficult and dangerous moment in the country to pass smoothly, isn't it sincere enough to move!" The diary is cloudy: "It is difficult to deal with Japan, but it is even more difficult to deal with it internally." The affairs were launched by domestic traitors, and the meat of Hu Zhantang and Chen Youren was not enough to eat!"

Although Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly met with the students and expressed his determination to resist the war, the students' attitude towards the Nationalist Government and Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing became increasingly fierce due to the lack of practical action. A demonstration group of Peking University students arrived in Nanjing. Chiang Kai-shek's diary said: "When I heard his name, I was surprised that I did not demonstrate to the enemy country, but to the government, and the reason why China was humiliated was that I tried to stop it." ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Chiang Kai-shek gave a long lecture to the representatives of various schools in Peiping and 1,200 college students from various places. The next day, the Peking University southward demonstration group marched and demonstrated in Nanjing, shouting slogans such as "oppose the government's betrayal of the three eastern provinces" and "bring down the traitorous government." The Nanjing Nationalist Government immediately took repressive measures. ”

The repressive measures of the Nationalist government in Nanjing further provoked student opposition. Students from Jinan, Beiping, and Shanghai waited at the station in large numbers, preparing to go to Nanjing to petition. …,

After Chiang Kai-shek met with the students of Wuhan University and the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Association, he wrote in his diary: "The intellectuality and rudeness of young people are very chilling to the nation. "I also remembered that CUHK students were already arrogant, and students everywhere were also manipulated by a small number of Communist Parties. "At this critical moment, if you are afraid of the pain of killing, if you are not prepared for the greatest sacrifice, how can you achieve this goal. If the bloodshed can be spared, it will be a blessing for the party and the state; Otherwise, the only way to be afraid is to be angry with the bodhisattva's heart!" Ordinary scholars still let the students who are reactionary and blindly obey all evils and ignore them, and do not punish them. Alack! Everything in the world is wrong in the hands of the elderly!"

On the same day, more than 5,000 students from various schools in Shanghai went to the city government to petition the city government to demand that the director of the city public security bureau and the staff of the city party department be punished and that the kidnapped students be released. Zhang Qun personally came forward and promised to release the students on the spot immediately, which calmed the students. However, at 5 p.m., more than 300 students went to the city party headquarters to petition, but because the main person in charge of the party department had already left work and saw that no one had received them, the students rushed into the party headquarters and smashed the city party office. Although the Shanghai Municipal Police Department has dispatched a large number of police officers to the city government and the party headquarters in recent days to protect them, because of the strict orders from above not to shoot and the students who were in the bunks have just been released by Mayor Zhang, the police do not want to cause any more trouble, so they can only stare dryly and watch as the students smash the city party headquarters.

After this incident, Chiang Kai-shek was greatly furious, believing that the students could no longer be allowed to wantonly attack the government offices, and began to discuss a solution with the relevant personnel.

That night, when discussing the repression measures, He Yingqin hesitated, which caused Chiang Kai-shek's extreme dissatisfaction. Diary Cloud: "When it comes to a critical juncture, he will be irresponsible, and he has no right to resent, this is the most hateful thing." ”

The next day, more than 500 members of the anti-Japanese and national salvation demonstration group from Beiping went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to demonstrate, smashed down various offices, and continued to go to the Central Party Headquarters to beat Cai Yuanpei and Chen Mingshu and hang them out of the door. The police fired their guns to recapture Cai and Chen. Chiang Kai-shek wrote in his diary: "The students are so tyrannical, and the ancestors are so gentle that they have uneasy the order of the whole country." How can such anarcho-laissez-faire fulfill the responsibility of building a country?"

Immediately afterwards, more than 10,000 students from Nanjing, Shanghai, Beiping, Jiangsu, Anhui, and other places held general demonstrations in Nanjing, smashing the emblem of the Kuomintang Central Party Headquarters. In the afternoon, protesting against the untrue coverage of the movement, the JoongAng Ilbo was smashed. This made Chiang Kai-shek unable to bear it any longer, and ordered the military and police to suppress it, seriously wounding more than 30 people on the spot and arresting 63 people.

Chiang Kai-shek wrote in his diary on that day: "There is no last resort, if there is no more sanction, if we sincerely want to corrupt the style of study, there is no corrective (cure) medicine, and the extinction of the race is imminent!"

Domestic politicians in the nine. After the 18 Incident, Feng Yuxiang, who was studying in Mount Tai, reacted most quickly, and immediately after the Kuomintang and the Communist Party issued a telegram, he issued a telegram, not only strongly urging the central government to resolutely stop the civil war and resist Japan, but also strongly condemning the central government's passive anti-Japanese approach.

Feng Yuxiang's telegram was immediately recognized by the Chinese people, and students in many places put up slogans to remove Zhang Xueliang and welcome Feng Yuxiang out of the mountain during the march.

On the same day that Nanjing began to suppress the bloodshed of the students, Song Zhewu also issued a telegram, in which Song Zhewu said that the Fourth Route Army had set up a Northeast Anti-Japanese Corps headed by Han Guangdi in Siping Street to resolutely resist the Japanese invaders. Song Zhewu vowed in the telegram: The Fourth Route Army will do its best to resist any foreign invasion, whether it is the Soviet invaders or the Japanese invaders, as long as they still seize an inch of the sacred territory of the Republic of China, the Fourth Route Army will not be afraid of sacrifice and fight to the death with it......

In his telegram, Song Zhewu also called for a nationwide resolute boycott of Japanese products and not doing business with the Japanese. It was the first to announce that any merchant who sold Japanese goods and did business with the Japanese would be expelled from the territory of the Northern Frontier Governor's Office.

At the same time, Song Zhewu also said in a telegram that he had resumed the establishment of Northeastern University in Taiyuan, and that Northeast students would be exempted from all fees during their studies, and hoped that teachers and students from major colleges and universities in Northeast China who had been exiled to the customs would rush to Taiyuan as soon as possible to resume classes, study in general, and contribute to the protracted War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Song Zhewu's telegram was once again fully praised by domestic public opinion.

However, the praise of Song Zhewu, in turn, aroused people's contempt for Zhang Xueliang's non-resistance and surrendered the great rivers and mountains to the Japanese army.

Since Beiyang, many generals with characteristics in China have the habit of being given the title of "praise" by the Chinese people, such as "defective general", "dog meat general", "pigtail general", etc., but now there is an additional general who does not resist in these families with the title of "praise". Moreover, the popularity of this non-resistance general is even higher, if measured by the two indicators of being mentioned by the media and his popularity among the Chinese people, "non-resistance general" has already won the first ...... among many "praise" titles.