Chapter 331: The Xi'an Incident
Bai Fengxiang really experienced harm, he had just come to the five halls, and just by virtue of the fierce resistance of the guards here, he counted the fact that Commander Jiang had escaped.
"Ah, Commander Chiang has fled, what should the brothers do? Is this a mission failure? Will the young marshal shoot us in a fit of rage? The cavalry battalion commander panicked.
"Afraid of what? This Huaqing Pond has long been surrounded by our cavalry division, and it is difficult for him to fly with his wings. Just as Bai Fengxiang was still explaining, he suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from the door of the five halls opposite.
"Master Bai, it turned out to be the team you led. Let me tell you the truth, Commander Chiang has already calculated that you are going to rebel? Commander Jiang quietly left Huaqingchi last night to move troops to Luoyang.
Surrender quickly, and then counterattack Zhang Shaoshuai with me, and strive for a chance to make meritorious contributions, otherwise you will wait for our reinforcements to arrive and clean you up. Qian Dajun in the five halls played with Bai Fengxiang and played a heart-attacking technique.
When the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division were attacking, they were shocked and looked at the division commander with puzzled eyes. Bai Fengxiang smiled:
"General Qian, don't be alarmist. Since last night, all of your entrances and exits have been under full surveillance by my men.
Don't say that Commander Jiang didn't leave last night, not even one of the rats in your five halls came out.
I don't think you have to hold on, the reason why you are here to delay the time is not because Commander Jiang has escaped through the back window at this time.
You can support so far that you are very worthy of Commander Chiang, everyone just wants Commander Chiang to stop the civil war, unanimously to the outside world, I believe that the guards on the opposite side are also backbone Chinese, don't you want to stop the civil war and drive the Japanese out of China together? "Bai Fengxiang's heart attack technique is also very effective.
As soon as his words fell, there was a burst of agitation in the five halls, obviously many guards heard that Commander Jiang had fled, and they were also a little moved and didn't want to fight with the Northeast Army.
Qian Dajun saw that the army's heart was fluctuating, and immediately opened the topic: "What Master Bai said is so unreasonable, as the so-called people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, who knows if your persuasion to surrender is true or false."
In case we surrender and you shoot us all, who do we go to reason? As soon as Qian Dajun said this, the guards also thought so, and immediately grabbed the gun in their hands again, at this tense moment, there was no gun insurance in their hands.
Bai Fengxiang saw that Qian Dajun, the diehard loyalist of Commander Jiang, was really cunning, and at this time, he still wanted to pull a few pads on his back when he was dying. It's too lacking in morality.
"Qian Dajun, I don't know if it's really you outside the door, I heard that you often play the trick of double shaking, you yourself ran away, and you really found someone who can learn your voice to talk to me here.
If you are really inside, you can stretch out your military boots to show me, if you are really inside, it will not be difficult for me for you, I will immediately take someone from other places to search for Commander Chiang in the back mountain.
If you're not in there, and just find someone to play with, then I'll have to order the brothers to throw grenades into the five halls. When the time comes, don't blame me when you go to report to Lord Yama. β
Qian Dajun didn't know what to think, hearing Bai Fengxiang's intimidation method, maybe he was really afraid of dying without a corpse, and he really stretched out a foot from behind the door, meaning you see, this is a boot that can only be worn by an authentic general. I haven't run yet, so keep your promise and go somewhere else.
It's a pity that Qian Dajun was fooled, Bai Fengxiang was a famous bandit in the Rehe area before he became a soldier, and there are many crooked ways of bandits.
Seeing Qian Dajun stretched out one foot, Bai Fengxiang suddenly pulled out two box cannons from his waist and fired at the door.
In a matter of seconds, forty rounds from the two box cannons knocked dozens of holes in the walls and door panels behind the doors of the five halls.
As soon as Bai Fengxiang's gunfire stopped, he heard a terrible shout coming from the five halls: "General Qian has been shot, hurry up and treat him." β
Then the men of the 1st Cavalry Division shouted that they would not kill their guns and rushed into the five halls without resistance.
As soon as Bai Fengxiang saw that the five halls had been occupied, he immediately led people into the five halls, and at the gate of the five halls, Bai Fengxiang glanced at the back of the door, only to see Qian Dajun, who had been shot a few times, looking at him with his eyes open.
Bai Fengxiang glanced at Qian Dajun apologetically, and said helplessly: "It's all their own masters, and I hope General Qian won't blame me for deceiving you." β
Then Bai Fengxiang ordered the officers and soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division to immediately send Qian Dajun to the hospital of the Northeast Army for treatment, and whether he could survive or not depended on his luck.
After arranging Qian Dajun, Bai Fengxiang broke into Commander Jiang's bedroom with his entourage, and sure enough, as Bai Fengxiang expected, there was no trace of Commander Jiang in the bedroom at this time.
Bai Fengxiang put his hand into the quilt on the bed, and found that there was still residual warmth, he couldn't help but smile slightly, and ordered: "Commander Jiang hasn't run far yet, immediately block the back mountain and search the mountain." β
Bai Fengxiang personally jumped out of the back window and led a group of soldiers to first jump over the trench behind the rockery, where they found another shoe dropped by Commander Chiang.
Seeing this shoe, Bai Fengxiang became more confident. He immediately arranged for the soldiers to begin a fan search along the hill. He re-entered Commander Chiang's bedroom and began to rummage through the cabinets to see if he could find useful information.
At five o'clock in the morning, a large number of troops were sent out from the various garrisons of the 17th Route Army and the Northeast Army.
These troops first stormed the hotels and mansions where some important Kuomintang officials lived in Xi'an, and then took control of the main transportation routes and telegraph offices in Xi'an.
The sporadic gunshots in Xi'an City made the citizens in Xi'an feel that something was not good today, so many timid and fearful citizens have told each other that they should not go out easily, because today's Xi'an City is not destined to be a stable Xi'an City.
Compared with the sporadic gunfire in Xi'an, the gunfire at the garrison of Commander Chiang's guard outside Xi'an was much more intense.
It happened that Wei Lihuang drank too much last night, so he slept in the guard's station, and before he got up early this morning, he was woken up by the soldiers on duty. It is said that the outside of the garrison has been surrounded by tens of thousands of troops.
Wei Lihuang immediately jumped off the bed in fright, and when he used his telescope to find out that the army opposite was the Northwest Army, Wei Lihuang immediately shouted in his heart that something was wrong. Commander Chiang was in danger.
Therefore, Wei Lihuang, who was eager to save the guard, was not afraid because the Northwest Army was already covered all around, and he personally led thousands of guards to concentrate all the superior firepower and planned to break through from the front.
It's a pity that the Northwest Army on the opposite side has already received a secret order from General Yang Hucheng, and General Yang Hucheng has long been guarding against this, so General Yang Hucheng placed hundreds of mortars and mountain artillery in front of the Kuomintang guards.
When Wei Lihuang wanted to break out of the main gate with high spirits, hundreds of cannons attacked together, blowing up Wei Lihuang dizzy, only three salvos, Wei Lihuang's thousands of men and horses were bombarded by the artillery before they rushed out of the station at the gate.
And the Northwest Army did not pursue, but besieged Commander Chiang's guards, as long as they did not leave the gate of the garrison. The two sides were at peace.
Wei Lihuang, who had previously bombarded others with cannons, was bombarded by hundreds of cannons for the first time, and he was also very depressed. He knew that he couldn't save Commander Chiang.
Seeing tens of thousands of troops around him, and hundreds of cannons facing him, it was impossible for him to escape. He could only calm down and wait for the latest orders.
At the same time, he prayed in his heart that Commander Chiang would be auspicious, as long as Commander Chiang was not captured alive, with his call and strength, as long as he waved his arms, the coup d'Γ©tat of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army would immediately become invisible.
Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that the current Commander Chiang was also hiding in a bush and praying the same prayer. And the content of Commander Chiang's prayer was similar to his.
Commander Chiang was praying that his guards would be able to break through the blockade of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army to come to the rescue.
In fact, they didn't know that at this time in Xi'an, all the pro-Chiang personnel and departments had been controlled by Zhang and Yang's troops. Even Commander Jiang's entourage, such as Chen Cheng, Chen Tiaoyuan, Jiang Dingwen, etc., have been captured alive.
Of course, there are also more unlucky people such as Shao Yuanchong, who saw that some rebels were arrested, and either violently resisted or jumped out of the window to escape, only to be killed on the spot by the rebel soldiers, or seriously injured and died after being shot.
When the clock pointed to six o'clock in the morning on the 12th, all the generals in the Xi'an Northwest Bandit Suppression Headquarters, who had been waiting impatiently, were eager to smash the wall clock and telephone in front of them.
This damn wall clock is going so slowly, why doesn't this damn phone ring? The replies from the various action teams have now been returned.
Both the arrest of important Kuomintang members in the city and the encirclement of Chiang's Commander's Guards outside the city went very smoothly.
However, only the most important news of the capture of Commander Chiang alive has never come back. What happened to Bai Fengxiang, who has always used his troops quickly, today. What should I do if something is rubbing like this?
Just when everyone was about to collapse, I heard the phone ringing in front of the desk. Zhang Shaoshuai, who had been with empty eyes, suddenly regained his brilliance.
He grabbed the phone in front of his desk, only to hear Bai Fengxiang's excited annunciation on the phone: "Report to the young marshal, Commander Jiang has been captured alive by us, he is hiding in the grass at the tabby stone in Xixiuling, it was several soldiers who were in a hurry to enter the grass and bumped into it by mistake." β
As Zhang Xueliang put down the phone, he immediately shouted loudly: "We have succeeded, we have captured Commander Jiang alive." The civil war was stopped, and the unanimous desire to the outside world was to be achieved. β
The office immediately resounded with earth-shattering cheers, and these veterans who had led the army for many years had not cheered so unbridled for a long time.
The preparations that have been made for several days have finally been completed, there is hope for returning to the northeast, and there is hope for the Chinese people to drive out the Japanese devils.
Just when everyone was still celebrating enthusiastically, everyone found that General Yang Hucheng drank the tea in his hand in one gulp, and then slammed the teacup on the ground.
Then, just when everyone was wondering what General Yang had to order. I heard him shout, "Help me up." Lao Tzu's legs are numb. β