Han Guangdi's identity in the Northeast Army was relatively special, he was not a non-commissioned officer who graduated from the Non-commissioned Officer School, because he had studied in the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and he was actually a student faction of Baoding and the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall that Zhang Xueliang relied on. In particular, Han Guangdi is also the most educated of the senior generals of the Northeast Army, so he is even more valued by Zhang Xueliang.

If Han Guangdi hadn't defected to Song Zhewu after his victory in Manchuria, with Han Guangdi's status at that time, his current status in the Northeast Army would definitely not be worse than Wang Yizhe, who is now red and purple in front of Zhang Xueliang, and it is likely to be comparable to Yu Xuezhong.

Because Han Guangdi graduated from Waseda University, and was regarded as their own person by the non-commissioned officer faction, not only the current Zang Shiyi, but also the former Yang Yuting also valued Han Guangdi. And Han Guangdi acted steadily and low-key, and the patriarchs were not disgusted with him. Therefore, although Han Guangdi was promoted quickly, he was not criticized by various factions.

After someone brought the tea, Qi Xingya finally couldn't help but ask Rong Zhen: "Counselor, what is Lin Jiujiro doing here?" ”

Rong Zhen let out a long sigh, shook his head and did not speak.

Zang Shiyi leaned over a little and said: "Lin Jiujiro is here at this time, in addition to the Nakamura Zhentaro incident, what else can there be, he is here to urge us to hand over Guan Yuheng to them as soon as possible and pay for Nakamura Zhentaro's life." ”

"Hand over Guan Yuheng? How does this work? Did you say yes? ”

Qi Xingya looked at Zang Shiyi nervously and asked.

Zang Shiyi glanced at Qi Xingya, and said self-deprecatingly: "Whether to hand over Guan Yuheng or not, that's not what I, the governor, say, you have to ask you about this matter." ”

Rong Zhen's surname has always been more easy-going, which is one of the reasons why Zhang Xueliang chose him to balance the patriarchal faction.

Rong Zhen didn't care about Zang Shiyi's cynicism, looked at Han Guangdi, and said to Qi Xingya with a wry smile: "Xingya, is Guan Yuheng okay?" ”

Qi Xingya did not answer the question that Rong Zhen asked but did not answer, but continued to ask: "Counselor, what are you going to do with Guan Yuheng?" ”

Rong Zhen said with a wry smile on his face: "Xingya, don't worry, you listen to me slowly." ”

Rong Zhen said slowly: "Lin Jiujiro came to me and Brother Fengjiu this time to tell us that he has already reported to Tokyo about the Kwantung Army's excesses in Shenyang, and said that Ben Zhengax has sent important personnel to Shenyang to persuade and reprimand these young Zhuang officers who are making trouble in the Kwantung Army. He himself had communicated with some officers of the Kwantung Army, and today Hua Tani Masa, the assistant officer of the military police stationed in Shenyang, had already told him that as long as we hand over Guan Yuheng as soon as possible, everything could be discussed. ”

"Lin Jiujiro just told me and Brother Feng Jiu that as long as Guan Yuheng is handed over to the Kwantung Army, he can guarantee to dissuade the Kwantung Army from continuing to make trouble. Today's autumn exercise in Shenyang will also be the last in Shenyang this year and even in Liaoning-Jilin Province. ”

The meaning of Rong Zhen's words is obvious, in exchange for the stability of the Northeast, he is in favor of handing over Guan Yuheng, at least he is not opposed.

Han Guangdi and Qi Xingya turned their indignant gaze to Zang Shiyi, Zang Shiyi is the representative of the Northeast Army's non-commissioned officer faction, although he no longer holds military power at this time, but he is still very influential in the Northeast Army, and his opinion, Rong Zhen still has to be seriously considered.

Under the gaze of Qi Xingya and Han Guangdi, who were obviously a little restless and angry, Zang Shiyi sat up straight, waved his hand and said helplessly: "I don't count this matter. ”

Glancing at Rong Zhen with a sad face, Zang Shiyi continued: "Don't blame Chief of Staff Rong, in fact, even what he said doesn't count. ”

Who has the final say in this matter, the meaning of Zang Shiyi's words is already obvious, and the only one who has the right to decide in this matter is Zhang Xueliang.

Rong Zhen, who has always been cautious, has many things that are inconvenient to say, but Zang Shiyi is deeply dissatisfied with Zhang Xueliang's recent blind tolerance of the Kwantung Army and Zhang Xueliang's attitude of not believing that the Kwantung Army has the possibility of a large-scale invasion of the Northeast, and he is much more straightforward when he speaks.

Zang Shiyi continued in a mocking tone: "Since the beginning of this year, whether it is the Wanbaoshan incident or the Nakamura Zhentaro incident, it shows that I want to provoke an incident in the Northeast and take the opportunity to invade the Northeast. In particular, the incident of Shintaro Nakamura is even more obvious. ”

"This Nakamura actually went to the military restricted area of the Xing'an Tun Reclamation District to draw our map and spy on the garrison intelligence, which clearly indicated that he was going to invade the northeast. Not to mention the fact that the Chinese army is now frequently conducting naked exercises against the Northeast Army in Shenyang and other places. ”

"I judge that it is very likely that I have openly invaded the Northeast in the near future, and if we blindly tolerate it, it will only fuel my arrogance, and even make the Kwantung Army more emboldened, not only will this not make the Northeast more stable, but on the contrary, it will push the three eastern provinces to the edge of the cliff, but Zhang Shaoshuai does not believe it at all."

Moreover, at the end of August, Xiong Fei, the chief police inspector under the alarm bell, had already obtained information that the Kwantung Army might launch a military invasion in the northeast. For this reason, I warned our Zhang Shaoshuai many times, and sent an alarm bell to Beiping to face Zhang Shaoshuai. ”

Zang Shiyi took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and then said: "However, he is still confused to be alert and calm, and to verify the real surname of the intelligence!" He even said that in the event of a fight, he would not be able to resist, and could only wait for the central government and the powers to contact him, and wait for the ruling of the League of Nations according to the Nine-Power Pact. ”

"This time, in order to calm things down, I hinted that Brother Rong Zhen would hand over Guan Yuheng! ……”

"Humph!"

Zang Shiyi snorted heavily, and said angrily: "I really don't know if he is the son of a handsome?" ”

"The marshal was never afraid of himself, the marshal once said, 'Don't look at the Kwantung Army stationed 10,000 or 20,000 troops along the South Manchurian Railway, that is all frightening, really want to provoke him, he can make a phone call, the counties along the South Manchurian Railway, one night can pull out the South Manchurian Railway, then he wants to clean up the scattered Kwantung Army, that is a simple thing.' ”

Zang Shiyi relayed Zhang Zuolin's words, Han Guangdi and Qi Xingya had never heard of it, but seeing that Rong Zhen also nodded frequently, obviously he knew.

Han Guangdi couldn't help but secretly admire Zhang Zuolin.

From a military point of view alone, this is Zhang Zuolin's deep understanding of the weakness of the Kwantung Army, without the transportation links of the railway, the form of the Kwantung Army scattered and stationed cannot even be said to be a long snake formation, that is, an earthworm, hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army to clean up the scattered Kwantung Army that can no longer be scattered, there will be absolutely no problem.

Because Guan Yuheng was brought back by Qi Xingya from the Xing'an Tunken District, he thought that Zhang Xueliang was just making a show for himself, but he never thought that now Zhang Xueliang would really hand over Guan Yuheng to Yue himself! This made Zixingya angry and nervous!

Don't say that Guan Yuheng did the right thing, even if Guan Yuheng is guilty, then it can't hand over a serious Northeast Army commander to be killed, and it should be handled by the Northeast Army itself. If Guan Yuheng is really handed over to Yu himself, it is light to pay for Nakamura Zhentaro's life, I am afraid that he will die a very miserable death, in that case, he Qi Xingya will really not be able to stay in the Northeast Army any longer.

Because of anger, the expression on Qi Xingya's face was already a little distorted, and he stared at Rong Zhen and asked, "Senzai, the young marshal hinted that he wanted to hand over Guan Yuheng to himself, is this matter true?" ”

Rong Zhen nodded silently, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "I just called the young marshal in front of Brother Fengjiu, and I wanted to ask the young marshal to give instructions on this matter, but the young marshal said that he had made an appointment with the British minister Lambson, and he was about to go to the Qianmen Theater to watch Mei Lanfang's performance of "Cosmic Edge". Regarding Guan Yuheng's matter, he asked me to 'handle it properly as soon as possible, and everything should be done in the northeast.' ’”

When Zhang Xueliang's words were relayed later, Rong Zhen said slowly, almost word by word.

Zang Shiyi looked at Brother Han Guangdi beside him, and then at Qi Xingya, who was surprised and angry, and his face turned red, then turned his face to Rong Zhen, sneered and said, "Our young marshal wants to be a bitch, and he also wants the archway of chastity!" It seems that brother, you are going to carry this black cauldron for our young marshal. ”

Regarding Zang Shiyi's obvious disrespect for Zhang Xueliang, Rong Zhen did not have any unhappy reaction, but just sighed and lowered his head deeply.

Brother Han Guang couldn't help but say, "Chief of Staff Rong, I have an idea......

Hearing that Brother Han Guangdi had a good idea, Rong Zhen suddenly raised his head and asked eagerly: "Dou Zhan, what good ideas do you have, say it quickly." ”

Zang Shiyi and Qi Xingya also looked at Han Guangdi, eagerly waiting for his next step.

"Just say that Guan Yuheng escaped from prison and absconded, and asked me to take him to the Fourth Route Army. Our Commander-in-Chief Song highly praised Guan Yuheng's execution of Nakamura Zhentaro, and praised Guan Yuheng many times for being alert and capable, daring to do things that the generals of the Northeast Army did not dare to do, and he was a rare tough guy in the Northeast Army. ”

Because Han Guangdi was concerned about Guan Yuheng's safety, he was anxious, and he was a little confused, who had always been delicate, and he didn't pay attention to the reactions of the people present when he spoke.

When Han Guangdi talked about Song Zhewu's praise of Guan Yuheng, not only Rong Zhen, but also Zang Shiyi and Qi Xingya were also a little unnatural.

Han Guangdi continued: "In the Fourth Route Army, you don't have to worry, Commander Song likes people with integrity the most, and when he arrives in the Fourth Route Army, with Guan Yuheng's talent, he will at least be a division commander." ”

Regarding Han Guangdi's suggestion, Rong Zhen just smiled bitterly and said: "Dou Zhan, this is not a good idea, when the time comes, don't say that I am the young marshal, I will find someone." ”

Han Guangdi wanted to persuade Rong Zhen again, but the door of Rong Zhen's study was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a senior police officer in a heavily armed police uniform and a colonel officer of the Northeast Army broke in one after another.

The senior police officer is Huang Xiansheng, the director of the Liaoning Police and the head of the Shenyang Public Security Bureau, and the colonel is Li Jichuan, director of the Adjutant Division of the Northeast Army.

Huang Xiansheng is a native of Fengcheng, Liaoning Province. In 18, he entered the internship class of Yenching University, but was forced to drop out of school and return to Shenyang due to his participation in the May Fourth Movement. In 21 years, Huang Xiansheng was admitted to the third phase of the Northeast Lecture Wutang Artillery Department, and after graduation, he won the trust of Zhang Xueliang and served as the commander of Zhang Xueliang's Guard Brigade.

Last year, he was appointed by Zhang Xueliang as the director of the Liaoning Provincial Police Commission.

The reason why Huang Xiansheng was appointed by Zhang Xueliang as the chief of the Liaoning Police Department was because the Kwantung Army had been doing mischief in Liaoning for a long time and often had friction with the Northeast Army. In order to avoid a head-on clash between the Northeast Army and the Kwantung Army, the police force, as an irregular army, can serve as a buffer between the two armies, and it is also convenient to negotiate in the event of an accident.

Zhang Xueliang believes that with Huang Xiansheng's shrewdness and ability, he can control the front-line situation to the greatest extent in the event of a conflict between China and China.

In the Northeast Army, Zhang Xueliang now has two sets of command groups.

Because after Zhang Xueliang entered the customs, he nominally controlled the eight northern provinces of Liao, Ji, Hei, Re, Cha, Hebei, Jin, and Sui, and the two cities of peace and Tianjin in and outside the customs, and he was under his command not only the Northeast Army, but also the Jinsui Army and some troops of the former Northwest Army, and it was somewhat inappropriate to use only the Northeast Army system.

Therefore, he brought Tang Guozhen's adjutant office in Beiping, which was the deputy commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force in Beiping. The adjutant office of Li Jichuan, who remained in the northeast, is the adjutant office of the Northeast Frontier Governor's Office.

Seeing Huang Xiansheng coming in, Rong Zhenqiang cheered up and beckoned Huang Xiansheng to sit down.

Huang Xiansheng and Han Guangdi are also classmates of Jiangwutang and are very familiar with each other. After Huang Xiansheng said hello to Han Guangdi, he did not sit down, but said to Li Jichuan: "Director Li, you can speak first." ”

Li Jichuan glanced at Zang Shiyi, Qi Xingya, and Han Guangdi nervously, and wanted to say something, but opened his mouth again and didn't make a sound.

Rong Zhen waved his hand and said: "Jichuan, Chairman Zang and Xingya don't talk about it, Douzhan is not an outsider, if you have something to say, just say it." Don't rush, sit down first. ”

Today is the weekend, and Li Jichuan had already returned to his home outside Dongguan, but in the afternoon, Li Fenglou, the adjutant on duty at the adjutant office, called his home and asked him to rush to the adjutant's office as soon as possible, saying that he had something important to tell him.

After Li Jichuan entered the city and went to the adjutant's office, not only Li Fenglou was there, but also Xu Zhongren, who was not on duty today, was also there, and Xu Zhongren, who was not on duty today, reported to him: "There is an abnormal movement in the city of Shenyang, and the situation is serious, the army and the soldiers in the township who are equipped with weapons are being transferred on a large scale, and the rows and columns are crowded, and there are more than ten cannons near the Loyal Soul Monument on the west side of the road bay and the Yamato Hotel, and he is worried that something big will happen today." ’

After Li Jichuan inquired in detail about the situation, he sent people to the South Railway Station and near Maluwan to check and verify the situation, and he also believed that the scale of his actions today was greater than his, and unlike in the past, the situation was indeed very serious. That's why he hurried to Rong Zhen's house.

Li Jichuan hurriedly reported what he had learned to Rong Zhen one by one.

The situation reported by Li Jichuan was indeed very serious, and several people listened attentively.

After Li Jichuan finished speaking, Rong Zhen asked Huang Xiansheng: "Alarm bell, what is the matter with you?" ”

Huang Xiansheng also came for this incident, and several police stations reported to him that the tyrannical people who were rampant in Shenyang in Pingyueli were gone, and it is said that they all went to the South Railway Station. This made Huang Xiansheng very worried, he originally went to Zang Shiyi to report the situation. pounced on Zang Shiyi's house, and learned that Zang Shiyi was here at Rong Zhen, he found Rong Zhen's house again, and met Li Jichuan at the door, and the two entered together.

Huang Xiansheng took a deep breath and said, "I'm also here to report this matter to Governor Zang and the senators. He said that my actions were indeed strange, and I thought that something big might happen today, and I also asked Governor Zang and the staff to order all ministries to be on alert. In addition, the police corps in Shenyang had already assembled yesterday to prepare for war, and when I arrived, I had already ordered the distribution of weapons and ammunition, and informed all police stations to keep a close watch on the little devils, and to resolutely resist them once they moved. ”

Rong Zhen frowned and thought for a while, looked at Zang Shiyi, turned his head to Huang Xiansheng and Li Jichuan and said, "I already know about the situation you are talking about. Governor Zang and I also asked Hayashi Kujiro just now, and Hayashi Kujiro said that this was the autumn season of the Kwantung Army, and it was a routine training exercise. ”

Seeing that Huang Xiansheng was about to refute, Rong Zhen continued: "Although we don't fully believe that this is just my own routine training, but Lin Jiujiro came today to urge us to negotiate on the Nakamura Zhentaro incident as soon as possible, according to him, the Kwantung Army also means this, it is obvious that they want to end the provocative behavior of the Kwantung Army because of this matter as soon as possible." This matter is not yet procedurally completed, and I suspect that the Kwantung Army must be putting pressure on us. ”

"Therefore, I judge that the Kwantung Army will not do anything excessive at this time. They still want to provoke us further, and the alarm bell is that you must restrain your policemen and do not clash with the Kwantung Army, otherwise we will not be able to explain to the young marshal. ”

Although Han Guangdi should be an "outsider" here now, which is why he hasn't spoken much, but now that the situation is urgent, he can't be allowed to think about it much.

"Chief of Staff Rong, Xingya and I have the same opinion as the alarm bell, the situation today is indeed very strange, it seems that the Kwantung Army is really going to do it today, it is not just a provocation, we have to be prepared."

"I also have an important situation, there is a staff officer of our Fourth Route Army Liaison Office in Shenyang who is from Shenyang, and according to him, when he returned home, he heard from his neighbors that the Kwantung Army had secretly transported large-caliber artillery to the garrison outside the city a month ago. You think, a railway garrison, where is what large-caliber artillery is needed? This is clearly preparing to attack Shenyang City. ”

Han Guangdi naturally wouldn't tell the source of his intelligence, so he had to make up a temporary reason.

"Large-caliber artillery? Is this news accurate? Zang Shiyi also asked nervously.

"Absolutely!" Han Guangdi replied without thinking.

By now, he could already conclude that Song Zhewu's judgment was absolutely accurate, and the possibility that he would do it tonight was extremely high.

Zang Shiyi looked at Rong Zhen and said eagerly: "Brother Rong Zhen, don't hesitate any longer, the Kwantung Army will take the opportunity of the autumn attack to make a move, this possibility is very big, we must be prepared." ”

"The alarm bell is very good, you should also immediately order the Seventh Brigade to open the arsenal, send all the weapons confiscated, and then transfer Wang Yizhe's Seventh Brigade into Shenyang City, and the whole city will be under martial law and strictly guarded......"

(To be continued)