Chapter 373: The Xi'an Incident: Nanjing Drama within a Play

On 17 December, five days after the Xi'an Incident, the Japanese expected that the great battle and decisive battle outside Xi'an of the Central Army, the Northeast Army, and the 17th Route Army, which the Chinese people feared, did not take place.

Although the North China Independent Division is subordinate to the Central Military System, it is a force with independent command, and it is precisely with this unit that it plays a pivotal role in Xi'an, and the name of the division commander Tang Qiuli has gradually entered the public eye and attracted the attention of the Chinese people.

The most anxious were the Japanese, who were eager to go into battle shirtless and kill Xi'an with their own hands, and it was best to stew Chairman Chiang, Zhang Xueliang, and Yang Hucheng with a spoonful, but the troops of the North China Garrison Army, which were closest to Xi'an, were tightly pinned down by the troops of the 29th Army and the North China Independent Division, and could not move.

The base camp of the Japanese army absolutely believed that they had transferred troops from North China to the direction of Shaanxi, and that the troops of the North China Independent Division would dare to copy their old nest that had been operating for many years, and that other Kuomintang officers might not have the courage to do so, but the devil Tang Qiuli would definitely do this, and it was even crazier than they imagined.

Emperor Hirohito is more anxious than any Japanese cabinet member, or senior military general, Emperor Hirohito, who is well versed in Han culture, but peeps into the property of the teacher's family, knows how to take advantage of the chaos.

However, what I waited for was a very disappointing answer, Emperor Hirohito was in a hurry, his stool was dry, not to mention hemorrhoids, he was more than forty years old, and his face was covered with pimples again.

Even on the imperial chuáng, when she was happy with Empress Liangzi, she shouted in her mouth: ", do it, I will do it" desperately twitched * The thin body, the plump ** of Empress Liangzi, the blue and red with purple, made Empress Liangzi think that His Majesty the Emperor was guilty of that evil wind, and she worked her body.

Following the last press conference, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoyo Matsuoka jumped out and issued a second statement, "If the Nationalist Government of Nanjing seeks to compromise with the rebels Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, the Japanese Government has reason to believe that this is an expression of extreme hatred for the Japanese Empire, and the Japanese Government will resolutely not sit idly by, and will try to redeem the impact of this matter even if it exerts its national efforts." ”

This is the naked threat, clearly suing the Nanjing Nationalist Government, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng This is openly advocating anti-Japanese and anti-Japanese views, you and Zhang Yang will not fight if you don't fight, if you don't fight, the Japanese Empire will fight you.

Not to mention, although Matsuoka's remarks did not intimidate a few people, they were a great encouragement to the powerful figures within the Nanjing Nationalist Government who had a natural affinity for the Japanese, and this was also a signal that the Great Japanese Empire would fully support you even if you fought.

As a result, the Nanjing government, which was originally in turmoil, became even more undercurrent, and for a time, the shouting and shouting of killing became very loud, and it became the mainstream ideology within the Nationalist Government, among which the pro-Japanese faction headed by Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin shouted the most happily and shouted the most fiercely.

Not only that, but also really made military preparations, He Yingqin sent several orders to the central army units around Shaanxi one after another, immediately besieging Xi'an City, and the orders sent were all politely rejected by commanders at all levels without exception.

The reason is that they are subordinate to the Northwest Suppression of Bandits General Headquarters and have no direct subordinate relationship with the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the troops can only act after receiving an order from the Northwest Suppression Headquarters.

These commanders of the Central Army also understood that the current situation in Xi'an was not clear, and Chairman Chiang had not yet lost his life, and if he had given Minister He's order, once Chairman Chiang escaped and asked about the matter, he would have been caught as a scapechalist by that military or political bigwig.

There is Deputy Commander-in-Chief Tang on top, obeying the orders of the commander-in-chief, it is logical, not to mention, the tens of thousands of horses of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Tang are placed around Xi'an, doesn't that mean obviously? It was just to prevent that reckless guy, who didn't know the severity of the advance and retreat, and exchanged fire with the Xi'an side, injuring Chairman Jiang's life.

He Yingqin understood why his orders were not carried out by the units of the Central Army, and the Northwest Suppression General still had the power to give orders to the troops, leaving only the hairy boy Tang Qiuli, who held the position of deputy commander-in-chief.

He's **, God has no eyes, why didn't this kid be arrested together in Xi'an, what a good opportunity, with the support of Japanese friends, sending troops is justified, but this kid is a good thing to do to me, could it be that he was born to be my stumbling block? He Yingqin wanted to strangle Tang Qiuli to death, but he had no chance.

In view of the differences of opinion within the state government on whether to send troops to attack Zhang Yang in Xi'an or to negotiate with him, it was decided to convene a meeting of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee to vote on the way to deal with the Xi'an incident.

In the afternoon, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng jointly sent a secret message to Tang Qiuli to ask for opinions on how to deal with the aftermath of the Xi'an incident.

He called Zhang Yang back, just chatting a few words, "My brother thinks that Chairman Jiang must not be killed, this is not the original intention of the second brother, if necessary, you can ask a third-party force to come forward, and if you don't use swords, you will be able to properly solve the Xi'an incident, and the second brother will also achieve his wish." ”

The words can't be said too clearly, the third-party forces mentioned here are vaguely reminding Zhang Yang and the two of them, with their wisdom, it is not difficult to guess which force is referring to, according to the trend of history, at this time, ** should come to the fore and show their unique style.

At about 6 o'clock in the evening, Mei Ting sent an urgent telegram from the Secretariat of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, which read: "A meeting of all members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee is hereby scheduled to be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, that is, on the morning of 18 December, in the conference room of the State Government Building in Nanjing, to discuss the Xi'an incident. ”

Tang Qiuli secretly slandered himself, how come the offices of the state government are all a virtue, tomorrow will be the meeting, tonight will be announced, when I live next door to the state mansion? From Peking to Nanjing, thousands of miles away, why did you deliberately not let me participate?

Fortunately, Lao Tzu has a plane, speaking of which, I really have to thank Boss Dai, not to mention, he helps people, and he really helps the idea, it is estimated that his method of killing people is as simple as the method of helping people, and he will never drag mud and water.

Mei Ting looked at Tang Qiuli's indignant face, thoughtfully poured him a glass of water, and then went to prepare the items for going to Nanjing tomorrow, Mei Ting knew that this meeting, Yu Gong Yu sī, Tang Qiuli had to attend no matter what, all she had to do was to prepare a qiē carefully, and then accompany him to Nanjing.

The plane flew over the North China Plain, the Shandong Peninsula, and the Jianghuai Peninsula, and landed at the Nanjing Military Airport.

Coming to the airport to greet Tang Qiuli and his entourage, there was only one secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Standing Committee, two cars, and the scene of Yang Yongtai's greeting in Luoyang last time, far from the same, not the same day, according to the convention, a ruling party's Central Standing Committee is also a respected status, and the normal scene should still have, this is called political treatment.

Tang Qiuli sneered secretly, this is to give him a dismount, there is no tiger and monkey in the mountains to call the king, now Nanjing, it is he who Yingqin and someone is in charge, and I have poured my one-third of an acre of land, but I don't take you seriously, what can you do?

When Tang Qiuli entered the conference room, the meeting had already started for a while, and it seemed that it had just gone through several rounds of quarrels and debates, and the atmosphere in the room was a little tense and depressing, and everyone's faces were full of abnormal flushes, which was obviously the result of anger surging.

There are only more than 60 people who can be qualified to serve as members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, except for the Central Standing Committee members who were detained in Xi'an, the rest are all present at the meeting, Tang Qiuli is the last to arrive, and he quietly finds an inconspicuous corner to sit down.

Looking at all the people, there was no face I knew, and at the head of the oval conference table sat a general in his forties, with a fair face, a pair of delicate gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, wearing the rank of general, and his demeanor was better than that of martial arts.

This is probably He Yingqin, right? Look at his appearance, he is stylish and stylish, but he is not good at beating in his stomach, he is really unseemly.

Tang Qiuli came in without attracting the attention of others, he was wearing a suit today, plus he was really young, others thought he was the secretary of the big man, but Mei Ting, who was following Tang Qiuli, attracted a lot of attention, and some members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee frequently paid attention to Mei Ting.

However, he was quickly attracted by the content of the meeting, and the moderator knocked on the table and now asked Minister He to continue speaking.

Sure enough, Tang Qiuli guessed correctly, and it was He Yingqin who sat in the boss position.

He Yingqin pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, glanced at the audience, and swept his gaze over Tang Qiuli's face, obviously not expecting that this young man was Tang Qiuli, the sworn enemy he had dreamed of strangling.

"Ladies and gentlemen, five full days have passed since the Xi'an incident, Chairman Jiang and his colleagues are uncertain, Zhang Yang's attitude is very arrogant, but the government has not made the slightest move, and is still wasting time doing boring discussions here, what do you think? Hmmm"

At the last word, He Yingqin suddenly raised his voice, a little yīn Sensen, and a little oppression, and all the members of the Central Standing Committee were silent.

"Dealing with rebellious ministers and thieves like Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, everyone has to be punished, except for armed crusade, it is the best policy, there is no other way, resulting in the situation of the army pressing, Zhang Yang's rebels, taken by the might, must be panicked, the army is unstable, and finally has to be returned to Chairman Jiang safely."

"In order to put pressure on Zhang Yang, I ordered the air force to dispatch all the fighters to bomb Weinan near Xi'an, causing the momentum of the army to suppress the territory and hitting the confidence of Zhang Yang's rebels.

In fact, He Yingqin didn't have a chance to speak at all, giving other members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee a chance to speak, Tang Qiuli frowned, the direction and topics of the meeting were beyond his expectations, it was simply He Yingqin's words, so why do you still hold this meeting?

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