Chapter 393 Truth

When Zhang Mutao arrived in Xi'an, he quickly got in touch with Ying Detian and Liu Duoquan, the two of them didn't know Zhang Mutao's true identity, and this guy hid his relationship with them from both of them.

With the person to be introduced, Zhang Mutao quickly won the favor of the officers of the Shaozhuang faction and the officers of the veteran faction with his sleek wrists, generous shots, and occasional insights.

At this time, the executive force was busy negotiating with Song Meiling and Song Ziwen, and all his strength was focused on this matter, and he had no time to care about anything else, and he was unaware of the obvious differentiation within the Northeast Army and the surging confrontation of the undercurrent.

After the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, the situation in Shaanxi, with the withdrawal of 300,000 Central Army, regained calm, Zhang Mutao felt that there was nothing to do, and had a plan to leave Xi'an.

Zhang Xueliang insisted on personally sending Chairman Chiang back to Nanjing, but he was detained, and this matter caused an uproar within the Northeast Army, and the sky was falling.

In terms of how to rescue Zhang Shaomari, the secret confrontation between the officers of the Shaozhuang faction headed by Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, Sun Mingjiu, and Gao Fuyuan, and the veteran faction headed by Wang Yizhe, commander of the 67th Army, Xu Fang, chief of staff of the Northeast Army Headquarters, Song Xueli, deputy director of the Northeast Army, and Jiang Bin, director of Jiāotong, escalated to the surface.

Zhang Mutao seized the opportunity, fanned the flames, pushed the flames, and tried his best to sow discord, and said to the officers of the Shaozhuang faction, Zhang Mutao said that those old people had no intention of rescuing the young marshal, and they were afraid of offending someone Jiang and losing their future, or supporting the army and respecting themselves, and had other plans.

To the veteran officers, Zhang Mutao said that a group of Huangkou xiǎoer, who know what politics are, know how to fight and kill, and do not understand the hardships of the elders, I am afraid that there is a meaning of snatching military power, everyone should take precautions as soon as possible, otherwise they will attack first for the strong king Yizhe and them, and they are also worried about this.

On the evening of 2 February, Ying Detian and the others saw Wang Yizhe and others for the last time, and it was also a showdown, and Zhang Mutao sent someone to send a letter, saying that there were ambush soldiers in the general headquarters, and I was afraid that they would have to be dealt with by force.

Yishi jī Qi Thousand Layers làng, the officer of the Shaozhuang faction, was originally dissatisfied with the old faction's control of the military power and refused to rescue the young marshal, this time, he was even more angry, and he suddenly got up to kill him, hid his weapon, and came to the general headquarters.

If the old decay still did not agree to send troops to rescue the young marshal, they would simply use extreme means to solve the problem, and when they arrived outside the general headquarters, because of Zhang Mutao's secret letter, they had prejudices in their hearts, and regarded the guards standing guard as an ambush arranged.

Before the two sides could talk a few words, there was a quarrel, Wang Yizhe called the guards and blasted out these young officers who had nothing to do, but the young officers sent by Shaozhuang, thinking that they were going to make a move, drew their guns and fired one after another, which led to a tragedy.

Subsequently, Zhang Mutao instigated Liu Duoquan again, thinking that in the name of avenging Wang Yizhe and others, he killed several Shaozhuang faction officers such as Gao Fuyuan, deliberately expanding the situation, and finally caused the Shaanxi Mutiny in which the Northeast Army killed each other and involved the 17th Route Army.

After reading the confession, Tang Qiuli was furious, without this scum fanning the flames and sowing discord, the Shaanxi mutiny could not be so strict as it is now, the brothers Xiao Wall, killing each other, the vitality of the Northeast Army was greatly damaged, the officers were centrifuged, the soldiers were at a loss, and there were already several unit commanders who openly announced their separation from the Northeast Army system, pulled the troops away, and set up another household.

If he hadn't ordered the Dingbian Mobile Corps to quickly enter Xi'an and control the situation, the mutiny would have intensified, and before he had joined hands with the Japanese, the Northeast Army would have been internally collapsed and scattered, and the soldiers would have scattered all over the country, and it would have been possible to surrender to the Japanese.

Finding out Zhang Mutao, the mastermind behind the scenes, cut off the possibility of the Japanese participating in the Shaanxi mutiny, here, Zhou Gong's work was also fruitful, the good relationship between the Northeast Army, the Seventeenth Route Army and the Red Army in the early stage, the great man's personality charm, sincere attitude, played a key role.

After Zhou Gong's hard work and multi-faceted work, the Northeast Army reached a reconciliation, and the two sides promised not to use force again, and at the same time, the 17th Route Army also expressed its attitude and was willing to listen to the mediation of the first army.

As a result, the barbed wire fences and sandbag fortifications all over the streets of Xi'an have been dismantled, and the troops facing each other have returned to their stations, and the normal order has been restored in Xi'an City.

In the name of chairman of the Northern Army Branch of the National Military Committee and commander-in-chief of the Yellow River Valley Theater General Headquarters, Tang Qiuli issued instructions to all units of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army to rectify military discipline, compile a roster of officers and soldiers of each department, as well as a registration form for weapons and equipment, and submit them to the Northern Army Branch for the record.

On the morning of 8 February, six days after the Shaanxi mutiny, a meeting of officers at the rank of major of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army was held in the auditorium of the former General Headquarters of the Northeast Army.

There were as many as 1,800 officers at all levels attending the meeting, and the spacious auditorium was packed to the brim, and the military uniforms of the Northeast Army and the Seventeenth Route Army were different from those of Yan Sè.

In order to ensure the safe holding of the meeting, the troops of the Dingbian Mobile Corps of the Independent Division were responsible for guarding the meeting, and the officers of the two units had no opinion on this arrangement.

The officers of the two armies are no strangers to Tang Qiuli, and they also know that he is a good friend of Zhang Shaoshuai and Director Yang.

Look at his old boss, who was sent abroad by Bī and became a prisoner, has been imprisoned, and the original three, Tang Qiuli has been repeatedly promoted, and the collar and general stars are shining, these officers have mixed feelings in their hearts, and they can't say what they like.

Tang Qiuli first read out the handwritten letters from Zhang Xueliang to the generals at all levels of the Northeast Army, in which Zhang Xueliang was not only sad or sad about the Shaanxi mutiny and the incident of killing each other within the Northeast Army, but also bitterly and sadly.

Only Zhang Xueliang deeply blamed himself, and earnestly admonished, and put forward hope, Zhang Xueliang poured all his feelings into writing this letter, and the heart of the fist between the lines, even if he was a hard-hearted person, after hearing it, he would burst into tears.

Before they finished reading the letter, there was already a sound of sobbing below, and they seemed to see the young marshal's reproachful eyes and painful look.

Subsequently, Tang Qiuli showed Zhang Mutao's confession, as well as Zhang Mutao himself, to the officers of the two armies, these officers who had been blinded by anger and vendetta méng, as if they had just woken up from a big dream, the kind of remorse in their hearts, they almost shot their heads with a gun, which was better than the mental torture.

The officers roared in unison, shouting and killing, Zhang Mutao's face was like ashes, he knew that there was no possibility of sparing, the eyes of the officers were enough to burn themselves into ashes, and the crimes they did were intolerable, just because of themselves, how many outstanding officers and soldiers did not fall on the battlefield, but fell under the guns of their brothers.

Subsequently, Zhang Mutao was dragged out to be executed like a dead dog, and for the crimes he committed, he took the end he deserved, the culprit of the Shaanxi mutiny, and finally threw his body into the wilderness.

At the meeting, Tang Qiuli announced the formation of a special military tribunal in Xi'an to try the case of the Shaanxi mutiny, and all officers at all levels involved in the incident would have to bear the corresponding consequences according to the crimes they had committed after being tried by the court.

There is no such thing as an unpunished sin, and the souls who died in this mutiny are also looking at the other world in the dark.

After the Xi'an Special Military Tribunal tried the case, Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, and Sun Mingjiu, who were directly responsible for the tragedy, were deprived of their military posts, expelled from the military, and sentenced to death.

After the tragedy, Liu Duoquan, the former commander of the 105th Division, did not consider stabilizing the troops and preventing the situation from expanding, but instead took retaliatory action and killed his colleagues, further aggravating the tragedy, depriving him of his military post, expelling him from the army, and sentencing him to 10 years in prison and sending him to the Dingbian Labor Reform Institute to serve his sentence.

The officers and soldiers who were victims of the tragedy were given generous bereavement benefits by the Northern Army Branch, and Ying Detian and others expressed their respect for the verdict of the special military tribunal and that they should pay the due price for the tragedy, so as to warn future generations.

Following the Xi'an Incident, the most dangerous mutiny in Shaanxi was finally resolved with the joint efforts of Tang Qiuli and Zhou Gong of the ** delegation, and Tang Qiuli, a young general, also left an indelible impression on Zhou Gong by his thunderous means in dealing with the mutiny, as well as the dòng observation force that grasped the direction of the incident.

This young man, the way and method of dealing with problems, is extremely sophisticated, and his familiarity with military issues is surprising, this person will definitely become a famous general on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, this is Zhou Gong's evaluation of Tang Qiuli.

In view of the fact that the ** delegation has completed its mission and decided to withdraw to Yan'an, before leaving, Tang Qiuli has been sent to Sanyuan in the northern suburbs of Xi'an, only to say goodbye, and Zhou Gong during this time, he learned a lot from the great man, and the charm of the great man, so that he was impressed, enough to be useful for a lifetime.

There were more than a dozen trucks accompanying him, called escorting the ** delegation, which was actually a big gift from Tang Qiuli to the **Red Army, and in a few months, the **Red Army would go to the battlefield of resistance against Japan, Tang Qiuli did not want to lose his precious life because of the rudimentary weapons in their hands.

The car was equipped with jīng liang weapons and equipment that could be equipped with three divisions, including the full equipment of the three artillery regiments and sufficient ammunition.

Zhou Gongwan smiled, did not refuse, and glanced at Tang Qiuli, with infinite expectation and tacit meaning in his eyes.

The convoy went north, Tang Qiuli looked at the sunset in the west, and his thoughts had already flown to the distant sky.

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