Chapter 32: The Xi'an Incident
The first time was when Du Yuesheng's morphine-brown business in Nanjing was exposed, and Dai Li deliberately let him go, preserving Du Yuesheng's reputation as a gentleman in society. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
The second time was this year's Du Yuesheng's disciple Xu Fanchang, who secretly colluded with the bureaucracy to do a speculative business of buying and selling cotton yarn short, and made hundreds of thousands of silver dollars at once. However, the consequence of his actions caused many small and medium-sized businessmen in the city to go bankrupt, flee and commit suicide, and for a time countless intact families were ruined, so the people were angry, public opinion was in an uproar, and caused an uproar in the business and political circles.
When Chiang Kai-shek learned of this, he immediately ordered Dai Li to deal with Xu Fanchang strictly. Dai Li was ordered to hand over the case to Du Yuesheng's other apprentice, Wang Zhaohuai, for execution. Wang Zhaohuai was serving as the head of the reconnaissance brigade of the Songhu Garrison Command at that time. After the king was instructed, he first went to tell Du Yuesheng secretly, this is the rule set by Du Yuesheng, all his disciples, as long as they hear information related to the gang, they will report it secretly, otherwise it is the crime of deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestors, and will be punished.
When Xu Fanchang learned about it, he was so frightened that he had to ask his master Du Yuesheng for help.
Du Yuesheng personally went out to discuss with Dai Li, and asked him to help him and give Xu Fanchang a way out. In fact, Dai Li knew that Du Yuesheng would beg him, and thought of a countermeasure. He told Du Yuesheng that after he went back, he asked Xu Fanchang to use part of the money to buy a few planes and donate them to the aviation committee chaired by Song Meiling, so that his wife could secretly intercede for Xu in front of Chiang Kai-shek and pave the way for Du Yuesheng and Xu Fanchang. In the end, Chiang Kai-shek handed over the case to Dai Li, and Dai Li turned the big thing into a small thing and a small matter, giving Du Yuesheng a big favor.
Twice helped, Dai Li didn't take a penny, Du Yuesheng was very grateful, and he had no chance to repay, as the big brother in the rivers and lakes, Du Yuesheng held the code of conduct that he did not owe friends favors all his life, and he was very grateful for Dai Li's help again.
This time, Dai Li found Du Yuesheng according to Mao Renfeng's proposal. Du readily agreed, and donated 5,000 fast and slow pistols to support the formation of a spy arm.
The deployment of the spy armed organization had already begun, and at this time, Dai Li felt that there was a lack of some talents who understood both military affairs and secret agents. At this time, a soldier named Chen Xu came to visit.
This Chen Xu was originally a graduate of the fourth artillery department of the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and was later sent to the Japanese Artillery School by Zhang Xueliang (Note: In the spring of 1908, the young Chiang Kai-shek had crossed to Japan and entered the Tokyo Zhenwu School and was assigned to the artillery class; In the winter of 1910, Chiang Kai-shek graduated from Zhenwu School and was sent to the 19th Field Artillery Regiment of the 13th Division of the Takata Army in Japan as a non-commissioned officer candidate for further study. Dai Lisa is very happy that such talents are needed right now.
Before being hired, Dai Li asked Mao Renfeng, Shen Zui and others to come to the office together, and Dai Li asked Chen Xu: "Since Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned, the Northeast Army has basically disintegrated, are you willing to work with me?" β
Chen Xu hurriedly said: "That's what someone Chen meant, because he was worried that he wouldn't take him in, so it was difficult to speak." Since Boss Dai is willing to take him in, he is grateful, and he will work hard in the future! Chen Xu's matter was decided.
After Chen Xu left, Dai Li ordered Ye and Zhao to close the door and not allow anyone to come in, and then motioned to Mao Renfeng and Shen Zui to enter the secret room to discuss like thisγγγγγγ
On the evening of September 18, 1931, the Japanese army attacked the city of Shenyang, and the "918" incident broke out.
It should be said that Chiang Kai-shek had long been aware of the ambitions of the Japanese to invade Northeast China, but his attention at this time was still focused on consolidating the central power in Nanjing. To this end, he had to constantly face the challenges of the local warlords, and he had to spare no effort to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army, which to a large extent limited his response to the Japanese army's military operations in the northeast and his choice of policy.
Since they were unable to cope with the invasion of the Japanese army, it seemed that they could only implement a "policy of non-resistance" and could not recover the lost territory, so they could only hope for the mediation of international forces. At this time, Japan saw through the essence of Chiang Kai-shek and the constraints of local warlords, and found that Britain and the United States and other countries were tired of coping with the world economic crisis and were unable to take care of it, so they dared to launch the September 18 Incident without scruples.
At that time, Zhang Xueliang, who succeeded his father in charge of the Northeast, was also very clear about Japan's aggressive ambitions, and once said: "I can't give Japan a single hair in my hand." The Japanese side, on the other hand, constantly exerted pressure on Zhang Xueliang and used the "Wanbaoshan Incident" and the "Nakamura Incident" to create a pretext for war -- which eventually turned into a full-scale war of aggression against Chinaγγγγγγ
Soon after the main forces of the three Red Army joined forces in Shaanxi and Gansu, Zhang and Yang led the Northeast Army and the Seventeenth Route Army to attack the Red Army in Shaanxi and Gansu on the orders of Chiang; October 31, 1936 was Chiang Kai-shek's 50th birthday, and at 9 o'clock in the morning, all walks of life congratulated Chiang Kai-shek on his birthday at the Guanghan Palace of the Luoyang Xigong Military Academyγγγγγγ
As soon as this celebration ended, Zhang Xueliang and Yan Xishan went to meet Chiang Kai-shek, hoping to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war and immediately resist Japan.
However, Chiang Kai-shek was resolute in his determination to eliminate the "**" in order to prevent future troubles, and reprimanded the workers.
Zhang Xueliang and Yan Xishan had to withdraw in frustration.
The next day, Zhang Xueliang left Luoyang and returned to Xi'an.
During Chiang Kai-shek's more than a month in Luoyang, he dispatched troops and deployed a large-scale civil war to "suppress the Communists." He transferred about 30 divisions of the descendants and elite divisions that resolved the Liangguang incident to the north, and assembled them in the Hankou-Zhengzhou section of the Pinghan Line and the Zhengzhou-Lingbao section of Longhai, waiting for an opportunity to enter Shaanxi and Gansu; At the same time, it ordered the expansion of Xi'an and Lanzhou airports, and used wheat and cotton loans to purchase 100 new fighters and bombers in the United States, and deployed them at Xi'an and Lanzhou airports.
In addition, he and his wife Song Meiling flew to Taiyuan, Jinan, and Suiyuan non-stop, and successively met with Yan Xishan, Han Fuyu, and Fu Zuoyi, pacifying and instigating non-descendant forces, concentrating forces, closely cooperating, and jointly "suppressing the Communist Party."
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek vigorously suppressed the growing patriotic movement throughout the country. On November 23, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the arrest of seven people, including Shen Junru and Zhang Naiqi, leaders of the Shanghai Salvation Association, creating the "Seven Gentlemen Incident".
In this regard, Zhang Xueliang was very angry, and immediately flew to Luoyang, persuaded Jiang to release the Seven Gentlemen, and submitted a petition for war. However, Zhang Xueliang was rejected and reprimanded by Jiang Xue several times, and he was depressed.
When he returned to Xi'an, he revealed his heart to Yang Hucheng, and the two had a heart-to-heart conversation to discuss the final solution.
In the end, Yang Hucheng put forward the plan of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes", which surprised Zhang Xueliang.
After more than a month of deployment in Luoyang, Chiang Kai-shek dressed in military uniforms on December 4 and led a large number of high-ranking generals from Luoyang to Xi'an again by special car, stationed in Huaqingchi in Lintong, and stayed in five halls.
After Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Xi'an, he immediately began to implement a new plan to "suppress the Communists." In view of the unanimous reluctance of the generals of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army to "suppress the Communists", Chiang decided to let Jiang Dingwen and Wei Lihuang replace Zhang and Yang.
If Zhang and Yang obeyed the orders of the Central Committee and threw the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army into the front line, they would "attack" the Red Army under the supervision of the Central Army; For example, Zhang and Yang were unwilling to "suppress the Communists," so they transferred the Northeast Army to Fujian, the 17th Route Army to Anhui, and Shaanxi and Gansu to the Central Army. Obviously, these two methods were to force the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army to a dead end, on December 7, Zhang Xueliang again cried to Chiang Kai-shek, and on the 8th, Yang Hucheng also went to admonish, but they were all refused.
The two discussed and decided to resist Japan and save the country, and they should take immediate action and carry out military advice.
Therefore, Zhang and Yang began to carefully deploy troops. Zhang Xueliang decided to let his henchmen go to the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Guards to capture Chiang. For the sake of safety, he transferred Liu Guiwu, the commander of the 18th Regiment in Guyuan, back to participate in the capture of Jiang with Bai Fengxiang, the commander of the 6th Cavalry Division who was already in Xi'an.
Zhang Xueliang repeatedly emphasized: "Be careful not to hurt the chairman. Bring the chairman back to the city safely, and no shooting is allowed unless absolutely necessary, and the chairman must be brought alive. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek was also planning how to rectify Zhang Xueliang. On December 9, Chiang Kai-shek wrote a secret letter to Shao Zili, asking him to inform Ta Kung Pao and issue a secret instruction to remove Zhang Yang.
On 10 December, Chiang Kai-shek convened an important military conference without the participation of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, and finally decided on a plan to "suppress the Communists," dismissed Zhang and Yang from their posts, transferred the Northeast Army to Fujian, and the 17th Route Army to Anhui, with the Central Army as the main force to "suppress the Communists," and issued an order to launch a general attack on the Red Army on the 12th.
Chiang Kai-shek's military activities made Zhang Yang suspicious, and they felt that Chiang Kai-shek no longer trusted them and did not value them. In particular, the political contradictions between Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek have become public, and the time for a final showdown is imminent.
On December 11, Zhang Xueliang was still quiet, everything was as usual, and he came to Huaqingchi to see Jiang during the day. Chiang Kai-shek summoned and pacified the generals of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army as usual, reprimanded those who did not do their jobs well, and according to his original plan, he would leave Xi'an and return to Nanjing on December 12.
On the evening of the 11th, Chiang Kai-shek held a farewell banquet in Lintong, and Zhang Xueliang attended the banquet and always accompanied Chiang. After the dinner, Zhang Xueliang personally drove several military and political officials to the Xincheng Building to attend a reception in the name of him and Yang Hucheng.
After the Xincheng banquet ended at 10 o'clock in the evening, the military and political officials from Nanjing were all full of wine and food, and they were drunk. After Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng saw off the guests, they immediately returned to their respective mansions and announced their plans to admonish them.
At about 2 o'clock in the morning of the 12th, Bai Fengxiang, Liu Guiwu, Sun Mingjiu, Wang Yuzan and others, who were responsible for the task of detaining Jiang, took cars and motorcycles and drove towards Lintong at a gallop.
When Wang Yuzan led Chen Xu, Ma Tiyu and others to rush into the second gate, Jiang's guards woke up and desperately resisted with the help of doors and windows. Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire and bullets flying.
Wang Yuzan and Chen Xu took advantage of the dark corners and pillars to climb over the lotus pond, detour to the Guifei Pond, and jump to the platform in front of the five halls. As soon as they saw that the third door of Jiang's residence was ajar, they rushed into the bedroom. Finding that Jiang had just fled, Wang and Sun led their troops to launch a great search in Lishan.
In the end, Sun Mingjiu found Chiang Kai-shek in a cave in Lishan, only to see that he was shivering with cold, Chiang raised his head and glanced at Sun and quickly avoided it, saying, "You can kill me." β
Sun Mingjiu said: "If I don't kill you, I will make you resist Japan!" β
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was pale, barefoot, wearing a bronze silk robe, covered in dust.
At about 8:30 a.m. on the 12th, Tang Junyao, Sun Mingjiu, Chen Xu and others escorted Chiang Kai-shek to the Yellow Building in Xincheng.
At about 9 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Xueliang came to the Yellow Tower in Xincheng to visit Chiang Kai-shek and explain to him the reason for the military admonition. Jiang saw Zhang Lai's expression change abruptly, and sat on the chair with a long sigh.
When Zhang Xueliang finished speaking, Jiang Cai said sneeringly: "Since you are for the country, you should send me to Luoyang first, and send me to Luoyang to talk later." Zhang Xueliang continued: "Today's events, how can we prevaricate. We still hope that you will have the courage to make amends, work together, and face the national crisis together. If you are still stubborn and insist on your own opinions, you can only let the masses judge. β
As soon as Chiang Kai-shek heard that the masses would judge me, he sat up straight and shouted to Zhang Xueliang: "In the past, I was so good to you, but now, you want to hand me over to the masses for the public judgment, since you say it is for the country, you should send me back to Luoyang first and then talk." After saying that, Jiang closed his eyes and sat down in his chair and stopped talking. The conversation was fruitless, and Zhang Xueliang resigned.
At noon that day, Chiang Kai-shek proposed to Song Wenmei that he wanted to see Shao Zili, chairman of Shaanxi Province. After the incident, Shao Zili was placed under house arrest in the room of the captain of the Xi'an Sui Administration Guard Team. Hearing that Chiang wanted to see him, Shao came to the Yellow Tower in Xincheng and met Chiang Kai-shek, and Shao also began to persuade Chiang to resist Japan, otherwise it would cause irreparable changes.
After Shao Zili left, Chiang Kai-shek wrote a will-like telegram to Soong Meiling. The full text is as follows:
Miling Azuma:
Yu is determined to be martyred, and the son of Jingguo and Weiguo is your son, and he looks at it well.
Chiang Chung-zheng, December 23, 25
The other was written to Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wei-kuo, which read:
Jingguo, Weiguowuer:
Yu only recognized Song Meiling as Yu's only wife, and wanted you to treat her as a biological mother, so Yu would be blind even if he died under the Nine Springs!
Jiang Zhongzheng
After Chiang Kai-shek wrote the telegram, he handed it to Song Wenmei and asked Song to forward it to Zhang Xueliang for filming, and Zhang Xueliang promised to send it at that time.
In the afternoon, 36 planes sent from Nanjing flew low over Xi'an to demonstrate. When Song Wenmei told him that he was a plane from Luoyang, Chiang Kai-shek looked proud and said, "I estimate that the government plane will definitely come to Xi'an." β
On the 12th, Zhang Xueliang went to see Chiang Kai-shek three times, but Chiang Kai-shek did not allow him to speak at all.
On the afternoon of the 14th, after discussing with Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng went to see Chiang Kai-shek alone in a military uniform.
Chiang asked Yang to put the country first and try to send him back to Nanjing as soon as possible to prevent the chaos from spreading, and he forgave Yang for his reckless actions. However, Yang politely refused on the grounds of discussing with Zhang Xueliang, and at this point, Jiang "knew that Hucheng was indeed premeditated against the Shaanxi Revolution."
In Nanjing, Song Meiling and Song Ziwen carried out various activities to rescue Chiang Kai-shek, and on the 22nd, the two Song Dynasty personally went to Xi'an to meet Zhang Xueliang. In order to fight for Chiang Kai-shek's early release, Soong Meiling had to turn to Zhou Enlai, the representative of the Chinese Communist Party.
From December 23 to 24, on behalf of Nanjing and Chiang Kai-shek, the brothers and sisters Soong Meiling and Soong Ziwen negotiated with Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng, and Zhou Enlai, basically accepting the proposal of "stopping the civil war and unanimously resisting Japan" put forward by the Xi'an side and the CCP delegation, and persuaded Chiang Kai-shek to guarantee the fulfillment of his promise with a "leader's personality". Soong Meiling also skillfully took advantage of Zhang Xueliang's strong personal heroism weakness, using both soft and hard, and finally made Zhang Xueliang privately decide to let Chiang Kai-shek go. On December 24, Zhang Xueliang personally sent Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling back to Nanjing, and since then they have lost their freedomγγγγγγ
(Note: The peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident became the pivot of the current situation, that is, from a full-scale civil war to a cooperative anti-Japanese war.) οΌ
--It is said that after Chen Xu came to work beside Dai Li, he was also well-behaved and had never made any mistakes. There are many people in the spy who know that he has worked under Zhang Xueliang, and naturally talk about the Xi'an incident. Often at this time, Chen Xu waved his hand again and again and said: "After the disintegration of the Northeast Army, I have lost my attachment for a long time, and now I finally caught up with Boss Dai, so I followed Boss Dai wholeheartedly, I hope not to talk about Zhang Xueliang in the future." β
After some small spies heard it, they told Dai Li, who was very happy and appreciated Chen Xu even more. Mao Renfeng, Shen Zui and others also regarded him as a "colleague".
Chen Xu worked in the secret service team for a while, and slowly got acquainted with Mao Renfeng, Shen Zui and others, so he had nothing to say.
Once, Mao Renfeng and Chen Xu played "sand crabs", but Chen Xu lost a mess, and probably didn't even have the money to smoke.
At this time, Chen Xu's face changed a little.
Chen Xu reached into his pocket, and took out an empty cigarette case, Mao Renfeng saw this, and gave him a pack of cigarettes.
Chen Lianlian waved his hand: "No need, no need, I still have it in my office." Because he often heard Mao Renfeng say that there is no father and son in the gambling field, and if you don't gamble money when playing cards, it is equivalent to playing women without sex, which is not interesting.
Mao Renfeng didn't push it and put the money away. Because he won, he was very happy, and finally talked about Zhang Xueliang.
Mao Renfeng asked, "After the Xi'an Incident, have you seen him?" β
Chen Xu stared at Mao Renfeng for a long time, and then shook his head again and again.
Mao Renfeng said: "It's nothing. Anyway, your relationship with Zhang Xueliang has passed, so it doesn't matter if you see each other or not. β
Chen Xu hurriedly said: "That's, that's." β
Mao Renfeng said again: "However, Zhang Xueliang is still alive, there is no doubt about this, the first time I went to Xikou Xuedou Mountain to see him, he was doing well, and his wife Yu Fengzhi and Miss Zhao Si took turns to accompany him." Speaking of this, Mao Renfeng suddenly slapped his mouth and scolded: "This damn stinky mouth, this damn stinky mouth, leaked such an important secret!" β
Seeing this, Chen Xu hurriedly said: "Secretary Mao doesn't have to worry too much, I, Chen, have my ears behind my ears, and I haven't heard what you say." β
Mao Renfeng said: "This γγγγγγ Alas, but it doesn't matter, it's all your own people. β
Chen Xu said: "Secretary Mao, did you ask Boss Dai about taking a few days off to go home to see your parents last time?" β
Mao Renfeng scratched his head and said: "This, my ghost memory, I forgot such a big thing, I'm really sorry, Boss Dai has already agreed, you can leave at any time if it's convenient, just remember to return early." β
Chen Xu was very happy and said, "Thank you, Secretary Mao." β
After Chen Xu left Shanghai, he did not go home to visit his parents, but came to Xikou Xuedou Mountain, pretending to be a tour of the mountains and rivers to find Zhang Xueliang's traces. A few days later, he finally found it in Xikou Xuedou Mountain, and hurriedly called the northeast.
It turned out that Chen Xu was the backbone of the Northeast Army pulled up by Zhang Xueliang, and he had deep feelings for Zhang Xueliang. He took advantage of his extensive social connections to organize a group of former Northeast Army Shaozhuang soldiers to set up a secret organization to rescue Zhang Xueliang. He conspired with Wu Keren, commander of the 67th Army of the Northeast Army, and decided that Chen Xu would infiltrate Dai Li's secret service to investigate Zhang Xueliang's action plan. Using Dai Li, this is the first option. Taking advantage of the full-scale outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Keren's 67th Army was transferred from Shangqiu, Henan to Shanghai for reinforcements, and the Northeast Artillery originally stationed in Wuhan and Luoyang was also transferred to Shanghai to participate in the war. So Chen Xu thought that the opportunity to rescue Zhang Xueliang had come, and resolutely came to Shanghai in the midst of artillery fire and defected to Dai Li.
Chen Xu quickly got in touch with the Northeast Army, and asked Feng Kechang, vice president of the Hangzhou Central Aviation School and a Northeast officer, to secretly contact more than 200 Northeast officers and soldiers in the Aviation School.
When Liu Yibenzen saw that there were many people coming, he was caught off guard and had to agree to their request. After Feng Kechang and Chen Xu saw Zhang Xueliang, they made a earnest statement to him, hoping that Zhang Xueliang would go back to the airport with them, and then fly to Hong Kong by plane, and then think about it in the long run. At this critical juncture, there was a strange laughter in the room, and everyone followed the reputation, and suddenly felt that there was no hope of rescuing Zhang Xueliang.