In modern wars, why have the cities of Beiping and Tianjin always survived?
Beiping is an ancient city with a long history. Since the establishment of the capital here by the jin lord Yan Liang in the 12th century, the three generations of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties have been passed down from generation to generation, with Beiping as the capital, leaving countless pavilions and terraces and countless historical relics such as the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, and Jingshan. In addition, There are many well-known institutions of higher learning at home and abroad in Beiping, where there is an elegant campus that emits the rich aroma of books in a thousand-year-old country.
Since 1901, Beiping (including Tianjin) has had a strange phenomenon: the northern war has been continuous, and most of them have targeted Beiping, but no army dares to fight in the suburbs, let alone the urban area, so Beiping has always been a paradise. Among them, the greatest wars were the Restoration of Zhang Xun in 1917; the First Battle of Zhifeng in 1922; the Second Battle of Zhifeng in 1924; and the Beijing Coup d'état launched by Feng Yuxiang and others in the same year; and the Battle of Yangcun in 1925 between Feng Yuxiang's Nationalist Army of the Republic of China and the Zhilu Coalition;
In 1926, the Nationalist Army fought the Battle of Nankou with the Fengzhi and Zhilu armies; in 1928, the Kuomintang Northern Expeditionary Army trapped Zhuozhou and the general battle with the Beiyang warlords; the great scuffle between Jiang, Zhang, Feng and Yan in 1930; the Northeast warlords' crusade against Shi Yousan in 1931, until the outbreak of the sacred War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression at Lugou Bridge in 1937.
For more than 30 years, dozens of large and small wars occurred only around Pingjin, but the two cities of Pingjin were spared the war. What is the reason for this?
The fundamental reason for this is that in semi-colonial China, Pingjin is an important industrial city, foreigners occupy an important position here, and warlords of all factions are only the lackeys of foreigners, so they dare not enter the city to fight. Although this is a sign of national shame, objectively speaking, it has protected the cultural relics and monuments of Pingjin and the developed industry and commerce, and also protected the lives and property of the people of Pingjin.
On the eve of the launching of the Pingjin Campaign, in accordance with the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, proceeding from the preservation of Peiping's industrial and commercial foundation and cultural monuments and the reduction of the loss of people's lives and property, seriously analyzed the situation of Fu Zuoyi, holding that although Fu Zuoyi had been anti-communist for a long time and had caused deep disasters to the people, he had been an anti-Japanese general, had a history of joint resistance against Japan with the armed forces led by the Communist Party of China, had a deep-rooted contradiction with Chiang Kai-shek, and had the possibility of striving to resolve it peacefully when the Kuomintang reactionary government of Chiang Kai-shek was about to collapse.
Therefore, the North China Bureau instructed the Beiping underground party to take advantage of the favorable military situation on the Pingjin battlefield and boldly make use of all kinds of social relations, especially Fu Zuoyi's close relatives, to directly do Fu Zuoyi's work, focusing on striving for Fu Zuoyi to take the road of peaceful settlement of Peiping. Fu Zuoyi also really understood the great righteousness, and finally chose to take the road of peace, and was also a hero who protected Peiping.