In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, on the 22nd, the Communist Party issued the "Declaration of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for promulgating the Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party", and on September 23, Chiang Kai-shek recognized the Communist Party's speech, which meant that the anti-Japanese national united front was formally formed. However, zhang Xueliang, one of the heroes who had made great contributions to the construction of the front at this time, was put under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek at this time.
No one expected that Zhang Xueliang, who could have been released, had completely lost the possibility of his freedom due to an incident, and even his own Northeast Army had fallen to Chiang Kai-shek.
Battle and dilemma, vacillating
In 1936, the smoke of war drifted on the land of Shenzhou, Japan's wolf ambitions had been revealed, the local war in The Northeast was intensifying, and the horn of all-out war was about to be sounded, but the civil war in The country had not yet subsided.
In 1935, the Red Army's 25,000-mile long march ended, and victory met the division. In September of the same year, Chiang Kai-shek set up the Northwest Bandit General Headquarters, and Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army obeyed the order to enter Shaanxi and Gansu to suppress bandits.
On December 12, 1936, after fully exchanging opinions and attitudes with the leadership of the Red Army, Zhang Xueliang, who deeply realized that the anti-Japanese resistance was the most important matter today, was determined to carry out "military advice" and joined forces with Yang Hucheng to detain Chiang Kai-shek, who was supervising the war, which was the Xi'an Incident that shocked China and foreign countries.
On December 25, the helpless Chiang Kai-shek accepted the Liuxiang proposition of "stopping the civil war and uniting with the Communists to resist Japan", and the Xi'an affair became resolved peacefully.
Although the establishment of the anti-Japanese national united front has already taken shape, as the leader of the incident, Zhang Xueliang, the leader of the Northeast Army, was detained after escorting Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing.
At that time, the Northeast Army was divided into two factions, one was the Young Zhuang faction headed by middle- and lower-ranking officers, and the other was the main peace faction headed by the upper echelons of the Northeast Army.
The Shaozhuang faction believed that Zhang Xueliang should be released immediately, otherwise there would be a war with the Nanjing government. The main peace faction, on the other hand, oscillated between war and peace, and tended to negotiate peace, because the northeast army and the central army were very different in combat strength, and if they started the war lightly, there was no chance of victory.
As the proposer of the anti-Japanese national united front, the Central Red Army believed that the most important thing at the moment was how to resist Japan and resist foreign enemies, rather than waging a civil war, so it was reluctant to participate in the war against Chiang Kai-shek.
Under the influence of the Red Army, the ideas of the senior leaders of the Northeast Army gradually became clear, but this ushered in the opposition and conspiracy of middle- and lower-level officers. No one could have imagined that after the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, another storm was about to strike.
The young man plotted and launched a coup d'état
On the night of February 1, 1937, several leaders of the Young Zhuang Faction of the Northeast Army were summoned to attend the meeting, and the content of the meeting was to kill the Main And Faction, control the Northeast Army, and rescue Zhang Xueliang! What seemed absurd at this time won the support of several people. In fact, there are already signs of things.
In the early morning of February 1, Yu Xuezhong, a general of the Northeast Army who had been ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to mediate the northwest problem, was surrounded by the Northeast Army's special forces, and Li Kenong, who had gone to Tongguan for compromise negotiations, was also stopped inside the city gate by Shaozhuang officers and would not let him leave the city, and was only forced to withdraw under the threat of He Zhuguo, a high-ranking general of the Northeast Army.
So that night, the Young Zhuang faction and others who believed that the top generals of the Northeast Army were "weak, compromised, and incompetent" decided to resist by force, and this was also the beginning of the disaster.
On February 2, a coup d'état occurred in the Northeast Army, and company commander Yuwen Jun and others broke into Wang Yizhe's home and shot and killed Wang Yizhe, who was sick. Two events. At this time, it was morning, after killing Wang Yizhe, the Young Zhuang faction of the Northeast Army began to continue to search for targets in the city in an attempt to eliminate the main and faction and "rescue" Zhang Xueliang.
In the end, the Shaozhuang faction shot and killed Song Xueli, Xu Fang, Jiang Bin and other generals, and He Zhuguo survived by hiding in Yang Hucheng's mansion. It is worth mentioning that after finding Yu Xuezhong and Dong Yingbin, chief of staff of the Northeast Army, the Shaozhuang faction forcibly ordered the two to issue an order for the Northeast Army to comprehensively attack the Central Army and rescue Zhang Xueliang.
But Yu Xuezhong cried and explained: "You have run into a catastrophe, my troops are far away in Gansu, and I cannot command the Northeast Army outside Xi'an." At this time, several people vaguely felt that something was wrong, but the disaster had already been caused, and it was difficult to end it.
After the coup d'état ended and Wang Yizhe was shot, the generals of the Northeast Army on the front line were out of anger and had a cold feeling of death. At the same time, the young officers of the Young Zhuang faction were simply unable to take command, and except for the support of some soldiers and generals, the rest of the Northeast Army did not agree with their ideas.
The outcome was dismal and the army was divided
At this time, the Northeast Army already had faint signs of splitting, and some of the generals of the Northeast Army had even begun to contact the Nanjing government to prepare for surrender. On February 3, the first day of the coup, the 10th Cavalry Division of the Northeast Army announced that it would fall to the Nanjing government, followed by the 106th and 105th Divisions of the Northeast Army.
In just a few days, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, all because of a wrong coup and bloodshed.
At the same time, the 105th Division of the Northeast Army marched toward Lintong, while the rest of the Northeast Army's commanders, division commanders, and others responded at night, saying that they would kill all the Shaozhuang factions in the coup.
But that's not the end of it, two. The impact and harm of the second incident was far greater than several people imagined, and the Red Army and the Northeast Army, which had established basic trust, had established basic trust because of the second. There was a rift in the second incident, and the senior generals of the Northeast Army no longer trusted the Red Army, and even believed that the coup was directed by the CCP.
Yang Hucheng was exhausted after the coup, and although he tried his best to persuade him, he was still misunderstood by the senior generals of the Northeast Army on the front line, and it was difficult to gain their trust.
Subsequently, the Seventeenth Route Army under Yang Hucheng was forced to accept the incorporation of the Nationalist government in Nanjing, and the leaders of the Shaozhuang faction, Sun Mingjiu, Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, and others, fled and were wanted by the Northeast Army. Yu Wenjun was captured and dissected to pay tribute to Wang Yizhe, who was shot and killed by him.
The Coup d'état of the Shaozhuang faction was a complete failure and brought irreparable regrets - Zhang Xueliang completely lost the possibility of being released and could only be placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek in the city of Nanjing.
What is intriguing is that Sun Mingjiu, Miao Jianqiu, and Ying Detian all became traitors after the outbreak of the War of Resistance, and the teenager who slaughtered the dragon turned into a dragon and aimed their flames at their compatriots.
At the end of the incident, the Central Army marched into Xi'an, and then Gu Zhutong, a representative of the Nationalist Government, began negotiations with the 17th Route Army, the Chinese Red Army and the Northeast Army. In March, the Northeast Army began to transfer eastward, the general headquarters of the 17th Route Army was abolished, and Yang Hucheng was forced to go abroad.
brief summary:
Blind impulses will only bring misfortune, and war will not solve the problem, but will only bring greater hatred. Originally, the alliance between the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army was likely to win at the negotiating table, but because of a gunshot and a coup d'état, everything may disappear, leaving only two words "war".
The problem is that decisions made after careful consideration in many ways can only be applied, otherwise ideas that are momentarily angry are more likely to have a bad impact.