(Movie "Xi'an Incident")
Central Plains War. In the Battle of Lanfeng, Feng Yuxiang sent Zheng Dazhang's cavalry unit to carry out a sneak attack on Guide Airport. After destroying the airport, Zheng Bu had planned to rush in the direction of the station, if so, Chiang Kai-shek would have been captured, but the direction from the airport to the station had been blocked by intensive fire, and the barbed wire fence around the airport was surrounded, and the cavalry could not rush through several attacks, so they had to return the same way.
Sun Liangcheng was also one of the organizers of the raid. Later, as soon as he mentioned this matter, he sighed and said that it was really cheap for Old Chiang, and if they had been separated at that time, one would have attacked the airfield and the other had gone to burn the train to catch Old Chiang, it was estimated that these two tasks would have been completed at the same time.
Knowing that the danger was lifted, the people in Chiang Kai-shek's car all breathed a long sigh: "How dangerous!" Chiang Kai-shek was very angry while rejoicing, because he had previously specially instructed Gu Zhutong, who was in charge of the defense of the outer periphery of Guide, to let the other side beware of the attack carried out by the northwest army with a large knife team.
Now the big knife team has become a cavalry unit, but the reason is the same, the success of the Northwest Army's attack shows that Gu Zhutong has dereliction of duty. Chiang Kai-shek called Gu Zhutong over and scolded him with a dog blood sprinkler. Since then, Gu Zhutong has been more cautious, and whenever the division headquarters moves, he always has to give thousands of instructions, for fear of being attacked by the Northwest Army at night.
After more than ten days of fierce fighting, the Central Army was completely shaken on the Longhai Line and had to continue to retreat backwards.
Chiang Kai-shek gathered heavy troops on the Longhai Line, and he wanted to make up his mind at once, but unexpectedly, the only victories and progress were actually achieved by relying on "silver bullets." It is really shameful. Different voices also began to appear within the Nanjing government, and some people asked Chiang Kai-shek with concern: "Eliminate A today, eliminate B tomorrow, and make everyone endanger themselves. ”
Chiang Kai-shek was indignant after hearing this. He was a man of great perseverance and tenacity, and although he was disappointed by the fighting power shown by the Central Army, including the Instructor, he did not show the slightest decadence.
Isn't there only one magic weapon in your pocket, and if this one doesn't work, won't you use another? Chiang Kai-shek confidently told his doubters: "As long as people ask for money from officials, I have a way." ”
In the preparation stage for the Central Plains War, Chiang Kai-shek estimated that Yan and Feng would not invest the main force on the Pinghan Line, but would only draw out a crack army to go south to Xiangfan to threaten Wuhan. According to this estimate, he decided to deploy the Third Army in Xiangfan.
The Third Army was a mixed corps of miscellaneous armies, with a variety of unit numbers, but none of them were Chiang Kai-shek's concubines. The three main forces of the legion, Xu Yuanquan, Wang Jinyu, and Yang Hucheng, were also similar to Shi Yousan, Wan Xuancai, and Sun Dianying of the anti-Chiang Kai-shek coalition, all of whom had mixed all the way by eating a few meals and wearing a few clothes.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek wanted to use the Third Army for the Pinghan Line was of course a strategic consideration, but at the same time it was also a helpless choice, because the number of troops of his concubines was far inferior to that of the anti-Chiang Kai-shek coalition forces, and after deploying the main force on the Longhai Line and the Jinpu Line, the remaining troops that could be incorporated into the pinghan line combat sequence could only be a complete miscellaneous card.