Zhang Xueliang has 300,000 Northeast Troops under his command, why, the young marshal was placed under house arrest for 54 years, but no one came to the rescue? In December 1936, the Northeast Army gathered in the Northwest Territories, including, the 51st Army, the 57th Army, the 67th Army, the 53rd Army, the 2nd Cavalry Army and other 23 infantry divisions and cavalry divisions.
The garrison situation was that east of Xi'an, in addition to Liu Duoquan's 105th Division and Feng Qinya's 7th Army, which was originally in the area, the 57th Army stationed in The Miao Liliu area around Qingyang was transferred to the vicinity of Weinan to prevent the heavy troops of the Central Army from attacking west along the Longhai Road through Tongguan; Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army in Gansu and Wang Yizhe's 67th Army in Luochuan were on guard on the Lanzhou, Pingliang, and Xianyang highways. After Zhang Xueliang was detained, he was first dismissed from all posts. No longer have the rank and authority to command the army. Moreover, the overall situation was that the main force of the Central Army had rushed from other areas to the vicinity of Shaanxi and was ready for an attack. Hu Zongnan's forces in Gansu had deployed to the east; Wan Yaohuang's 25th Army was already in the Xianyang area, controlling the road from Xi'an to Lanzhou. Moreover, as soon as the incident occurred, many northeastern troops had already thrown themselves at the Central Army; first of all, Wan Fulin, commander of the 53rd Army, not only failed to carry out Zhang Xueliang's orders, but also detained Huang Xiansheng, the deputy commander who planned to lead his troops to guard the Yellow River Grand Iron Bridge and control the Longhai Railway; Huang Dading in Luoyang also submitted to the Central Army and gave way to Luoyang; Feng Qinya, near Tongguan, also suddenly defected, enabling Xu Tingyao's central army to enter the Weinan region through Tongguan.
The Japanese Naval Command (equivalent to the General Staff Headquarters of the Army) made a specific analysis of the various military forces in Shaanxi Province in the "Special Report No. 1" on the Xi'an Incident on January 6, 1937, of which about 70% of the Northeast Army believed that it supported the Xi'an Incident, and the remaining 30% belonged to the central faction. A similar situation was felt with the Northwest Army. This was an important reason why the Central Department was later able to control the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army. After Zhang Xueliang was detained, Wang Yizhe and He Zhuguo, the leaders of the Northeast Army, secretly ordered Liu Duoquan and Miao Liliu to withdraw their troops from Weinan and no longer confront the Central Army. In fact, Shen Ke, commander of the 106th Division of the Northeast Army, Tan Zixin, commander of the 10th Cavalry Division, and Sun Youren, brigade commander of the 3rd Garrison Brigade of the Northwest Army, called Nanjing directly to express their sincerity. Based on this situation, Yang Hucheng was forced to agree with Gu Zhutong that the 17th Route Army would accept the reorganization of the Central Army. Later, the Northeast Army was also forced to open up the Yu, Anhui, and Soviet regions in the east. In less than a month, the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army of the Northwest Army all surrendered to the Central Army and were reorganized.
In this case, there will be no one to rescue the young marshal, because in less than 1 month after the young marshal was detained, his 300,000 troops have all been invested in the Central Army, becoming a paraphyletic unit of the Central Army, no longer the Northeast Army under Zhang Xueliang's time, and no longer have a subordinate relationship.