What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
On July 4, 1928, a group of men and horses dressed in military uniforms marched into the Qing Dynasty Tombs, which was 125 kilometers away from downtown Beijing.
The Qing Tombs are a royal forbidden place that is isolated from the world and sacred, but this team of about 30,000 people actually camped and camped after entering the imperial tomb, and it seems that they have a long-term plan.
Who is this group? What kind of calculation are they playing?
war game?
Soon, a notice appeared on the wall of the intersection of the streets of Malanyu, which was close to the Qing Tombs:
Order of the Twelfth Army of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army In view of the fact that the headquarters army will conduct military exercises in the Tanglin area from now on, the people of Li Min have been ordered to withdraw quickly without delay, and the headquarters is not responsible for accidents
The military exercise actually reached the imperial tomb! This is also unheard of, although the common people have all kinds of speculations in their hearts, but after all, Tanglin is the largest group of imperial concubines in the Qing Empire, and it is expected that these soldiers do not dare to do anything!
But what kind of unit was this Twelfth Army?
For the Twelfth Army of the Sixth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the common people are still very unfamiliar, and they only know that they are soldiers.
However, when it comes to Sun Dianying, the commander of the Twelfth Army, he is also the number one person in North China.
Sun Dianying was born in Sunzhuang Village, Henan Province, and had smallpox when he was a child, so he was also called Sun Dianying. Sun Dianying's father died early, from childhood and his mother depended on life, poor life, and later he became acquainted with some hooligans, gambling sticks, he often went in and out of the casino, money house, and gradually became a casino master, gambling as a business, made a lot of money, to the autumn of 1925, Sun Dianying defected to the warlord Zhang Zongchang.
Three years later, he defected to Chiang Kai-shek and transformed himself from a warlord to the commander of the Twelfth Army of the Sixth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. This is Sun Dianying, Sun Dianying.
Sun Dianying
It looks a little bit creepy!
However, although he was the commander of the first army, at this time Sun Dianying seemed to be very embarrassed, because his men had not paid the army for half a year, and the army was on the verge of disintegration.
But at this time, Sun Dianying, who could not open the pot, also received a task that made him even more depressed.
At the beginning of 1928, Ma Futian, a bandit who was originally recruited by the Feng army, led his troops to defect and went straight to Ma Lanyu, next to the Qing Tombs, deliberately digging graves and stealing treasures for a long time.
After learning the news, the National Revolutionary Army sent Sun Dianying of the Twelfth Army to suppress Fu. Sun Dianying ordered the division commander Tan Wenjiang to lead his troops overnight and drove away Ma Futian.
On the way, Sun Dianying saw the palatial hall of The Tanglin Tomb, but the ground building was stolen and demolished by warlords and locals, and the copper decorations in the temple were all stolen, even the windows, thresholds, and window ledges were also dismantled, on the one hand, the embarrassment of lack of military pay, on the other hand, the royal cemetery with a large number of treasures, this Sun Dianying began to think, he wanted to do a big vote!
However, if you want to excavate the royal mausoleum, it is not only rebellious, but it also sounds like a fool's dream.
According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial tomb was specially protected.
In the middle of the Guangxu Dynasty, there were more than 1,100 Eight Banner Soldiers stationed in Tanglin. In addition to the Forbidden City, this royal mausoleum area can be called the number one forbidden place.
But during the Northern Expedition, the Imperial Family of the Qing Dynasty was already precarious, and could the former sacred forbidden land still maintain that dignity? The answer is clear: no!
Grave!
Bandits fished through the mouth of the cave, the dungeon was gloomy and damp, worried about touching some hidden weapon, and several soldiers were sent down to explore the way first. The soldiers carefully entered a twenty- or thirty-meter-long slope, which was a corridor left to transport coffins into the underground palace, and the slope was emitting a musty smell, and the soldiers groped forward, and their spirits were highly nervous.
Finally they saw a tall white jade gate, and the large army came later, and they began to push the door hard. However, the stone gate in the underground palace weighed 3 tons, and there was a top door stone behind the door, which was impossible to push open.
The impatient bandits slashed and slashed under the stone gate, but even so, the gate was still locked...