At 5:30 a.m. on the morning of the 12th, the rest of the bed had finished exercising, and when he was getting up and putting on his clothes, he overheard a gunshot in front of the gate, and Yu ordered the guards to quickly check it out. A second shot of gunfire was heard, and after that, the gunshots continued. Chiang Kai-shek said in his diary. Chiang Kai-shek, who had exhausted his calculations on weekdays, was "invited" to Xi'an by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, and was unceremoniously rounded up like a hare.
Under the guidance of his aide Yang Yongtai, Chiang Kai-shek formulated a reactionary policy of "taking care of the outside world before going inside," and in the context of Japan's already invading China, he still regarded "suppressing the Communists" as the most important task. In 1936, Chiang Kai-shek stepped up the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, ordering Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and Yang Hucheng's Seventeenth Route Army to attack the main force of the Red Army, which had just arrived in northern Shaanxi from the south.
According to Chiang Kai-shek, "By the summer of 1937 at the latest, the Red Army will be completely wiped out." Therefore, no matter how grim the anti-Japanese situation was, Chiang Kai-shek believed that "the work at hand" must be completed first, otherwise "there will be endless troubles in the future." However, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng were very disgusted by Chiang Kai-shek's practice of still infighting in the face of national difficulties, and repeatedly suggested that Chiang Kai-shek resist Japan first, and the rest would be said later. But Chiang Kai-shek was obstinate and bent on solving the Red Army first.
Chiang Kai-shek also saw the negativity of Zhang Yang and the two of them, so he gave them the last two options, either to stay and work hard to continue to suppress the Communists, or to transfer to other places and change the major affairs of suppressing the Communists. In the end, Zhang Yang and the two did not choose A or B, but formulated an option by themselves.
In the end, Chiang Kai-shek was "invited" to Lintong in Xi'an and lived in the Huaqing Palace. On the afternoon of December 11, Zhang Xueliang came to Huaqing Palace and proposed to Chiang Kai-shek about resisting Japan, and this time Chiang Kai-shek scolded Zhang Xueliang to the point of spewing blood, saying, "Victory against the Red Army is just around the corner, how is it possible to talk at this time?" ignorant! ”
Zhang Xueliang was completely dead-hearted, came out of the Huaqing Palace with a red face, and called Wang Yuzhen: Let's go back to Xi'an. The first battalion of the guard led by Wang Yuzhan was originally Zhang Xueliang's personal guard, and after Chiang Kai-shek came, he was sent to protect Chiang Kai-shek, but after Zhang Xueliang was scolded by Chiang Kai-shek this time, Wang Yuzhan's first battalion and Sun Mingjiu's second battalion of the guard were given a new historical mission.
After returning to Xi'an, after Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng told Wang Yuzhuan and Sun Mingjiu about the plan for the seizure of Chiang Kai-shek, Wang and Sun were immediately stimulated. However, the strong sense of historical responsibility far outweighed the risks inherent in the matter itself, and the two did not hesitate to implement the resolution of Zhang Yang and the two.
At two o'clock in the morning of December 12, Wang Yuzhan rushed to Baqiao, a suburb of Xi'an, where he and Sun Mingjiu, the commander of the second battalion, discussed and the two of them attacked the Huaqing Palace together. Then Wang Yuzhan came to Huaqing Pond, led the people to get off the guns of the gendarmes near Huaqing Palace, and entered the first door of Huaqing Palace.
Although the guards at the first gate were startled by the sudden comrades-in-arms, after all, they were all the guards of the young marshal, so they tacitly let Wang Yuzhan's troops enter the second gate. After arriving inside, it was chiang kai-shek's personal bodyguard. At this time, it was already five o'clock, the sky was still very dark, Wang Yuzhan saw a guard patrolling, without saying a word, picked up the gun and opened fire, the other Chiang Kai-shek soldiers were dumbfounded, and the assassination of the king could really be seen once in this life!
After all, there were only more than twenty people, and although Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers were each Schwarzenegger, they could not stand up to the number of people and families.
Wang Yuzhan asked people to suppress the other side's firepower, and he led people straight to the third door of the five halls, that is, the room where Chiang Kai-shek lived, and found that the door was open, Chiang Kai-shek's black cloak was still hanging on the hanger, and the false teeth were still soaking in the water cup, but the person was gone.
Wang Yuzhan immediately took people out to look for it, and found that there was a shoe under the wall, which was judged to be the shoe of the chairman of the committee, and it seemed that it had accidentally fallen off when he climbed over the wall. They followed the clues to Lishan Mountain, and found that there was movement behind a stone, Wang Yuzhan shouted a few times that the other side did not move, and a bold soldier actually fired a shot at the stone. Then three people behind the stone stood up, the last one was Chiang Kai-shek, and the first two were Chiang Kai-shek's guards.
Chiang Kai-shek had always had the habit of getting up at five o'clock in the morning, and when Wang Yuzhan rushed in with people, he just happened to get dressed and prepare for the day's work. At this time, several guards suddenly broke in and asked Chiang Kai-shek to leave quickly, and Chiang Kai-shek did not say a word and ran out with the guards. The main entrance must not be able to go, can only climb over the wall.
Although Chiang Kai-shek was in his fifties, he was still fit in the face of death threats, jumping up when he climbed over the wall, but because he was too panicked, his shoes fell off. Jiang then fell heavily to the ground as he jumped off the wall, injuring his back. But this could not stop his desire to escape, and Chiang Kai-shek and two guards quickly ran to the mountain and hid behind a large rock.
Good things don't go out, bad things spread far and wide, and the news of Chiang Kai-shek's detention quickly spread all over the world. Early the next morning, the news reached Japanese Prime Minister Hirota Hiroshi, who thought he had heard wrongly and asked his subordinates: Who detained whom? Starting at six o'clock in the morning, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a four-hour meeting, and at ten o'clock finally came a result: to find out whether the matter was true or not, and who arrested whom!
postscript
After everyone has calmed down, let's start discussing how to solve this matter. People mainly Kong Xiangxi, Song Ziwen, and Song Meiling advocated a peaceful settlement of the matter, but many more advocated a military crusade against Zhang Yang and the two, and many of them had a small calculation in their hearts to force Zhang Xueliang to kill Chiang Kai-shek and achieve their goal of killing people with a knife.
Therefore, since then, Chiang Kai-shek has completely hated He Yingqin, Li Zongren, and others from the bottom of his heart, and these people are eager to directly blow up Xi'an, and they will bite the dog to fight for the position of the oldest.
However, in any case, the matter was finally resolved peacefully, and Chiang Kai-shek submitted to Zhang Yang and the two men, also met with Premier Zhou, and then officially declared the united communist alliance with the Soviet Union and the all-round resistance against Japan.