After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Fengzhi warlords with the northeast as their basic position were an army. As we all know, the Northeast Army was composed of the security forces and the new army in the northeast after the Xinhai Revolution. Until after the "September 18 Incident", why did Zhang Xueliang's 200,000 Northeast Army disappear?
In 1929, Feng Jun was reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek into the Northeast Border Guard Corps of the National Revolutionary Army, referred to as the "Northeast Army", under the jurisdiction of Zhang Xueliang, with a number of about 300,000. Became part of the Nationalist army and stationed on the northeastern frontier.
In September 1930, Marshal Zhang Xueliang mediated the Central Plains War and dispatched two main forces and nine brigades into Hebei. In June of the following year, in response to Shi Yousan's rebellion, ten more brigades of the Northeast Army entered the pass. Before the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, 115,000 of the 300,000 troops of the Northeast Army were stationed at the customs, and the remaining 190,000 remained in the provinces outside the customs, which was also an important reason why the Japanese later launched a war of aggression.
After the "918" incident, due to non-resistance, the territory of the northeast was lost, and public opinion throughout the country was in an uproar. As Zhang's son, Zhang Xueliang also poured great enthusiasm into the land he guarded. However, his negligence led to the fall of the Northeast. This once peaceful and beautiful land was destroyed under the rule of the Japanese army, and the people suffered. Zhang Xueliang could not withstand such pressure.
To the Xi'an Incident, also known as the "Double Twelve Incident". On December 12, 1936, in order to persuade Chiang kai-shek to change the established national policy of "foreign countries must first be at home", he stopped the civil war and unanimously resisted Japan. In the end, Chiang accepted the idea of "stopping the civil war and uniting with the Communist Party to resist Japan" and resolved it peacefully, leading to the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation. The peace of the Xi'an Incident thus ended the ten-year civil war, and the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the Anti-Japanese National United Front took initial shape, which became a turning point from the civil war to the anti-Japanese national war.
As a result of this incident, the relationship between Jiang and Zhang Xueliang also changed. Jiang believed that Zhang Xueliang had betrayed him and put him under house arrest. Jiang actually wanted to kill Zhang Xueliang. He had also married Zhang Xueliang to a brother with a different surname, so he dismissed this idea. But Jiang did not spare Zhang Xueliang. As a result, Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest in a safe place for 54 years and received extremely high treatment. This way of treating ordinary prisoners is difficult, so it can be said that Zhang Xueliang's status in Jiang's mind is still unusual.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was detained by Jiang, and more than 200,000 people of the Northeast Army fell into a leaderless situation. Where to go, internal differences are serious. Finally, on February 2, 1937, Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, Sun Mingjiu, and others disregarded the overall situation and killed the commander of the 67th Army of the Elder Faction of the Northeast Army, Xu Fang, the director of the General Staff of the Northwest Command, the deputy director, the director of the Transportation Department, and others.
Later, Zhou Enlai, head of the CPC delegation in Xi'an, ran east and west to stop the northeast army from killing each other.
In addition, Jiang also spent a lot of money to buy senior generals in the northeast. In order to make the generals of the Northeast Army obey the orders, Jiang first bribed the elders of the Northeast Army. With the assistance of Wang Shuchang, the reorganization of the Northeast Army was completed. He also helped Chiang persuade, divide, and win over the generals of the Northeast Army.
Under chiang's government's policy of civil war. In March 1937, senior generals in the northeast rushed to accept Chiang Kai-shek's order to hand over the northeast. The Northeast Army was sent to the Northeast Battlefield, where the Shandong Battlefield competed with the People's Liberation Army. With the failure of the overall strategy of the Kuomintang army, all departments of the Northeast Army were defeated and annihilated by the People's Liberation Army in the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign, and some officers and men rebelled and surrendered. The Northeast Army was completely dismembered. During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, 100,000 soldiers of the Northeast Army sacrificed themselves on the battlefield.
Part of the Northeast Army was controlled by Chiang Kai-shek, and part of it revolted on the battlefield, which shows how important a good commander is when leading soldiers. At this point, as the Northeast Army has come to an end. Defend the country at your own expense. So, they deserve our admiration and respect!