On December 12, 1936, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng launched a military campaign, the Northeast Army captured Chiang Kai-shek, and the Northwest Army attacked the people around him and detained many important party, government, and military personnel.
Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's move was not necessary to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek and replace him, but to demand that Chiang Kai-shek stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan. After the peaceful settlement of the incident, the different forces involved in the coup d'état embarked on different paths.
Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest, and nearly 200,000 northeastern troops were reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek and gradually dismembered. So after the Xi'an Incident, what was the end of Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army?
Yang Hucheng was different from Zhang Xueliang, but on the contrary, he was somewhat similar to Zhang Zuolin, both were from the green forest, relying on their own ability to win over a team, and later briefly defected to Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army.
However, it was not long before Yang Hucheng switched to Chiang Kai-shek, and after the defeat of Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, Yang Hucheng became the chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Government, and his 17th Route Army began to be called the Northwest Army.
After the incident, Yang Hucheng was not put under house arrest at first, but he resigned as the director of the Xi'an Appeasement Office and the commander-in-chief of the 17th Route Army, completely lost control of the Northwest Army, and was forced to go to Europe to "go abroad to investigate.".
However, after the July 7 Incident, he was opposed by many people and returned to China. His family, including him, was arrested and placed under house arrest and held for 12 years, before the liberation of Chongqing.
The 17th Route Army under Yang Hucheng actually had only two corps, and the northeast army was very different, namely Sun Weiru's 38th Army and Feng Qinya's 7th Army. The two corps had one division each, the 17th Division and the 42nd Division.
However, Yang Hucheng had some garrison divisions, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Regiments of Special Agents of the Xi'an Sui Bureau, the Cavalry Regiment of the 17th Route Army Headquarters, the Special Service Battalion, the Instruction Battalion, and the Guards.
The total number of people can be more than 60,000.
When the Xi'an Incident broke out, Feng Qinya, commander of the 7th Army and commander of the 42nd Division, had already defected to Chiang Kai-shek with his troops. The unit was renamed the 98th Army and incorporated into the 14th Army. After Feng Qinya was promoted, Wu Shimin, the former commander of the 169th Division, took over as commander.
The 98th Army, led by Samurai Min, fought the Japanese to the death, suffering heavy losses, and even he himself was killed. Later, under the transformation of Chiang Kai-shek, the 98th Army evolved into its own subordinate unit, and the number was abolished.
When Feng Qinzha was transferred to the deputy commander of the First Theater, he had already lost his military power, and on the surface, he continued to be promoted after that, but he had almost no power, and in 1949 he followed Fu Zuoyi's uprising.
The two regiments of the First Garrison Brigade, Wang Junbu, the Second Garrison Brigade, Shen Xiting, and Tang Deyao, were also organized as the Independent 19th Brigade, but they were soon abolished, and the troops were scattered into other divisions and completely disappeared.
In the 38th Army, Sun Weiru served as its commander, commanding Zhao Shoushan's 17th Division and Li Xingzhong's 177th Division. Sun Weirubu also heroically killed the enemy on the anti-Japanese battlefield, suffered heavy losses, and could not be replenished, and has been attrition.
This force was also the focus of Chiang Kai-shek's attention, and in order to weaken the ministry, the ministry was again reorganized into the 31st Army, with Sun Weiru as commander-in-chief, under the command of the 38th Army and the 96th Army. Zhao Shoushan, commander of the 38th Army, had the 17th and 55th Divisions under his command. Li Xingzhong, commander of the 96th Army, had the 177th Division and the newly formed 14th Division under his command.
However, at the same time, many former generals of the Northwest Army were transferred away and replaced by concubines. Forced by the situation, many troops embarked on the road of insurrection. With the reorganization of the 177th Brigade Li Zhen's western surrender to the People's Liberation Army in the liberation of the Great Southwest, sun Weiru's history has come to an end.
Wang Jinya, commander of the 49th Brigade of the 17th Division, was dissatisfied with Zhang Xueliang sending Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, so he took the team and gambled away, but soon turned to Chiang Kai-shek.
In itself, the Northwest Army is not Chiang Kai-shek's concubine, and although its strength is not bad, in Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, it can only be a miscellaneous card. Even if there had been no Xi'an incident, the fate and results of these troops would have been known to many people.