Chapter 192 Xi'an Wind and Cloud
Chapter 192: Xi'an Fengyun
However, Zhang Xuewu's plan still requires a certain degree of cooperation from the German authorities, because since 1935, the German government has begun to count the collection of Jewish industries, and most of the rich Jews have long escaped from Germany. As written in history, 80% of the Jews have no assets, and after being robbed by the German government, they are even more impoverished. European countries do not welcome such a pauper to their own countries, so most of the Jews in Germany are facing the point of nowhere to go and can only wait for death.
There is no doubt that European countries are very realistic. Zhang Xuewu heard that an immigration resettlement coupon in Europe has sold twenty kilograms of gold. Money can no longer be used as currency for exchange in this place. The only hard currency is gold and jewelry, etc.
Looking back on later generations, Zhang Xuewu really couldn't understand why Germany had given enough tolerant policies to immigrate, but so many Jews stayed in Germany and waited for death? Zhang Xuewu was very confused. Now Zhang Xuewu knew the inside story. It turned out that Jewish immigration was based on money, and it was basically the same principle in any era. Rich people had long avoided it, and poor people with no money might have to wait for death.
Now these poor people have an extra way out. Zhang Xuewu wants all technicians, technicians, teachers, engineers, various scientific researchers, etc. Moreover, the policy in Rehe Chengde is so relaxed that Jews can bring their families with them. According to their contributions, they can be given different treatments or enjoy a certain degree of policy preference.
Zhang Xuewu did not want to give Jews the idea of establishing a country and extending it all kinds of ideas, but Zhang Xuewu also knew that re-establishing a country in Jerusalem was the Jews' greatest wish, but can this wish be realized today after a sudden change in history? Zhang Xuewu did not know, but he also realized that if he wanted to use Jews to serve himself, Zhang Xuewu knew that the biggest cake he drew was to give Jews the dream of establishing a country.
However, being able to build the Jewish forces in China is Zhang Xuewu's biggest criterion for handling Jewish affairs. 1935 was a very critical time for Zhang Xuewu. The aid provided by Germany to China had reached the so-called limit. In fact, Zhang Xuewu's heart was already a laborious task for the construction of the Rehe Legion, because in China, Rehe has now become the frontier of a country.
However, in the Nanjing government, except for Wang Jingwei, Chiang Kai-shek had a good impression of Zhang Xuewu, because Zhang Xuewu would report it in time regardless of the big and small matters. Chiang Kai-shek was very satisfied with Zhang Xuewu's timely report, but the performance of the Northeast Army who was transferred to northern Shaanxi to suppress the bandits made Chiang Kai-shek very annoyed.
Although Zhang Xueliang avoided the crisis of stepping down from the battlefield in Rehe in 1933, Zhang Xueliang seemed not satisfied with this. The key is that the Northeast Army's military pay and ordnances have always been restricted by the Supreme Military Commission and the Ministry of Military Affairs. Zhang Shaoshen, who never knew how much money he had, had a hard time at this moment. Moreover, the Nanjing government reorganized the Northeast Army into four A-type troops, which reduced the Northeast Army by more than 30,000 people. The Provincial Defense Brigade and Reclamation Forces left by the Northeast Army in the Northeast were almost completely lost. If Zhang Xuewu from Rehe received the arms and ordnance, Zhang Xueliang would probably not be able to stabilize even these four armies.
However, the three armies of the Northeast Army have almost become investors and sponsors in Shaanxi. Zhang Xuewu has always paid attention to various signs of Zhang Xueliang's activities. In fact, many inevitable results in history. Even if Zhang Xuewu wants to interfere, he cannot interfere, because even in the Double 12 Incident in history, the firm claims of the Soviet Union and its Communist International recognize that China's only legal government is the Republic of China, and the only leader is Chiang Kai-shek, and only Chiang Kai-shek can lead China to resist. No one can change it. So if Zhang Xueliang launches the Double 12 Incident, Zhang Xueliang will definitely become a lonely man at home and internationally. Where will he be at that time?
Zhang Xuewu actually prepared a variety of plans. The first was to send falcons and sharp blades from his special paratrooper commando to Xi'an to rescue him. The second was to destroy Yu and march to Shanxi to remove Yan Xishan. Then, Zhang Zuoxiang's army left behind in Shanhaiguan was directly disarmed, and divided his troops directly into Shaanxi with three routes. Heavy troops cooperated with armored troops to quickly break into Xi'an, and cooperated with the special paratroopers to carry out the rescue.
However, Zhang Xuewu can only say that he doesn't care about what Zhang Xueliang did. In fact, Zhang Xueliang's personality cannot allow Zhang Xuewu to give him key suggestions or slander.
In 1936, Zhang Xuewu was competing with the *** people for the last time, because the Kwantung Army of the *** people had already occupied forty-two A-type divisions. In addition to the twenty-two mobilization divisions in China, there were nearly twenty reserve troops of the divisions. It can be said that the *** people had carried out first-level mobilization of international standards.
The *** people were preparing for the final invasion of China. With the significant expansion of the Japanese army, the anti-China sentiment in the country and North Korea and Taiwan was ignited in an all-round way. For Zhang Xuewu, the *** people's large-scale incitement at home was actually the eve of preparation for the launch. There is never so-called justice and injustice in the war. Only interests are the true meaning of the war. Soldiers shed their blood to fight for greater living space and possess more resources for the country and nation. This is also the value of the existence of soldiers. The principle of survival of the fittest in the world is more applicable to the laws of survival of international countries.
When Zhang Xuewu cut the ribbon for the completion of the seventh 50,000-ton blast furnace of the Baotou Steel Plant, the Intelligence Department gave a detailed report on the various situations of the Northeast Army in Shaanxi. Zhang Xuewu was very troubled by this report, because the information he could get was probably put on Chiang Kai-shek's desk. Zhang Xuewu believed that he wanted to express his dissatisfaction with the Nanjing government. The Northeast Army's military pay issue had been wiped out in repeated battles and was disbanded. The Northeast Army's number of three divisions was revoked. No one would have been happy. It was normal to defeat the war, but the revocation of the army number was a big problem.
Chiang Kai-shek, located in Nanjing, was very dissatisfied with the Northeast Army's no record of suppressing the Communist Party in the northwest and the information that there was signs of communication in all aspects. He secretly sent Wei Lihuang to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Suppression.
In December 1936, Chiang Kai-shek was about to go to Xi'an to personally suppress the bandits. Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to the final blow to suppress the bandits. However, before leaving, He Yingqin unexpectedly made an suggestion, thinking that Zhang Xueliang was already very unreliable, and suggested that he be transferred to Zhang Xuewu's troops to Shaanxi to suppress the bandits. However, Chiang Kai-shek trusted Zhang Xueliang quite much and believed that he was just blinded by a traitor, but that he was "smart in small things and unstable," and there was no other problem.
However, Chiang Kai-shek finally made two preparations and telegraphed over a dozen divisions including the Deputy Minister of Military Affairs Chen Cheng, Wei Lihuang, Jiang Dingwen, Zhu Shaoliang, Chen Jicheng, Chen Diaoyuan, and the 25th Army to advance westward along the Longhai Road, and made plans to replace the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army. However, changing generals at the last stage was a taboo. Chiang Kai-shek was not sure about commanding the Northeast Army, so hesitated. As for the transfer of Zhang Xuewu's First Army to suppress the attack, Chiang Kai-shek did not consider it at all. Although the First Army was very well equipped, the Kwantung Army entrenched in the Northeast was even more eyeing. Chiang Kai-shek was not in a hurry to start a war with the people at this moment, because the time was not yet ripe. The reorganization plan of the sixty divisions in China was only completed by less than ten divisions, and the rest of the divisions were still within the scope of sorting.
In Chiang Kai-shek's view, China is far from capable of turning against the people. First of all, the ammunition and weapons stored in China are not enough to supply twenty German divisions for two months. Among them, most of the weapons and ammunition produced by the Baotou Arsenal in Suiyuan was transported to Nanjing for reserves. Moreover, two of the three heavy artillery brigades belonging to the Rehe Legion were stationed near Nanjing. Chiang Kai-shek still trusted this army nominally under the Supreme Military Commission.
Regarding the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army that were not conducive to the bandit suppression, Chiang Kai-shek summoned the Northeast Army alone. The officers above the division of the 17th Route Army were not summoned by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng.
Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek arranged the so-called secret edict leak, but the edict leak was not announced through formal means. In fact, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to give Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng the last chance.
Zhang Xueliang, who was suspicious, got the news and met with Yang Hucheng in a secret meeting. Yang Hucheng suggested that it would be better to follow his previous proposal, armed Jiang, and use the emperor to order the princes to force Jiang to resist Japan!
Ye Jianying and Liu Ding from the CCP side reported to Zhou Enlai about Zhang Xueliang's anxiety and anxiety, and analyzed the situation in the northwest in detail.
After crying with Jiang several times, they were ineffective and were ordered to make a decision to suppress the Communist Party within three days, otherwise the ultimatum of transferring the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army from the Northwest, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng decided to launch military advice!
When the Double Twelve Incident broke out, Soong Mei-ling, who was attending a dinner party in Shanghai, suddenly became unreasonable and broke the red wine glass. The bright red wine splashed everywhere. Soong Mei-ling hurriedly recruited Soong Ziwen to study countermeasures and sent a secret message to Zhang Xuewu to ask about his attitude and position. After all, Zhang Xuewu held the most elite unit of the National Revolutionary Army in his hand.
In the early morning, the anxious Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng learned that they had arrested Chiang Kai-shek and seized Chen Cheng and other important personnel, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief and contacted the CCP. However, there were also debates and different opinions on this within the CCP, especially the domestic and international parties.
Zhang Xueliang also sent a telegram to Zhang Xuewu at the first time, but received no response. Zhang Xuewu, who received the telegram from Zhang Xueliang, was actually dispatching troops. Because the Double Twelve Incident is of great importance, Chiang Kai-shek must not die. Since history has returned to its original track, it must not be allowed to deviate easily, because the butterfly effect brought about by the great changes in history has already caused Zhang Xuewu to suffer a lot.
Zhang Xuewu dispatched three divisions, including the mechanized brigade and the artillery division, a heavy artillery brigade, to Shanxi to gather and stand by. The fake Taoist destruction of Yu was one of Zhang Xuewu's plans. In fact, Zhang Xuewu did not care about whether Zhang Xueliang was a member of the Central Committee in history, because he remembered that later information showed that the Communist International clearly expressed its opposition to Zhang Xueliang's joining the party, but the CCP still insisted on preparing to develop him as a party member. However, many of these things may only be explained clearly by your witnesses.
The central official who was detained in the Xijing Guesthouse during the Double 12 Incident was also worried about Nanjing. Zhang Xueliang wanted to meet Chiang Kai-shek, but Chiang Kai-shek refused and had to stand outside the door and leave sadly.
The *** side was very happy about the Xi'an Incident. It was very in line with the interests of the ***. In order to obtain the best interests, Hirota Hiroyi's cabinet decided to clear the relationship. It is better to be quiet than to move and sit on the wall to watch the battle.
On the day after the Double 12 Incident that shocked China and the world, the Communist Party of China held an enlarged meeting of the Politburo to discuss countermeasures. The meeting decided to clearly support Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's patriotic actions. Although he received a "Moscow call" after the meeting, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adhered to the established policy after research.
The Soviet government's Communist International attitude was extremely angry. The Soviet Union said that the Xi'an incident was like the Guangdong-Guangdong incident, which was conducive to the large-scale attack. Zhang Xueliang's behavior was brewing a large-scale separatist civil war, weakening China's resistance to the emperor, which was a speculative act. At the same time, Yan Xishan also sent a "five-year" telegram condemning Zhang Xueliang, and the situation in Xi'an was even more isolated.
Moreover, Zhang Xuewu also sent a telegram, asking Zhang Xueliang to release Chiang Kai-shek. Zhang Xuewu also sent a secret telegram to Zhang Xueliang, informing him that the so-called Northwest Joint Plan did not receive support from the Soviet Union at all, and it was just wishful thinking from some people in the country.
The mediation envoy Duan Na had just arrived in Xi'an and learned about Chiang Kai-shek's good situation, and immediately called Nanjing. In Nanjing, He Yingqin suddenly wanted to put Soong Mei-ling under house arrest in the name of protecting his wife. Under Dai Li's timely rescue, He Yingqin ignored Soong Mei-ling's warning and openly held a white oath to fight, and served as the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and began the attack on Xi'an today.
In Zhang Xuewu's view, if Chiang Kai-shek did not do everything possible to drive away the Red Army troops and let the Central Army infiltrate the local forces, if the Red Army could stand firm in Jiangxi instead of going to the northwest, if the Northeast Army was transferred to the northwest to suppress bandits, it was not the Northeast Army but the main force of the Central Army, if there was no change in the policy of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CCP would still be an unpopular alone. If the conflict between Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang was not so fierce, then perhaps the Double Twelve Incident would not have broken out.
Zhang Xuewu also thought about stopping the Double Twelve Incident, but because the construction of Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan was too busy, and Zhang Xuewu knew that even if he said it, Zhang Xueliang might not be able to listen. If he got too close to Zhang Xueliang before and contacted him too frequently, Chiang Kai-shek would probably be the first person to settle the score in the fall afterwards.
The Double Twelve Incident has its inevitability and contingency, but Zhang Xueliang never expected that his cousin Zhang Xuewu would not support him? Because at the beginning of the incident, Zhang Xueliang was still deliberately guarding against Zhang Xuewu. On this point, Zhang Xueliang's approach was extremely contradictory.
In Zhang Xueliang's opinion, such a major incident, Zhang Xuewu will definitely stand on the same front with him. Because he was detaining Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek will definitely no longer trust Zhang Xuewu, who holds heavy troops in the future, so naturally Zhang Xuewu will stand with him.
For a moment, Zhang Xueliang suddenly realized that he and Yang Hucheng had become lonely. The national condemnation was like a tide, but what shocked Zhang Xueliang the most was the large-scale editorial of the Soviet Union's Protector of Truth? It was actually a big condemnation of his own behavior? So is it possible that what the CCP promised can be realized?
Faced with the heavy army, Zhang Xueliang, when he learned about it, he immediately sent a telephone warning He Yingqin not to make trouble. In order to resolve the incident peacefully, Zhang Xueliang decided to invite the CCP to come for negotiations, so on December 17, Zhou Enlai led the CCP delegation to Xi'an.
At the same time, after Soong Ziwen arrived in Xi'an as a private identity, he immediately met Chiang Kai-shek, and handed over Soong Mei-ling's letter, and promised Zhang Xueliang that he would let Soong Mei-ling go to Xi'an for negotiations as soon as possible. On December 22, Soong Mei-ling flew to Xi'an with Soong Ziwen, Dai Li and Duanna. That evening, Soong Mei-ling and Zhou Enlai negotiated all night in order to resolve the crisis brought about by the incident as soon as possible; and decided to hold tripartite talks with Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng and others the next day.
However, Chiang Kai-shek was not willing to sign any agreement for his promise. Some subordinates of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army were dissatisfied with Zhang Xueliang. In the end, hundreds of officers surrounded Zhang Xueliang, and some people shouted: "We have our heads on you, why don't we even sign in the end? If we settle the accounts later, our heads will be out of stock!"
Zhang Xueliang stared at his eyes and said loudly: "Your political awareness is not as good as me. Although Chiang Kai-shek was arrested, his political strength is still there. Now that we want to let him go and praise him as the leader, then forcing him to sign, he will regret it at that time. It is also great to have a gentleman agreement now."
Zhang Xueliang's proposal was opposed by Yang Hucheng. Finally, it was persuaded by Zhou Enlai, the man who was the last one, that Yang Hucheng agreed to Zhang Xueliang's proposal not to sign Jiang's proposal.
Just as both sides were repeatedly struggling, He Yingqin sent a secret telegram to Zhang Xuewu, asking Zhang Xuewu's army to be ready to enter Shanxi quickly at any time. Yan Xishan is a capricious guy. He had sex with Zhang Xueliang before the Double Twelve Incident, and now he is in a hurry to jump out of the downfall of Zhang, so the fake Taoist destruction of Yu is the best choice.
Chapter completed!