Zhang Zuolin has experienced countless assassinations in his life.
More than ten years ago, the Japanese assassinated him and used grenades to send him fleeing all over the alley.
Two years ago, the Soviets also assassinated Zhang Zuolin. They buried landmines in Zhang Zuolin's official residence, but they were discovered and dismantled in advance. The Soviet agents who participated in the assassination were immediately declared as white bandits by the Soviet government.
Both the Soviet Union and Japan were determined to get rid of Zhang Zuolin.
Later, the Russian historian Prokhorov believed that Zhang Zuolin's death was caused by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union blamed Japan, and the Japanese Kwantung Army actually admitted it in order to provoke a war.
Of course, the mainstream view in historians still believes that the Japanese are the real murderers.
No matter who killed him, Zhang Zuolin was already dead.
Zhang Zuolin had long felt that this trip was dangerous, and with Zhang Xueliang's reminder, he first released the news that he would depart on June 3. Then, Zhang Zuolin postponed the date to the 6th, and while confusing the Japanese spies, he secretly took the trip on the 4th.
The train leaves Beijing.
Boom...
There was an explosion in Huanggutun, and Zhang Zuolin was seriously injured and on the verge of death.
No matter which day Zhang Zuolin leaves, death awaits him, because the Japanese know his whereabouts well.
In fact, even Zhang Xueliang didn't know the day his father passed away, but the Japanese knew it very well. It can be seen that the news came from the relatives around Zhang Zuolin.
Who is the spy?
Some people say that Yoshiko Kawashima pretended to be an actress from the Tianbao Troupe, and approached Zhang Zuolin's sixth concubine as a classmate, thus obtaining the specific departure time of Zhang Zuolin.
But this statement is untenable. With Zhang Zuolin's alertness, it is impossible for Aunt Six to know about this kind of thing.
Not only that, Zhang Zuolin deliberately wrote the word VIP on the No. 10 carriage of the train, but he sat in the No. 8 carriage, also to confuse Japanese spies.
But when it exploded, the bomb destroyed Carriage No. 8 within seconds, while other cars were not seriously damaged. Aunt Six was sitting in Carriage No. 10 at the time and only suffered minor injuries.
It can be seen from this that the Japanese knew which carriage Zhang Zuolin was sitting in and how many seconds he passed by the bomb placement site. Some people believe that the Japanese consultant Machinotake leaked the secret, but Machinotake got off the train as soon as he got to Tianjin.
, it is impossible to know which carriage Zhang Zuolin was in.
Who is the spy next to Zhang Zuolin?
This is a historical mystery.
Zhang Zuolin, who was seriously injured by the bombing, was taken to the hospital by the escort and died that morning.
Zhang Xueliang was leading the Fengjun Army to retreat at that time. After receiving the news of his father's death, he did not return to Fengtian immediately. Instead, he stabilized the troops in his hands. Zhang Xueliang, together with Yang Yuting, led the Fengjun Army's third and fourth front armies to withdraw to Fengtian.
In the Luanzhou area, Fengtian was also secretly ordered to suppress news of Zhang Zuolin's death.
After stabilizing the morale of the army, Zhang Xueliang was afraid that he would also be assassinated by the Japanese, so he disguised himself as a cook and secretly took a train back to Northeast China alone.
Zang Shiyi, the chief of staff of the Fengtian Supervisory Office (later a traitor), and Mo Dehui, the governor of Fengtian Province, and others behaved extremely slyly in the follow-up actions. They first claimed that Zhang Zuolin was being treated and deceived the Japanese, and then they claimed that Zhang Zuolin was being treated.
In the name of Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang, who had not yet returned to the Northeast, was appointed as the acting Fengtian Supervisor, thus naturally completing the transfer of power in the Northeast.
It was not until three days after Zhang Xueliang returned to Northeast China and stabilized all aspects that the news of Zhang Zuolin's death was finally made public.
The Japanese attempted to assassinate Zhang Zuolin to trigger a major upheaval in the Northeast, and then use the pretext of quelling the rebellion (to protect the overseas Chinese) to openly send troops to occupy the Northeast.
But their plan failed. Although they succeeded in killing Zhang Zuolin, there was no chaos in the three eastern provinces.
The Japanese were a little confused, because the assassination of Zhang Zuolin was so big that not only the Chinese public opinion was in an uproar, but also countries such as Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union paid great attention to it, exerting huge international diplomatic pressure on the Japanese government.
The "anti-war faction" (cannibalization faction to be precise) in the Japanese government took the opportunity to attack the main war faction and made a big fuss in front of the emperor. The Japanese emperor had no knowledge of this in advance and it was all done by the Kwantung Army on its own initiative.
He came out and was very angry now that such a commotion had occurred. He called the relevant personnel to curse and announced to the public that the murderer would be severely punished.
Of course, punishing the murderer severely is just a joke and cannot be taken seriously.
Anyway, because of Zhang Xueliang's proper handling, the Japanese Kwantung Army plan failed, and the Northeast finally maintained temporary peace.
The Kwantung Army failed to succeed in one plan, so it tried another plan.
They frequently caused troubles in the Northeast and secretly contacted Yang Yuting, intending to support Yang Yuting to confront Zhang Xueliang.
Yang Yuting was relatively clear-headed and declined the "good intentions" of the Japanese over and over again. However, his ambitions continued to expand. Although he did not openly rebel, he gradually became arrogant and arrogant. He believed that he was a hero of the Northeast and gradually did not put Zhang Xueliang in his mind.
In eyes.
There is a joke about Zhang Xueliang guessing the head or tail of a silver dollar to decide whether to kill Yang Yuting.
Of course, this is a story for later and will happen next year.
…
On the Northern Expeditionary Army side.
On the fifth day after Zhang Zuolin was assassinated, Yan Xishan captured Peking without any blood and then took over Tianjin.
Tianjin has finally changed.
Zhili Province is now renamed Hebei Province, Tianjin, the capital of Zhili Province, has become Tianjin Special City, Nan Guixin is appointed as the mayor of Tianjin, and Fu Zuoyi is appointed as the Tianjin Security Commander.
Tianjin’s current parent, Guan Nan Guixin, is no ordinary character.
This person failed in the imperial examination, failed in college, failed in studying abroad, and didn't like reading very much, but he was smart and courageous, and was good at "the art of vertical and horizontal".
During the Northern Expedition, Nan Guixin had been living in Peiping as Yan Xishan's plenipotentiary representative. He made friends with the Fengclique, Zhili clique, Anhui clique, the Northwest Army, the Southern Revolutionary Army, and even the Japanese. He was extremely close to all parties, but he also
Maintain a relative distance.
As a result, Yan Xishan became the target of all forces and was invincible from the beginning.
The people of Tianjin are lucky. The new mayor Nan Guixin is an administrative official who can do things and dares to do things. The guard commander Fu Zuoyi is also honest and upright. Finally, they don't have to worry about life every day.
After Nan Guixin became the mayor of Tianjin, she went to visit Liang Qichao the next day.
Well, when these two were young, one was a revolutionary and the other was a royalist, and they had a fight.
To be precise, it was Nan Guixin who beat up Liang Qichao. This visit could be regarded as a meeting with old friends, and the chat atmosphere was quite harmonious.
What left Zhou Hexuan speechless was that Li Shoumin suddenly came to him to resign.
"What? Are you going to be Fu Zuoyi's secretary?" Zhou Hexuan said in surprise.
Li Shoumin smiled proudly and said: "It was recommended by a friend. Commander Fu took the initiative to summon me. When he saw that I had excellent writing skills and beautiful calligraphy, he decided to hire me as his secretary on the spot."
Zhou Hexuan was sweating furiously. Once Li Shoumin left, he had to go back to take charge of the supplement of "Popular" by himself.
