Shang Zhen and the others finally left Xi'an, but they did not return to the 7th Brigade. Instead, they walked with the regiment leader named Lu Cao. They were invited by Lu Cao to help Lu Cao train soldiers.
It turns out that Lu Cao also came to rescue Hao Zhenglong and the others.
That was Battalion Commander Hao Zhenglong and Sun. They had found someone to send the message in advance that they needed rescue in this alley, and then Lu Cao brought someone here.
But the problem is that they haven't met each other yet. Hao Zhenglong and the others can't figure out who Lu Chao is, so naturally they can't say anything.
But in the end, it was through the arrival of the fourth Northeastern Army that Shang Zhen and Lu Cao asked Hao Zhenglong and others to hide before they figured out that they were all friendly forces!
At this point, the affairs of Shang Zhen and his group in Xi'an are over.
And at some point in the summer of the 26th year of the Republic of China, a senior general of the Central Army stood at a crack in the mountain above Lishan Mountain and spoke: "Do you think the name I gave this pavilion is good?"
"Okay, okay! This is a good name to reflect the righteousness of our president!" Other officers nearby agreed.
Next to them is a crack in the mountain several meters wide, and right at the exit of the crack in the mountain, there is now an additional pavilion, but the plaque above the pavilion has three large characters "Zhengqi Pavilion" written on it!
If the emperor goes to the restroom, it is not called going to the toilet. That is called courtesy. If the emperor eats, it is not called eating.
It was here that the old president of the Republic of China was captured by the Northeastern Army last year.
If we follow the history books of later generations, the old man heard the gunshots outside, jumped out of the back window of his bedroom, and hid in this crack in the mountain.
When the Northeastern Army soldiers who captured him entered his bedroom and touched the quilt, the quilt was still warm.
But that was from the perspective of later generations. Now, from the perspective of the generals under the president, the president of the Republic of China was captured by the rebels here, which can never be described like this.
In their description, the president was in trouble and hid in the mountains. When he saw rebel soldiers coming, he came out of his hiding place and yelled at them.
And this can reflect the president’s righteousness that will shine through the ages! And this is the origin of this so-called "Zhengqi Pavilion".
But having said that, the pavilion is a serious pavilion, but no one knows whether the "righteousness" is serious!
Just a few years later, when the People's Republic of China was founded, the plaque on this pavilion that read "Zhengqi Pavilion" disappeared and was changed to "Catching Chiang Pavilion".
But as the saying goes, Thirty Years in Hedong, Thirty Years in Hexi, and several years later, in order to ease cross-strait relations, "Capturing Chiang Ting" became "Bing Jian Ting" again.
The change of a pavilion's name seems to be a condensed history. Who can tell clearly what's going on?
There is always a process for the development of things.
The old man in Nanjing ignored the Northeast Army's request to fight back to his hometown. Even when he went to Xi'an to supervise the war, he was already preparing to replace the command of the Northeast Army with someone. This was tantamount to depriving Marshal Zhang of his military power.
The scholar couldn't bear it, so it was natural that he was detained by Marshal Zhang for military remonstrance.
In the same way, after the Xi'an Incident, with the competition between all political forces in China, there will eventually be an ending.
At that time, many people would think that the Central Army and the Northeast Army would fight fiercely, and then the snipe and the clam would fight, and the fishermen would benefit. Of course, the fishermen here refer to the Japanese invaders in the four northeastern provinces.
But who would have thought that the outcome of this incident would be peacefully resolved!
The president promised not to fight a civil war against Japan and then became the president of the Republic of China. The commander-in-chief Zhang, who had been admonishing the soldiers, was put under house arrest by him.
So what’s next? Next, the Northeast Army was "dismembered".
When future generations complain about the Anti-Japanese War, they always say that the Chinese army sometimes fails to comply with orders and prohibitions. There are actually reasons for this.
To put it bluntly, the central government is a big warlord. The big warlords have the interests of the big warlords, and the local warlords have the interests of the local warlords. No one wants to let their people be cannon fodder in the front.
Let’s take the Northeast Army as an example.
If Marshal Zhang had not been imprisoned, the central government in Nanjing at that time had to go through Marshal Zhang if he wanted to direct the Northeast Army to fight. Say you, the top military commander of the Republic of China, commanded a certain army of the miscellaneous army below. Wherever the division goes to fight, it will not work.
This principle also holds true for other local warlords.
The Nanjing government wants to command the Guangdong Army, the Northwest Army, the Yunnan Army, and the Guangxi Army. If you want to command the troops below without going through their own leaders at the top, how can that be done?
Precisely because there are many factions and different political orders and everyone has their own ideas, the entire command system of the Chinese army is undoubtedly inefficient.
In actual combat, direct relatives, non-direct relatives, miscellaneous ones, all kinds of interests are mixed together. Although they all want to resist Japan, they also want other troops to be cannon fodder. This proves to be different. In addition, in combat Everyone does his or her own thing, and it is conceivable that many times there will be rout on the battlefield.
Okay, now that Marshal Zhang has been imprisoned, and the young men of the Northeast Army have assassinated some senior generals of the Northeast Army, then the Northeast Army is no longer a whole after all, and it is necessary for them to be changed and reorganized. There is meaning.
It turned out that the person supported by the Northeast Army was Marshal Zhang, but now the person supported must be the President of the Republic of China.
In late April of the 26th year of the Republic of China, the reorganization of the Northeastern Army was basically completed.
After the reorganization, there were a total of six corps, the 49th, 51st, 53rd, 57th, 67th and Cavalry Corps. Each corps used to have three to five divisions. After the reorganization and reduction, it was basically two divisions. These Northeastern armies fell into a very serious situation. Awkward situation: There is no military supply from outside, no reinforcement of soldiers from inside, and there is a lack of rear base areas in the three Northeastern provinces, so the Northeastern Army is even more isolated and helpless.
The Cavalry Army is stationed in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, the 53rd Army is stationed in Baoding, Hebei, and the 57th Army is stationed in Taikang, Huaiyang, Zhoukou, Henan. The 67th Army was stationed firmly in Fuyang, Bozhou, Anhui, and the 51st Army moved to Bengbu, Anhui, and later to Huaiyin, Jiangsu.
As a result, the entire Northeast Army is distributed in 5 provinces and regions: Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu. This time, it can be seen from the station that the Northeastern Army has been disintegrated and no longer has the overall deterrent power of the group.
Although the Northeastern Army, which is organized into military division brigades, is still there, it is already subordinate to the central government, and there is no longer any affiliation between them.
At this point, the aftermath of the Xi'an Incident has come to an end.
But as soon as the domestic situation subsided, foreign enemies came again.
As the theme song of a later movie sang: "
In 1937,
The Japanese invaders entered the Central Plains,
First occupied Lugou Bridge,
Later he occupied Shanhaiguan,
Jinan was burned, killed, and looted.
The devils used big cannons.
The Eighth Route Army pulled the big rope,
Taking aim,
Bagou!
Kill the translator.
Stretching your feet up to the west sky! "
On July 7, the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army bombarded Marco Polo Bridge and the all-out war of resistance began. The 29th Army, which originally enjoyed a reputation in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, suffered a major blow from the Japanese army this time.
The headquarters of the 29th Army in Nanyuan was attacked. Deputy Commander Tong Linge and Division Commander Zhao Dengyu were killed. The troops directly under the military headquarters and the 132nd Division were outnumbered and defeated. Nanyuan was lost, the 29th Army's defense line was cut in half, and they finally had to retreat to Baoding.
At this time, the Chinese Communist Party's warning of "Pingjin is in crisis, North China is in crisis, and the Chinese nation is in crisis" spread throughout China.
On July 17, the President of the Republic of China issued a statement on the Anti-Japanese War in Lushan on the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. He stated the purpose of "responding to war without asking for war", and also included the words that many people in later generations said: "Peace is no longer easy." It can be understood that if a war breaks out, there will be no distinction between north and south, no age, and everyone, old or young, will have the responsibility to defend the land and resist the war, and be determined to sacrifice everything."
There is no doubt that China is a weak country, but as the president of the Republic of China, he proposed a challenge, that is to say, as long as the enemy continues to invade, then war will have to begin, and this Lushan speech is his declaration of resistance, which means that the Nationalist Government Finally started to resist.
China was really too weak at that time.
It can be seen from his speech that he certainly hopes that the Japanese will not push their limits.
It's just that the Japanese invaders are wolf beasts, and they have already taken a bite of meat from their prey, China.
Since people have already swallowed this mouthful of meat, how can they spit it out?
Not only can't you spit out this mouthful of meat, they also want to eat the front groove of your elbow and even your internal organs!
It is useless to say anything else at this point. The Japanese invaders are here to destroy China.
The country is already weak, and the step-by-step concessions have finally fueled the ambitions of little Japan. The all-out war of aggression against China is irreversible!
But this brings up another topic.
The Nationalist Government at that time had already acquiesced in the existence of Manchukuo.
If the Japanese invaders had no ambitions but were content with few desires and launched the Marco Polo Bridge Incident leading to a full-scale war of aggression against China, would the three northeastern provinces no longer be part of China's territory?
