Chapter 52: Best Actor
3.52 Best Actor
As soon as the power came out, the whole country was shocked!
The highest authorities are detained! The accompanying Nanjing officials were all arrested!
China, all of a sudden, fell into a chaotic situation without a head of state!
In the early morning of December 13, 1936, the Nanjing Presidential Palace was still brightly lit, and the conference hall on the third floor of the office building was full of high-ranking officials of the Nanjing government. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
There is no need to hide the detention of the highest authorities in Xi'an, and as soon as Zhang and Yang's nationwide electricity was launched, the streets were scattered everywhere. I'm afraid that by tomorrow morning, the whole of Jinling, no, the whole of China will be spread all over China.
This situation has been stable for several years, is it chaotic?
Everyone present looked uneasy in their hearts.
On the corner of the second floor stood several black-clad guards, all of whom had their pistols on their waists wide open, as if they were facing a great enemy. Officials who hurried to inquire about the news were constantly driven back by these guards. From behind the heavy wooden door of an office in the middle of the hallway, there was an intermittent sound of someone arguing.
The "lady" in the office was trying to control her emotions, and Song Ziwen, Kong Xiangxi, and Chen Guofu, who were standing next to her, were also blue-faced.
Li Liejun, Chen Gongfu, Zhu Peide, Dai Jitao and others in the middle of the room were already fighting like black-eyed chickens, so they almost rolled up their sleeves and started.
Wang Zhaoming and Minister He on the side were desperately suppressing the ecstasy in their hearts, while playing the role of good people, while letting Yang Yongtai and Xiong Shihui in their camp jump out in turn to stir up the situation, just to prevent everyone from reaching an effective solution to the problem.
These people are clearly divided into two camps:
One of them is the "royalists" headed by the "Madame".
"Madame", Song Ziwen, Kong Xiangxi, and Chen Guofu were bent on "saving the supreme authorities from danger." They know that once the big tree of the highest authority falls, the "crony party" in the eyes of outsiders will not end well, so "royalism" has become their only choice.
The other faction is the "crusade faction" headed by "Wang and He".
Wang Zhaoming, Minister He, Yang Yongtai, and Xiong Shihui, these pro-Japanese factions, under the calculation of "replacing them," hoped to use the hands of Zhang Shaoshuai and General Yang to solve the roadblock of the supreme authorities, so they actively demanded a crusade against Xi'an, and wanted to kill people with a knife.
Li Liejun, Chen Gongfu, Zhu Peide, Dai Jitao and others are the pawns of both sides, Li Liejun and Chen Gongfu are "the main peace", and Zhu Peide and Dai Jitao are "the main hits".
For a while, you sang and I appeared on the stage, the noise was so lively, the situation was actually a stalemate, and the two sides fought a "five-five".
Wang Zhaoming and Minister He hoped that the current situation could continue, and as long as they quarreled for one more day, the situation of the highest authorities would be more dangerous.
The "lady", who had seen through the wishful thinking of "Wang and He", finally couldn't sit still, stood up and asked the two if they planned to give up the supreme authority, and tried to force the two to make a statement. However, Wang Zhaoming and Minister He are both political hooligans who have been in the political arena for decades, and they have never answered positively. Instead, let his pawns jump out and stick around the matter of the "Madame" privately sending the Air Force to Lintong and being seized by the Northeast Army, and stalked him.
Seeing that the meeting was moving in the direction of the quagmire, the "Madame" was furious and walked away......
Later, Minister He and his cronies concocted a "crusade plan" was promulgated, and for a time the "pro-Japanese" faction in the Nanjing government was in the limelight, and they were all thinking about how to find a high-ranking official in the "new government." Before dawn, the door of Minister He's Mansion on Yihe Road was crowded with all kinds of drill campers holding pieces to climb relationships.
On the second day after the news of the "Xi'an Incident" was reported, Division Commander Huang rushed to Ma'anshan with his two main brigades, which was only a stone's throw away from Jiangning County in Jinling City.
The sudden action of the 99th Division suddenly raised the temperature of Jinling City to a higher level, and Minister He mobilized his related troops to prepare for fortification, but the central army near Jinling was reluctant to buy his account!
When the "lady", who felt very helpless, learned that Huang Haoran led his 99th Division to make a long-distance attack, just to worry about the safety of himself and the highest authorities, he was very moved!
Huang Haoran was blocked outside Jinling City, and he could only use the radio to talk to his "Madame", in which he repeatedly reminded "Madame" to be careful of other people in Nanjing "borrowing knives to kill people", and repeatedly said that China today cannot do without the supreme authorities, and once the supreme authorities are killed, China will once again fall into the quagmire of warlord warfare!
"Madam" ended the call with Huang Haoran, and her heart was a little more settled, the forces cultivated by the highest authorities over the years will not be broken up all at once! Today's China really can't find a figure who can sit in this commander-in-chief's position!
Thinking of this, "Madame" has more confidence in solving the crisis!
In the days that followed, a series of events played out as recorded in history.
On December 16, the "Nanjing government" issued a "crusade order". Liu Zhi led 5 divisions into Tongguan with great momentum. The Air Force began bombing Xi'an.
On December 17, the highest authorities sent a handwritten letter to Minister Ho, demanding that the two sides stop the conflict.
On the same day, Zhou Enlai arrived in Xi'an, accompanied by more than 20 people.
At noon, Zhang Shaoshuai released Jiang Dingwen, and Jiang Dingwen took a plane back to Nanjing.
On December 19, Minister He, under pressure from public opinion and internal pressure, ordered a moratorium on the bombing of Xi'an from 6 p.m.
On December 20, Song Ziwen went to Xi'an to meet with the highest authorities alone, and the "lady" sent a letter to Jiang again, in which he said: "If Ziwen does not return to Beijing within three days, he will come to live and die with you!" The highest authorities sighed at the closure.
On December 22, "Madame" arrived in Xi'an.
On December 23, Zhang and Yang jointly published the "Letter to the Officers and Soldiers of the Northeast Army and the Seventeenth Route Army" in the Xi'an "Liberation Daily", calling for the gathering of the forces of all parties to resist Japan and save the country.
The highest authorities finally realized that there would be a huge price to be paid for going against the tide, so they signaled a change of tone and began to advocate a united resistance against Japan. At the same time, negotiations between the parties will be opened.
On December 24, a consensus was reached.
On December 25, the highest authorities and Zhang Shaoshuai left Xi'an and flew to Nanjing.
The faces of the "pro-Japanese" elements who were present to welcome them were all like ashes, and Wang Zhaoming and Minister He in particular were eager to bury their heads in the soil.
Huang Haoran, a young "man of meritorious service", was wearing a brand-new general uniform in the crowd, which looked very eye-catching!
The highest authorities knew Huang Haoran's performance in this crisis from the mouth of the "lady", and when they walked past Huang Shichang, they deliberately stretched out their hands and patted Huang Haoran on the shoulder!
This beat! Division Commander Huang immediately became a hundred times more valuable in the Central Army system! Huang Haoran quickly became a dazzling new star in the military world!
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