1936, the three main forces of the Red Army joined forces in Huining, Gansu, and the Long March across more than half of China was completely ended. However, the national government still implemented the policy of "making peace abroad first" and sent Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang to Xi 'an to suppress * * *. At this time, because of the September 18th Incident and the Jehol Incident, Zhang Xueliang lost three northeastern provinces, Jehol and Chahar in succession, and was being reviled by people all over the country.

As a result, he was not very active in suppressing * * * and kept asking Chiang to resist Japan. After repeatedly urging Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan, he launched a remonstrance in 65438+February 65438+February, detained Chiang Kai-shek and demanded electricity to resist Japan. So is this really the case?

Let's take a look at Zhang Xueliang's concrete performance on the anti-Japanese issue. 193 1 year, September 18th Incident, Japan raided Shenyang Beidaying. At that time, Zhang Xueliang was watching a play at Beiping Theatre. After receiving the report from Shenyang, Zhang Xueliang didn't realize that the Japanese army wanted to occupy the whole northeast and made a serious misjudgment of the situation. Rong Zhen, then the military chief of Shenyang, was ordered not to resist Japanese military provocations and avoid conflicts. If the Japanese attack with artillery, we should avoid it. This order caused the Northeast Army to retreat without occupation, and the Japanese army easily occupied the Northeast. According to the oral historical records made by Zhang Xueliang in his later years, Tang Degang asked Zhang Xueliang, do you know that in the past 50 years on the mainland, it is said that Chiang Kai-shek gave an order of non-resistance? what do you think? Zhang Xueliang replied that this order was given by me and had nothing to do with Mr. Jiang. My strategy is not to resist, but also to resist, because I can't beat it anyway.

After learning that the Japanese army occupied Shenyang, the National Government and Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Northeast Army, which had retreated to Jinzhou, to resist the Japanese army and prevent it from further threatening North China. However, Zhang Xueliang did not resist again, and Jinzhou retreated without a fight. Then, Jehol and Chahar successively fell. It can be seen that Zhang Xueliang's performance on the anti-Japanese issue is really worrying. It is extremely far-fetched to say that he detained Chiang Kai-shek solely for anti-Japanese purposes.

So, what is the truth of the Xi 'an incident? Why did Zhang Xueliang launch the Xi 'an incident? According to Tang Degang's oral history of Zhang Xueliang's later years, Chiang Kai-shek came to Xi 'an twice and asked Zhang Xueliang to carry out suppression. However, Zhang Xueliang has always refused to carry out this order, emphasizing anti-Japanese. When Chiang Kai-shek reprimanded Zhang many times, Zhang was extremely disgusted with Chiang Kai-shek. Zhang said that since childhood, no one dares to scold me, except my father. If Chiang Kai-shek dares to scold me, I will give you some color to see see. This may also tell the original intention of Zhang's launching the nunnery incident. As a result, the Xi incident that shocked China and foreign countries broke out. Fortunately, however, the Xi 'an incident was finally resolved peacefully.

Since then, the civil war in China has basically stopped. After the Xi Incident, Zhang Xueliang was also imprisoned for decades. It was not until the 1990s that he became free and settled in the United States.