At the beginning of the 19th year of the Republic of China, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Wang Jingwei and others formed the anti-Chiang Alliance Front. In May, the Battle of Chiang, Feng and Yan Zhongyuan officially broke out. The number of troops on both sides participated in the war reached one million, and the battle situation was unprecedentedly tragic.

In order to get the best interests in the war, Zhang Xueliang strictly adhered to neutrality in the early stages of the war and tried his best to avoid the civil war between the Northeast Army and the Northeast Army. However, Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Wang Jingwei all regarded Zhang Xueliang as bargaining chips to decide the outcome. Their representatives went to Chenyang to meet him, trying every means to pull Zhang Xueliang to his side.

On September 18 of the same year, Zhang Xueliang sent a peaceful telegram to the whole country, calling on both sides to stop the warring forces and seek peace.

However, the telegram was vague in its position and did not indicate how Zhang Xueliang planned to mediate. The telegram sent a sensation around the world and caused a stir in the Chinese political circle.

On September 19, Zhang Xueliang suddenly ordered 100,000 Northeast Army to travel to Tianjin and Hebei.

This is the fourth time the Fengtian army has entered the pass, but it is completely different from the previous three times. This time, it came under the banner of "peace". Only then did people truly understand Zhang Xueliang's mediation methods.

When the anti-Chiang Alliance received the news that the Northeast Army had entered the pass, Yan Xishan immediately announced his resignation as chairman of the newly formed opposition government.

Officials of the new government, including Wang Jingwei's enlarged meeting representatives, retreated from Peking to Taiyuan. In Tianjin, all Shanxi officials who served in Peking gave up their positions.

The Northeast Army entered the pass and occupied Ping, Tianjin and Hebei, and the anti-Chiang coalition forces quickly collapsed.

The enlarged meeting was moved to Taiyuan, and soon the wind scattered. On November 4, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang issued a telegram to step down and canceled the Taiyuan Army, Navy and Air Force General Command, and the army was adapted by Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek.

Zhang Xueliang's strong military intervention caused the anti-Chiang coalition to collapse, and the Central Plains War, which lasted for more than half a year, finally ended...

On November 12, Zhang Xueliang and his wife Yu Fengzhi and others arrived in Nanjing, and were welcomed extremely grandly in the capital Nanjing. Chiang Kai-shek warmly welcomed him with a reciprocal status, rather than treating his subordinates.

At this moment, the Japanese also stepped up their invasion of the three northeastern provinces...

In the 20th year of the Republic of China, the traitor Hao Yongde illegally rented 500 mu of land in the name of the manager of the "Specialized Farming Rice Field Company" for a period of 10 years. It was stated that the contract took effect after approval by the Changchun County Government. Before the contract was approved, Hao Yongde transferred the land to North Korean farmers who wandered to the Northeast to cultivate.

200 North Koreans unauthorized the Itong River canal dam project without obtaining the consent of local Chinese farmers, occupying a large area of ​​fertile land in China, arousing the strongest opposition from Chinese farmers.

On May 20, the victimized farmers requested the local government to stop it. The local government assisted in failing to approve the project. On June 7, personnel were sent to Wanbaoshan to advise the suspension of work. The conflict between the two sides was fierce.

On July 1, hundreds of victimized Chinese farmers spontaneously filled a section of the diversion canal. The next day, Chinese farmers were waiting to continue to level the canal. Japanese police opened fire and shot several Chinese farmers to death, injured dozens of them, and more than 10 people were arrested and sentenced.

Changchun Consul Tian Daizhongde sent police to support the opening of the canal by force and officially opened water in November.

Japan took advantage of the Wanbaoshan incident, and Japanese and North Korean newspapers deliberately fabricated facts and carried out fraud and propaganda, instructing spies to incite anti-China in North Korea. On July 3, the North Koreans took revenge, expanding from Incheon to Seoul, Wonsan, and Shinyi to Pyongyang. Many overseas Chinese houses and shops were destroyed and Chinese were brutally killed.

On July 7, the Japanese government held a cabinet meeting to discuss the Wanbaoshan incident and North Korea's anti-China issue, and advocated a tough attitude towards China.

On the 15th, Japanese Consul General in Chenyang Lin Jiujiro visited Zhang Zuoxiang, Chairman of the Jilin Provincial Government who was in charge of Chenyang, to negotiate with the Wanbaoshan incident and put forward four unreasonable demands, and the negotiations between the two sides were at a deadlock.

In the same month, the Japanese army instigated the warlord Shi Yousan, who was entrenched in the Xingtai area of ​​Hebei Province, to lead three divisions to rebel.

Zhang Xueliang immediately ordered Yu Xuezhong and Wang Shuchang to attack head-on, and transferred three Northeast infantry brigades and two artillery regiments to enter the pass. He also completely defeated the rebels near Wangdu south of Baoding. Shi Yousan only fled to Jinan without hesitation.

In August, the "Nakamura Incident" broke out!

That was Zheng Yong's "old friend" in a row, Japanese spy Shintaro Nakamura was arrested by the Third Company of the 1st Battalion of the Third Regiment of the Third Regiment of the Xing'an Reclamation Area Office of the Northeast Army!

Subsequently, the leader of the Third Regiment Guan Yuheng issued an order for the Third Regiment headquarters:

A firing squad was established with Ning Wenlong, the commander of the Third Company, and Wang Bingyi, the commander of the Fourth Company, as the captain, and immediately carried out the firing task of four Japanese military spies Captain Shintaro Nakamura. Zhao Heng, an adjutant of the regiment headquarters, was the prisoner."

Late at night, everything was quiet. Ning Wenlong and Wang Bingyi directed the firing squad to secretly take Nakamura and four others into the back valley of Chalsen, and issued a shooting order at 0:30 on June 27.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Heng immediately directed the soldiers to pour gasoline on the bodies and luggage of the Japanese spies, and ignite them. The flames that were ignited soon turned into ashes.

Commander Guan Yuheng implemented strict confidentiality measures in the army. Unfortunately, the leak happened soon after.

He never expected that the reason for the leak was that Shintaro Nakamura was lost in struggle because of an attempt to escape. Later, he was secretly picked up by Li Debao, the chief of the Third Company, and hid it.

Afterwards, the Japanese secret service agencies used various methods to learn from Li Debao about the details of Nakamura's execution.

So, Consul General of the Japanese Consulate in Chenyang, Lin Jiujiro and Morijiu from the Army General Staff Headquarters met with Zang Shiyi, the governor of Fengtian Province, and used the watch as evidence, and claimed that the soldiers of the Northeast Army's third regiment of reclamation killed Nakamura for their death.

The Japanese cabinet also held a special discussion on the "Nakamura Incident" and threatened the Chinese government.

The Japanese Army Headquarters avoided Shintaro Nakamura's spy activities and issued the so-called "Statement on the Death of Captain Nakamura and his delegation" on August 17, 1931, claiming that this was a "great humiliation of the Imperial Army and Japan."

The Japanese cabinet meeting also believes that if China cannot investigate quickly and give Japan a satisfactory reply, "the Japanese military and diplomatic authorities should work together to decide on the countermeasures."

The pace of war is approaching!
Chapter completed!