On Dec 4th 1936, Chiang Kai-shek personally went to Xi'an [i.e., Sian] of Shenxi Province to give lectures to General Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng on the matter of quelling communist rebellion. Chiang Kai-shek, who flew to Luoyang from his Nov 17th visit to Yan Xishan in Taiyuan, was deliberately invited over to Xi'an by Zhang Xueliang as part of the setup. Zhang Xueliang, i.e., deputy commander-in-chief of the nationalist army, went to Luoyang of Henan Province on Dec 3rd for petitioning the release of so-called seven patriotic gentlemen of Shanghai (i.e., Shen Junlu etc). I have no doubt about a clear conspiracy in light of the fact that senior CCP leader Xu Xiangqian revealed on page 357 of "History In Retrospect" that CCP Central had ordered in Nov/Dec 1936 that Western Route Red Army stay put in Western Corridor as a result of Zhang Xueliang's promise that he would turn around the tide within a matter of "one to two months", i.e., Xi'an Coup of Dec 12th 1936.
General Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng, whose Northeastern Army and Northwestern Armies had been infiltrated with communist agents, would stage a coup to have Chiang Kai-shek abducted on Dec 12th 1936 on which day Chiang Kai-shek personally sat in at Huaqingchi Pond of Lintong for lecturing on Northeastern Army officers. This is the so-called Xi'an Incident which would force Chiang Kai-shek into stopping civil war against the communists for a second alliance [i.e., the Second United Front] so that a concerted efforts could be exerted into countering the Japanese aggression.
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