On this day, 89 years ago, on June 1, 1936 (April 12, 1936, the lunar calendar), Guangdong and Guangxi sent troops north to resist Japan. Chen Jitang (left) and Li Zongren (right), the main leaders of the Guangzhou-Guangxi Incident, were sworn in as Commander-in-Chief and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Anti-Japanese and National Salvation. On June 1, 1936, Chen Jitang of Guangdong and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of Guangxi issued a telegram for the north to resist Japan. On the 4th, Chen Jitang and Li Zongren led the establishment of the Military Commission and the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, pledging to lead their troops to "avenge the humiliation of the country over the years and strive for a front-line survival opportunity for the nation." On the 6th, the "Southwest Alliance Army of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army" was formed. On the 8th, Li Zongren gave a speech saying that regardless of whether the Central Committee resisted Japan or not, the 1st and 4th Group Armies were changed to the "National Revolutionary Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army" and said that the north to resist Japan was entirely a national revolutionary war for survival and was by no means an internal struggle for rights. On the 10th, the Guangdong and Guangxi armies split north to Hunan, advancing towards Chenzhou and Lingning. After the Incident, Chiang Kai-shek sent 9 warships to Xiamen on the 9th and gathered troops in Wuhan and Hengyang on the 10th. On the 12th, Mao Zedong and Zhu De issued the "Declaration on the North to Fight Japanese Aggression for Guangdong and Guangxi", proposing eight programs, hoping that the leaders of Guangdong and Guangxi would boldly launch and praise the patriotic movements of the anti-Japanese people everywhere, and arm and organize a large number of anti-Japanese people. On the 30th, a war broke out between the Kuomintang Central Army and the Guangdong and Guangxi armies.