89 years ago today, on December 12, 1936 (October 29, 1936 in the lunar calendar), Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng launched the "Xi'an Incident". Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident, also known as the "Double Twelve Incident". In 1936, Japanese imperialism continued to expand its aggression against China, and Chiang Kai-shek adhered to the policy of non-resistance and continued the civil war. The Northeast Army led by Zhang Xueliang and the 17th Route Army led by Yang Hucheng were transferred to the Shaanxi-Gansu area by Chiang to attack the Chinese Red Army of workers and peasants. Due to the influence of the Anti-Japanese National United Front Policy of the Communist Party of China and the People's Anti-Japanese Movement, Zhang, Yang and the Red Army achieved an armistice and asked Chiang Kai-shek to join forces to resist Japan. Chiang not only rejected Zhang and Yang's demands, but also mobilized his direct troops to the border of Henan and Shaanxi to oppress Zhang and Yang to continue the attack on the Red Army. On December 4, Chiang Kai-shek flew to Xi'an to supervise the battle. On the 7th, Zhang Xueliang went to Huaqingchi, Lintong to give Chiang a "bitter remonstrance", asking for "stop the civil war and uniformly resist the Japanese." Chiang refused, and Chiang insisted on not changing the policy of "suppressing the Communist Party." On the 9th, Zhang told the protesting students that their patriotic demands would be answered with facts within a week. On the 12th, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng launched the Xi'an Incident, detained Chiang Kai-shek in Huaqingchi, imprisoned Chen Cheng and more than ten others; announced the cancellation of the "Northwest Bandit Suppression Headquarters" and the establishment of the Northwest Provisional Military Committee of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng served as vice-chairpeople, and telegraphed the whole country, proposing to reorganize the Nanjing government, stop the civil war, jointly resist Japan, and implement democratic politics. On the 16th, the Nanjing government ordered a crusade against Zhang and Yang, and made Ren Yingqin the commander-in-chief. The pro-Japanese Wang Jingwei and He Yingqin tried to take the opportunity to expand the situation, seize Chiang Kai-shek's ruling power, and further compromise with Japan. Proceeding from the national interests, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, at the request of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, sent representatives Zhou En After Zhou Enlai arrived in Xi'an on the 16th, he did all kinds of work and proposed that as long as Chiang promised to resist the Japanese, he would be released. And on the 15th and 19th, he called the Nanjing Kuomintang government to urge it to accept Zhang and Yang's proposals and settle peacefully. On the 22nd, Song Meiling, Song Ziwen and Chiang Kai-shek's advisors, the Australians, agreed to fly to Xi'an for negotiations. Thanks to the efforts of Zhou Enlai and others and the struggles of the people of the whole country, on the 24th, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to accept the conditions of armistice peace, joint anti-Japanese resistance, and the release of political prisoners. On the 25th, Chiang Kai-shek was released and accompanied back to Nanjing by Zhang Xueliang. The "Xi'an Incident" was peacefully resolved. After Chi The Xi'an Incident launched by generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng and the peaceful settlement of this incident brokered by the Communist Party of China played a significant historical role in promoting the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to cooperate again and unite against Japan. Yang Hucheng, who launched the Xi'an Incident, Zhou Enlai (left), Ye Jianying (center), and Bo Gu (right) Xi'an soldiers and civilians took to the streets to march in support of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's anti-Japanese feat. This is the instruction of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident on December 19, 1936. This is the full text of the bullet hole in the glass of Jiang's bedroom in the Xi'an Incident published in the Northwest Culture Daily. Song's personal letter to Jiang's "warrant". Jiang's plane has been launched, that is, leaving Xi'an. After the "Xi'an Incident" was peacefully resolved, Zhou Enlai and