Abstract
On February 20 of 1936, the communist army led by Mao Tse-tung and Peng Te-huai crossed the Yellow River and entered Shensi, pretending to help resist the Japanese. The director of the Government Office of Pacification at Tai-yuan, Yen His-shan, could not but ask the Central Government to send troops to help terminate the communist army. In May the communist army was defeated and driven out of Shensi. This was the first time the troops of the Central Government entered Shensi. How the Central Government appeased the Shensi area was an important task at that time. What was the content of the telegram sent by Yen Hsi-shan to the Central Government? Why was Chen Cheng sent to Shensi? How did Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek formulated his strategies to exterminate the communists? How did Yen Hsi-shan feel about them? How did Chiang and Chen look at the exterminating forces? These are the questions this paper wishes to address. We conclude that it was a great achievement for the Central Government to form alliance with the local government in driving the communists out of Shensi within a short period of only one and half months although the communists were not completely terminated. What was more important was that Chen Cheng had gradually gained importance after the event.
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