Liu Zhong Gan (1896~1989), the word Xiaotong, the Qing dynasty Guangxu bingshen twenty-two years (1896) January 1, was born in Weixian city Guozhai Street, known as the "Dazhong Chancellor" of the prestigious family, the Qing dynasty during the Qing dynasty governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Liu Hong'ao's descendants. Liu Zhong Gan early years witnessed the political corruption of the Qing Dynasty, the powers, invasion and bullying of the people of the country's criminal acts, with a strong sense of patriotic concern for the people of the incandescent feelings, and resolutely put pen to paper to join the military. 1917 into the Baoding Army Officers School, graduated from the Hebei Beiyuan Border Guard Army Division 1 successive platoon, company, battalion, regiment, Brigade Commander. 1926 served as the 16th Northeast Army, Hebei, Major General, Chief of Staff. 1933 served as the Northeast Army Army, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. 1933 served as the Northeast Army Army, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. 1933 served as the Northeast Army, Fifty-first Army. In 1935 was transferred westward, stationed in shaanxi and gan area, army commander Yu Xuezhong was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as shaanxi and ganxia border area "banditry" commander-in-chief, headquartered in Xi'an, after a short time, Yu Xuezhong was appointed chairman of gansu provincial government, Liu Zhongkan is resident in Lanzhou border area headquarters, in order to carry out its duties.

In 1936, Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng, after repeated discussions, and the central government of China **** secret contact, decided to muzzle the external to the "military admonition", forcing Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war, the unity of the anti-Japanese, on December 12, launched the shocking "Xi'an Incident On December 12, he launched the "Xi'an Incident", which shocked the whole world, and detained Chiang Kai-shek in Huaqing Pond in Lintong County. At that time, Liu Zhongkan thunderously executed the orders of Zhang Xueliang and the army commander Yu Xuezhong, led the 51st Army to cooperate with the action in Lanzhou, and organized and commanded the "Lanzhou Mutiny" to support the "Xi'an Incident".

In early December 1936, Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Xi'an and stayed in Lintong. At that time, he thought that the Northeast Army (Zhang Xueliang Department), 17th Road Army (Yang Hucheng Department) suppression **** ineffective, ready to convene a military conference in Xi'an, called the Director of the Gansu Appeasement Zhu Shaoliang, Chairman of the Gansu Provincial Government and the Shanxi-Gansu Border Region Commander-in-Chief, the 51st Army commander Yu Xuezhong, etc., to participate. Yu Xuezhong was called before the trip, arranged for the Shaanxi-Gansu headquarters chief of staff Liu Zhonggan to act as a substitute for all duties, dealing with various matters, presiding over the military and political work. At this time, Lanzhou is stationed in Lanzhou Suiyuan, Lanzhou Central Army, Northeast Army, New First Army Deng Baoshan troops and Lu Dachang Department and other different factions of the army.

In the early morning of December 12, 1936, Liu Zhonggan received a secret telegram from Zhang Xueliang and Yu Xuezhong, which revealed the "Xi'an Incident", and ordered the Mou Zhongheng Department of the 114th Division stationed in Dingxi, and the Zhou Guanglie Department of the 118th Division stationed in Hekou, to go back to Lanzhou, and to launch a siege of the Zhushaoliang Appeals Office and its guards that day, and disarm all the armed forces of the Central Army in Lanzhou. All the armed forces of the Central Army in Lanzhou were disarmed, and control of the airfield, radio stations, newspapers, banks and other places in Lanzhou, in order to consolidate the defense of Lanzhou.

Liu Zhonggan read the telegram, can not help but blood boiling, excited, he did not hesitate to decide to immediately implement the order to cooperate with the action. So first called the military headquarters, headquarters in Lanzhou, the main military personnel conveyed the content of the secret telegram, made a careful deployment, because the division commanders were also summoned to Xi'an to participate in the military conference convened by Chiang Kai-shek, is not in Lanzhou, he called a meeting of the chiefs of staff of all divisions, some of the regimental commanders and heads of the various branches of the Border Region Headquarters on the one hand, and on the other hand, found the Gansu Provincial Government Commissioner and Secretary General Zhou Dafu, said to Zhou with a smile: "There is an incident in Xi'an!" , and took out the telegrams of Zhang Xueliang and Yu Xuezhong and showed them to Zhou, telling, "They are all here over there, waiting for you to go and study with everyone * * * to make a decision." Liu Zhong Gan at the meeting read out Zhang Xueliang, Yu Xuezhong's call, and said, "Now time is short, everyone express their views, the faster the better." After a burst of discussion, all said to follow the telegraphic order to implement, on the spot to formulate a plan of action: First, cut off Zhu Shaoliang Sui Department with the Nationalist Nanjing Government and the various units under the link; Second, the 118th Division to part of the force to solve the Suidian Agency Special Services Battalion, the other part of the solution to the Junta-related part of the armed police; Third, the 113th Division with sufficient force to disarm the full-fledged troops of Chiang Kai-shek, the Hu Zongnan Department in the East School Grounds Cai, Xu two regiments of the Armed, to minimize casualties; Fourth, the 118th Division with appropriate strength, patrolling inside and outside the city passes, maintaining order, and defending the security of the whole city; Fifth, the head of the Junta in Lanzhou, Chief of Police Shi Ming to be guarded, the radio station, the telegraph office and other important and vital departments, close surveillance; Sixth, the Sui Department of the senior staff of the temporary collection of a place, to restrict freedom, to ensure security, and to contact with Deng Baoshan, to withdraw the guards of his military headquarters inside the main gate, to Avoid misunderstanding. The meeting decided to act unanimously at 7:00 p.m. that day and report the situation to the Border Region Headquarters at any time.

Evening, Liu Zhong Gan and others in the headquarters sit command, seven o'clock, the troops began to act, two hours later, has resolved Hu Zongnan's Department of Cai, Xu two regiments of most of the troops, only a few are still in the resistance, the Suifu Department of the Special Services Battalion of the Junta related to the part of the armed police has been surrendered to all the Suifu Department of the chief of staff Zhang Liangchen, Secretary General Weng Steam Wing, the adjutant general Yang Wei, the military justice chief He Xiao Xuan, etc. were concentrated to the Shimoushui Alley Food and lodging, to twelve o'clock in the evening, the Hu Department Cai, Xu two regiment chiefs were killed, all of their troops were disarmed, the key departments have been assigned to guard, inside and outside of the city order to stabilize the surrendered firearms, ammunition and other military supplies are properly preserved.

The following day, the headquarters learned that during the siege of the Central Army, both sides had casualties. *** More than 20 people were wounded and more than 10 died. Wang Shihui, the head of the Quartermaster General's Office of the Sui Department, was also killed. Thus, the officers and men of the 51st Army issued a circular to the whole country to support the eight national salvation propositions of Zhang and Yang, to stop the civil war and unite in resisting the Japanese, which was promptly published in the Tianjin Ta Kung Pao.

13th morning, held an emergency meeting of the provincial government commissioners, presided over by Zhou Dafu, Deng Baoshan, Zhang Wei, La Shijun, Chen Duan, Tian Kwing Jin, Xu Xianshi, etc., specially invited the chief of staff of the Border Region Headquarters, Liu Zhong Gan, the provincial chairman of the education, the provincial chairman of the Commerce, Gansu Daily Newspaper, and the heads of the provincial organs directly under the participation. At the meeting, Liu Zhonggan introduced the Xi'an Incident, the telegram between Zhang and Yang, and the 51st Army was ordered to carry out the disarming of Hu Zongnan's department and other troops.

At that time, the Central Army and other armies in Lanzhou had ambiguous attitudes, and some of them were still saber-rattling and eager to try. If the slightest negligence, mishandling, will erupt "rivalry" (窝里斗) scourge. At the critical moment, Yu Xuezhong also rushed back to Lanzhou by airplane to deploy troops. He appointed Zhou Guanglie as Lanzhou Police Commander, responsible for city defense, security and proper protection of the Sui Department and the Central Army dependents, day and night inspections, to prevent rumors of traitors. Ordered the 113th Division to build fortifications in the Wuling Mountain area, and transferred the 18th Division to Tingxi, according to the risk of laying troops, to prevent the Central Army attack, in order to strengthen the defense of Lanzhou. In the afternoon of the same day, the heads of the central authorities, branches of the Central Bank, branches of the Farmers' Bank, postal, salt, tobacco, alcohol, stamp and other administrations and the director of the radio station in Lanzhou were also invited, and they were briefed on the situation. Requirements for all organs in Lanzhou, before the general situation is not settled, all revenues are not reported to the central government to solve, all temporarily deposited in the Central Bank branch in Gansu Province.

14th at nine o'clock in the morning, Yu Xuezhong, Liu Zhonggan, Zhou Dafu and so on again invited local celebrities from all walks of life Yang Si, Shui Zi, Pei Jianjun, Fan Yuqin, Wang Tinghan and so on more than 20 people, and there are other Ma Bufang, Ma Buching, Lu Dachang, Yang Ziheng and other ministries of the head of the Office of the Ministry of the Lanzhou and so on, and again to them to inform them about the Xi'an incident after the passage of the incident and the purpose of the Xi'an Incident, as well as Chiang Kai-shek with the Central Committee of various military and political dignitaries in the entourage of Chen Cheng, Zhu Shaoliang, Jiang Baili, Jiang Dingwen, Chen Tiaoyuan, Wei Lihuang and 17 others were left in Xi'an. In the afternoon, Tian Kwing Kam, the director of the Education Department, convened more than 100 representatives of the teaching staff of the major high schools to report the situation, and received enthusiastic support from the representatives, who then set up the Anti-Japanese Salvation Association. On December 17, 1936, Zhou Enlai headed the Central Delegation of China **** arrived in Xi'an, stationed at Zhang Xueliang's mansion in Jinjiaxiang, and then met with Zhang and Yang respectively. Zhou Enlai expressed his firm support for the Xi'an Incident, which called for the cessation of the civil war and unanimous resistance to the Japanese invasion, as it was in line with the will of the whole nation. Zhou Enlai made an incisive analysis of the future of the Incident and put forward China's policy of establishing a united front against the Japanese, which facilitated the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident. Fan Changjiang, a special correspondent of the Tianjin Ta Kung Pao, flew to Lanzhou and made a follow-up report, telling the whole country about the cause of the Xi'an Incident, its passage, and its end.

Subsequently, Zhang Xueliang, on the eve of personally escorting Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, had left Yu Xuezhong a handwritten message, saying: "After I leave, all the Northeast Army, all by you Yu Xuezhong full authority to act". During this period of time, Liu Zhonggan did a lot of work in Lanzhou, Gansu Province to implement the idea of stopping the civil war and establishing a united front of the anti-Japanese nation, to call for the release of the Red Army fighters and political prisoners who were captured during the Long March and detained in the Lanzhou camp, and to save the ****productivity party members and the progressive forces who were assigned to work in the Northeastern Army. in the spring of 1936, the 51st Army was transferred to the east of Jiangsu Province to station in Huaiyin, Jiangsu Province, and Liu was appointed to this Army. Liu Zhonggan was appointed as the army's lieutenant general deputy military commander, and has since left Lanzhou.

After the July 7th Incident, in December 1937, Liu Zhonggan was directly involved in the decision-making and command of the Huaihe River blockade against the Japanese in northern Jiangsu Province, and in March 1938, he participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang with Yu Xuezhong's Fifty-first Army, and fought with the Japanese on the periphery, and eliminated 3,000 or 4,000 of them during the bloody battle of the 5th day of April 6, in which the Japanese were killed and their troops were wounded. In the Battle of Xuzhou after the great victory of the Battle of Taierzhuang on April 6, Liu Zhonggan in combat due to fall and injured legs, transferred to Chongqing through Xuchang for treatment, leaving the 51st Army. Afterwards, Liu Zhonggan became a Lieutenant General Counselor of the Military Commission of the National Government in Chongqing, and after August 15, 1945, Liu Zhonggan, then a Lieutenant General Counselor of the Office of the Governor of the Eleventh War Area, accompanied the Commander of the War Area, Sun Lianzhong, to Peking to accept the surrender of the Japanese Army and take over the Japanese Army's firearms and ammunition. 1947, Liu Zhonggan, after retiring from military service as the director of the Third Grain Depot of Hebei Province, was dispatched to the underground work of the Party, and stood firm at his post to protect a huge amount of grain losses under his control from being lost. After the peaceful liberation of Beiping, Liu Zhonggan was the director of the Third Grain Depot in Hebei Province. After the peaceful liberation of Beiping, he served as a staff member of the North China Administrative Committee, a staff member of the Beijing Municipal People's Committee, a member of the second Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Municipal Museum of Literature and History, and a counsellor of the Beijing Municipal Government, and he passed away in December 1989 at the age of 93 in Beijing.