Zhang Xueliang constantly felt that it was a shame that he hadn't had a chance to go up against the Japanese and before he was dispatched to blockade the Communists he had never actually fought against the Japanese. Even when his father was assassinated by the Japanese and the Northeast was taken over three years later by the Japanese after the Mukden Incident (18th September 1931) he never once resisted.
張學良一直以未能抗日為憾，但在被派剿共之前他也不曾和日本好好打過一仗，甚至在他父親老帥張作霖被日人炸死、三年後「九一八事變」東北淪陷日軍之手時，也不曾見少帥對抗日軍？