If Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng had not held Chiang Kai-shek to fight against Japan, one of them would not have been put under house arrest, and the other would not have been maimed to death. They might have commanded thousands of troops to fight against the Japanese on the anti-Japanese battlefield in the future.
Northeast China has fallen and North China is in crisis. If we do not resist the Japanese, the country will face the danger of destruction. As a patriotic general, resisting the Japanese is our duty. In order to resist Japan and for the sake of national justice, Zhang Xueliang proposed to Chiang Kai-shek many times to end the civil war and unite to resist Japan, but was rejected by Chiang Kai-shek.
Generals Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang were the planners of the Xi'an Incident
Chiang Kai-shek not only refused to listen to the advice, but also strictly ordered Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng to lead their troops to "suppress" the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Red Army. This time, Generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng did not execute Chiang Kai-shek's order to "suppress the Communists." Instead, according to their own plans, the two generals summoned senior generals of the Northeastern Army and the 17th Route Army respectively to announce military remonstrances to the senior generals.
On December 12, 1936, according to the plan agreed upon by Generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, the troops were ordered to arrest Chiang Kai-shek. The Northeastern Army surrounded Huaqingchi and Chiang Kai-shek was detained; the Seventeenth Route Army simultaneously controlled the entire city of Xi'an and detained senior Kuomintang generals such as Jiang Dingwen, Chen Cheng, Wei Lihuang, and Zhu Shaoliang in Xi'an. On the day of the
incident, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng sent electricity to the whole country, asking Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war, unite to resist Japan, release the arrested patriotic generals, release all political prisoners, and a series of conditions and requirements.
In fact, Generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng did not want to harm Chiang Kai-shek. Because of Chiang Kai-shek's policy of "reconciling foreign forces before settling the internal affairs," they engaged in civil war instead of resisting Japan. The two generals had no choice but to make this decision. Only then did he capture Chiang Kai-shek and let him fight against Japan.
On the night of the incident, Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng called the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to come to Xi'an. The Communist Party of China resolved the incident peacefully and sent Zhou Enlai to Xi'an to discuss major plans.
Zhou Enlai participated in the negotiations on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. During the negotiations, a lot of fruitful work was done. Chiang Kai-shek finally agreed to stop the civil war, unite the Communist Party to resist Japan, and the Xi'an Incident was peacefully resolved.
Chiang Kai-shek was, after all, the supreme commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang. He let his subordinates capture him and made himself miserable. Isn't this a great shame and humiliation? Moreover, all the soldiers and civilians across the country knew that they had been arrested, so where would they put their reputation and face? Could he not hate these two generals?
Zhang Xueliang followed Chiang Kai-shek to Nanjing and was placed under house arrest. General Yang Hucheng was sent abroad in the name of inspection, but in fact he was dismissed from the military power of the 17th Route Army.
On July 7, 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, and the Japanese army's full-scale invasion of China began. General Yang Hucheng, who was inspecting abroad, learned that the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, and he led his wife Xie Baozhen and his son to resolutely return to China to join the anti-Japanese war.
General Yang Hucheng arrived in Hong Kong. When Chiang Kai-shek learned about it, he immediately summoned the military commander Dai Li and asked Dai Li to lure General Yang Hucheng to Nanchang, saying that he wanted to meet him. Yang Hucheng believed that Chiang Kai-shek had not violated all his promises in the Xi'an Incident, so he believed it.
The military leader Dai Li
Dai Li selected dozens of smart and capable spies to come to Wuchang to greet General Yang Hucheng. Dai Li and the spies accompanied Yang Hucheng to Nanchang on a special plane. After arriving in Nanchang, Yang Hucheng was arranged into a villa. The villa was surrounded by gendarmerie troops. Every soldier was armed with live ammunition. Inside the villa, all military special agents stood guard. General Yang Hucheng knew that he had been tricked by Chiang Kai-shek, so he was placed under house arrest. However, because It's too late.
If General Yang Hucheng did not go to Wuhan but directly took a special flight to Xi'an after arriving in Hong Kong, he would not be under house arrest. It was a lie that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to meet him in Nanchang. The reality was that he wanted to control him and put him under house arrest because Chiang Kai-shek hated him very much. If he went directly to Xi'an, Chiang Kai-shek might not be able to control him. The reason why Jiang Jieshi ordered Dai Li to greet him in Wuchang was because he was afraid that he would go to Xi'an.
After many twists and turns, General Yang Hucheng was placed under house arrest in Xifeng Camp, Guizhou. In the Xifeng camp in Guizhou, he suffered a lot. Although he was not physically tortured by the spies, he was severely hit mentally and mentally.
Just in case, the agents found a moist and dark natural cave for General Yang Hucheng during his safe hiding period. It is said that this cave is a living place for local monks. It was occupied by spies for Yang Hucheng and his wife and son to live in. To be sure, the spies surrounded the cave with three floors inside and three outside for fear of something happening.
General Yang Hucheng is from the northwest. He is used to the dry climate of the northwest, and is not adaptable to the humid climate and environment in the south. Moreover, his eating habits are different from those in the northwest. The north eats noodles, while the south eats rice as the staple food. Regardless of The environment and food are not what they are used to, and the whole family often gets sick in prison.
Especially his wife Xie Baozhen, a progressive lady. He was not used to the humidity in the cave and often fell ill. In addition, he could not eat well and sleep well. He was under the surveillance of spies all day long and had no freedom at all. She hated the spies. She was particularly dissatisfied with the spies. She monitored them all the time and often quarreled with the spies. The spies often stimulated her and said disgusting words, which stimulated her brain and made her mentally ill.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek never let go of Yang Hucheng's family. He and his wife were imprisoned in Xifengying Prison in Guizhou for eight years. During these eight years, he and his wife were tortured and their health became worse and worse. They often They called Chiang Kai-shek a beast and the spies not human beings. The agents were very disgusted and hated her. They would not see a doctor when she was sick, but instead irritated her. Later, Xie Baozhen died out of hatred.
Yang Hucheng once wanted to write a letter to Chiang Kai-shek, but he tore up the letter paper. If Chiang Kai-shek wanted to let Yang go, he would have let him go long ago, let alone wait eight years? General Yang Hucheng knew that Chiang Kai-shek would not let him go. He was also disheartened and no longer expected Chiang Kai-shek to let him go.
In the summer of 1946, Yang Hucheng's family was moved to the Sino-US Special Technology Cooperation Institute under Gegele Mountain in Chongqing and imprisoned.
General Yang Hucheng knew that Chiang Kai-shek would not let him go easily. It was impossible to expect Chiang Kai-shek to let him go. The only hope was to rely on the Communist Party of China. Only when the Communist Party overthrew Chiang Kai-shek could there be any hope of getting out.
After Chiang Kai-shek stepped down, Li Zongren replaced Chiang Kai-shek and became the president of the Kuomintang. During his period as acting president, Li Zongren called the country to release all political prisoners, and specifically instructed the immediate release of General Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang.
No one listened to the words of Acting President Li Zongren. The Kuomintang bureaucrats still listened to Chiang Kai-shek's orders, and Li was just a decoration. At that time, Chongqing's "Central Daily News" published the news of Yang Hucheng's release.
Yang Hucheng reads newspapers every day, but today the spies did not deliver newspapers to him. The spies had hidden the newspapers long ago. Yang Hucheng began to wonder if there was something wrong with Chiang Kai-shek? Under Yang Hucheng's repeated questioning, the agents had to give him the newspaper. After he saw the newspaper, Chiang Kai-shek abdicated, and he didn't know how happy he was, thinking that he was about to leave!
Although Li Zongren requested the release of Yang Hucheng on the order of the acting president, Chiang Kai-shek, who abdicated, did not say anything, and no one under his subordinates dared to release him. Secrecy Bureau Mao Renfeng did not pay attention to the instructions of Li Zongren, the acting president. Acting President Li Zongren saw that these people did not listen to his instructions, so he personally called the mayor of Chongqing Yang Sen and asked him to release them. However, Yang Sen and Mao Renfeng were friends and loyal lackeys of Chiang Kai-shek. They could listen. What Li Zongren said?
Later, Yang Sen used the excuse that he couldn't find Mao Renfeng. If he couldn't find Mao Renfeng, he couldn't find where Yang Hucheng was being held. He just muddled through and deceived Li Zongren. In fact, Yang Sen knew where General Yang Hucheng was being held, and this was agreed upon with Mao Renfeng. However, General Yang Hucheng was not released, and this was his last hope.
General Yang Hucheng
Chiang Kai-shek saw that the situation was over and the Chiang Dynasty was about to collapse.In August 1948, Chiang Kai-shek came to Chongqing from Taiwan. He said to Mao Renfeng: "Today's failure is because we killed too few people in the past and retained some people who opposed us. This is too detrimental to us!" Mao Renfeng! Feng asked Chiang Kai-shek, what should Yang Hucheng do? Was he sent to Taiwan and imprisoned? Chiang Kai-shek said categorically: "What are you keeping him for? If you want, he should be killed!" It can be seen that Chiang Kai-shek has hated General Yang Hucheng for many years.
Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly asked Mao Renfeng to escort Yang Hucheng to Chongqing in secret and not to let outsiders know.
Mao Renfeng gave instructions to Chiang Kai-shek and ordered special agent Zhou Yanghao to go to Guiyang to escort General Yang Hucheng to Chongqing. Zhou Yanghao deceived Yang Hucheng, saying that Chiang Kai-shek was in Chongqing and wanted to see him and talk to him. Yang Hucheng has heard these words many times and no longer believes the spies' lies. He knows in his heart that Chiang Kai-shek has never received him since he returned to China. The whole country is about to be liberated. Can he release me? This is impossible.
In early September 1948, Mao Renfeng sent a squadron from the police corps to surround Songlin Slope and not allow anyone to enter this area.
It was already late when General Yang Hucheng and his son arrived in Chongqing. After General Yang Hucheng got off the car, the spies supported him. The son, holding his mother's urn in his hand, was also carried by the spies to Dai Gong Temple. At the same time, there are also his secretary Song Qiyun and Yang and Song's two children.
Yang Hucheng was escorted to a bungalow, and the spies lived in separate rooms with his children. Yang Hucheng's son was already in his twenties. The spies were afraid that he would resist, so they targeted his son first. When Yang Hucheng's son entered the room, the agents stabbed him in the chest behind the door. He screamed, and the agents stabbed him several times and fell to the ground. When Yang Hucheng heard his son's miserable cry, he knew the danger of the matter. The moment he turned around, the agents stabbed him in the abdomen. General Yang Hucheng fell to the ground. The agents continued to stab him a few more times. Yang Hucheng and his son were like this Die.
But the spies were jealous. They took bloody knives and stepped into Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia's house. He knew that the spies were going to kill them all. He begged the vicious spies for mercy and let the two children go. How could the spies listen? Song Qiyun In order to protect the children, his wife hugged the two children tightly. After the agents first killed Song Qiyun and his wife, the ruthless agents stabbed the two innocent children with daggers. After the agents finished killing the people, they hurriedly buried the bodies of General Yang Hucheng and others.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek hates General Yang Hucheng is that he launched military remonstrances during the Xi'an Incident, forcing Chiang to stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan, which made Chiang Kai-shek miserable. The supreme commander of the Kuomintang was captured by his subordinates and had to be at their mercy. How could he not hate him? .
