At the end of 1936, during the "Xi'an Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries, although Chiang Kai-shek himself was safe and sound, his chief bodyguard and nephew Jiang Xiaoxian was shot and killed by the Northeast Army in the chaos.
Jiang Xiaoxian
After Jiang Xiaoxian's death, Chiang Kai-shek posthumously named him a lieutenant general in the army, transported his bones back to his hometown, and buried him at the foot of Feifeng Mountain in the northwest of Xikou Town, Zhang Xueliang also sent a sum of money to his relatives for Jiang Xiaoxian, but Jiang Xiaoxian's wife Yuan Jingzhi was bitter about Zhang Xueliang and had assassinated him twice, fortunately, at this time, Zhang Xueliang was accompanied by his original wife Yu Fengzhi, Yu Fengzhi was a capable woman, and she also had feelings and righteousness, she not only stood up to protect her husband twice, but also protected Zhang Xueliang with reason and affection to Yuan Jingzhi.
Later, Yuan Jingzhi, a member of the Ningbo Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, recalled Zhang Xueliang and Yu Fengzhi, and felt great admiration for Fengzhi.
1. During the Xi'an Incident, Jiang Xiaoxian was captured by the Northeast Army for dereliction of duty
Jiang Xiaoxian was Chiang Kai-shek's cousin and grandson, and the people Chiang Kai-shek used at that time were his relatives, such as the attendant room accountant was his nephew Cai Hechang, and wang Shihe, the old guard chief who had followed him for 20 years, was the grandnephew of Jiang's mother Wang Caiyu's family.
In 1933, at the age of 33, Jiang Xiaoxian was promoted to deputy commander of the Peiping Gendarmerie, in 1935 he was appointed chief of Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguards, and on October 5, 1936, he was promoted to major general.
On December 2, 1936, at the repeated invitation of Zhang Xueliang, Chiang Kai-shek went to Xi'an to "supervise the war" and lived in Huaqingchi, Lintong, where xi'an students and the masses often petitioned near Chiang Kai-shek's residence to stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan.
Jiang Xiaoxian then led the three regiments of gendarmerie to the area of Shilipu and Xunhe Bridge, set up a machine gun on the high cliffs on both sides, and also dispatched a large number of cavalry to prepare the students to petition again and suppress it by force.
On the evening of December 10, Zhang Xueliang learned that Chiang Kai-shek had passed the sixth "encirclement and suppression" plan at the meeting and decided to announce the mobilization order on December 12.
On December 7, Zhang Xueliang was rejected for the last time
On the evening of 11 December, Chiang Kai-shek invited Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng, Jiang Dingwen, and others to a dinner party in Lintong, where they announced a "change of generals" and that the Central Army would be replaced by wei Lihuang and Jiang Dingwen to replace the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army in "encirclement and suppression." Zhang Xueliang saw that there was no hope of stopping the civil war, and summoned the generals of the Northeast Army and the Seventeenth Route Army (the main force of the Northwest Army) that night to announce the "military advice."
Zhang Xueliang asked Sun Mingjiu, commander of the Second Guard Battalion, and Shang Tongchang, acting battalion commander, to gather their troops and take the men and horses of the Seventh and Eighth Companies to Huaqingchi overnight to detain Chiang Kai-shek.
At this time, Jiang Xiaoxian, who was the chief of Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguards, was negligent in his duties, and he thought that the matter in Xi'an had been solved, so he and Jiang he and Chang took Chiang Kai-shek's special car to Xi'an City to have fun and played all night.
In the early hours of the morning, when Jiang Xiaoxian, Jiang Hechang returned to Lintong from Xi'an in a small car, they were blocked on the road by a large car and soldiers, this car was the eighth company led by Shang Tongchang, when Shang Tongchang stopped the car, he did not know Jiang Xiaoxian, Jiang Xiaoxian handed over his business card, which read, "Jiang Xiaoxian, chairman of the Military Commission, and commander of the third regiment of the gendarmerie.". Call three people to sit in your car. "And asked the guards to surrender his weapons on the spot."
After Shang Tongchang came to Huaqingchi, he joined Sun Mingjiu in a fierce battle with Chiang Kai-shek's guards and gendarmes, but due to Chiang Xiaoxian's absence, Chiang Kai-shek was leaderless at this time, and the melee soon ended.
Shang Tongchang then remembered to inquire about Jiang Xiaoxian's whereabouts, and learned that Jiang Xiaoxian wanted to escape in chaos and was arrested again, and Bai Fengxiang, commander of the Sixth Cavalry Division, arranged to send the captured personnel Qian Dajun, Jiang Xiaoxian, and others back to Xi'an by car, only to be seen by Liu Duoquan of the 105th Division of the Northeast Army, when Liu Duoquan's men fought fiercely with Chiang Kai-shek's guards and suffered many casualties when they attacked Huaqingchi, they became angry with Jiang Xiaoxian, who was the head of the guards, and pointed at Jiang Xiaoxian angrily: "What else did you send him to the city?" How many political prisoners did he kill?"
When Bai Fengxiang heard this, he also remembered that Jiang Xiaoxian was usually arrogant, and immediately ordered his adjutant Chang Guobin to kill Jiang Xiaoxian, and Chang Guobin tricked Jiang Xiaoxian out of the car, walked to the small garden in a secluded place, and shot him to death five or six times in a row.
Bai Fengxiang
In order to aggravate the responsibility of the Northeast Army for killing people without authorization, Chiang Kai-shek did not pursue the fault of leaving his post without permission and not returning all night, and also promoted him to a higher level, posthumously named him a lieutenant general in the army, made a solemn commendation, and his wife transported his bones back to his hometown in Fenghua Xikou Town for burial.
In 1937, Zhang Xue's conscience was also too unwilling to go, and in 1937, he specially sent a sum of money to Jiang's wife to do things, "surpassing the ghost of Jiang Xiaoxian." ”
But for Jiang's wife Yuan Jingzhi, the hatred of killing her husband could not be unrequited, and only then did she have a later scene.
2. Twice assassinated at Xikou, Yu Fengzhi broke the siege
Jiang Xiaoxian and his wife Yuan Jingzhi had three sons and four daughters, and after his death, Yuan Jingzhi raised children in his hometown.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Nanjing Military Tribunal, and although he was pardoned, he was placed under house arrest for a long time, and the place of house arrest was changed many times.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang accompanied Chiang Kai-shek on the same plane back to Nanjing, and was detained as a result
In 1937, he was transferred to Xuedou Mountain at the mouth of Fenghua Creek, and his original wife Yu Fengzhi, who was studying with his children in Britain, returned from abroad to accompany Zhang Xueliang to "go to prison" because he could not rest assured.
Yu Fengzhi
Yuan Jingzhi was a newly educated woman, and Jiang Xiaoxian was also freely in love and had deep feelings, and after she learned of the situation of Zhang Xueliang and his wife in Xuedou Mountain, she decided to find an opportunity to avenge her husband, so she came to the Daxiong Treasure Hall in the monastery on Xuedou Mountain to do things, burned incense to sacrifice the husband, cried bitterly, and after the cry reached Zhang Xueliang and Yu Fengzhi not far away, she sent someone to inquire, and Liu Yiguang, the special agent captain who accompanied the protection, inquired and returned, saying that Jiang Xiaoxian's widow was sacrificing her deceased husband.
Xuedou Temple
Zhang Xueliang was already ashamed of Jiang Xiaoxian's death, and when he heard about it, he planned to go to Shangzhu Xiang, and after entering the Daxiong Treasure Hall, he reverently finished worshipping, turned to Yuan Jingzhi and said: "People cannot be resurrected from the dead, Lady Jiang, please mourn and change." ”
Chang
Yuan Jingzhi, who was kneeling aside, pretended to return the salute, but put her hand into her clothes to pull out the gun, only to be seen by Yu Fengzhi, and she shouted, "Han Qing! At this time, Liu Yiguang heard the sound and brought several people into the temple, Zhang Xueliang also came to help Yu Fengzhi, Yu Fengzhi blocked in front of Zhang Xueliang, clasped Yuan Jingzhi's hands tightly, and apologized to her: "I'm sorry, Madam Jiang, I'm not in good health and disrespectful." Under such circumstances, Yuan Jingzhi was unable to succeed in the assassination, so she had to pretend to be indifferent and let Zhang Xueliang and his wife leave.
Soon after, Yuan Jingzhi ambushed Zhang Xueliang and his wife on the side of the road where they often walked, waiting for the opportunity to shoot, one day at dusk, Zhang Xueliang and his wife came to the small forest next to the residence for a walk, Yuan Jingzhi saw that there were always people around them, and had to shoot Zhang Xueliang from a hundred meters away.
Zhang Xueliang and Yu Fengzhi at Xuedou Mountain
Liu Yiguang saw that the assassin was Jiang Xiaoxian's wife and was about to be severely interrogated, but Yu Fengzhi came over and ordered Liu Yiguang to release the person, and said frankly: "I am Han Qing's wife, if you must think that Han Qing is your husband's enemy and want to kill him, then let me die for him." ”
Yu Fengzhi's protective love and righteousness made Yuan Jingzhi both touched and admired, and the two women hugged each other and cried on the spot, and after that, the two also became friends. Until after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yuan Jingzhi recalled Yu Fengzhi as a person, and he was full of admiration.
Since Zhang Xueliang was not directly responsible for Jiang Xiaoxian's death after all, Yuan Jingzhi abandoned the assassination plan after failing to assassinate him twice, and soon after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Xueliang and Yu Fengzhi were moved to Guiyang and imprisoned, leaving Fenghua Xuedou Mountain.
Zhang Xueliang divorced Yu Fengzhi in his later years and held a wedding with Zhao Yidi
Yu Fengzhi has been ill since she was young, and after following Zhang Xueliang around for three years, her already not very good health was found to have breast cancer.
Zhang Xueliang proposed to let Yu Fengzhi go to the United States for medical treatment, replaced by Miss Zhao Si to accompany him, Chiang Kai-shek approved his request, and Yu Fengzhi went on this trip, and from then on, he and Zhang Xueliang were forever separated from each other, waiting bitterly for half a century, until they could not see each other again until their deaths.