Yang Hucheng asked Stalin for help, but Stalin sold him to Chiang Kai-shek for his own benefit
When people think of the Xi'an Incident, people immediately think of General Yang Hucheng, who sacrificed his life for the country. The party and the people will always be grateful and respect him. The great man of the century wrote this comment when reading the "Book of Tang and The Biography of Xu Yougong": "Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, Zeng Jing, Dai Mingshi, Qu Qiubai, Fang Zhimin, Deng Yanda, Yang Hucheng, and Wen Yiduo were martyred. It can be seen from this that the chairman has put Yang Hucheng on a par with national heroes Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang. This is the wish of the people, the rainbow of green history!
Exile abroad
After the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek forced General Yang Hucheng to go abroad for an inspection.
On June 29, 1937, Yang Hucheng, together with his wife Xie Baozhen, his second son Zhengzhong, his attaché and his interpreter, left Shanghai on the American ship "President Hoover" for the United States.
At that time, nearly a thousand relatives, friends, subordinates, representatives from all walks of life, and workers and peasants in Shanghai went to the wharf to see them off.
Since then, Yang Hucheng has propagated anti-Japanese propaganda and traveled all over Europe.
On August 11, Yang Hucheng and his party arrived in Paris and stayed for about 40 days.
During this period, a forum was held with representatives of overseas Chinese organizations, and he was also invited to give a radio speech to the French people and carry out propaganda on resisting Japan and saving the country.
Although General Yang was abroad, he was always worried about the situation of the War of Resistance at home, and repeatedly called the Nationalist government to ask for his return to China, but he was not allowed.
Stalin's betrayal
At that time, Yang Hucheng sent someone to Moscow on his behalf to find the CHINESE Delegation to the Communist International, and turned to Stalin for help, intending to return to China through the Soviet Union, but this plan failed.
It was later learned that stalin had betrayed him to Chiang Kai-shek.
It turned out that Stalin already knew the relationship between Yang Hucheng and Chiang Kai-shek, and if he helped Yang Hucheng, he would offend Chiang Kai-shek. At that time, China was a barrier for the Soviet Union to resist Japan, and Stalin was naturally unwilling to influence Sino-Soviet relations for the sake of a "down-to-earth" figure.
It can be seen from this that there is no faith between the "big people" at all, and for the sake of profit, they can not hesitate to betray others.
Chiang Kai-shek designed a trap
After receiving a briefing from Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek changed his previous decision not to let Yang Hucheng return to China and devised a plan to trap Yang Hucheng.
The first step of the plan was to send a telegram by Song Ziwen to make Yang "automatically return to China" in a tone of seduction and temptation; the second step, when Yang Hucheng responded to the call to return to China, Song Ziwen personally went to Hong Kong to greet him; and in the third step, Yang Hucheng was invited to Nanchang to meet Chiang Kai-shek in order to be detained by Dai.
Things turned out to be exactly according to this plan.
On November 30, 1937, Yang Hucheng, under the surveillance of secret agents, left Hong Kong for Nanchang to meet Chiang Kai-shek.
Under the "company" of Dai Kasa, Yang Hucheng arrived in Nanchang and immediately lost his freedom. And Chiang Kai-shek was not in Nanchang at all, all this was just a hoax.
Soon, when the news of Yang Hucheng's imprisonment by Chiang Kai-shek came, the Seventeenth Route Army was very sad and indignant, and the generals on the front line jointly demanded that Chiang Kai-shek let Yang Hucheng come back to lead them to resist Japan, but there was no response.
In order to comfort Yang Hucheng's emotions and take care of his life, Xie Baozhen knew that he was going to be more vicious and less lucky, and still asked to accompany him.
12 years of captivity
Yang Hucheng's long-term captivity life and the process of being brutalized after his detention did not learn something from the accounts of the spies until after the liberation of the whole country.
According to the confessions of some agents, Yang Hucheng's inhuman life and torture were unbearable to see, and he lived for many years in a damp cave where there was no sunlight all day long, and his meals were also very poor.
The agents also tried everything to stimulate and torture Xie Baozhen, causing her to be in a trance, and finally she was persecuted to death.
When Yang Hucheng went abroad, the Nanjing government once paid him a sum of travel expenses, in addition to the cost of five months of living abroad, there was also a part of the US dollars, which also became the target of blackmail by the agents.
Agents often withheld the few living expenses and medical expenses stipulated by the authorities, and extorted Yang Hucheng to pay for it himself.
When Yang Hucheng was in Guiyang, he once suffered from gallstones and dental diseases, which were treated at his own expense, and even when the spies forcibly isolated Xie Baozhen because of his illness, he also asked Yang Hucheng to pay for the construction of a house and make money from it.
In this way, Yang Hucheng was tortured during the 12 years of imprisonment, but he always maintained a lofty integrity.
After the Chinese People's Liberation Army crossed the river to the south, the old Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan when he saw that the general trend had gone, and the fiasco further stimulated his revenge mentality. At this time, of course, he would not forget Yang Hucheng, whom he had always held in his heart.
According to his warrant, the agents deceived Yang Hucheng, Song Qiyun and their families from Guizhou to Chongqing.
On the evening of September 6, 1949, Yang Hucheng was secretly killed. The national hero thus died under the butcher's knife of the secret agent at the age of 56.
Generals through the ages
Yang Hucheng, who was imprisoned, failed to realize his patriotic ambition to kill the enemy on the anti-Japanese battlefield, but judging from the historical turning point of the Xi'an Incident, his long-cherished wish to save the country was the greatest success.
The Seventeenth Route Army, which he founded, did not live up to his expectations, made heroic and outstanding efforts on the anti-Japanese battlefield, and finally returned to the big family of the people's army.
History will not forget these heroes who asked for the people's lives and sacrificed their lives to serve the country.
When the bad news of Yang Hucheng's sacrifice came, Shenzhou mourned for it, and the whole country wept for it. The party and the people gave him great honors. His brilliant deeds will forever stand in the annals of history and inspire future generations.