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In other words, in the long river of history, since the birth of human civilization, a person's fate has been very susceptible to the influence of the great era at that time.
Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, all kinds of benevolent people have ended up drinking and hating because of the devastation of the times. Below, the protagonist to be told by the editor is a national anti-Japanese hero - Yang Hucheng, and General Yang Hucheng is the most typical one in this group.
In the 1930s, General Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang forced Lao Jiang to unite and resist Japan for the sake of national righteousness, and on December 12, 1936, they planned and launched the "Xi'an Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries, after which Yang and Zhang successfully detained Lao Jiang.
Faced with such an unfavorable situation, old Chiang Had to compromise with Yang and Zhang in World War II, and finally decided to unite the two parties, so that the goal of "the whole nation to unite and resist Japan" was finally realized.
However, it is precisely because of this incident that the fate of General Yang Hucheng and the young marshal Zhang Xueliang, the two heroes of the times, has undergone a huge turn. After the end of the "Xi'an Incident", the old Chiang, after escaping from the predicament, began to take revenge on Yang and Zhang, first of all, Zhang Xueliang, who was placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek for more than half a century, 54 years.
If there were no various intercessions from Song Meiling during this period, I am afraid that this Zhang Xueliang would not have lived to the age of 100, such as the young marshal, and General Yang Hucheng, whose status was inferior to that of the young marshal, would be even more miserable.
After the Xi'an Incident subsided, Lao Jiang gradually lost control of the Northwest Army through his own wrists, and after that, lao Jiang clique made him lose his domestic roots and go into exile in the name of sending Yang Hucheng to investigate abroad.
It was not until after the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident" that Yang Hucheng, who was abroad, resolutely asked to return to China to resist Japan, and as a result, Yang Hucheng was detained and put under house arrest by lao Jiang shortly after yang Hucheng returned to China, and after that, General Yang Hucheng was imprisoned for nearly 12 years.
By 1949, the old Chiang clique had been defeated on the mainland day by day, and the old Chiang Kai-shek, who knew that his strength had been exhausted, was ready to abandon the mainland and retreat to Taiwan.
After this order was issued, Yang Hucheng's family, their young children Yang Zhengzhong and Yang Zhenggui, his wife Xu Linxia, his secretary, and 8 others were persecuted to death by the agents of the military command at the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall in Chongqing.
In order to bury the evidence and prevent the wind from leaking, these inhumane agents carried out the destruction of the body, and finally they also cruelly used concentrated sulfuric acid to bury the body of Yang Hucheng's family.
After liberation, this extremely ugly thing was finally exposed, and the murderers who had participated in the persecution of General Yang Hucheng's family were all brought to justice.
However, among them, a secret agent named Yang Qindian took the initiative to save 19 comrades of our party during the Chongqing massacre of the old Chiang clique and also helped find the bodies of General Yang Hucheng's family.
In 2006, Yang Han, the only grandson of General Yang Hucheng and the son of Yang Zhengmin, discovered Yang Qindian, a secret agent who had secretly carried out the murder of his grandfather Yang Hucheng, in a rural area in Henan.
When Yang Qindian, who was more than a hundred years old, learned that the Yang Han in front of him was the grandson of General Yang Hucheng, whom he had persecuted, he twisted his head to the side in shame, wiped away tears and said in a sobbing voice: I am just a soldier.
Yang Han was silent for a long time after hearing this: I wish you good health and can live to the age of 110. Before Yang Han left, he shook hands with Yang Qindian and said goodbye, and the old man's eyes were tearful and his lips trembled slightly, not knowing what to say, so he kept watching yang Han's back as he left.
Yang Hucheng's visit to his grandson should be a good thing for this old man, after all, the old man has carried the burden of a lifetime of sin and finally gently put it down.
Yang Han said such a thing, after 57 years, his deepest feeling for Yang Qindian was "pity", and then he said: I think he is very pitiful, he is also a victim of that era, at the same time, he is also a lucky person!
References for this article: "Xi'an Incident", "Biography of Yang Hucheng", "Biography of Zhang Xueliang", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - Xi'an Incident, Yang Hucheng, Zhang Xueliang, etc."