After the "Xi'an Incident", General Yang Hucheng was trapped by Kuomintang agents in December 1937 because he was anxious to return to China to resist the war. Later, along with his wife Xie Baozhen, his second son Yang Zhengzhong, and his secretary Song Qiyun, he was imprisoned at the Chongqing White Mansion. On the eve of liberation in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng to kill Yang Hucheng and his secretary Song Qiyun's family at the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall. His remaining two sons and five daughters were raised by her second wife, Zhang Huilan, who became elites in various industries.
Born in Shaanxi in 1893, General Yang Hucheng was a revolutionary righteous man who started in the "Green Forest". At the time of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, at the age of eighteen, he participated in the local army's battle against the Qing court. After Yuan Shikai's restoration, he chose to retire from the army, and because he killed a bully in his hometown, he was forced to fall into the grass and go up the mountain. In three or four years, he grew in momentum and became a famous haojie in the shaanxi territory at the beginning of the twentieth century. Later, he followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Protector Army and fought many battles, all of which were greatly renowned for their fierceness and tenacity.
Later, at the invitation of Feng Yuxiang, Yang Hucheng served as the commander of the Tenth Army of the Nationalist Army, and his military career has since risen to a higher level. In 1929, Yang Hucheng attacked Tang Shengzhi on the orders of Chiang Kai-shek, and then became famous in the Battle of Zhumadian, and is considered to be an outstanding military commander in modern China. Later, he successively served as the commander of the 7th Army of the Nationalist Army, the commander-in-chief of the 17th Road, and the chairman of the Shaanxi government. In 1931, after Zhang Xueliang withdrew his troops from the northeast, he came to Xi'an to meet with Chiang Kai-shek and asked the other side to stop the civil war and unanimously resist Japan!
Because as early as before the September 18 Incident, Zhang Xueliang had clearly seen through the "Central Plains War" that the various warlords in China at that time were completely scattered. Chiang Kai-shek's so-called "outside must first be at home" is completely wrong. Moreover, with the equipment and military quality of the Japanese army, Chinese if they are not united, they cannot compete with any faction of warlords alone. However, Chiang Kai-shek did not listen at all. In the late 1930s, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng became acquainted because of their relationship with each other's wives.
Yang Hucheng's third wife, Xie Baozhen, studied at a girls' school run by our party, and she herself was influenced by progressive ideas, as well as her husband Yang Hucheng. Later, after yang hucheng and Zhang Xueliang had many discussions, the two agreed on their views on the anti-Japanese situation. So they chose to unite and persuade Chiang to abandon the idea of civil war. However, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Yang Hucheng to confront the Red Army in Shaanxi, otherwise he would be transferred. Faced with the critical juncture of the country's life and death, the situation does not allow Yang Hucheng to think much.
Therefore, on December 12, 1936, Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang jointly launched the "Xi'an Incident" and put forward eight anti-Japanese national salvation proposals. At the time of the incident, Yang Hucheng had three wives and ten children. Later, Grand Madame Rhodes died before his arrest. The third lady, Xie Baozhen, was arrested with him and died in prison on the eve of liberation along with her newborn daughter, and his second son was also killed by agents. In the end, Yang Hucheng had two sons and five daughters who were lucky to survive. So, how did Yang Hucheng's second son and five daughters all live afterwards?
Yang Hucheng's eldest son, Yang Zhengmin, joined our party in the late 1930s and was a hero of China's first generation of oil exploration industry. He served as vice governor of Shaanxi Province, secretary of the provincial party committee and other important positions, and was also the deputy secretary-general of the fifth and sixth sessions of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and died of illness in 1998. Yang Hucheng's third son, Yang Zhengya, also died of illness shortly after his death.
General Yang's eldest daughter, Yang Zhengkun, joined the revolution at the age of 13 and has been struggling on the literary and artistic front in New China ever since. After entering the 1970s, he entered the tourism department and successively served as a member of the Party Committee of the Beijing Branch of China International Travel Service, deputy general manager, and secretary of the Party Committee of beijing Tourism Service, and died of illness in 1994. After the liberation, the second daughter, Yang Zhengmei, served as the director of the Gansu Light Industry Department and a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the third and fourth daughters, Yang Zhengying, and Yang Zhenghan were in public institutions and government organs. The fifth daughter was originally engaged in oil exploration with her eldest brother Yang Zhengmin, but died of work at the age of 22.
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Huilan, the second wife of General Yang, was initially alone in the countryside after the death of her eldest sister Luo Peilan. Later, after Yang Hucheng and Xie Baozhen had an accident, she brought up the children left by the two wives, along with her own children. And this child has been trained to become a talent to contribute to the country. In 1993, Zhang Huilan died and she was known as the "Unsung Hero". General Yang Hucheng was brave and courageous, and made contributions to the cause of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Chinese. Without him, there would be no reversal of the situation of China's War of Resistance, and he should always be remembered by future generations!