After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was put under house arrest by Lao Jiang, who sent people to guard Zhang Xueliang to death, afraid that someone would come and let him go, so Lao Jiang has been keeping secrets from the outside world, except for Lao Jiang, almost no one knows where he is being detained. But once, old Jiang let several people meet General Zhang for the first time, and one of them was Huo Shouyi. The reason why they made an exception to let them see General Zhang was to appease these northeastern generals and prevent them from having another incident because the leader was imprisoned, after all, they had a good friendship with General Zhang and were very loyal to him. To appease them is to appease the Northeast Army.
In the Northeast Army led by General Zhang, there were a total of 6 senior generals, the most loyal of whom was Huo Shouyi. His hometown is Benxi, Liaoning Province, and he was working under General Zhang when he was in his early 20s. General Huo is the commander of the 16th Regiment of the Northeast Army, he admires General Zhang very much, and even unconditionally supports all of General Zhang's decisions, and General Zhang also attaches great importance to him and takes good care of him, Commander Huo is by no means an ungrateful person, he has always remembered General Zhang's goodness to himself, after General Zhang was put under house arrest, he also thought of saving him, but his small regimental commander was really too weak, and it was as difficult as ascending to the sky to save him.
After meeting General Zhang, General Zhang instructed their 6 generals not to hit the stone with a pebble and confront the main national army of the old Chiang Kai-shek, otherwise they would only lose the ground, and the most important thing for them was to firmly grasp the Northeast Army under their hands, so that they had a chip in their hands, so that Old Jiang did not dare to move him at will. The 6 generals firmly remembered General Zhang's words. After returning to Nanjing, Old Jiang met with several of them separately, and when Commander Huo saw Old Jiang, he directly told Old Jiang that as long as General Zhang's safety was guaranteed, there would be no problems with the troops under my command, and if General Zhang had any mistakes, then my large troops would not be sent at will! Clear-eyed people can see what Commander Huo means, which means that he is threatening Old Jiang not to move General Zhang easily, otherwise his troops will not be polite.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huo Shouyi went south to Wuhan to participate in the battle against the Japanese invaders, and after the victory of the War of Resistance, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general of the Kuomintang, and later in the Liberation War, his army was incorporated into the People's Liberation Army, and after the liberation he also became a researcher at the Military Academy.
In 1967, at the age of 69, he died, but unfortunately, he could not wait until his death that his esteemed General Zhang was released from prison.