The Xi'an Incident was a very important historical event in China's modern history; at the critical juncture of Japan's arrogant destruction of China, it led to the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, enabling China to finally realize the national united front, thus being able to concentrate all its forces to resist the japanese aggressors' offensive and playing a key role in saving the Chinese nation. The two generals, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, as the initiators of the main incident, made indelible contributions.
Zhang Xueliang, General Yang Hucheng (from the internet)
In the course of the whole incident, there was a young officer who played a major role, who had been charging forward in the incident and was the specific initiator of the incident. However, because of his participation in the Xi'an Incident, the fate of his life became ups and downs, engaged in changing Chinese heroes into Japanese traitors, the government of new China unexpectedly forgave him, and also made him an official of the people's government, and did not die until 2000 when he was 92 years old, and his life was full of legends! So, who is he? Read on:
Xi'an Incident Stills (from the Internet)
Hero in the Xi'an Incident
After the failure of the policy of persuading Chiang Kai-shek to abandon the policy of suppressing the Communists that "the outside must be the inside before the inside," the two generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng decided to carry out "military advice" to Chiang Kai-shek. So on the night of December 12, 1936, some young officers in the Northeast Army, on the orders of the young marshal, rushed into Chiang Kai-shek's residence and began to advise "Chiang Kai-shek." But when they eliminated Chiang's Resistance Guard and entered Chiang's bedroom, they found that Chiang had escaped.
If Chiang Kai-shek succeeds in escaping, he will make all his previous efforts meaningless! The young marshal ordered a search and arrest, and after dawn finally captured the old Jiang who was hiding in the back mountain, which had all the results of the later Xi'an transformation.
Throughout the operation, including the elimination of Chiang Kai-shek's guards, the search for and eventual capture of Chiang Kai-shek, a brave young officer participated and made great achievements. He is Sun Mingjiu.
Chiang Kai-shek (from the internet)
Sun Mingjiu's deep affection for the young marshal
Sun Mingjiu, born in 1909 in Xinmin County, Liaoning Province, once studied at the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, has strong military ability, and he has always been a resolute anti-Japanese element in the Northeast Army who opposes surrender. After he joined the Northeast Army, he has always been an active supporter of the young marshal, always loyal to the young marshal, and has a very close relationship with the young marshal.
Sun Mingjiu's close relationship with the young marshal can be seen in the words of the young marshal in 1991, 55 years after the Xi'an Incident, that is, in an interview with the young marshal in Japan. At that time, a reporter asked the young marshal who he most wanted to see if he returned to his homeland on the mainland, and the first person the young marshal mentioned was Sun Mingjiu. Later, someone showed Sun Mingjiu a videotape of an interview with Zhang Xueliang and told him that the young marshal was very concerned about him. Sun Mingjiu saw the young marshal who had not met for more than 50 years in the video, and he couldn't help but cry and cry bitterly.
Defect to Japan and become a traitor
After Chiang Kai-shek detained the young marshal in the Xi'an incident, Sun Mingjiu was always unwilling to yield to Chiang Kai-shek and advocated the rescue of the young marshal by force. To this end, in order to prevent the elders of the Northeast Army from peacefully resolving the incident, Shaozhuang, led by Yaye, shot and killed wang Yizhe, a general of the Northeast Army, on the morning of February 2, 1937, thinking that this would prevent the "compromise" and rescue the young marshal. Although his loyalty is touching, it has to be said that he is a very reckless and immature act!
General Wang Yizhe was an important figure of high moral standing in the Northeast Army, and his influence was extremely great. After he was killed, the hearts of the people in the Northeast Army began to disperse, and even many troops on the front line withdrew to capture Sun Mingjiu and ask him to pay for the life of General Wang Yizhe.
When Sun Mingjiu realized his mistake, he also regretted it very much, and he proposed to everyone that he committed suicide to apologize. However, if this is done, it will undoubtedly further intensify the contradictions in the Northeast Army and will be even more unfavorable to the peaceful handling of the whole incident. In the end, Zhou Gong, the CCP representative who was dealing with the matter in Xi'an, resisted the pressure and sent him to the Red Army garrison, where he temporarily escaped the disaster.
Sun Mingjiu (from the network)
However, because of the very special historical background at that time, the Red Army could not take him in, and he had to leave the Soviet zone. For a time, he had nowhere to go, at this time the Kuomintang could not tolerate him, some people in the Northeast Army still wanted his life, and a former hot-blooded young officer who had made great contributions to the neutrality of the Xi'an Incident had become a homeless person.
In desperation, Sun Mingjiu once took refuge in the Tianjin Concession, and later took refuge in the Shanghai Concession, and then, disheartened, he simply defected to the Wang Jingwei government as a traitor, and successively held some false posts. After the surrender of Japan, he surrendered to the Kuomintang, and during the Liberation War he was captured by our army in Harbin.
Northeast Army (from the network)
Gain a new life after liberation
After the founding of New China, the people's government did not deny everything that Sun Mingjiu had done in a special history, and the historical conclusion given to him by the government that year was: After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Sun Mingjiu was forced to make a living under special historical conditions and went through a detour. In the people's government, Sun Mingjiu also served as a member of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Fifth and Sixth Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Counselor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government.
Conclusion
In the early morning of April 8, 2000, the 92-year-old Sun Mingjiu died quietly in Shanghai due to ineffective medical treatment, completing his legendary and bumpy life. When Sun Mingjiu passed away, the national media reported on his death under the title of "Lishan Captured Jiang Li's Hero Sun Mingjiu died of illness", indicating that history and the people have not forgotten everything he once did. What is your argument for this?