introduction:
There was once a person who said something like this: "The age of the god turtle, standing tall with bare guts." And this passage is zhang Xueliang.
Zhang Xueliang, a figure whose life is full of legends. He had brilliant moments when he consulted Old Chiang Kai-shek, but during the September 18 Incident, he actually led his troops to escape, and did not organize a resistance campaign. But what we cannot deny is that Zhang Xueliang is indeed a national hero. Under such a severe situation in China at that time, Zhang Xueliang was able to act as a soldier, which was actually very risky. This was later confirmed, Yang Hucheng was killed soon after, Zhang Xueliang was put under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek's father and son for more than 50 years, and after Zhang Xueliang was released, someone asked about the person he most admired, Zhang Xueliang said three people at this time.
Zhang Xueliang is in a warlord family, his father is Zhang Zuolin, and his mother is Zhang Zuolin's original wife. As the eldest son of Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang is highly valued. From an early age, he was relatively intelligent and received a Western education, so he belonged to a more enlightened general. With his own performance and his father's power, Zhang Xueliang became a high-ranking general very early.
After his father was killed for Japanese reasons, he naturally took over his father's army and became the new helmsman of the warlord forces in the northeast. At this time, the Confluence of Ning and Han, the Nationalist government represented by Chiang Kai-shek, had a great tendency to unify the whole country. At this time, there was also an invasion of Japanese forces in the northeast, and Zhang Xueliang, after careful consideration, decided to accept Chiang Kai-shek's offer, and the Kuomintang formally unified China once again since the Xinhai Revolution.
It didn't take long for Japan to launch the 918 Incident. At this time, the troops led by Zhang Xueliang were in the northeast, and he could completely organize troops to fight against the enemy. But he did not, and led his troops back into Guanzhong. Suddenly, public opinion was everywhere, and domestic newspapers criticized Zhang Xueliang. But in fact, we also understand that this is likely to be Chiang Kai-shek's instruction to Zhang Xueliang.
However, since 1935, Japan has seen that China is still in constant war, so it has stepped up its military dispatch and aggression against China. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek insisted that "foreign countries must first be safe inside," and was still encircling and suppressing the Communists, and was silent about foreign aggression. Although Zhang Xueliang accepted Chiang Kai-shek's offer, his father was very backbone in the national righteousness and died at the hands of the Japanese, how could Zhang Xueliang tolerate the Japanese invasion of China?
After the July 7 Incident, seeing that Japan launched a large-scale army to invade China in an all-round way, Chiang Kai-shek was still hesitating whether to resist Japan first, and Zhang Guoliang was very angry at this time. It just so happened that at that time, Chiang Kai-shek needed to go to Xi'an for official business, and Zhang Xueliang happened to be living in Xi'an at this time, so he joined forces with Yang Hucheng to imprison Chiang Kai-shek, and finally forced Chiang Kai-shek to agree to jointly resist Japan with the Communists, known in history as the Xi'an Incident.
In ancient times, there was a proverb called letting the tiger return to the mountain, which ostensibly meant to put the tiger back into the mountain. What it actually means is that putting a person back in the way leaves a hidden danger. Chiang Kai-shek, as the helmsman of the Kuomintang, was imprisoned and persecuted by his own subordinates, which made him very faceless. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek found Zhang Xueliang a dangerous figure, but for various reasons, Chiang Kai-shek did not kill Zhang Xueliang, but imprisoned him for 54 years.
After all, Zhang Xueliang is different from Yang Hucheng, he is the son of Zhang Zuolin, and at the same time, he has made great contributions to the road of chiang kai-shek's form of unifying the country. And Zhang Xueliang is also the leader of the revolutionary generals of the Northeast faction, if he is killed, it is bound to cause some dissatisfaction and trouble. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek thought of a way, that is, to imprison Zhang Xueliang.
The long-term imprisonment also made Zhang Xueliang feel deeply stressed. Although he knew that Chiang Kai-shek would not do anything to himself, the restrictions on his personal freedom still made him feel tormented at that time. He secretly expressed his request to Chiang Kai-shek for his release, but was directly rejected by Chiang Kai-shek, which shows Chiang Kai-shek's vigilance and hatred for Zhang Xueliang.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was 1990. Zhang Xueliang finally regained his freedom of action. However, at this time, the KMT had changed its head twice, and many years had passed for the outside world. Zhang Xueliang participated in many interviews in the last time, when a person raised such a question, Zhang Xueliang's life to whom to admire, Zhang Xueliang after thinking, gave such an answer.
After the Xi'an Incident, Premier Zhou came to Xi'an on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to negotiate with the Kuomintang. At that time, there were many voices in society calling for Chiang Kai-shek to be killed, and there was also a deep contradiction between the Communist Party and Chiang Kai-shek. However, Premier Zhou considered the overall situation and the survival of the nation, and believed that it was necessary to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to change his attitude instead of killing him, and it was precisely this kind of Premier Zhou that Zhang Xueliang greatly admired.
The second man is our Chairman Mao. Zhang Xueliang believes that Chairman Mao led the Chinese people into a new stage, established a new country, and enabled Chinese people to stand up.
The last person was his father, Zhang Zuolin. Although his father was a warlord in the eyes of outsiders, for Zhang Xueliang, his father went alone, created a great power, and was never ambiguous in the national righteousness, and he was also a person he admired in his heart.
summary:
In 2001, Zhang Xueliang passed away, and a generation of warlords died. For Zhang Xueliang, we have a lot of views and controversies, he was wandering in his early years, but these did not prevent him from having a patriotic heart, and being able to stand up and save China at such a critical moment can also be regarded as a well-deserved hero of the Chinese nation.