After Zhang Xueliang was freed, he revealed a secret of Yang Hucheng and revealed the direct cause of his murder!
The Xi'an Incident is a major change in modern China, jointly launched by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, but posterity will first think of Zhang Xueliang when thinking of this event that changed history, followed by Yang Hucheng, because Zhang Xueliang himself is more well-known, or his previous Northeast Yizhi contribution is quite large, so people have preconceived notions and have such an impression, but the facts of history are often different from what we imagine.
After the Xi'an Incident, the fates of both Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng took a turn, Zhang Xueliang was immediately detained by Chiang Kai-shek, and since then he has lived a life of imprisonment; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he has traveled to many places, and finally he was imprisoned in Taiwan for more than 50 years, and some people have not been imprisoned for more than 50 years in their lives.
Compared with Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng was also the initiator of the Xi'an Incident, after the end of the matter, Chiang Kai-shek cut off his military power and sent him abroad, and then the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, he resolutely wanted to return to China to resist Japan, after many applications, Chiang Kai-shek finally agreed to his return to China, just as he was preparing to resist Japan, he was suddenly tricked into being imprisoned in Nanchang, so like Zhang Xueliang, he was imprisoned in various places.
After the end of the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek went to Taiwan, and he took Zhang Xueliang with him, but for General Yang Hucheng, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to hate yang hucheng even more, just before Chiang Kai-shek flew to Taiwan, he ordered Mao Renfeng to execute Yang Hucheng, and since then, the two figures in the initiators of the Xi'an incident, Yang Hucheng, have died, and only Zhang Xueliang is still alive, why is this so?
Perhaps it is difficult for us to understand Chiang Kai-shek's approach, why killEd Yang Hucheng instead of Zhang Xueliang, later after Zhang Xueliang gained freedom in life, he was interviewed by media reporters, according to some sporadic information he revealed, we can finally guess the real reason for the matter, it turned out that Zhang Xueliang once revealed in the interview that Yang Hucheng played a greater role in the Xi'an Incident, he was the actual initiator, and he was only the nominal protagonist.
Zhang Xueliang's statement may have an element of modesty, or perhaps it is true, but no matter what the situation is, at least it can be explained that Yang Hucheng's merits in the Xi'an incident will definitely not be lower than Zhang Xueliang's, and Chiang Kai-shek is naturally like a mirror to this, and in the end he executed the one who was deeper in the "crime", and Zhang Xueliang can only be regarded as an "accessory", so he was sent down lightly and at least imprisoned.
Of course, there are many different theories in the historical circles regarding Chiang Kai-shek's statement that he did not kill Zhang Xueliang, some saying that it is related to Soong Mei-ling, some saying that Chiang Kai-shek deliberately let him go on a horse because of his merits in changing his banner in northeast China, and others saying that Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek were once brothers in worship, and Chiang Kai-shek could not bear to kill his righteous brother, while others said that Chiang Kai-shek was forced by domestic pressure and did not dare to attack Zhang Xueliang.
No matter what the reason, the result is that Zhang Xueliang is still alive, and General Yang Hucheng was unfortunately killed, but the contribution made by the general to the war of resistance is worth remembering and remembering by everyone