In the tide of history, the fate of individuals is often insignificant, and it is easy to be tricked by the times, and General Yang Hucheng is the most typical one. In 1936, Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang launched the "Xi'an Incident" to detain Chiang Kai-shek, which eventually promoted the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, achieved the goal of the reunification of the whole nation against Japan, and played a key role in the victory of the war. However, the fates of the two generals Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang took a huge turn.
After the "Xi'an Incident," Zhang Xueliang accompanied Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, and as soon as he got off the plane, Zhang Xueliang was put under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek for 54 years. Yang Hucheng's solution was even more tragic, he was first dismissed from his post, exiled overseas, and then placed under house arrest for 12 years, only to be killed by chiang kai-shek's order when New China was about to be founded, and the whole family was killed.
Yang Hucheng was born in 1893 in Pucheng County, Shaanxi Province, his parents are ordinary farmers, the family is very poor, Yang Hucheng only studied for two years of private school and was forced to drop out of school, at the age of 12 in a restaurant as a handyman mixed food, taste the heartache of the world. In 1908, Yang Hucheng's father was hanged by the Qing government, and the 14-year-old Yang Hucheng borrowed a wheelbarrow from the restaurant, and Pi Xing Dai Yue walked 200 miles step by step to push his father's body back to Ganbei Village. Since then, yang Hucheng's heart has planted the seeds of hatred for the Qing government.
After the outbreak of the "Xinhai Revolution" in 1911, Yang Hucheng participated in the revolutionary war against the Qing army, and soon after participated in the war against Yuan Shikai, and in the chaotic warlord era, Yang Hucheng gradually grew into an outstanding military general. In 1936, Japan had already occupied many parts of China, but Chiang Kai-shek was passive in resisting Japan and actively suppressing the Communists, so Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang repeatedly persuaded Chiang Kai-shek to take the anti-Japanese as a major responsibility, but Chiang Kai-shek refused, and in desperation, he launched the "Xi'an Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries on December 12 and detained Chiang Kai-shek.
After the peaceful settlement of the "Xi'an Incident", Yang Hucheng was dismissed from his post by the Nationalist government and exiled overseas in the name of inspection; in 1937, a full-scale War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, and Yang Hucheng, who was overseas, insisted on returning to China to resist Japan, and was detained and put under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek shortly after arriving in the motherland for 12 years. In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated on the mainland, so he prepared to withdraw to Taiwan, and before leaving, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng to get rid of Yang Hucheng's family. So Mao Renfeng arranged for Zhou Yanghao and others to lead Yang Hucheng's family to the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall, at this time there were already several secret agent executioners in the house, and when Yang Hucheng's son Yang Zhengzhong had just stepped into the house, two secret agents stabbed him in the waist, Yang Hucheng only heard his son Yang Zhengzhong screaming "Dad", and then Yang Zhengzhong fell to the ground and died.
Yang Hucheng, who had just reacted, hurriedly turned his head to look at it, and as a result, he was also stabbed twice by the ambushed agent, and General Yang Hucheng only made a "oops" sound, and then fell to the ground, and the two executioners went up to make up a few knives until Yang Hucheng did not breathe. The subsequent arrival of the secretary Song Qiyun and his wife and their son Xiao Radish Head were also brutally killed by the agents, in order to prevent the leakage of the wind and achieve the purpose of destroying the corpse, the agents also cruelly used sulfuric acid to disfigure the Yang Hucheng family and bury them.
Chiang Kai-shek thought that the work was seamless, no one would know the situation of Yang Hucheng's family, but after liberation, the tragic killing of Yang Hucheng's family was revealed to the world, and the murderers who participated in the killing of General Yang Hucheng were also arrested one by one and got the punishment they deserved, including an executioner named Yang Qingdian, because in the Kuomintang Chongqing Massacre, 19 revolutionaries were saved, and helped the organization find Yang Hucheng as a corpse, which was considered to have made great merits and was exempted from criminal responsibility.
Time passed day by day, in the blink of an eye is more than 50 years, General Yang Hucheng's only grandson Yang Han found Yang Qingdian in Henan who was working as a farmer at home, when Yang Han's apparent identity, Yang Qingdian turned his head to the side and quietly wiped away tears, the past events of many years instantly surged into his heart, there were countless words in his heart but he did not know where to start, and his heart was full of guilt and said, "I'm sorry, I'm just a soldier." Yang Han was silent for a long time and said 6 words "I wish you to live to the age of 110" A short 6 words, but it resolved Yang Qingdian's guilt for many years and also touched Yang Qingdian. Before leaving, Yang Qingdian's heart was still very complicated, he was trembling his lips, he didn't know what to say.
Yang Hucheng is a victim of an era and a historical tragedy, and Yang Qingdian is also a victim of an era, he was ordered to kill Yang Hucheng, although he survived, he suffered for decades in his heart.