In fact, the Xi'an Incident was jointly initiated by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, but Zhang Xueliang, who was born as a warlord, is relatively well-known, and we will take it for granted that all the credit for the Xi'an Incident is added to Zhang Xueliang's body.
The Xi'an Incident saved the fate of a nation, and it also changed the fate of these two people, and both initiators paid a terrible price, and after the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek held a grudge against these two people, and after Chiang Kai-shek regained power, he immediately detained Zhang Xueliang.
Zhang Xueliang originally naively thought that Chiang Kai-shek was just angry, and he would be released after being imprisoned for a few days, after all, unanimous resistance to Japan was the strong desire of the people of the whole country, and he had contributed to the situation of people who jointly resisted Japan.
Zhang Xueliang's idea was really too simple, and this time Chiang Kai-shek's punishment of Zhang Xueliang was serious. In the early days of being imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Xueliang repeatedly asked Chiang Kai-shek about the period of his release, but Chiang Kai-shek ignored it, and this imprisonment was more than fifty years.
The other promoter, Yang Hucheng, ended even more tragically, and after being stripped of his military powers, Yang Hucheng was exiled abroad. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the general with the heart of a child wanted to return to China to participate in the anti-Japanese war, but was later secretly killed by Chiang Kai-shek.
Although Zhang Xueliang lost his personal freedom, it is really regrettable that the good villain still has a life, while General Yang Hucheng has died tragically. Also the initiator of the Xi'an Incident, why did Zhang Xueliang escape the disaster, but Yang Hucheng must die?
Some people say that he was born into a warlord family and had elite soldiers in his hands, and Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to move. Another reason is that the relationship between Zhang Xueliang and Song Meiling was very good, and Song Meiling vigorously defended Zhang Xueliang, so Zhang Xueliang escaped the disaster, while Yang Hucheng was killed.
In fact, in his later years, Zhang Xueliang revealed a secret of Yang Hucheng and uncovered the root cause of Yang Hucheng's murder. Zhang Xueliang said that in fact, Yang Hucheng was the initiator and core figure of the Xi'an Incident, after the incident, Zhang Xueliang wanted to release Chiang Kai-shek, but Yang Hucheng resolutely opposed it, and finally Zhang Xueliang could only secretly release Chiang Kai-shek.
From this, we can see that Zhang Xueliang's right to speak is very limited in the influence of launching the "Xi'an Incident", which shows that Yang Hucheng is the one who really controls the overall situation of the "Xi'an Incident", and in the face of Zhang Xueliang's statement, historians also agree. Perhaps this is the root cause of Yang Hucheng's murder.