Yan Xishan, known as the King of Shanxi, his life is also quite legendary. Graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, he was a member of the Infantry Section of the Qing Dynasty army and later became the leader of the Jin warlords. From his nickname, it can be seen that most of Yan Xishan's life is related to Shanxi. In fact, Shanxi was still his hometown, and he was elected as the governor of Shanxi after the Wuchang Uprising, and began a decades-long occupation in Shanxi. But it has to be said that in the more than thirty years in Shanxi, he did not participate in warlord melee. It has made the people in the territory stable and created a very good environment for the development of heavy industry in Shanxi.
At the same time, it was he who was entrenched in Shanxi, so that no one came to harass Shanxi. Shanxi is a rare and stable place in the chaotic world, and during his tenure, many disaster victims in Hebei, Shandong, and Henan ran to Shanxi to live. After the Lugou Bridge incident, Yan Xishan also immediately mobilized the people of Shanxi to resist Japan and equipped them with weapons. In that era, the name of the king of Shanxi was well deserved, and he was inseparable from a person in his long military life. This person was not his two wives, but his "beloved daughter" Yan Huiqing. What happened to Yan Huiqing, who was known as the first beauty in Shanxi?
Yan Xishan had several sons, but no daughters, and the beloved daughter mentioned here was actually his fifth sister. Yan Huiqing is the daughter of his uncle and a cousin, but she is 27 years younger than him. Many people have written her as a curtain manipulator in various novels, but Yan Xishan has obeyed her, which is actually just imagination. She was just an ordinary woman in the tragic fate of the old era who had access to military and political affairs, and had read many books in the early years, but not much.
She was able to win Yan Xishan's trust because she knew when to say something, and she really took good care of Yan Xishan. If Yan Xishan likes it, she will say more, and she can coax it when she is unhappy. In life, she would find a way to make Yan Xishan's meal even, and every time Yan Xishan fell asleep, she would give him a pat on the back and wait for him to fall asleep before quitting with the head of the guard. Everyone thought that no one was more suitable to take care of Yan Xishan than her. Most of the time, Yan Huiqing's position is just a pseudonym, and she rarely really participates in it, of course, because of her special status, it is actually easy for her to do something.
For example, Zhao Zongfu was almost killed at the beginning, but she stopped her on the side, and Zhao Zongfu also left a life. Yan Huiqing's ending was not good, and on the eve of the liberation of Taiyuan in 1949, Yan Xishan told her that if I couldn't go for a few days, you shouldn't go. In fact, he left her to stabilize the hearts of the army, but Yan Xishan never gave up on her, thinking that he would wait for himself to go out and then let his henchmen go to meet her. But what he did not expect was that Taiyuan was defeated too quickly, and the loss of the airport prevented the men from evacuating.
On April 20, a campaign began outside Taiyuan and a general offensive took place. But until the 21st, Yan Xishan was still telling the people sent to rescue him that he would go to save Hui Qing tomorrow morning. On the morning of the 22nd, the group told Yan Xishan that the airport was lost, and Yan Xishan had not yet died here. His reply to the Panel was that a temporary airfield could be opened in Xinkai road, but the fire was too heavy. In fact, Yan Huiqing also had arrangements with Liang Huazhi and others, who had already been in contact with Chennault's plane and evacuated within three or four hours if the matter was urgent.
The plan could not keep up with the changes, and before the general offensive began, the airfield was controlled, so they were left in Taiyuan. In the early morning of April 24, 1949, when Taiyuan was liberated, Yan Huiqing asked Liang Huazhi to write a desperate telegram with the following sentence: Five hundred colleagues, Cheng Ren is in the fire. Although the sister is a female stream, her death will has been decided. Seeing the jade shattering, how dare you destroy it? If she hadn't planned before, she wouldn't have been so desperate, after the telegram was sent. Yan Huiqing and Liang Huazhi committed suicide by taking poison in the basement, and then the body was burned by the guards.