Yang Hucheng is a famous patriotic general, and some netizens may be a little unfamiliar with this name, but everyone initiated him and Zhang Xueliang
"Xi'an Incident"
It will not be strange.
At that time, the Japanese army was frantically launching an attack on our country, and our country was in the midst of a civil war, and although the Communist Party wanted to cooperate with the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek did not agree.
So on December 12, 1936, Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang launched the famous "Xi'an Incident", in which they detained Chiang Kai-shek and forced him to turn his gun on Japan.
Everyone knows that Chiang Kai-shek was an important leader of the Kuomintang and the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he was admired by many Kuomintang personnel, and now he has been detained by Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang, and his face is lost.
Although Chiang Kai-shek promised to cooperate with the Communists and unanimously resist Japan, his deep hatred for Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng did not disappear, and the revenge of being imprisoned by them was bound to be repaid. Sure enough, when Chiang Kai-shek returned to Nanjing, he openly retaliated against the two men.
Chiang Kai-shek
Zhang Xueliang was detained by Chiang Kai-shek, and Yang Hucheng was forced abroad, because Yang Hucheng was not at ease with the domestic situation or resisted the order to return to the motherland. Yang Hucheng's actions just gave Chiang Kai-shek a reason to retaliate, so Yang Hucheng was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek for a full 12 years, until he was released in 1949 after the defeat of the Kuomintang.
I thought that Yang Hucheng would be able to reunite with his family, but Chiang Kai-shek gave him an order to be executed.
On September 6, 1949, before the Kuomintang abandoned Chongqing, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng to execute Yang Hucheng's family, including Yang Hucheng himself, Yang Hucheng's youngest son Yang Zhengzhong, his younger daughter Yang Zhenggui, his secretaries Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia, and their child "Little Radish Head".
In 2006, Yang Hucheng's grandson Yang Han came to a village in Henan to find the murderer of his grandfather, 57 years after Yang Hucheng's death.
Yang Han did not show too much hatred after seeing the murderer, but smiled and said 6 words, but it was these 6 words that pierced his heart!
The little friends must be very confused when they see this, what 6 words did Yang Hucheng's grandson say to the murderer? Who killed General Yang Hucheng and the "Little Radish Head" in the first place?
Yang Hucheng cooperated with the Communist Party
Yang Hucheng was born on November 26, 1893 in a peasant family in Pucheng County, Shaanxi Province, due to his poor family, Yang Hucheng only studied in private school for two years, and then came to a restaurant as a handyman to reduce the burden on the family.
Yang Hucheng
In 1908, when Yang Hucheng was 15 years old, his father was hanged by the Qing government in Xi'an for killing people. Life in Yang Hucheng's family is already difficult, and now that his father has died, the family burden has naturally fallen on Yang Hucheng's shoulders.
Yang Hucheng learned that after his father's death, he borrowed a wheelbarrow from the guildhall and pushed his father home step by step. The pot in the family cannot be opened, let alone the money to bury the father, or the villagers have pooled their money to bury him hastily.
At this time, Under the orders of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Jing Beimu, a student studying in Pucheng, came to Pucheng to publicize the revolution, develop the members of the League, organize student lecture groups, and publicize the revolution. However, at that time, the Qing Dynasty's Zhixian thought that this was a "great rebellion", so they were arrested.
Because the arrested students were severely beaten, resulting in the death of a student, Pucheng students and education circles protested in groups, and finally formed the "Pu Case" that shook the northwest.
Yang Hucheng's patriotic thinking was influenced by the "Pu case", he believed that he could not be here for a lifetime like others, and he also had to get ahead and do something for the country.
After the "Pu case" occurred, Yang Hucheng embarked on the road of armed resistance to violence and salvation of the country, and he contacted the poor peasants to resist tyranny, and successively organized the "Filial Piety Society" and the "Mid-Autumn Festival" and so on.
In 1911, Yang Hucheng was influenced by the Wuchang Uprising and led some members of the "Mid-Autumn Festival" to join the Xiangzi camp of the "Qin Long Fu Han Army". However, with the establishment of the Republic of China, the Xiangzi camp was also disbanded, and Yang Hucheng led the rest of the people back to their hometowns.
Although Yang Hucheng saw the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, the fate of many people still could not change, which made Yang Hucheng a little sad and could not help but sigh.
In 1922, Yang Hucheng served as the commander of the Third Road of the Shaanxi Jingguo Army, and later became acquainted with Wei Yezuo, the founder of the Shaanxi Communist Party, so he accepted the CCP's proposal to save the country.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the famous "April 12" coup d'état, and he ordered all troops to "clean up the party."At that time, our Party personnel were in a state of deep trouble, and the whole country was shrouded in "white terror". Most of the troops immediately began to implement Chiang Kai-shek's orders, but Yang Hucheng did not obey the orders.
Yang Hucheng not only did not obey Chiang Kai-shek's orders, but instead let Nan Hanchen and other Communists come to his army to take refuge. Yang Hucheng had always liked the ideas of the Communist Party, and now Chiang Kai-shek had ordered the capture of Communist Party members, which further strengthened Yang Hucheng's desire to cooperate with the Communists.
When the "918" incident broke out in 1931, Yang Hucheng was extremely opposed to Chiang Kai-shek's civil war, after all, At this time, China's main opponent was the Japanese army. Yang Hucheng opposed the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army and actively advocated the anti-Japanese resistance.
But everyone also knows that the feud between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is not a day or two, and Chiang Kai-shek's greatest wish is to "eliminate" the Communist Party and make his Kuomintang the most powerful.
Therefore, after Chiang Kai-shek learned of Yang Hucheng's idea, in order to prevent his power from expanding in the northwest, he revoked the number of his 58th Division and changed it to the Shaanxi Garrison Division. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also set up a battalion of the commander-in-chief of the national army, navy, and air force in Tongguan, which was mainly responsible for military affairs in the northwest.
In October 1935, Chiang Kai-shek set up the headquarters of the "Suppression of Bandits" in the northwest and sent Zhang Xueliang as deputy commander-in-chief, acting commander-in-chief. Chiang Kai-shek must have been very clear to everyone that he was trying to restrain Yang Hucheng militarily, but what Chiang Kai-shek never expected was that Zhang Xueliang would cooperate with Yang Hucheng to detain him later.
After the Red Army's Long March reached northern Shaanxi, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Yang Hucheng to participate in the "suppression of the Communists", and most importantly, Chiang Kai-shek let Yang Hucheng take the lead. Everyone knows that the first front is the most dangerous, and Chiang Kai-shek should have two meanings in doing so, one is to verify which side Yang Hucheng's heart is on, and the other is that if Yang Hucheng really cooperates with the Communist Party, he can also be tested.
Yang Hucheng led his men to attack the Red 25th Army, resulting in heavy casualties in Yang Hucheng's troops, two brigade commanders were killed, and one brigade commander was seriously wounded. Yang Hucheng lost the battle but how dissatisfied Chiang Kai-shek was, Chiang Kai-shek had doubted Yang Hucheng's heart, but he did not expect that he had lost the battle again.
Chiang Kai-shek (center)
Chiang Kai-shek was very angry when he learned of this incident, but the most surprising thing was that Chiang Kai-shek not only did not replenish Yang Hucheng's troops, but also reduced his men, and because of this, the contradictions between Yang Hucheng and Chiang Kai-shek increased.
At a time when there were more and more contradictions between Chiang Kai-shek and Yang Hucheng, our party actively did Yang Hucheng's work. In early December 1935, Nan Hanchen went to Tianjin to negotiate with Shen Bochun, a representative of Yang Hucheng, who did not come this time in order not to attract Chiang Kai-shek's attention.
Regarding the cooperation between the Red Army and the Northwest Army, Nan Hanchen proposed six methods:
First, under the premise of joint resistance against Japan, the Red Army and the Northwest Army will stop the civil war and cooperate;
Second, in the existing defensive zone, neither side can attack or invade the other side, and when necessary, it may notify in advance, or empty the gun or fight a fake battle;
Third, the two sides shall send representatives to exchange information;
4. Party A shall, where possible, cover the traffic and transportation of Party B's personnel;
5. Party A assists Party B in purchasing communication equipment, medical supplies or other things;
Sixth, the two sides shall establish secret transportation points at appropriate locations to facilitate traffic.
Yang Hucheng's representative felt feasible after reading it, and then wrote his name on the paper with Nan Hanchen, saying that he could consider it.
Since then, our army has been sending people to do the work of Yang Hucheng and strive to obtain Yang Hucheng as a major general, paving the way for the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Zhang Xueliang (left) and Yang Hucheng (right)
Yang and Zhang joined forces to capture Jiang
In April 1936, under the liaison of our Party, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng went to Luochuan for a secret meeting, and our Party, Zhang Xueliang, and Yang Hucheng decided on the policy of not fighting a civil war, jointly resisting Japan, and joining forces with the three parties.
On December 4 of the same year, Chiang Kai-shek led some of his civilian and military generals to Xi'an, and Chiang Kai-shek's purpose in coming to Xi'an was to urge Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng to attack the Red Army, but at this time Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng were reluctant to engage the Red Army.
On the afternoon of December 7, Zhang Xueliang came to Chiang Kai-shek's residence and persuaded him to cooperate with the Communist Party to resist the Japanese together. But it is a great pity that although Zhang Xueliang's voice was in tears, he still could not shake Chiang Kai-shek's heart.
Immediately after that, Yang Hucheng also came to persuade Chiang Kai-shek, but he was also rejected by Chiang Kai-shek, and even reprimanded him sharply.
On December 11, Zhang Xueliang came to Chiang Kai-shek's residence for one last advice, but was not surprised by Chiang Kai-shek's refusal.
Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang saw that Chiang Kai-shek had always disapproved of cooperating with the Communist Party, and they also knew that if they did not cooperate, then our country would be in danger, so they had no choice but to use force to detain Chiang Kai-shek and force him to cooperate with the Communist Party to resist Japan.
Before the "Xi'an Incident", Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang made strict arrangements, Yang Hucheng's troops were mainly responsible for solving the central army in Xi'an City, and Zhang Xueliang's troops were responsible for capturing Chiang Kai-shek.
At 5:00 a.m. on December 12, under the command of Liu Duoquan, Tang Junyao and Sun Mingjiu surrounded Chiang Kai-shek's Huaqing Pond, where Chiang Kai-shek was located, and after some struggle, Chiang Kai-shek's guards were defeated.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was asleep at the time, was awakened by a burst of gunfire, and he thought that the Red Army was coming, so he quickly got out of bed and jumped out of the window to escape. When Chiang Kai-shek came to the back door, he found that the back door was locked, and finally Chiang Kai-shek climbed up the wall with the support of the guards, but he did not expect to climb the wall and fall into a rock ditch seven or eight feet deep outside the wall because he was in a hurry.
Chiang Kai-shek's spine was broken, his hands and feet were also scratched, and his shoes fell off, looking very embarrassed. Chiang Kai-shek did not have time to care about the injuries on his body, and quickly hid in the small hole next to him to prevent others from discovering his tracks.
At about 6 a.m., when the fighting in the courtyard ended, Sun Mingjiu and others rushed into Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, only to find that Chiang Kai-shek was not there. Sun Mingjiu touched Chiang Kai-shek's bed and found that there was still temperature on it, he concluded that Chiang Kai-shek did not go too far, and then led his men to start a pursuit.
In the end, Sun Mingjiu and the others found the shrunken Chiang Kai-shek in the cave behind the residence, and Chiang Kai-shek saw that Sun Mingjiu and the others thought they had come to save themselves, and when Sun Mingjiu detained Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek understood what they wanted to do.
On the day Chiang Kai-shek was arrested, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng immediately sent a telegram to the whole country and put forward eight proposals for resisting Japan and saving the country. In addition, they also sent a telegram to the CPC Central Committee, inviting CCP representatives to come to Xi'an to discuss the aftermath. In this way, Premier Zhou Enlai, a representative of the CPC Central Committee, went to Xi'an to meet with Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang.
As for how to deal with Chiang Kai-shek, Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang had different opinions, Zhang Xueliang believed that Chiang Kai-shek would be released after the goal was achieved, while Yang Hucheng believed that Chiang Kai-shek was a person who had a vendetta and would not be able to release him easily. After that, as Yang Hucheng said, after Chiang Kai-shek returned to Nanjing, Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang did not let go of either of them.
Yang Hucheng's entire family was executed by Chiang Kai-shek
On January 13, 1937, a month after the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Zhang Xueliang to be transferred from Nanjing to Zhejiang for captivity. Although Chiang Kai-shek put Zhang Xueliang under house arrest, he did not take action against his family, and General Yang Hucheng was not so lucky.
Everyone knows that the internal strife within the Kuomintang has always been very serious, and Yang Hucheng is neither a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy nor a confidant of Chiang Kai-shek, so when Chiang Kai-shek was detained by Yang Hucheng, he held a grudge against him.
Yang Hucheng was not imprisoned like Zhang Xueliang, but was sent abroad for "investigation." To say it was an inspection, and to say it was "exile, and yang Hucheng's troops were naturally taken away by Chiang Kai-shek.
Yang Hucheng has always been a patriot, although he is abroad and does not forget to worry about national affairs, but it is a pity that Yang Hucheng is abroad and cannot share worries for the country. When all-out war broke out, Yang Hucheng disobeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders and quietly returned to China.
Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng (from left to right)
Yang Hucheng thought that he was unconscious when he returned to China, but he did not know that all this was reported to Chiang Kai-shek by the secret agents. Chiang Kai-shek already had a grudge against Yang Hucheng, and now Yang Hucheng did not obey his own orders to secretly return to China, which was undoubtedly punching Chiang Kai-shek in the face, so Chiang Kai-shek no longer trusted Yang Hucheng and ordered the spies to keep an eye on him.
On December 2, 1937, Yang Hucheng, who had recently returned to China, was accompanied by Dai Kasa to Nanchang, but he was caught by secret agents just after getting off the plane, and since then he has lost his freedom and has been imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek for 12 years.
In April 1949, when the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River and successfully liberated Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek decided to instruct Mao Renfeng to execute Yang Hucheng and others when he saw that the general trend had gone.
On August 27, Lu Jingqing, the head of the secret service, called Yang Jinxing, An Wenfang, and Yang Qindian.
They were ordered to kill Yang Hucheng, his children, his secretary Song Qiyun, his wife Xu Linxia, and his son Song Zhenzhong, the "little radish head" inside the White Mansion.
Yang Qindian
Yang Jinxing and An Wenfang did not hesitate after hearing this and immediately carried out the orders of the superiors, but Yang Qindian hesitated, he did not want to kill Yang Hucheng and others. When the little friends saw this, they must be very confused, Yang Qindian is a person of Chiang Kai-shek, he is not a member of the Communist Party, so why is he unwilling to kill Yang Hucheng?
In fact, the reason is very simple, Yang Qindian is only Chiang Kai-shek's guard, he came to the White Mansion only to serve as a guard, Yang Qindian is not a Kuomintang in the clear sense, but like an ordinary person serving the Kuomintang.
Yang Qin pawned the soldiers just to eat a mixed meal, his hostility to the Communist Party was not great, and he learned of the Communist Party's ideas under the contact with Yang Hucheng and others, and he was slowly moved. Sometimes Yang Qindian will prolong their wind time and improve their lives.
Yang Qindian knew that what he was doing was a deep crime, so he did not want to personally kill Yang Hucheng, but Yang Hucheng's death was still his participation.
At 11:00 p.m. on September 6, 1949, Yang Hucheng and others arrived at the White Mansion, and they had just entered the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall when they were assassinated by agents. Wang Shaoshan rushed out of the back door and stabbed the dagger into the waist of Yang Hucheng's son Yang Zhengzhong, who screamed bitterly.
Yang Hucheng heard his son screaming and rushed back to check it out, but he did not expect to be assassinated by the secret agent. Subsequently, Song Qiyun and his wife did not escape this fate, and both died.
The most infuriating thing is that they did not even spare the children, and a pair of children of Yang Hucheng, Song Qiyun and his wife's son "Little Radish Head" Song Zhenzhong, all died at the hands of the secret agents.
The little radish head was killed by Yang Qindian himself, and he rushed up and grabbed Song Zhenzhong's neck and threw him to the ground. However, because Yang Qindian's strength was not great, Song Zhenzhong did not lose his breath for a while, still moaning on the ground.
Another agent, Yang Jinxing, saw this and immediately rushed forward, picked up the bayonet and stabbed at Song Zhenzhong's spine, and the small radish head lost its breath.
This also became the nightmare of Yang Qindian's life, although Yang Qindian did not kill Yang Hucheng with his own hands, but he knew about Chiang Kai-shek's plot, he did not stop it, nor did he report it, but let this plan go on, so Yang Qindian can also be regarded as the murderer of Yang Hucheng.
Mao Ren Feng
On September 10, Mao Renfeng was very happy that the people had completed their tasks, and specially rewarded them, Xiong Xiang, Yang Jinxing and others received 200 silver dollars, and Yang Qindian received 50 silver dollars.
I wish you a long life to be 110 years old
One day in October 1949, Yang Qindian came to the White Mansion to patrol, but unexpectedly heard a big secret. Luo Guangbin said to him:
"Old Yang, do you know?" New China has been founded! ”
After listening to it, Yang Qindian hurriedly looked left and right, afraid that what he said would be heard by people with hearts.
Yang Qindian said to Luo Guangbin:
"Don't talk nonsense!"
Luo Guangbin disagreed, and he warned Yang Qindian:
"Old Yang, listen to my advice, the Kuomintang is going to die, if you still give them your life, there will only be one end!"
Luo Guangbin advised him to abandon the dark and cast the light, and Yang Qindian was deeply inspired after listening to it, and he could not sleep normally that night.
On November 27, 1949, the "Chongqing Massacre" broke out, and more than 50 political prisoners were detained in the White Mansion, which were managed by the Judicial Department of the Secrecy Bureau and the Second Division of the Southwest Governor's Office, respectively, and the massacre was naturally carried out by them.
At 10 o'clock in the evening, only 19 people were left before they could be slaughtered, at which point Yang Jinxing fled with his men, who did not care about the 19 political prisoners in the White Mansion.
Small radish head
Yang Qindian knew that his sins were heavy, and the tragic death of the "little radish head" kept reappearing in front of his eyes, and in order to reassure himself, he decided to release these 19 people.
But Yang Qindian knew that he was a member of the Kuomintang, and he did not know whether the Communist Party would let go of these political prisoners, so Yang Qindian had always been hesitant.
On the same day, Yang Qindian came to the White Mansion again, and Luo Guangbin quickly stopped him after seeing it:
"What are you doing with us here?" You're not going to think of a way for everyone? This is also a way out for you to think. ”
Others subsequently warrant that:
"As long as you release us, we can prove your contribution to the Communist Party and try to give you a job and stop pursuing your past."
Didn't Yang Qindian want these Communist Party guarantees? After hearing this, he immediately decided to release these 19 people, which is also a good thing.
Luo Guangbin, who advised Yang Qindian above, was the author of the well-known work "Red Rock" in the future.
On the afternoon of November 30, 1949, Chongqing was officially liberated, and the next day Yang Qindian turned himself in to the Public Security Bureau under the guidance of Luo Guangbin. However, with the proof of Luo Guangbin and others, the organization did not sentence him to death, and was ready to arrange for him to work in the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Everyone knew that this job was very scarce at that time, and I thought that Yang Qindian would agree, but he did not expect him to refuse. Yang Qindian has not returned to his hometown since he joined the army, so he wants to go home to see his mother, so Yang Qindian embarks on the road back to his hometown with the travel expenses given to him by the organization.
Mr. and Mrs. Song Qiyun
After returning to his hometown, Yang Qindian was assigned to a farmer, working all day, never mentioning the past, and he never mentioned to others that he had saved 19 patriots, because he always felt guilty about Yang Hucheng, Xiao Radish Head and others in his heart.
Since 1988, Yang Qindian has received invitations from relevant departments in Chongqing to come to Chongqing to participate in activities to commemorate revolutionary martyrs. Although Yang Qindian did not want to mention the past again, in order to let future generations remember history, he still talked to others again and again about his "black" and "red" and did his best to do something for the country.
On November 27, 2004, the martyrs of Chongqing Municipality who died for the "11.27 Massacre" held a memorial service at the White Mansion and Zha Di Dong, which Yang Qindian also participated in. The next day, many media rushed to report such a scene:
The 86-year-old Yang Qindian squatted in front of the tombstone of the martyrs, very sad to burn coins for the deceased martyrs, he kept apologizing and repenting: "I am sorry for you, sorry for you..."
Yang Han, yang Hucheng's grandson, talked to Yang Qindian
In 2006, Yang Hucheng's grandson Yang Han came to Yang Qindian's home, although his grandfather had died when Yang Han was born, he still wanted to know what happened before his grandfather, which made Yang Han come to Henan thousands of miles to find Yang Qindian.
After Yang Qindian learned of Yang Han's identity and intentions, his face not only became pale, but even shed sad tears. Yang Qindian told Yang Han that for 57 years, he had been in a state of guilt, and he would not be able to sleep at the thought of mutilating Yang Hucheng's family.
Yang Han talked a lot with the old man, including how did his grandfather die? What did it look like before you died? When Yang Han learned of these things, he did not say anything more, but left the gifts he had brought, but before leaving, he smiled and said to Yang Qindian:
"I wish you a long life to be 110 years old."
Yang Han's original intention may really just wish the other party a long life, but this sentence sounds extremely ironic to Yang Qindian. This also led to Yang Qindian's inability to return to God for a long time after listening to it.
Yang Qindian died on November 17, 2007 at the age of 89.