In April 1949, a Chennault Airlines plane was flying from Nanjing to Shanghai, stopping at the Shanxi Provincial Government's Relief Supplies Purchase and Transportation Office in Shanghai.
An old man dressed in civilian clothes got off the plane with the support of his subordinates, and this old man was Yan 1 Xishan, who had been occupying Shanxi for decades.
In his room, Yan Xishan received a telegram from Taiyuan, Shanxi, and after reading the telegram, Yan Xishan was silent for a long time, and then a line of clear tears slipped from the corners of his eyes.
At this moment, the "King of Shanxi", which had occupied Shanxi for decades, collapsed violently.
Why did Yan Xishan flee on his own but leave his cousin in Shanxi to defend the city? How did this cousin, who could not fight, defend the city?
How did she end up?
Five girls
Yan Xishan's uncle had four sons and five daughters, and Yan Huiqing was the youngest daughter, so in the Yan family, the elders called her the fifth girl.
Yan Huiqing's family had average economic conditions, she did not go to school when she was six or seven years old, and when she was 7 years old, her cousin Yan Xishan served as the governor of Shanxi Province.
At the beginning of his term of office, Yan Xishan implemented a series of reform measures, such as smoking bans, men's haircuts, the development of water conservancy, nongsang, etc., which pushed Shanxi forward on the road of modernization, and after reform, most of Shanxi's private schools were converted into schools.
At this time, the five girls who were already 10 years old had just started school, and due to the late start of school, the learning foundation was not good, and she did not show much interest in learning, so she reluctantly went to junior high school and did not go to school.
On the whole, the fifth girl is a type of woman in the feudal society of the housewife type.
Cook the life of Yan Xishan
Yan Xishan's eldest wife was Xu Zhuqing, a woman who adhered to feudal etiquette and was very loyal to her husband, so she did not deliberately please Yan Xishan, but often spoke loyally to Yan Xishan, nagging at Yan Xishan, and advising him to be a good person.
The two often had unpleasantness, and Yan Xishan was busy with military affairs, often not paying attention to the small things in his life, Xu Zhuqing deeply felt that he needed to find someone for Yan Xishan who could take good care of him.
When considering who could be competent for this task, Xu Zhuqing immediately thought of the fifth girl Yan Huiqing, and if nothing else, xu Zhuqing liked the fact that both of them were typical feudal housewives.
Yan Xishan didn't like Xu Zhuqing much, but he still had some respect, and he still said that he was still his own cousin, so he agreed.
The fifth girl's feudal thinking is relatively strong, the clan concept is very heavy, and she is very willing to take care of her cousin, after all, it is the pillar of their Yan family.
When the fifth girl arrived at Yan Xishan's house, she happened to encounter Yan Xishan throwing a tantrum at his subordinates, only to see him kick the table to the ground and lash out at his subordinates.
The fifth girl was not frightened, when she was in the Yan family, she carefully observed Yan Xishan's living habits, what kind of words she liked to listen to, and what she liked to eat.
After a period of observation, the five girls were already in the water
For the words that Yan Xishan likes to listen to, she says more, and if she doesn't like it, she doesn't talk about it; when eating, she sits with her and tells some hometown customs and anecdotes, which makes the atmosphere of eating a lot easier.
She also pays attention to the combination of diet, Yan Xishan needs to eat more, she will change the pattern to let him eat more, she should eat less, she will never let him eat more, sometimes directly take the bowl away for the adjutant to take away immediately. When Yan Xishan was tired, she would help him pinch his shoulders and beat his back to relax his body.
Under the meticulous care of the fifth girl, Yan Xishan's physical condition was healthier, and the number of stomach problems was much less.
Slowly, the five girls became Yan Xishan's exclusive life secretary, Yan Xishan also admired his cousin, the status of the five girls in Shanxi was also greatly improved, subordinates and Shanxi military and political dignitaries, families, etc. all knew that there were five girls such a person.
At that time, some people called the fifth girl "Shanxi Song Meiling", which shows her special status.
The bumpy emotional road of the five girls
The first marriage of the five girls was an arranged marriage
As early as several generations ago, the Yan family and the local large family Qu family had begun to marry, and to Yan Xishan's generation, it had gone through several generations, and marriage had become a common practice.
Under the mediation of the two parents, the five girls and Qu Peihuan got married, in fact, they did not like each other, the five girls were forced to know that Qu Peihuan was not a white-faced student, and had to agree; and Qu Peihuan himself had studied in Japan, and he did not like this five girls who had no culture and had numbness on their faces.
The life after the marriage of the two is not pleasant, and only one or two years, Qu Peihuan was infected with the vice of smoking, the body is getting thinner and thinner, soft like a pile of mud, Qu Peihuan left the ocean, but not stuck to some observant etiquette, he suggested that the five girls divorce and remarry.
The five girls naturally agreed, but the two older generations criticized them fiercely. The old lady of the Yan family (Yan Xishan's father, the uncle of the fifth girl) even sharply ordered the fifth girl: "As long as Qu Peihuan is alive, you will not want to remarry!" ”
The fifth girl had to endure, and a year and a half later, Qu Peihuan died.
The second marriage was a political marriage.
In order to get rich, a merchant surnamed Liang went to the Yan family to propose to Yan Xishan for his nephew, this nephew was named Liang Yanwu, and the cost of his schooling was provided by the third uncle, so although he did not like the fifth girl, he agreed to the marriage.
In 1936, Liang Yanwu, who was still studying at Waseda University in Japan, dropped out of school and returned to China to marry the five girls, becoming the "Horse Gong" of the Yan family.
As mentioned earlier, the five girls look ordinary, have a little hemp on their faces, carry a rural rustic atmosphere, and do not have the talent and temperament of women in the new education, and with a world of difference, Liang Yanwu was a high-achieving student at that time, with ambitions and ambitions.
This incident caused Liang Yanwu's classmates in Japan to be puzzled and disdainful, and they jokingly asked: "What do you think, marrying the fifth girl?" ”
"What can I do, I can't afford to offend my uncle and the Yan family, it's just a political marriage, I agree because marrying the fifth girl can back the big tree of the Yan family." Liang Yanwu said without emotion, as if he was not married.
After returning to China in 1936, Liang Yanwu officially defected to Yan Xishan and worked under Yan Xishan, at that time, the domestic anti-Japanese wave was getting louder and louder, Yan Xishan was also preparing for the United Communists to resist Japan, and Liang Yanwu recruited talents for Yan Xishan.
As a result of his activities and the efforts of all parties, more and more progressive people of the cultural community and patriotic youth have come to Shanxi, and they have created cultural institutions such as drama clubs, singing teams, and film companies, including many Communist Party members.
During this period in Shanxi, anti-Japanese literary and artistic activities were very active, and many progressive operas, dramas, and feature films were born in this period.
However, the good times did not last long, and with the implementation of Yan Xishan's passive anti-Japanese and active anti-communist policies, this situation of thriving in the literary and art circles no longer existed.
In 1939, the occurrence of the "December Incident" caused Yan Xishan to start from the anti-Japanese resistance of the United Communists to the opposite, Yan Xishan set up a secret office in Taiyuan to deal with intelligence exchanges with the Japanese army, and the person in charge of this business was Liang Yanwu.
It can be said that all kinds of matters that Yan Xishan colluded with the Japanese were handled by Liang Yanwu.
Yan Xishan ran away with oil on the soles of his feet, forcing his subordinates to fight to the death in the city
If Liang Yanwu is an unscrupulous person, then Liang Huazhi, who later had a close relationship with the five girls, is a completely sinister villain.
Among the warlords of all sizes in the Republic of China, Yan Xishan "made his debut" very early, and he himself had certain construction capabilities in politics, economy, and management, but he had no military ability alone.
Yan Xishan established a powerful power system loyal to himself in Shanxi, and although the Jin Sui army he established was invincible in every battle, it stood firm in the Republic of China, where warlords were numerous, and spread like trees, Yan Xishan often regarded himself as the "Emperor of Shanxi" and always firmly controlled Shanxi.
How?
There was a secret service organization directly subordinate to him like the "East Factory", which had similarities with the means used by Chiang Kai-shek to control the Huangpu generals.
Yang Zhenji's army secret agent system, Wang Jingguo's "Iron Army Organization" (an anti-communist organization ordered by Yan Xishan), and Liang Huazhi's special police command office jointly defended Yan Xishan, the "Emperor of The Earth".
In addition, the Jin Sui Army system has more than 70 intelligence units, nearly 1500 agents, and armed agents, and more than a thousand "cell agents" can monitor everyone in the whole army.
The horror is unimaginable!
In 1945, Yan Xishan finally survived the powerful enemy of Japan, but he faced two other powerful enemies- chiang kai-shek's central army and the Chinese communist army.
Yan Xishan and Chiang Kai-shek have always had deep contradictions, And Chiang Kai-shek has always wanted to install his own forces in Shanxi, while Yan Xishan has resolutely excluded Chiang Kai-shek's forces from Shanxi.
Not to mention the CCP, yan Xishan's subordinates have many blood feuds with the communist party and have always been inseparable.
At this time, Yan Xishan played the trick of "combining vertical and horizontal" again.
He incorporated a large number of Japanese puppet armies into his own forces and used them to deal with new enemies for himself in the front.
It is not a joke to say that Yan Xishan's military ability is "low-energy"; he is stupid enough to dare to fight a sports war with the People's Liberation Army.
He also said: "We have planes and cannons, and we can definitely defend Shanxi." ”
But he did not know that the Jin Sui Army did not have the support of the common people, and was "blind" and "deaf" in the rural areas of Shanxi, which was simply a small witch compared with the CPC army with a broad mass base.
Yan Xishan, who had been repeatedly frustrated on the battlefield, realized at this time that he might not be able to defend Shanxi this time.
But politically good at long-sleeved dancing, he began to make plays again.
Yan Xishan asked Chuanzhi to make 500 cyanide poison capsules from the pharmaceutical factory affiliated to the Medical College, and when he declared that when the city was destroyed, he led his family and subordinates to take these highly toxic capsules to commit suicide.
On the surface, he is a soldier with a broken wrist, but in fact, behind his back, he has already found a way back for himself.
He did not have the courage to lead the entire army to the light when Fu Zuo judged the situation, but repeatedly forced his subordinates to fight to the death in the city, and it was strictly forbidden to rebel. But he himself was ready for the three caves of the cunning rabbit, which was really ugly!
He took the opportunity to escape by taking advantage of the telegram from Acting President Li Zongren inviting him to discuss his grand plan, and before running, he held a special meeting and repeatedly told his subordinates that they must fight to the death and not retreat, saying that he would return in ten days at most.
scold! Ridiculous.
In the afternoon of the same day, he immediately led several relatives to take the plane, and the five girls, as a tool that could stabilize the hearts of the army, Liang Huazhi insisted that she stay.
Liang Huazhi was determined to let the whole of Taiyuan accompany him to the funeral, and he cut off the contact between the five girls and the outside, so that the communications and planes sent outside to pick up the five girls were all interrupted.
This silly and simple girl still holds a telescope and looks out the window every day, not knowing that her life has become a funeral product for Liang Huayi to act arbitrarily.
Until the last moment of her life, the fifth girl was still being coerced by Liang Huazhi
The telegram we mentioned at the beginning of the article is called the "Book of Death", which was written by Liang Huazhi instead of the five girls.
Outside, the People's Liberation Army was launching a general attack on Taiyuan, and the fifth girl was desperate in the underground bullet shelter at this time, and she distributed all her belongings to the old mother and the head of the guard.
Liang Huazhi captured communists and progressives before actively killing Shanxi.
6 a.m. on April 24
Liang Huazhi dragged the five girls together to take poison to commit suicide, and then the subordinates who were instructed to pour gasoline on the bed and overturn the candles, and in an instant, the five girls had turned into ashes.
The suicide of the five girls is completely a tragedy caused by Liang Huazhi and Yan Xishan.
The joke of "five hundred perfect people"
Although the five girls and other warriors were sacrificed, they still had the last use value for Yan Xishan.
Taking advantage of the suicide of the five girls and others, Yan Xishan fabricated the myth of "Five Hundred Perfect People in Taiyuan" to cover up his escape from the battlefield.
Although the Kuomintang took it as a joke, it was often sacrificed, and later the CCP investigated and found that with the addition of persecuted women such as the five girls, the number of suicides in the Battle of Taiyuan was less than 50.
Of course, it doesn't matter whether it's true or not, Yan Xishan wants him to finally win a little glory in the political situation.
On October 14, 1949, Yan Xishan, who had been hiding in Taiwan, ran to Chongqing to try to make a comeback, but the People's Liberation Army once again let him know what wishful thinking was, and under the powerful offensive of the People's Liberation Army, Yan Xishan, who had only stayed for 10 days, fled to Taiwan.
In Taiwan, Yan Xishan's later life was still very exciting, he wrote articles slandering the Communist Party, and while at the same time he was vigorously advocating the feat of "five hundred perfect people in Taiyuan", and the rejection of Yan Xishan by the Generals of the Chiang Kai-shek clan within the Kuomintang was surprisingly consistent.
When Yan Xishan died of illness, the Taiwan media opposed Yan Xishan's "state funeral treatment."
It seems that Yan Xishan's ability to whitewash Taiping is still not enough!