After the Xi'an Incident, although Zhang Xueliang, as one of the main conspirators, promoted the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Chiang Kai-shek certainly would not let him go, so he was put under house arrest. Ordinary people could not see Zhang Xueliang at all, and there was only one exception, that is, Chiang Kai-shek authorized six senior generals of the Northeast Army to meet Zhang Xueliang.
Zhang Xueliang told these generals that as long as they had military power in their hands, Chiang Kai-shek would not kill him. However, one general was still not at ease, and he went to Nanjing alone, found Chiang Kai-shek, and told Chiang Kai-shek that he could fight for his life, but there was a condition, that is, Zhang Xueliang's safety must be guaranteed, otherwise he could not guarantee whether his army would rebel. The general of the Northeast Army who dared to openly threaten Chiang Kai-shek was named Huo Shouyi.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Huo Shouyi was the commander of the 112th Division of the 57th Army, responsible for blocking the Japanese army in the Lianghuai area of Jiangsu. In the defense of Jiangyin, Huo Shouyi achieved good results, holding Jiangyin for three months, of which November 25 is the most worthy of the big book, because on this day his troops killed nearly a thousand Japanese troops.
After the battle, Huo Shouyi came to Shandong, next door to the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army. But Huo Shouyi was not an enemy of the Eighth Route Army, on the contrary, the two sides were very hot, like a unit.
There's also an interesting thing that happened. A young cadre of the Eighth Route Army became a liaison officer for contacting Huo Shouyi, and when Huo Shouyi saw that the Eighth Route Army was thinly dressed, he gave him his own lynx fur coat worth a lot of money. As a result, this liaison officer had never seen such a high-level thing, so he put his clothes backwards, and the skin let the snow and water soak, and the clothes could not be worn. After Luo Ronghuan knew about this, he wanted to compensate Huo Shouyi, but Huo Shouyi was very atmospheric, saying that the Eighth Route Army did not even want his life in order to resist Japan, so how could he not be willing to give up a coat.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Huo Shouyi was promoted to the commander of the 12th Army, stationed in the Lunan area, and had very strong relations with the East China Field Army. But chiang kai-shek's order came down, and Huo Shouyi also had to fight with our army. Therefore, in the Battle of Yanzhou, Huo Shouyi also fought with all his strength with our army, and finally the 28,000 men of the 12th Army were completely destroyed, and Huo Shouyi decided to surrender to our army after this fiasco.
People like Huo Shouyi who surrender without an army are generally called surrender, and they are meant to be prisoners of war. However, because Huo Shouyi had a deep friendship with the Communists, he was not treated as a prisoner of war. Instead, after liberation, he served as a researcher in the training department of the military academy and a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and his treatment was quite good.