The final victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan was due to the unremitting efforts of patriotic people from all walks of life throughout the country.
They have endured hardships and obstacles, insisted on the direction of just progress, and completely driven away the foreign invaders from this land.
Zhang Xueliang, a famous anti-Japanese general in northeast China, was a patriotic general who was very admirable.
Zhang Xueliang's life can be divided into several stages, the debauchery of his youth, the blood of his youth to save the country, the life of house arrest in middle age, and the rest of his life in his later years. Zhang Xueliang's life can be described as uncertain, but he has always had a deep longing for his hometown.
In his later years, Zhang Xueliang could not return to his hometown again for various reasons. However, he still entrusted his son who had passed the flower armor that year to fulfill his wish to visit his family in his hometown on the mainland.
Zhang Xueliang's son not only smoothly helped him complete his wish, but also brought back two memorable things for him, and Zhang Xueliang was very excited after seeing it.
1. The bohemian teenager
Speaking of Zhang Xueliang, the first impression given by Zhang Xueliang is that of a playboy of the great warlord family in the northeast.
In his early years, Zhang Xueliang, because of his superior family and outstanding appearance, often appeared in the entertainment activities of high society.
Therefore, it gives people the impression of greedy play without doing business.
But in fact, Zhang Xueliang is a high-quality young man with excellent education.
Zhang Xueliang was born in Panjin, Liaoning Province, in the early twentieth century, the child of Zhang Zuolin and his wife.
When he was born, Zhang Zuolin was in the climbing period of his career, and Zhang Zuolin, who was busy with running, had no time to take care of his children.
At this time, Zhang Xueliang lived with his mother.
Although Zhang Xueliang's mother is not a famous lady, she is also very simple and unpretentious.
Therefore, the education of his children is also relatively strict, and Zhang Xueliang has become very well-behaved and obedient under the support of his mother. Later, his mother died of illness, and Zhang Xueliang returned to his father's side with his brothers and sisters.
Because Zhang Zuolin himself does not have much culture, he has suffered a lot in his work and life. Therefore, he attaches more importance to the education of his children.
Zhang Zuolin specially invited a well-known teacher at that time to impart knowledge to his children. Zhang Xueliang, with his own wisdom and wisdom, made rapid progress in learning.
As an adult, Zhang Xueliang was well-known and knowledgeable, and soon became a communication star in northeast China.
Zhang Zuolin was worried that his son would go astray from then on, so he took the initiative to arrange a family affair with the right person. I hope that Zhang Xueliang can become mature and stable after marriage.
But all this did not develop in the direction that Zhang Zuolin expected.
The bohemian Zhang Xueliang soon fell in love with Zhao Yidi, a well-known young girl in the Republic of China. And therefore also gave birth to a love story in the Republic of China period, it can be said that Zhang Xueliang in his youth is unlimited scenery.
2. Young people who are enthusiastic about saving the country
Zhang Xueliang's juvenile life is very elegant, which is entirely due to the fact that he has a father who can be relied on.
Zhang Xueliang's father was the famous "King of the Northeast" Zhang Zuolin. Through his own efforts, Zhang Zuolin transformed from a bandit to the leader of the Beiyang warlord "Fengzhi". He also won the final victory in the Zhifeng War, briefly serving as the supreme ruler of the Republic of China.
Although he was forced to return to the northeast for various reasons in the later period, his prestige has always been very high.
In particular, Zhang Zuolin's foreign policy was very firm, and he eventually died in the struggle against the Japanese invaders.
After Zhang Zuolin's death, Zhang Xueliang took over his father's mantle and became the supreme ruler of the military and political government in northeast China.
Zhang Xueliang was a very patriotic man, and his attitude toward foreign enemies was even more firm than that of his father. Immediately after Zhang Xueliang joined the government, he expressed his intention to the National Government in Nanjing to make contributions to promoting China's reunification.
Zhang Xueliang said this and did it.
This is not difficult to see from his support for Chiang Kai-shek's actions in the subsequent "Middle East Railway Incident" and the "Central Plains War." Zhang Xueliang always believed that the motherland's great rivers and mountains should take the road of peaceful development of reunification and should not be invaded and controlled by foreign enemies.
However, zhang Xueliang, who was bent on supporting the Central Plains War, threw all the elite troops in the northeast into the cause of reunification.
This caused the defense of the northeast region to be empty, so that the Japanese invaders who were worried about the northeast land had an opportunity to take advantage of it, and finally the 918 Incident broke out.
After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, Zhang Xueliang, in order to preserve the strength of the Northeast Army and hope that the help of the international community would coordinate from it, adopted a policy of no resistance to the Japanese invaders.
But in the end he underestimated the ambitions of the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese began a frenzied war of aggression.
At this time, Zhang Xueliang also hoped that Chiang Kai-shek could help, but Chiang Kai-shek's policy of "outside the country must first be at home" once shattered his illusions.
Eventually, the lands of the three eastern provinces became colonies of the Japanese invaders.
Even when this country was invaded by foreign enemies, Chiang Kai-shek even took the suppression of the Communists as his main purpose. Zhang Xueliang finally could not bear to see what Chiang Kai-shek was doing, and together with General Yang Hucheng launched the "Xi'an Incident" to force Chiang Kai-shek to unite with the Communists to resist Japan.
The "Xi'an Incident" was eventually successful, and Zhang Xueliang became a representative figure of patriotic youth.
3. Life from home
After the Xi'an Incident, the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists began, and with the joint efforts of both the Kuomintang and the Communists, the Japanese invaders were eventually driven out of Chinese land.
But Chiang Kai-shek had always been angry about this incident, and although he could not kill Zhang Xueliang, he could put him under house arrest.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was successively put under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek in different places. Until Chiang Kai-shek defeated and retreated to Taiwan, he did not forget to transfer Zhang Xueliang away.
Zhang Xueliang has never returned to his hometown since he left the land in the northeast, so Zhang Xueliang misses his hometown more and more.
After Chiang Kai-shek's death, Zhang Xueliang regained his freedom, but due to various factors, he could not return to the mainland of the motherland.
Zhang Xueliang came to the United States with his wife, Miss Zhao Si, and lived with his son Zhang Lulin. Zhang Xueliang, who is old and frail, often shows his longing for his hometown to his family.
Finally, at the end of the twentieth century, his son Zhang Lulin returned to his ancestral home with his father's wishes. Zhang Lulin paid homage to Zhang Zuolin on behalf of his father and made a video to show his father.
After returning to the United States, Zhang Lulin also brought back two gifts for Zhang Xueliang, and Zhang Xueliang was even more excited after seeing it.
One of them is the ornamental cane that the magnates liked during the Republic of China period, and the other is a calligraphy and painting with "Zhang Xueliang, a hero of the ages" given to Zhang Xueliang by our army.
These two gifts have a special meaning for Zhang Xueliang, which further deepens Zhang Xueliang's love for the motherland.
IV. Summary
Zhang Xueliang's life can be described as a very wonderful life.
When he inherited his father's legacy, he transformed from a bohemian teenager into a passionate and patriotic youth. When he was confronted with the situation of the ruling class, which only wanted to fight among himself in spite of foreign invasion, his decisive judgment to force the authorities to carry out a just revolution was a sign of courage and strategy.
Although Zhang Xueliang experienced vicissitudes in his later years, his feelings for the motherland and his hometown did not fade by half a minute.
After receiving the gift from the motherland, the emotions in his heart could no longer be controlled, and tears of excitement were shed.