On December 12, 1936, the Xi'an Incident, also known as the "Double 12 Incident", occurred in China at noon. After forcing Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan successfully, the Kuomintang and the Communists reached a consensus on the second cooperation, and unanimously went abroad to resist the Japanese aggressors. History also left two famous national heroes Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, but these two people became a thorn in Chiang Kai-shek's heart.
Zhang Xueliang's father was killed by the Japanese, and zhang Xueliang became his father's successor at a young age, serving as the leader of his warlords. The first step of Japan's attack on China was placed in the three eastern provinces, and the Japanese wanted to win Zhang Zuolin over and negotiate terms with Zhang Zuolin, and although Zhang Zuolin was a warlord leader, he also had national righteousness in his heart, and he refused the conditions of the Japanese before he would be brutally killed by the Japanese. After Zhang Xueliang accepted the Fengzhi warlords, plus he had his own army before that, he became a powerful young marshal.
Zhang Xueliang hates the Japanese very much, after all, the Japanese have a vendetta against his father for him. After rejecting the Japanese, Zhang Xueliang directly declared his subordinateship to the Nationalist government. Zhang Xueliang was a beautiful man in the Republic of China period, he was originally a noble prince of noble birth, mostly shuttled in the social circles of high society, gained the hearts of many girls, and became a good friend of the opposite sex with Chiang Kai-shek's wife, and the two had a deep friendship.
After Zhang Xueliang submitted to the Nationalist government, he was even more powerful to Chiang Kai-shek, and Zhang Xueliang helped Chiang Kai-shek many times in the war, so that Chiang Kai-shek could win many victories. After the Xi'an Incident, although Chiang Kai-shek held a grudge against Zhang Xueliang, under the persuasion of Song Meiling, he did not kill Zhang Xueliang, and when he evacuated the mainland, he took Zhang Xueliang to Taiwan to continue house arrest, and plotted to shoot and kill general Yang Hucheng, who was also forcing Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan, in The whole family of Geleshan in Chongqing, and even destroyed his body.
Zhang Xueliang's lifelong behavior only stayed before he was 35 years old, and after the Xi'an Incident, his relationship with Chiang Kai-shek broke down, and he was placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek for decades, until he regained his freedom in 1990. Zhang Xueliang's statement that there is no discomfort with Chiang Kai-shek is certainly not true, and which person would be grateful to the people who have put themselves under house arrest for decades?
In 1975, after Chiang Kai-shek's death, at the invitation of his friend Song Meiling many times, Zhang Xueliang, although he was complicated and entangled in his heart, whether to go or not, he still chose to attend Chiang Kai-shek's funeral, but he only wrote "caring for the same flesh and blood, and the dispute between political views is like a vendetta" at the funeral, and left after writing. From this simple 16 words, we can see Zhang Xueliang's complicated feelings for Chiang Kai-shek, and the personal feelings between the two were still good before, and at that time, due to the outbreak of contradictions between the two after the "dispute of political opinions", these two short sentences summarized the complex feelings and past history of Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek in recent decades.