Yang Hucheng was one of the famous generals during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, played an indispensable role in the Xi'an Incident, and laid an important foundation for the later anti-Japanese national united front. However, it was precisely because of this righteous act that Yang Hucheng was retaliated against by Chiang Kai-shek, and for a long time, Yang Hucheng's family suffered inhuman torture.
Picture | Yang Hucheng
In 1949, after the heroic battle of the People's Liberation Army, Chongqing finally ushered in liberation, and the people were immersed in the joy of victory and paraded in the streets to celebrate. However, the Kuomintang agents' side was a different scene, and seeing that the general trend of the Kuomintang had gone, they looked for a way out and fled into the wilderness.
However, some shrimp soldiers and crab generals cannot set off any storms, and the top priority is to collect the remains of the martyrs. However, the People's Liberation Army searched for many days in the slag cave and the White Mansion, and still did not see the remains of the martyr Yang Hucheng.
At a loss, a young man came to the Ministry of Public Security (who had been a Kuomintang agent) and explained the truth and experience behind the kuomintang agents' revelation of the killing of General Yang Hucheng, and showed that the "Dai Gong Ancestral Hall" was the real burial place of Yang Hucheng.
It turned out that on the eve of the liberation of Chongqing, under the orders of Chiang Kai-shek, several agents killed Yang Hucheng and others with daggers, and blood flowed to the ground. Afterwards, he also poured a potion on the corpse, making the body unrecognizable, and then buried the body near the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall.
A few days later, the People's Liberation Army did find the remains of Yang Hucheng and others in the garden of the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall. Along with the body, the body was exhumed, and the urn of his wife Xie Baozhen, who was Yang Hucheng's most beloved wife in this life.
The tortured Xie Baozhen died after the victory of the War of Resistance. Since then, Yang Hucheng has been carrying his wife's urn with him, and his sad heart is slightly comforted. This heroic couple will always stay together in such a tragic way.
In fact, Xie Baozhen is not Yang Hucheng's only wife, he has three wives in his life. Yang Hucheng once said: "They are all noble people in my life." Indeed, each of these three ladies was sincerely opposite to Yang Hucheng.
The first lady, Luo Peilan, was the daughter of Yang Hucheng's friend Zhang Ximing. Yang Hucheng was deeply attracted when he first met With Luo Peilan, and the clever And clever Luo Peilan also admired Yang Hucheng as a battlefield hero, and the two naturally came together.
In 1916, the two officially entered the palace of marriage. After marriage, they also respected each other and were very affectionate, following Yang Hucheng's southern expedition to the northern war, obviously a young girl, but she had to live a military life of wind and food.
In military life, Operland studied culture assiduously, and in his spare time he learned to shoot and ride horses with his soldiers. On one occasion, to boost morale, Opellan rode with her husband to the front to comfort the wounded. You know, she was pregnant for many months. The warriors all liked Ropelling's cheerful and laid-back personality, and they got along very well.
After years of following her husband Yang Hucheng around, Luo Peilan's body has long been overwhelmed. Finally, in 1925, Luo Peilan, who had been ill for a long time, could no longer follow her husband to fight and recuperate alone, but Yang Hucheng was still commanding troops on the front line at this time, and knew nothing about his wife's illness at this time.
At the last moment of his life, Luo Peilan could not wait for Yang Hucheng's return. The well-meaning villagers organized a funeral for her, but the coffin was not covered after the funeral, and everyone looked forward to Yang Hucheng's early return. A few days later, Yang Hucheng returned, and the scene in front of him made him grief-stricken. On the day of the burial, Yang Hucheng draped Filial Piety for Luo Peilan, and everyone was moved to tears.
Yang Hucheng's second wife, Zhang Huilan, is the only daughter of Yang Hucheng's friend Zhang Yangqing. Zhang Yangqing and Yang Hucheng have been friends for many years and are well aware of Yang Hucheng's personality.
Fathers want to find someone for their daughter who deserves to be entrusted for life. After much thought, Zhang Yangqing thought that Yang Hucheng was the most suitable candidate, did not mind that Yang Hucheng was already married, and insisted on sending 14-year-old Zhang Huilan to the Yang family.
In the face of this situation, Zhang Huilan and Luo Peilan were naturally unwilling, and Yang Hucheng himself was quite annoyed. But Zhang Yangqing still insisted, and finally there was no way, Zhang Huilan stayed by Yang Hucheng's side.
Zhang Huilan was very dissatisfied with this traditional arranged marriage, but the matter was a foregone conclusion. Fortunately, Zhang Huilan was not disgusted with Yang Hucheng, and even respected him more and more after getting along for a long time.
After The Death of Luo Peilan, Zhang Huilan devoted herself to her family and regarded Her two children as her own. In front of friends and family, Zhang Huilan is Yang Hucheng's most decent wife.
Yang Hucheng's third wife is the aforementioned Xie Baozhen. She was born in Xi'an in 1913 and was a member of the Communist Party. In 1926, when the war was raging and the situation was turbulent, Xie Baozhen promoted the performance in the singing team, followed the troops along the way, and comforted the soldiers defending the city, playing an encouraging role.
On the way to the march, Xie Baozhen led everyone to preach, she was articulate, clear in her words, and especially inspiring when preaching. The young Xie Baozhen had a boldness beyond ordinary people, and she was very pleasant in the army.
At that time, Xie Baozhen was 14 years old, and she resolutely cut off her black and bright braids and entered the "frontline work group". Although Xie Baozhen was the youngest in the regiment, after she was not willing, all the work assigned to her by the regiment was completed very well.
Xie Baozhen has a very avant-garde mind, has always been curious about new things, has a lively and cheerful personality, and can talk to anyone. Yang Hucheng also developed feelings for this little girl, hoping to one day get Xie Baozhen's favor, under Yang Hucheng's fierce pursuit, the two finally fell in love.
But Yang Hucheng and Xie Baozhen wanted to get married, which was not an easy task. This year, the white terror was everywhere, the people's hearts were turbulent, and the Communist Party ushered in the period of the lowest tide of the revolution, and it was difficult to move.
To this end, Yang Hucheng talked with communist party workers many times, and Yang Hucheng said frankly: "Comrade Xie Baozhen is unique in my eyes, she has advanced ideas, and after meeting her, I have never seen another woman in my eyes." In order to show his determination to marry Xie Baozhen, Yang Hucheng's sincerity impressed the organization, and finally got the approval of the organization as he wished.
The age difference between the two was 20 years, and at the wedding, Xie Baozhen fell generously and said to Yang Hucheng with deep affection: "Wealth and status are not rare, let's do a good job in the revolution!" Yang Hucheng responded, "Well said! The two of us are going to be together for the rest of our lives, and we are going to carry the revolution through to the end! ”
After marriage, Xie Baozhen has been with Yang Hucheng and fulfilled the duty of a wife. The two are inseparable, and they are the envy of everyone. Xie Baozhen is a low-key person, has always been simple, unlike other officials who are keen on dressing up, nor like ordinary little girls who like bright colors, she always wears a well-tailored cheongsam, simple and generous.
On the surface, Xie Bao was really the wife of the Kuomintang general Yang Hucheng; secretly, her real identity was that of an underground member of the CCP. The identity of "Mrs. Yang Hucheng" has brought a lot of convenience to her to cover up the activities of the party organization.
Xie Baozhen has always been rigorous, and after marriage, she devoted herself to the revolutionary cause, and she was never afraid to confront the enemy head-on. She is a very assertive new-age woman, young but able to control the overall situation, no worse than men, can be described as a scarf does not let the eyebrows.
Picture | Xie Baozhen
In March 1933, the Japanese invaders invaded Rehe and Chabei and other places. In the face of Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship, Yang Hucheng was very dissatisfied, and he was very disgusted by the civil war. Yang Hucheng, who was bent on serving the country, hated not being able to immediately throw himself into the war of resistance against Japan, to teach the Japanese a lesson, and let them get out of the mainland territory, but he could do nothing under Chiang Kai-shek's hands.
The opportunity quietly arrived, and getting acquainted with Zhang Xueliang became an inflection point in Yang Hucheng's fate. The two saw each other and hated each other late, and had a unanimous view of the war. After repeatedly persuading Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan without success, the two men did not stop and jointly launched the Xi'an Incident, which shocked China and foreign countries.
The Xi'an Incident laid an important foundation for the later anti-Japanese national united front, which was a great patriotic revolution and was fruitful. After that, the people lived a peaceful life. But at the same time, a crisis is hitting Yang Hucheng and Xie Baozhen. That was Chiang Kai-shek's retaliation, and their family became fragmented.
From the very beginning, Chiang Kai-shek detained and put Zhang Xueliang under house arrest. Next, Chiang Kai-shek removed Yang Hucheng from his post and investigated it, forced Yang Hucheng to go abroad to investigate, and firmly grasped the military power in his own hands. Yang Hucheng protested to the Nanjing government, but was ruthlessly dismissed.
But Chiang Kai-shek's subsequent treatment of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng was completely different. Although Chiang Kai-shek put Zhang Xueliang under house arrest, he also sent people to treat him well, and he never committed any radical acts, let alone torture. Chiang Kai-shek did not hate Zhang Xueliang in his heart, after all, the two had a very good personal relationship before, but Yang Hucheng was not so lucky.
Pictured| Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng
At the end of 1937, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram asking Yang Hucheng to go to Nanchang. Xie Baozhen began to want to go with Yang Hucheng, but the children around her needed her care, which was actually Chiang Kai-shek's conspiracy, and Yang Hucheng was detained without saying a word.
At that time, the news was closed, and by the time the news of Yang Hucheng's imprisonment reached Xie Baozhen's ears, several days had passed. With her husband in prison on one side and her young children on the other, Xie Bao was in great pain.
But Xie Baozhen finally made a choice, and she took her son Yang Zhengzhong to Nanchang. The mother fled elsewhere with the rest of the children, and her mother was anxious and angry, and there was no way.
But Xie Bao's expectations were really disappointed, and she failed to see her husband as she wished. As soon as they arrived in Nanchang, the mother and son were imprisoned, and Xie Baozhen gently comforted Yang Zhengzhong with his eyes: "Zhengzhong, don't be afraid, we must be brave, everything will pass." ”
In prison, mother and son depended on each other for their lives and suffered a lot of torture. Young Yang Zhengzhong became skinny and bony because of malnutrition, and Xie Baozhen was also thin like a dry flower.
It wasn't until the next year that the family of three was able to meet. The couple who had been reunited for a long time hugged and cried bitterly, Xie Baozhen had always been strong, and the number of tears was countless, only this time, she cried loudly. In addition to the joy in the tears, it is more bitter, because this is not something to be happy about, which means that from now on, the family of three will suffer here.
Young Yang Zhengzhong still did not know what had happened, only that the road was turbulent and displaced, and his mother sighed countless times. But Chiang Kai-shek would not give up torturing Yang Zhengzhong because he was still a child.
Children who were supposed to fall asleep listening to fairy tales now fall asleep day by day with the sound of gunfire. Xie Baozhen regretted her decision so much that she should have come alone, not with the child, so that he would not have to suffer here.
In this long and seemingly endless day, how much torture the Yang Hucheng family suffered, we do not know. But according to the few words that have been handed down, we can still get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg.
In 1939, Dai took them to a more remote place and placed them in a cave where there was no sunlight for many years, causing Xie Baozhen to fall ill frequently.
Yang Hucheng could not bear his wife's guilt, called a spy, and gave him a sum of money to use to build a house outside the cave. During this period, Xie Baozhen became pregnant, but her body was already weak, and her nutrition could not keep up, and the child died within a few days of birth.
The child's departure dealt her a heavy blow, and she once took up scissors to harm herself, wanting to end her life. Fortunately, Yang Hucheng stopped her in time, and her husband comforted her: "We still have five children!" They are all well now, and we should not be discouraged. ”
Probably because of heaven's favor, Xie Baozhen gave birth to another child shortly after, a girl. Yang Hucheng was overjoyed, thinking that this was heaven's compensation for the loss of his daughter last time, and this child's name was Yang Zhenggui. Yang Zhenggui made Xie Baozhen happy and no longer depressed.
But Xie Baozhen, who was weak, did not have enough milk to feed the child, and the child was once so hungry that he did not even have the strength to cry. But fortunately, this child has a strong vitality, although there is no sufficient nutrition, but it is still healthy to grow up, but the body is a little thin.
Yang Hucheng, who was in a difficult situation, did not give up the teaching of his children, and when Yang Zhenggui was a little older, he taught her to read and write every day. The conditions are limited, so I use a branch as a pen to write on the ground for children to see, and Yang Zhenggui is also studying hard, which is a rare warm scene.
In 1945, the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan meant they had a chance to break through the cage. But how could the sinister and cunning Chiang Kai-shek easily let them go? Soon, Yang Hucheng's family was transferred elsewhere.
It seemed that there was no possibility of returning to freedom, and this series of blows wiped out Xie Baozhen's spirit. In this time when the day was not seen, Xie Baozhen was getting thinner and thinner, and he was always worried about his children who were not around, but the family wanted to reunite but it was a luxury.
Picture | Yang Hucheng taking a group photo with the child
Xie Baozhen tried to take the form of a hunger strike and died quietly, she had had enough of this dark life and did not want to continue to suffer. Moreover, she believes that if she dies, her husband and children may be able to go out, because only she is a Communist Party. But the agents broke her plan, and they poured Xie Baozhen a large amount of nutrient solution every day to maintain her life.
Xie Baozhen had to swallow the ring given to her by Yang Hucheng in an attempt to achieve the goal of suicide, but was found by the agents in time and rescued. Xie Baozhen, who was bent on seeking death, annoyed the agents, and they reflected Xie Baozhen's situation to their superiors.
Later, the fierce and vicious agents received instructions from their superiors to come and end Xie Baozhen's life, and Xie Baozhen, who had been on hunger strike for many days, did not have the strength to resist, but only issued a few weak shouts. Several of them worked together to tie Xie Baozhen to the bed with iron chains, and then injected a chemical injection into her calf. Before the New Year came, she died.
When Yang Hucheng arrived at the scene, Xie Baozhen had lost his temperature, and the scars were all over his body. Yang Hucheng was distraught and personally used the few old wooden boards to make a simple urn for his beloved wife. Later, Yang Hucheng once had insomnia, it was difficult to fall asleep, in the dream is also shouting his wife's name over and over again, and when he wakes up, he holds his wife's urn and washes his face with tears.
Xie Bao's real death brought a devastating blow to Yang Hucheng, and soon after, he also fell ill. He often hugged his wife's urn and wept bitterly, but there was only silence in response to him.
On the eve of the liberation of Chongqing, Chiang Kai-shek saw that the general situation had gone, and he was not willing to decide to kill Yang Hucheng and the children he was imprisoning. Yang Hucheng was 56 years old that year, and his life was forever frozen on September 6, 1949, and along with his life, he ended with more than a decade of torture.
According to insiders' recollections, Yang Hucheng has been tortured all these years. The originally strong and tall officer became like an old man, and his eyes became dull, completely devoid of the vivid appearance he had before.
Soon, the news of the death of Yang Hucheng and his wife reached Zhang Huilan's ears, and she fainted on the spot in grief. Although Yang Hucheng did not have the warmth of being a husband, after the precipitation of time, they had become each other's relatives. Over the years, Zhang Huilan has raised Xie Baozhen's children to adulthood and supported this stormy home. Not wanting to wait but not waiting for the reunion, which made it difficult for her to accept.
On January 15, 1950, Yang Hucheng's memorial service was held in Chongqing. Yang Zhengying also came, originally thinking that as long as he insisted on waiting, the family would always have a reunion day, but he did not expect that after so many years of waiting, he had exchanged several corpses.
At the time of the Xi'an Incident, Yang Zhengying was still young and had a vague impression of his parents. Now she has to face her father's death, which is too cruel for her, when she saw her father Yang Hucheng's coffin, Yang Zhengying really couldn't hold back, she cried loudly, and tens of thousands of citizens also burst into tears on the spot.
Yang Hucheng and Xie Baozhen have always been a model couple in the eyes of outsiders, but there are very few moments of stability in this life. In the days after Xie Baozhen's death, Yang Hucheng has been thinking about his deceased wife, and the two have a deep affection