After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China, which had just escaped the aggression of the great powers, fell into the quagmire of civil war under the reaction of the Kuomintang. But after the War of Resistance Against Japan, most of the Chinese people have understood that only by following the Communist Party can China have a bright future, so it is only a matter of time before Chiang Kai-shek completely falls on the mainland.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, who had been proud all his life, was not willing to leave, so before the Kuomintang was defeated in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to retaliate against the Communists, ordered the assassination of three of his most ruthless killers, Mao Renfeng. But Mao Renfeng, who has always been fearless, was still scared out of a cold sweat after seeing the three people on this assassination list and did not dare to move. So, which three people did Chiang Kai-shek order Mao Renfeng to assassinate? What kind of background and story do these three people have that makes Mao Renfeng, who has killed countless people, dare not act rashly?
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Chivalrous hero, Yang Hucheng
In Chiang Kai-shek's list of assassinations that made Mao Renfeng shudder, the first name was Yang Hucheng, a famous patriotic general who had launched the Xi'an Incident. General Yang Hucheng spent his life fighting horses, and from the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he fought in all directions for the revolution.
It can be said that the general who was born from the knife was full of chivalrous heroism throughout his life. As a teenager, his father was brutally strangled by the corrupt Qing government. At that time, the young Yang Hucheng did not ask for a word from others, and alone pushed his father's corpse back to his hometown with a trolley of more than 200 kilometers. After returning to his hometown, Yang Hucheng organized the villagers to set up the "Mid-Autumn Festival" to fight the rich and help the poor, and since then, the seeds of revolution have gradually taken root in his heart.
Yang Hucheng and Zi Zhengzhong and female Zhengkun
In 1911, after the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Yang Hucheng, who had always been eager to overthrow the Qing government, resolutely led his soldiers and horses to join the Shaanxi military camp and engaged in a fierce battle with the Qing army. However, the road of revolution is always bumpy, and Yang Hucheng's career in horse riding has not been smooth.
After the Xinhai Revolution, Yuan Shikai stole the success of the revolution, and Yang Hucheng was forced to retire and return to his hometown. But after unloading his armor and returning to the field, what awaited Yang Hucheng was not a plain life. The young and vigorous Yang Hucheng returned to his hometown not long ago because of his intention to kill a local bully who collected debts, in order to escape the pursuit, Yang Hucheng chose to take the risk of going up the mountain to temporarily avoid the limelight. But what is unexpected is that on the way up the mountain, Yang Hucheng accidentally intercepted a batch of rifles purchased by tax evasion. Perhaps everything had its own providence, and Yang Hucheng, who had obtained this batch of weapons, began to collect troops and buy horses in the surrounding areas, but it didn't take long for him to have one hundred and eighty people under his command, becoming a famous swordsman in the same state.
In 1917, Sun Yat-sen set up the Shaanxi Jingguo Army Headquarters in the Dharma Protection Movement, and Yang Hucheng, who already had a certain amount of his own strength, led the army to participate in the Fa Protection War, and was soon promoted to commander of the left wing army detachment of the Shaanxi Jingguo Army. In the face of many encirclements and suppressions by the Beiyang warlords, Yang Hucheng relied on his outstanding courage and outstanding military ability to lead the Jingguo army to break through the blockade again and again, and won countless honors and victories.
Yang Hucheng, who was shining on the battlefield, was promoted all the way and soon became the commander of the third road of the Jingguo Army. Later, by chance, Yang Hucheng joined the Kuomintang and served as the commander of the Third Division of the Third Army of the Kuomintang Army. But in fact, Yang Hucheng did not follow the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, and the reason that really made him decide to join the Kuomintang was that he very much recognized the three major policies put forward by Dr. Sun Yat-sen: "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers."
Group photo of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng before the Xi'an incident
However, after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925 and the rise of Chiang Kai-shek to power, Yang Hucheng gradually discovered the true face of the Kuomintang and gradually developed a revolutionary consciousness that only the Communist Party could lead the Chinese people to victory. Therefore, Yang Hucheng and Chiang Kai-shek, who have different political concepts, gradually became suspicious. After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident in 1931, Yang Hucheng, who advocated active resistance against Japan, finally couldn't bear it in the face of Chiang Kai-shek, who still adhered to the policy of "keeping the outside world first and at home first.", after his many fruitless consultations with Chiang Kai-shek, this enthusiastic general decided to take the risk and together with Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident that shocked China and foreign countries, and gave chiang kai-shek a military advice. Although this farce ended with Chiang Kai-shek's compromise, Chiang Kai-shek, who had always been narrow-minded, had a grudge against Yang Hucheng from then on, so he ordered Mao Renfeng to assassinate Yang Hucheng before retreating to Taiwan.
Although Mao Renfeng was jealous of Yang Hucheng for three points, after hesitating, Mao Renfeng still did not dare to disobey the order and killed Yang Hucheng's entire family on September 6, 1949.
Mixed honors and disgraces, Zhang Xueliang.
Compared with Yang Hucheng, who was slaughtered by Mao Renfeng, Zhang Xueliang was undoubtedly lucky to be the second person on Chiang Kai-shek's assassination list.
Zhang Xueliang, as the son of Zhang Zuolin, the king of the northeast, grew up in the military camp from an early age and has been learning professional military knowledge in the military academy.
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In 1928, Zhang Zuolin died tragically at Huanggutun under a Japanese bomb. Since then, Zhang Xueliang has taken over his father's position. , became the second generation of "Northeast King". With the revenge of killing his father, Zhang Xueliang chose to cooperate with the Kuomintang to jointly resist Japan.
In 1931, the Japanese were planning an all-out war of aggression against China, but at that time, Zhang Xueliang, in order to deal with the problem of the Central Plains War, drew a large number of elite troops from the northeast, which caused an emptiness in the defense of the northeast. So the Japanese took the opportunity to launch 918, although Zhang Xueliang already knew the japanese mind at that time, he still had a fluke and made a decision that made him regret his life - so that the Northeast Army gave up resistance.
After the fall of the entire territory of the three eastern provinces, Zhang Xueliang gradually understood in his self-reproach that concessions and compromises could not give the Chinese nation a bright future, and only by taking up the barrel of a gun and fighting the Japanese to the end could he have a way out. Therefore, after having the consciousness of resisting Japan, Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek gradually ran counter to each other in their political stances.
Zhang Zuolin
In 1936, in the face of the Japanese pressing forward, Zhang Xueliang thought twice and jointly launched the Xi'an Incident with Yang Hucheng, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to end the civil war and actively resist Japan. After Chiang Kai-shek compromised and agreed, Yang Hucheng originally wanted to kill Chiang Kai-shek to avoid the consequences, but Zhang Xueliang, in order to stabilize the overall situation, still risked retaliation by Chiang Kai-shek and chose to save Chiang Kai-shek. But this is the case with the so-called raising of tigers, and Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek after sending him back to Nanjing.
Fortunately, Zhang Xueliang and Soong Meiling did not have a shallow friendship, so with the help of Soong Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek has been unable to attack Zhang Xueliang. But although Zhang Xueliang saved his life, he began his life of being monitored by Chiang Kai-shek for half a lifetime. However, for Chiang Kai-shek, this has always been a hurdle in his heart. Therefore, after his defeat, he still decided to order Mao Renfeng to assassinate Zhang Xueliang.
However, unlike Yang Hucheng, who came from the grassroots, Zhang Xueliang once held heavy power in the northeast, and after cooperating with the Kuomintang, he became a figure under Chiang Kai-shek above ten thousand people. Coupled with the fact that Song Meiling has been secretly protecting Zhang Xueliang for many years, even if Mao Renfeng has An Ling, he will never dare to take an easy shot at Zhang Xueliang.
Chiang Kai-shek himself knew the difficulty of assassinating Zhang Xueliang, so he did not embarrass Mao Renfeng anymore, but chose to continue to imprison Zhang Xueliang. Therefore, it was not until 1990 that Zhang Xueliang, who had become an old man, really gained freedom. Although Zhang Xueliang spent nearly half of his life under the supervision of Chiang Kai-shek, it was fortunate that Zhang Xueliang was able to save his life compared with Yang Hucheng, who was tragically destroyed.
Mother of the Nation, Song Qingling.
The last person on Chiang Kai-shek's assassination list was Soong Ching-ling, who had the honorific title of "Mother of the Nation." Soong Ching Ling had multiple identities, she was not only the wife of Sun Yat-sen, but also a pioneer of the revolution, whether in the Communist Party or the Kuomintang, she had a very high status.
Song Qingling's father, Song Jiashu, was an advanced patriot on the mainland, so Song Qingling was exposed to the democratic ideas from the West when he was a teenager. After graduating from Soong Ching Ling University, she became Dr. Sun Yat-sen's secretary by chance, so Soong Ching Ling embarked on the road of revolution very early.
Soong Ching Ling can be said to have devoted her life to the welfare of the people, so it is not surprising that she will have conflicts with chiang kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang.
In Soong Ching-ling's mind, Chiang Kai-shek had different political ideas from her husband, Sun Yat-sen, and Chiang Kai-shek was narrow-minded and selfish, and was by no means a leader who was single-minded in seeking the well-being of the people. Coupled with the fact that Chiang Kai-shek's private life is not proper, and he even abandons his former wife, so Soong Ching Ling can be said to be very disapproving of Chiang Kai-shek.
But Song Qingling's little sister Song Meiling openly interacted with such a man. Soong Ching-ling once said that he would rather let Soong Mei-ling die than agree to soong Ching-ling's marriage to Chiang Kai-shek. Even though Soong Mei-ling eventually married Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Ching-ling remained dissatisfied with the matter and never took the same political stand with Chiang Kai-shek in the future. Family affairs and official affairs were entangled, which further deepened the contradiction between Soong Ching Ling and Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1922, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly staged a coup d'état, and Soong Ching-ling joined other politicians in denouncing him, and thus announced that he would not participate in any Kuomintang political activities in the future. Since then, Soong Ching Ling and Chiang Kai-shek have completely formed a bond, but it is not long before Soong Ching Ling moved to Europe, which can make Chiang Kai-shek, who wants to kill Soong Ching Ling to relieve the hatred in his heart, angry and hateful.
After Sun Yat-sen's death, Chiang Kai-shek thought he had finally waited for the opportunity to kill Soong Ching-ling. At that time, he used various means to bring Song Qingling back to China and secretly planned various assassination plans, but unfortunately, his plots ended in failure.
Before retiring to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng to assassinate Soong Ching-ling for the last time. But compared with the other two people on Chiang Kai-shek's assassination list, Soong Ching Ling can be said to have a higher reputation and greater power in China. In addition, Song Qingling is Song Meiling's sister. Mao Renfeng was naturally also worried that if he really succeeded in assassinating Song Qingling, Song Meiling would find him to settle accounts after the autumn.
But before Mao Renfeng could make a choice, it was discovered by Song Meiling. After Hearing of Chiang Kai-shek's order to assassinate her sister, Song Meiling completely turned her face with Chiang Kai-shek and used her own means and connections to force Chiang Kai-shek to withdraw the order.
The three people whom Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng to assassinate were all heroes who promoted the process of the Chinese revolution. Chiang Kai-shek's behavior of putting the hero to death because of his narrow-mindedness is undoubtedly absurd, and this is one of the reasons why Chiang Kai-shek lost the support of the people and finally had to retreat to Taiwan