In December 1936, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng launched the Xi'an Incident, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to carry out a comprehensive anti-Japanese war, and under the mediation of zhou Enlai of the Communist Party of China and Song Ziwen of the Kuomintang, the Xi'an incident became resolved peacefully.
Subsequently, the Military Commission sentenced Zhang Xueliang to 10 years in prison on the grounds of holding the leader hostage, in fact, this was the beginning of Zhang Xueliang's house arrest, at first, he thought that Chiang Kai-shek would let him go, but Chiang Kai-shek was not ready to release him from the moment he was locked up, how to detain Zhang Xueliang, this is a problem, in the end, Chiang Kai-shek gave this task to Dai Kasa of the military command, and Dai Kasa gave this task to Liu Yiguang, who was the director of the lieutenant colonel at the time.
Liu Yiguang has since become the person in charge of the custody of Zhang Xueliang, the two have been together for 25 years, Chiang Kai-shek is also very satisfied with Liu Yiguang, when he left, Liu Yiguang was already a lieutenant general, in 1962, Liu Yiguang ended the custody of Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Xueliang specially held a "farewell" dinner for him, at the banquet, Zhang Xueliang said
"Liu Yiguang is my enemy and my benefactor, and now that he's leaving, I want to give him a sum of money, which is a little bit of my heart."
Later, Chiang Ching-kuo, on behalf of Liu Yiguang, politely refused Zhang Xueliang's money, Liu Yiguang was Zhang Xueliang's enemy, how could the benefactor explain it?
The enemy explained very simply, since Zhang Xueliang handed over to Liu Yiguang to take care of, Liu Yiguang has been monitoring him all the time, he let those spies who specifically guard Zhang Xueliang, only 10 meters away from Zhang Xueliang, not only that, he also made various regulations for Zhang Xueliang, his free activity area is 200 meters, and only limited to daytime, three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, not only that, he also took his family to eat with Zhang Xueliang every day, such a purpose, but also to better monitor him.
Zhang Xueliang was very angry about this kind of house arrest, for more than 20 years, Liu Yiguang was like this, so he regarded Liu Yiguang as his enemy, which is also understandable, so how did Liu Yiguang become his benefactor?
It turned out that in the Xi'an Incident, although Chiang Kai-shek was safe and sound, there were still many people killed by the Northeast Army, including Chiang Kai-shek's nephew Jiang Xiaoxian, who after Jiang Xiaoxian's death, his wife Yuan Jingzhi hated Zhang Xueliang very much, and repeatedly found someone to plot to assassinate Zhang Xueliang to avenge her husband.
When Yuan Jingzhi learned that Zhang Xueliang would go out for a walk with his wife every day after dusk, she sent someone to ambush in the woods, that day, Zhang Xueliang and his wife Zhao Yidi came out for a walk, Liu Yiguang followed the two, suddenly a gunman appeared, shooting at Zhang Xueliang, but did not hit, but hit the tree next to him, Liu Yiguang took a look, quickly pulled out the people in the woods, it was a woman, she was Yuan Jingzhi.
Liu Yiguang knew Yuan Jingzhi, and he also knew why Yuan Jingzhi wanted to assassinate Zhang Xueliang, but at that time, he didn't want to do much, he said that he was a crazy woman, and he wanted to send her down the mountain, Zhao Yidi knew Yuan Jingzhi, she called out Yuan Jingzhi's name on the spot, Yuan Jingzhi did not pretend to be crazy and stupid, he directly stood in front of Zhang Xueliang, and complained that he had killed her husband Jiang Xiaoxian.
Yuan Jingzhi eventually failed to assassinate and was sent down the mountain by Liu Yiguang, after Chiang Kai-shek learned of this, he did not blame Yuan Jingzhi, but instead gave her a large amount of money and asked her to make a living, Zhang Xueliang called Liu Yiguang his benefactor, and this is what he said.
Liu Yiguang followed Zhang Xueliang step by step, the purpose of which was to spy on him, from another aspect, this is also the best protection for Zhang Xueliang, so in Zhang Xueliang's eyes, Liu Yiguang is his enemy, but also his benefactor, after Liu Yiguang's death in 1982, Zhang Xueliang also went to mourn, which is also the final reconciliation between the two.