On December 26, 1936, Zhang Xueliang sent Chiang Kai-shek on this day and arrived in Nanjing together.
From the young marshal who dominated one side to the "prisoner" of Chiang Kai-shek, the pain in Zhang Xueliang's heart is incomprehensible to ordinary people, and Zhang Xueliang himself said, "My life ended in 1936."
In fact, Zhang Xueliang also had the opportunity to be released, that is, on January 23, 1949, someone in the northeast jointly proposed to the acting "president" Li Zongren, asking for Zhang Xueliang's release, and Li Zongren also agreed.
However, Chiang Kai-shek did not do it, although Chiang Kai-shek was in the field at this time, people everywhere still listened to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek instructed Chen Cheng to "ignore the request" for the release of Zhang Xueliang, and Zhang Xueliang was also happy in vain at that time.
Since then, Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si have lived a life of "male ploughing and female weaving", such as the photo of Zhang Xueliang wearing a hat and holding a hoe, which was taken during this period.
On April 5, 1975, Chiang Kai-shek died, what was Zhang Xueliang's reaction when he learned of Chiang Kai-shek's death? At this time, Zhang Xueliang had been under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek for 39 years and was no longer young.
This time Zhang Xueliang was disappointed again, he was not released, and he did not secretly rejoice at Chiang Kai-shek's death, but as an old friend, he went to Chiang Kai-shek's funeral.
At the funeral, Zhang Xueliang's appearance shocked everyone, and what was even more surprising was that Zhang Xueliang also sent a couplet, "Caring Yin is like flesh and blood: the dispute of political opinions is like hatred." A total of 16 words.
These 16 words can be said to be word by word, recalling the Central Plains War, in March 1930, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, Li Zongren three major warlords jointly fought against Chiang, only Zhang Xueliang, who held the male army, supported Chiang Kai-shek.
Thus changing the outcome of the Central Plains War, Chiang Kai-shek won the victory, after which Zhang Xueliang had a northeast change of banner, at that time the relationship between the two was very good, as brothers, no one expected what happened.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek asked Zhang Xueliang to send troops to fight the Red Army, but Zhang Xueliang not only did not fight the Red Army, but instead sent weapons and ammunition to the Red Army; in his later years, Zhang Xueliang said that the reason for this was that the Chinese could not fight the Chinese.
Zhang Xueliang said in an interview in his later years that I sent Mr. Jiang to Nanjing, and even if I was shot, I had no regrets.