China's modern history is a magnificent river, and there have been many major historical turns when it is rolling forward, among which the military admonition that occurred in Xi'an in 1936 is called an important historical node in China's modern history. Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's military admonition in Xi'an directly caused Chiang Kai-shek to abandon the policy that he had always adhered to, and to establish a national united front.
As the main figures who promoted the Xi'an Incident in history, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng ended up in the end, which is also embarrassing. Zhang Xueliang insisted on sending Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing in person despite the dissuasion of everyone, and then it was decades of captivity; Yang Hucheng was also imprisoned after returning to China in 1937, and even more tragic was that his family was brutally murdered by Kuomintang agents on the eve of the founding of New China.
After many years, after Zhang Xueliang, the major commander of the Northeast Army of that year, saw the light of day again in Taiwan, when talking about the Xi'an incident of that year, he said with great emotion that the Northwest Army was useless in the situation of that year, but Yang Hucheng was a good person, and he was just a foil in the events of that year, and it was I who dragged him down.
The northwest mountains are high and the water is long
Yang Hucheng was born as a swordsman in the northwest, and he had a chivalrous spirit that was different from that of the warlords at that time, and it was this kind of character that he did such a big thing with Zhang Xueliang in Xi'an, which also led to him later coming back from abroad and falling into Chiang Kai-shek's trap and being imprisoned for decades, and his family was ruined.
Yang Hucheng is a native of the Northwest and a general who came out of the Northwest Region, and he has some feelings for the Northwest Region that others cannot match. For the northwest region, Feng Yuxiang was an outsider, and Chiang Kai-shek had no mass base, but Yang Hucheng was a soldier who came out of the hills and ravines of the Loess Plateau. Therefore, both Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek needed Yang Hucheng to stabilize the situation in Shaanxi, after all, none of them wanted to see the appearance of another Zhensong army again.
After all, Feng Yuxiang made his fortune in the northwest, and Yang Hucheng could only be subordinated to it. However, Feng Yuxiang was capricious, and some people even called him Lu Bu of the Republic of China, who killed the Shaanxi general Guo Jian in 1921. Therefore, although Feng Yuxiang was the leader of the Northwest Army, in fact, he did not have any prestige in Shaanxi. And Yang Hucheng also became more and more disgusted with Feng Yuxiang's use of his Sanqin disciples as cannon fodder, so he led his troops to Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek was facing Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan and others in the Central Plains War headache, although he did not know Yang Hucheng very well, but this kind of weakening the other party's strength to take refuge in him was also happy to see, so let him continue to stay in Shaanxi. But Chiang Kai-shek employs nepotism, although Yang Hucheng was continued to stay in Shaanxi, and even won the battle against Tang Shengzhi, but according to Lao Chiang's thinking, when he makes time, he will slowly torture you.
How can a man be old to his hometown?
In 1930, Zhang Xueliang, the major commander of the Northeast Army, entered the customs, and the warlord war in the Central Plains finally ended with Chiang Kai-shek's victory.
In this war, Chiang Kai-shek found that the strength of the Northeast Army could not be underestimated, and the Shaanxi warlord Yang Hucheng, whom he had always looked down on, also had some strength. There are no eternal friends and loyalties, only eternal interests. At this time, the main contradiction that Chiang Kai-shek had to face was not Japan, which was eyeing the tiger, but the Red Army after the end of the 25,000-mile Long March.
Chiang Kai-shek had speculated in stocks in Shanghai, and he was a cold-blooded businessman at heart, and he knew very well how to maximize his own interests. Let Yang Hucheng deal with the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and reap the benefits of the fisherman himself.
In 1931, after Zhang Xueliang of the Northeast Army withdrew from the Northeast because of the 918 Incident, Chiang Kai-shek was not at ease no matter where he went, so he thought about it and asked him to encircle and suppress the Red Army with Yang Hucheng. Chiang Kai-shek had an account in his heart, according to the fighting intensity of the Red Army, even if Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng won the battle, it would definitely be a tragic victory, and the strength of the two warlords was greatly reduced. Taking a step back, he said that if he did not win the Red Army, he would have enough reasons as the military and political leader of the Kuomintang government to operate the armies of both sides and reduce the strength of the other side.
It's all a thousand-year-old fox playing and chatting, and everyone knows the heart of Chiang Kai-shek. Yang Hucheng was born as a chivalrous man, and he had a lot of courage in his loyalty, and he realized that at this time, compared to the life and death of the domestic warlord struggle, the Japan were the real henchmen.
Compared with Yang Hucheng, Zhang Xueliang hated the Japanese even more, and Chiang Kai-shek, the big brother he supported back then, seemed to have changed after he entered the customs and regarded himself as a tool. The Northeast Army was even more dissatisfied with the Chiang Kai-shek government, not to mention that they were transferred as a tool, but they were extremely dissatisfied with the government's attitude towards the Japanese. The Northeast Army also gradually realized that there was a shadow of this person behind the non-resistance of the young marshal of his family after the September 18 Incident.
Done a big deal
Zhang Xueliang was very entangled in his heart. He knew that the morale of the troops in the Northeast Army was unstable, but he was also helpless against Chiang Kai-shek's instructions to suppress the Communists.
Just when Zhang and Yang were still angry, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't stay in Nanjing for a while, and he was quite dissatisfied with Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's huge troops and indefiniteness, so he personally went to Xi'an to supervise the battle.
The whole two of them are worried about how to complain to Chairman Jiang, since you are here in person, it will be easy to handle this matter. Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng jointly launched a military admonition, but this process was mainly carried out by Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army, and it was also Chiang Kai-shek who was captured by the commander of the Northeast Army. Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army basically did not participate in specific operations, but for Yang Hucheng, the four words of conspiracy were enough.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang personally sent Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing and was immediately placed under house arrest, while Yang Hucheng knew that he could not escape the blame and could only go abroad with his family.
Chiang Kai-shek's previous reluctance to concentrate his forces on the Japanese was that he insisted that the outside world must first be at ease, and considering the defeat of the Chongzhen Emperor at that time, he believed that he must concentrate on solving the threat of the Red Army. In addition, in Chiang Kai-shek's mind, China has a vast land, and the Japanese can have great ambitions, and the worst case is just to cede the land, and even then it can be mediated through international mediation.
When the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out in 1937, Chiang Kai-shek finally realized that the Japan had great plans, and his promise to Zhang Yang and the others had to be implemented, so the All-People War of Resistance officially began.
In this year, Yang Hucheng also corresponded with China abroad, and he learned that the Northwest Army had launched a national war with the Japan, so he could not wait to return to China in the hope of fighting for the country and the nation. However, when he got off the plane, decades of captivity awaited him.
On September 6, 1949, Yang Hucheng was killed at the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall of the Chongqing Sino-US Cooperation Institute for the mastermind of an armed mutiny, at the age of 56.