Everyone knows that in the history of the world, the attitude towards captives has always been very good, and there are still rumors on the battlefields of ancient China:"The two armies fought, and the captured envoys were not killed"The rules of the famous"Geneva Convention"It was also stipulated that prisoners should not be tortured. But in Chinese history, there was a famous patriotic general who, after breaking through the enemy camp, instead of treating the prisoners well, killed 4,500 captives in one go, so he was infamous through the ages, so why did he do this?
When it comes to Feng Xiangda**, many people must be no strangers, and his initiator Song Zheyuan has been criticized for single-handedly causing this tragic situation in the world. But what people don't know is that it was this general who made great achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the most representative battle was the Battle of Xifengkou.
In this battle, the two sides were the 29th Army led by Song Zheyuan and the Japanese Kwantung Army. In the end, the Japanese army emerged victorious. In this battle, although we lost, the Broadsword team terrified the Japanese and played a certain deterrent role. That's what we're going to introduce today"Northwest Five Tiger Generals"One of Song Zheyuan.
1. Song Zheyuan is determined to save the people from fire and water
From 1920 to 1930, China fell into a period of chaos, capitalism and socialism coexisted in China, and the introduction of various Western cultures produced a violent conflict with Eastern culture. At the same time, what is even more eye-catching is the melee of warlords, and the number of leaders in various places is innumerable, almost one city, one army, one flag. Song Zheyuan was born in such an era.
Song Zheyuan was born in Shandong Province, and his family was originally a scholarly family, but he had no choice but to fall into the middle of the road. Born in a poor family, he was determined to change the status quo of his family and get ahead. It is said that he taught the children of poor families for five or six years for free before leaving his hometown, so the locals respected him very much.
Later, Song Zheyuan abandoned literature and martial arts, because he thought that the pen could no longer save China. From Wencai to Jiangcai, he suffered a lot along the way. In the end, in the second year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1910 AD, at the age of 25, he successfully graduated from the Beiyang Army Battalion Military Academy and became Feng Yuxiang's soldier. What people didn't expect was that such a person who had studied poetry and books since childhood and had great ambitions had a unique battlefield talent. In one battle after another, he has repeatedly made meritorious contributions, both dare to fight and have the strategy of a scholar, so Feng Yuxiang loves this young man who is only 25 years old very much.
In troubled times, the people's lives were miserable, but at this time, the imperial court did not understand the difficulties of the people at all, and accepted food, resulting in the phenomenon of sparse land and people's livelihood often appearing in various places. In such a period, as a powerful warlord leader, he can use the power in his hands to seek benefits for himself and scavenge benefits from the common people, but Song Zheyuan has never wavered in his patriotic heart to save the people of the world.
Second, Feng Xiang is big**, which has attracted a lot of discussions
At that time, Fengxiang City was led by a notorious bandit, and the people were miserable and hated him. He not only increased a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes to the people, but also wantonly squandered the plundered wealth, robbed the people's daughters, and smoked opium. At that time, Feng Yuxiang's contradictions with various departments in Shaanxi were escalating day by day, so he was out of sight and out of mind, and his superiors sent him to crusade against the robbers here and fight for peace.
Fengxiang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the terrain is high and extremely dangerous, so it is also known as Lying Cow City. Since ancient times, many famous generals have been deflated in this city, and Song Zheyuan happened to take on this difficult task at that time. But unexpectedly, Song Zheyuan did not choose to recklessly attack the city like others.
On the contrary, after Song Zheyuan found that the attack could not be successful, he decided to dig a tunnel instead. Send troops to dig tunnels to the foot of the city walls, and then use explosives to break the city. Because of the high terrain of this place, people standing on the castle tower often cannot see the subtle changes that are taking place underground. So Song Zheyuan arranged for people to dig all the way to the corner of the wall, and then let people pile up explosives here, and at the same time as the explosives were detonated, the enemy army ushered in Song Zheyuan's rain of bullets.
After the victory, Song Zheyuan captured 4,500 prisoners of war. According to the past practice, since they have surrendered, they should be treated kindly, but because these captives are all robbers, Song Zheyuan was afraid that they would continue to harm one party in the future, so he ordered to launch a terrifying **. Although he knew that this move might make him infamous for the ages, Song Zheyuan still did it without hesitation.
Summary
Song Zheyuan is a rare general who is both civil and military, although he did do some bad things and used very cruel means to take prisoners, which made him criticized. But we can't deny what he did before, he also made great achievements during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and these contributions are indelible.