Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng forced Jiang to resist Japan, what was the ending of Yang Hucheng?
General Zhang Yanger forced Jiang to resist Japan, and Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned for 54 years after the incident, so what was the ending of General Yang Hucheng?
On December 12, 1936, in order to save the national crisis, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng launched an incident in Xi'an, exhorting Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan. The Xi'an Incident was the most practical action of the united national front to jointly resist Japan, and it made a significant contribution to the survival of the country and the nation.
After the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek imprisoned Zhang Xueliang for more than half a century, and did not regain his freedom until 1990.
Compared with General Zhang Xueliang, the fate of General Yang Hucheng is very heart-wrenching.
After Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng launched the Xi'an Incident, they were not immediately imprisoned, but Chiang Kai-shek always kept this account in his heart, and the two generals would not pass it off in one fell swoop.
In the following year of the Xi'an Incident, in January 1937, Yang Hucheng was removed from his post by Nanjing National**, and in June of the same year, he was forced to go abroad for "investigation" and traveled to the United States, Britain, France, Germany and other countries to promote anti-Japanese ideas. After Japan launched the July 7 Incident, it also called Chiang Kai-shek many times, asking to return to China to resist Japan, but they were all refused. It can be seen that after the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek did not immediately liquidate Yang Hucheng, although the military power and position in his hands were removed, but his life was worry-free.
In December 1937, General Yang Hucheng in France secretly returned to China and prepared to participate in the anti-Japanese work, but was lured to Nanchang to be imprisoned, and his youngest son Yang Zhengzhong, his youngest daughter Yang Zhenggui, secretary Song Qiyun and his wife Xu Linxia and their young son "Little Radish Head" Song Zhenzhong were a total of 8 people. After that, Yang Hucheng and his family were imprisoned in Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and other places for 12 years, during which Yang Hucheng's youngest daughter and secretary Song Qiyun's youngest son "Little Radish Head" was born.
On September 6, 1949, Song Zhenzhong was killed by Kuomintang agents in the pine forest slope at the foot of Geyue Mountain in Chongqing, only 8 years old, and was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr after the liberation of Chongqing.
After the Xi'an Incident, Yang Hucheng was imprisoned separately from Zhang Xueliang, and on the eve of liberation, he was secretly killed in September 1949 before abandoning Chongqing. On the eve of Yang Hucheng's killing, Li Zongren ordered his release, but his order was not carried out, and the only chance to survive was missed. Subsequently, Mao Ningfeng gave Chiang Kai-shek instructions to stab Yang Hucheng's family: Yang Hucheng and his youngest son Yang Zhengzhong, his youngest daughter Yang Zhenggui, his secretary Song Qiyun and his wife Xu Linxia, and their young son "Little Radish Head" Song Zhenzhong, a total of 8 people, stabbed to death with a dagger, and destroyed the corpse with nitrate water.
After the liberation of Chongqing, the People's Liberation Army found Yang Hucheng's body, his hands were tied behind his back, there were many knife wounds and traces of torture on his body, and his face was corroded by spies with strong sulfuric acid beyond recognition, and it was difficult to identify for a while, and finally the identity of the body was determined through General Yang Hucheng's doctor. Next to the corpse of General Yang Hucheng was the urn of his young son and wife, a generation of famous generals who were quietly and brutally executed by secret agents.