In October 2019, the descendants of the Japanese invasion of China came to visit in front of the statue of Yang Jingyu, and one of them attracted attention, she brought a special gift------ a "letter of thanks" that was 79 years late, who is this person? He was Kishitani Kazu, the niece of the Japanese officer Who killed Yang Jingyu at the time, Kishitani Ryuichiro, and this "Letter of Thanks" was Kishitani and his family to comfort Yang Jingyu's heroic spirit and express his apologies for killing Yang Jingyu 79 years ago.
What's going on? What happened to his enemies? Why should the family of his enemy, who killed him after 79 years, bring a letter of apology?
After all, during the period of the invasion of China, the Japanese did not feel ashamed of killing so many people, so why were they only ashamed of Yang Jingyu? Did their conscience find out?
Yang Jingyu, formerly known as Ma Shangde, a native of Zhumadian, Henan, his father died early, he was raised by his mother alone, his personality was resolute, as long as he looked for things that no one could change, at the age of 18, he was admitted to the Kaifeng Textile Industrial School, infected by progressive ideas during school, actively participated in the anti-imperialist patriotic movement, joined the Communist Party of China in 1927, secretly engaged in revolutionary activities in Henan, led tens of thousands of peasants in his hometown to riot, expelled the local armed forces, captured the county town, and began the local agrarian revolution. He was the founder of the first peasant revolutionary army in Henan and one of the first regions to start the agrarian revolution.
In the few years of revolutionary activities, he was arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang reactionaries on many occasions, and in the face of cruel punishment in prison, he still adhered to the faith in his heart; no matter how much the enemy threatened and seduced him, he still could not utter a word, and vowed not to tell the secrets of our party to the death, so that the enemy respected and hated him.
In 1929, the underground anti-Japanese forces in the northeast were destroyed by the enemy, and the environment was extremely harsh. The Central Committee of the Party demanded that a man with rich experience in struggle and a will of steel be sent to restore and rebuild the destroyed organization, and because of Ma Shangde's outstanding performance, he was arrested many times and led tens of thousands of peasant uprisings, and was preferentially selected to carry out revolutionary work in the northeast.
He was 24 years old, he settled in the family and left here with a bag, never came back, his mother died in the second year of his departure, his wife did not remarry, raised two young children alone, and before his death, he specially confessed to look for him, when he left, the child was 2 years old, he had died when he heard the news, and the father and son had not met until death.
Under the pseudonym Zhang Guanyi, he came to the Fushun Coal Mine in the northeast, when the coal mine was occupied by the Japanese, who squeezed the Chinese as cheap labor, digging coal day and night, many coal miners lost their lives, and the workers' lives were very difficult.
Under such circumstances, he personally went down to the coal mine, mingled with his co-workers, spread new ideas to them, let them resist the aggression and exploitation of the Japanese, told them that if they did not resist, they would live like this for a lifetime, not only himself, but his ancestors would be enslaved and exploited by Japan for generations, and his family would also be brutalized by Japan, after all, Japan's notoriety was there, listening to him say this, many workers rebelled, thinking that instead of suffering all their lives, it was better to fight now. Maybe you can drive Japan away and live a good life.
Under his leadership, the coal miners quickly united to fight against the Japanese business owners, so that the Japanese enterprises could not operate normally but were also destroyed, making them annoyed, knowing that Zhang Guanyi was the culprit, so he joined forces with the Japanese military to send him to prison on trumped-up charges, and in the face of the prison torture equipment, he still adhered to the previous style, how to fight is not silent, dead or alive do not speak, Japan suspects that he is a communist but there is no evidence, under the mediation of the people around him, The Japanese still had no choice but to release him.
After the September 18 Incident, he changed his name to Yang Jingyu, took charge of the anti-Japanese work in the entire northeast, integrated the scattered guerrillas, propagated new ideas, attracted more people to join the anti-Japanese work, actively trained, integrated the scattered personnel together, made its strategic position reasonably distributed, and could quickly support the other side in the event of battle.
In 1934, the famous "Anti-Japanese League" was established, Yang Jingyu served as the commander-in-chief under the recommendation of everyone, Yang Jingyu knew that it was not a simple thing to fight against the Japanese, more people were needed to join, the troops had grown stronger with the support of the people to better attack the Japanese army, and now that the Anti-Japanese League had just been established, many people were worried that this unit had no combat effectiveness, more people were more inclined to join the Kuomintang army, and now they urgently needed several battles to prove their combat effectiveness and prove that they could lead them to victory.
He repeatedly applied flexible tactical principles to lure the enemy deeper, won the battle at the least cost, won the trust of the people, and rapidly expanded the number of guerrillas.
With the addition of more and more anti-Japanese soldiers, the scope of guerrilla warfare has also become larger, often small-scale harassment of the Japanese army, at first the Japanese army did not care, thinking that a group of rabble-rousers had no combat effectiveness, did not dare to confront the Japanese army, can only harass the local area out of the gas, but did not expect to accumulate into more, it seems that each loss of a point, a year combined, is a great loss. The Japanese army also paid a great price for the initial contempt, and grew rapidly under the eyes of the Japanese army, the reputation of the Anti-Japanese League grew day by day, and the Japanese army finally attached importance to this group of "rabble-rousers".
In 1936, the Japanese army transferred nearby combat effective troops to unite with the local puppet army in an attempt to eliminate the anti-coalition forces, but after so many years of fighting, the anti-japanese coalition has long had rich experience in fighting against the Japanese army and has figured out the local geographical conditions, relying on geographical conditions, adopting flexible tactics, coupled with the tacit understanding formed by the troops for many years, even in the face of the huge disparity in strength between the enemy and us, there is also an orderly command and battle.
First set up an ambush circle, and then give the enemy a kind of rout that he is vulnerable to, so that the enemy becomes arrogant, misjudges the current battle situation, wants to take advantage of the victory to pursue himself, falls into the ambush circle he has set up long ago, wraps dumplings for the enemy, and strikes hard at the arrogance of the Japanese army, and the remaining puppet army sees that the Japanese are defeated, and retreats directly in fright.
Before setting out, Japan vigorously claimed to eliminate the anti-coalition forces in one fell swoop, but unexpectedly it fell into the hands of the anti-coalition, declared the failure of the plan, and also gave the people in the northeast a breath of air, after this battle, the effect was surprisingly good, the reputation spread a lot, and people outside Fengtian had to come to find the anti-coalition to join in fighting the devils.
By 1937, the Anti-Japanese Coalition forces already had five or six thousand people, which can be said to be very large, when Yang Jingyu actively promoted unity in the northeast region, the slogan of the muzzle of the gun, and the destruction of the Japanese railways and tunnels, etc., so that the Japanese army could not support the front line in time, effectively pinned down the Japanese army that went to the front line to support, won valuable time for the victory of the battle in Kannai, and dealt a fierce blow to the Japanese army.
The commander of the Japanese army said that the anti-coalition was a tumor in the northeast, threatening the stationing of the Kwantung Army, and if the troops were not removed, the Kwantung Army would not be able to station in the northeast with peace of mind. Use all methods to crack down on the Anti-Japanese League, the hard one will come to the soft, compared to the "recruitment" policy often used in ancient times, that is, I will not fight you, I want to reuse you, you come to me as an officer, your troops are still your troops, but it is under my control, I give you better conditions, and now in order to fight with me, you often do not have enough to eat and wear, the weather is so bad, and you have to fight at the airport from time to time, and you have to lose a lot.
Often the planes in the Anti-Japanese Coalition areas to spread leaflets, saying that as long as you surrender, Japan will not treat you badly, high-ranking officials Houlu will not be less, as mentioned earlier, the scale of the Anti-Allied League expands relatively quickly, although there are many advantages, but the drawbacks are revealed here, the personnel are uneven, some are just following the trend to join, the will is not firm at all, under the bombardment of this Japanese sugar-coated shell, some people have moved their minds and gone to surrender, Japan saw some people surrendering, felt that this method is useful, and can divide the unbreakable Anti-League without spending a single soldier. So it was better for them, so that the personnel within the Anti-Japanese League became more and more passive to resist Japan, thinking about the high-ranking official Houlu promised by Japan every day, so some of them did not resist the temptation to betray the revolution and surrender, Yang Jingyu also hated iron and steel, but there was no way, people have their own aspirations, Yang Jingyu can only tell them that he will resolutely not surrender, if anyone wants to go directly, he does not stop, but after seeing each other on the battlefield is the enemy, do not blame or remember the old feelings.
Among them, there was his closest general Cheng Bin, who fought bravely and bravely, followed Yang Jingyu since the formation of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, was his most trusted and most effective assistant, and could be said to be the one who knew Yang Jingyu best, and his rebellion undoubtedly caught Yang Jingyu by surprise, he knew all the information about the Anti-Japanese League, in case he led Japan to destroy himself, his ten years of hard work would be destroyed.
Facts have proved that Yang Jingyu's fears are right, Cheng Bin immediately became a sharp blade inserted into the hands of the Japanese to the Anti-Japanese League, he clearly knows all the information of the Anti-League, after his surrender, Yang Jingyu did not have time to transfer all the information, he was led by the Japanese troops to destroy all the places where grain was hidden, those are the secret places that Yang Jingyu dug for the Japanese to search the mountains, so one by one exposed to the eyes of the Japanese, the snacks that he had worked so hard to hide were also taken away by the Japanese. It can be known how the remaining days of the Anti-Japanese Alliance lived, in such a cold place in the northeast, there was almost no grass in winter, and the food was also robbed.
The traitors knew where the Anti-Japanese League often operated, so they also had to move the place immediately, and could not stay in the original place for a long time, so that there was no grain to dig up the grass roots under the snow to eat in the snow, the materials were all robbed, the clothes on his body could not withstand the cold, the shoes on his feet were torn, the hands on his feet were full of frostbite, and he was in pain, in such a situation, he was still chased by the Japanese army, and when he was desperate, he met Zhao Yanxi, who was hunting on the mountain, thinking that the villagers would help him escape the Japanese pursuit. Unexpectedly, it was a catalyst for him to die, Zhao Yanxi not only did not help him but also reported to the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army found him dying, in this case, anyone would collapse, but he did not, he only wanted to pull a few more cushions when dying, so that death is worth it, death deserved, before death told Cheng Bin and others, he would not be like them no bones would rather be a Japanese lackey than a Chinese upright person, by the way, tell the Japanese that he will not surrender, Let him not waste his efforts.
When he was dying, it was as if he had foreseen the sudden return of death to the light, and he did not know where the strength came from, and actually ran up, skillfully using the terrain to circumvent the Japanese army, killing several Japanese troops, perhaps knowing that he could not survive, perhaps not wanting to fall into their hands, desperately resisting, and finally the patience of the Japanese army was exhausted and ordered to be shot, just like this, an anti-Japanese hero fell violently, only 35 years old when he was sacrificed, did not wait for the national victory, and did not see his sons and daughters.
Do you think that he is dead and the Anti-League is gone, no, although he is dead, the spirit he left behind before he died is the spirit of the Anti-League, as long as the Anti-League is still alive, then the Anti-League has not disappeared, and the Anti-League is still there.
After his death, the officer who ordered the shooting of Yang Jingyu, Kishitani Ryuichiro, really couldn't figure it out, according to his calculations, there should have been a shortage of food for half a month, and it should have been a week since the grain was completely cut off, how he lived in such a harsh environment, without food, without cold clothes, he could spend so long with the Japanese army and bring certain losses to the Japanese army.
So he ordered the dissection of his body to see what he had eaten that could last so long, and the result shocked him and shocked all the Japanese, there were only undigested bark and grass roots in it, they did not expect that nearly half a month only eating these things could be around with the Japanese army for so long, this matter also brought him a great shock, he did not believe in this matter, thinking that Yang Jingyu was a god, the killing of him was also called his nightmare, countless times woke up from the dream to repent of his sins, and finally in the month before the Surrender of the Japanese Army, After killing his wife and children, he also committed suicide by caesarean section, believing that only in this way could he get Yang Jingyu's forgiveness and save himself from the condemnation of conscience.
Before committing suicide, he wrote a suicide note to his family, in which he wrote: It may not be appropriate for His Majesty the Emperor to launch this war of aggression against China, and China has soldiers like Yang Jingyu and will not perish.
Yang Jingyu's spirit was respected by the Japanese, and many years later his descendants brought a belated letter of apology, but what was the use? Man has died. After his death, he did not see his wife and children, his wife and children were still found by the state for him many years after his death, knowing that his father was a great hero, and his children were proud.