There are many people in our army who are not pure in their thinking, and after they have tasted the sweetness brought to them by their rights, they have begun to become corrupt, and corruption is only the most direct manifestation of their corruption.
There was a regimental commander in the New Fourth Army who was dismissed from his post by his superiors for corruption and even dragged down the superiors.
Originally, he knew that he had a chance to return to his post if he knew that he was wrong, but he turned to the enemy because he was a thief and had a good time in the enemy camp, but in the end he also paid a heavy price for it.
This person's name is Yang Kezhi, born on November 26, 1916 in a village in Youfangdian, Jinzhai County, his father Yang Guanghe, his great uncle Yang Guangchen, and his cousin Yang Kerong were all members of our party and our army, and it is estimated that they did not expect that such a loyal and martyr family would actually produce a traitor.
Yang Kezhi studied in a private school for several years when he was a child, and he wrote well with a brush.
In 1929, he followed his uncles Yang Guangchen and Yang Guangyan to join the 15th Detachment of the Red Army in Lu'an County and served as a squad leader.
In June 1930, the 14th detachment of our army was severely damaged by the defection of the captain Ma Boliang, and Yang Kezhi's two uncles were also killed in the battle, and finally Yang Kezhi successfully broke through with more than ten Red Army soldiers and joined the main force of the Red Army under the leadership of party representative Lei Xiaozhai.
In April 1934, Yang Kezhi became the secretary of Gao Jingting, then the commander of the Red 82nd Division, and Gao Jingting was very appreciative of him because of his outstanding performance.
In November of the same year, Yang Kezhi was ordered by the organization to stay in the revolutionary base area of Eyuwan and follow the Red 28th Army in guerrilla warfare around the Dabie Mountains.
In October 1935, Yang Kezhi became the political commissar of the Red 28th Army, and his unit consisted of only 2 companies, totaling more than 200 people.
Two months later, the leaders of our army led more than 400 people to wage a fierce struggle with the five companies of the Kuomintang near Lihuang County, and this team not only severely damaged the enemy, but also captured a lot of booty.
In March 1936, Gao Jingting reorganized the Red Army ranks, and Yang Kezhi still served as the political commissar of the army.
Soon, Yang Kezhi followed Liang Congxue to Xujiaqiao, Taihu County, Anhui Province, to fight, and the soldiers successfully annihilated a battalion of the 7th Regiment of the Hubei Provincial Security Corps.
In April of the same year, Yang Kezhi and his comrades-in-arms came up with operational countermeasures after in-depth study of the weaknesses of the Kuomintang, and they successively attacked five small towns, including Wangjiahe, which deeply threatened the Kuomintang's regime in Anhui Province, and this battle can be said to be the most outstanding in the history of the Red 28 Army's combat.
In July 1937, Yang Kezhi, who was the battalion commander, led his troops down to the Tongbai Mountains to join the Red Army guerrillas on the Eyu border, and soon this joint force eliminated one of the most reactionary landlords in the northwest of Xinyang County and captured a lot of military supplies, which greatly encouraged the people's confidence to continue fighting.
In February of the following year, the Red 28th Army was reorganized into the 4th Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and Yang Kezhi, who was the leader of the detachment, led his troops to Lihuang County a month later to meet the Eighth Regiment, and the two teams fought together to resist Japan.
A month later, Yang Kezhi led the 4th detachment to fight in Lujiang, Wuwei and other places.
During this period, Yang Kezhi already had problems, and during his recuperation in the army, he often hooked up with some women who came from an unhealthy road, disregarded the eyes of the people and sat on a horse with some women, flaunted the market, and even disregarded his identity, calmly accepted the invitation of some nearby landlords and went to their homes to drink and have fun.
His service soldiers really couldn't bear to look at it, so they persuaded him to keep in mind the discipline in the army, who knew that Yang Kezhi did not listen to the advice at all, and beat him with a whip, the service soldiers felt that there was definitely no future in following such a leader, so he found the right time to secretly run to the mountains and hide, making sure that the nearby large troops had gone before running back home.
When the soldier's mother heard about Yang Kezhi's affair, she advised him: "Don't follow him, he will definitely have an accident!" ”
Sure enough, it was really accurate by the old mother.
As early as a long time ago, Yang Kezhi had already shown a strange appearance, in front of the stationed Liubo Shitong, when the regimental commander Yang Kezhi returned home on the Qingming Festival one year, he gave his mother 100 silver dollars, and his mother's first reaction when she saw the money was surprised, and then hurriedly asked: "You are a Red Army regimental commander, how can you have so much money?" ”
Yang Kezhi could not say anything, his mother felt that the huge amount of money was unknown and refused to accept it, and later Yang Kezhi repeatedly persuaded, she reluctantly accepted 10 silver dollars.
Not only that, this service soldier also broke the news: I found Yang Kezhi's private life improper, he had secretly organized the organization to marry a daughter-in-law in Lu'an City, the daughter of a big businessman, is a very beautiful female student, in order to take good care of this female student, Yang Kezhi also spent a huge amount of money to buy her a house in the Lu'an Drum Tower, and even let me dress up as a poor student, sent a package of five or six pounds to this woman, after the task was completed, I helped the woman bring back a letter to Yang Kezhi.
Soon, the troops were transferred to Mabu, and what happened after that happened.
On February 20, 1939, yang Kezhi and Cao Yufu were reported for embezzling and seizing property during the attack on the enemy in Zhoujia Laoxu.
Gao Jingting was very angry after hearing this, and he immediately transferred Yang Kezhi and Cao Yufu, who were at the front, back to the front, held a meeting to criticize the two, and made the decision to revoke the two, but because of Dai Jiying's intercession, the punishment of the two being dismissed was not carried out.
After the meeting, Gao Jingting ordered the two to return to the front line again, but the two men who were thieves fled to the Xingui unit of the Fifth Theater of Operations with two guard squads on May 20, 1939.
At the beginning of the rebellion, the two performed well in the enemy camp and were awarded the ranks of colonel and lieutenant colonel respectively, but then the leaders of the Gui clan felt that the two people were of little value and abandoned them.
In desperation, the two had to leave the army, and they took their families to live in the village near Xiangshan Temple in Lihuang County, where they wandered all day and often called some Gui officers to drink and play cards.
In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1949, Yang Kezhi and Cao Yufu received interviews with Zhang Yichun, deputy commander-in-chief of the Gui clan, and then the two were detained, and then they were shot by the enemy army near Xiangshan Temple on the pretext of "continuing to move".
After Yang Kezhi was killed, his family recognized his body based on the nevus on his chest and buried him in the Yuanchong area.