In 1952, a railway worker named Ma Chongyun in Henan suddenly broke into the home of a group of people with Northeastern accents, and the leader of the group carefully looked at Ma Chongyun up and down, and said very excitedly: "Like, too similar, almost exactly the same!" ”
And just when Ma Chongyun was confused and overwhelmed, the visitor immediately said: "We are the staff of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee in the northeast, and this adventurous visit is to tell you a message, your father has found, he is a national hero and a national hero General Yang Jingyu!" ”
This news struck Ma Chongyun as if he had been struck by lightning, he had been following his mother's wishes since 1944, and had been searching for his father for eight years, but there was no result, and he was obviously surnamed Ma, so why would he be Yang Jingyu's son?
Finally, under the explanation of the cadres of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, he finally understood the causes and consequences of the incident.
Ma Chongyun was born in 1926 in a poor peasant family in a remote mountain village in Qishan County, Henan Province, and when ma Chongyun's sister Ma Jinyun was born at the age of two, his father Ma Shangde resolutely decided to bid farewell to his wife and children and join the army to make a revolution and defend the country.
After the father left, the burden of taking care of the children and parents fell on his wife Guo Lian alone, and the life was very difficult, often eating and not eating.
But Guo Lian never complained at all, because she knew that her husband was a man who stood tall in the sky, and she wanted to join the army for the suffering people, so she married a chicken and a dog, helped her husband take care of the family, and let him not be distracted when fighting on the front line.
The people in the village saw that Guo Lian was too hard alone, and their hearts were not unbearable, so they suggested that she find another one, and it would be easier to live together, but they were all rejected by Guo Lian one by one, and she had sworn from the day she married her husband that she would never remarry after being a person of Ma Shangde all her life.
When the people in the village saw that she had such a resolute attitude, they would no longer continue to persuade her, but as long as they saw Guo Lian in difficulty, they would still not hesitate to help and give help within their capabilities.
After Guo Lian's husband Ma Shangde left home to join the revolution, under the instructions of the party organization, he led the creation and consolidation of the base area of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District, and founded the peasant revolutionary army in Qishan County, Henan, and finally was incorporated into the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in southern Henan, officially opening the great prelude to the agrarian revolutionary war in Henan.
He was arrested and imprisoned by the reactionaries of the Nationalist army five times and tortured many times, but he always firmly believed in his faith and was mighty and unyielding; after Ma Shangde was rescued from prison by the party organization for the last time, in order not to involve his wife and children in his hometown, he took the initiative to change his name and surname to Yang Jingyu and continued to carry out an indomitable and arduous struggle with the reactionary Nationalist army.
After the September 18 Incident in 1931, the three northeastern provinces fell into the hands of the Japanese army, and the whole country was in an uproar.
In 1932, Yang Jingyu accepted the assignment of the party organization, went north to the customs clearance, went to the northeast to organize the anti-Japanese coalition army, and as a special representative of the Manchurian Provincial Party Committee and a member of the Central Military Commission, developed the anti-Japanese armed forces in southern Manchuria and created an anti-Japanese democratic base area.
In 1935, upon the request of the Manchurian Provincial Party Committee and the approval of the headquarters organs, it was decided to integrate the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, the Anti-Japanese United Army, the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas, and the armed forces of various parts of the Northeast to reorganize and reorganize the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, with Yang Jingyu as the commander of the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Coalition and concurrently serving as the political commissar.
Under the command of Yang Jingyu's wise and divine martial arts, the strength of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance grew day by day, gradually expanding from a few hundred people at the beginning to several thousand, becoming a military force that should not be underestimated behind the anti-Japanese enemy in northeast China.
In 1936, the First Army and the Second Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League were reorganized into the First Route Army of the Anti-Japanese League, and Yang Jingyu Jigong was promoted to commander-in-chief, with more than 6,000 basic troops under his jurisdiction, which brought great trouble to the Japanese army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Yang Jingyu personally led his troops to launch a western expedition, often taking the initiative to attack around the Tonghua area, including Shenyang, Jilin, Andong and Dandong regions, pinning down the enemy in the northeast, fully cooperating with the anti-Japanese operations in Guannei, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, and becoming a major problem for the Japanese army.
At the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee held in early November 1938, the head of the party group headquarters and Chairman Mao jointly sent a cordial message of condolences to Yang Jingyu, highly praising Yang Jingyu's military and political work in the northeast region and the heroic feats of all officers and men of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Resistance League daring to take root in the occupied areas and strive to ensure that the motherland's territory could not be lost, and praised Yang Jingyu for working hard with the Japanese army for seven years between the white mountains and black waters in the ice and snow, which can be called a model and benchmark for heroic struggle and arduous struggle.
In the autumn of 1939, the Japanese Kwantung Army specially formulated a combat plan for encircling and suppressing Yang Jingyu, and under the crazy encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, Yang Jingyu successively turned to the Changbai Mountains and fought jointly with the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese League, repeatedly breaking through the encirclement and blockade of the Japanese army, attacking the Japanese army's strongholds, destroying the Japanese army's facilities, and forcefully cracking down on the japanese army's indomitable arrogance.
In the end, he commanded the troops to break through in pieces and dispersed guerrillas, while Yang Jingyu himself led a guard brigade to the Mengjiang area.
Unexpectedly, in 1940, because of the betrayal of traitors and deeply surrounded by the Japanese army, Yang Jingyu single-handedly fought with the enemy for five days and nights and died heroically, at the age of 35.
Four years after Yang Jingyu's death, the Japanese army in Henan received a tip-off from a villain that Guo Lian, a peasant woman in Qishan County, whose husband was a communist, was immediately sent to arrest and imprison him, torture her, and ask her to confess the whereabouts of her husband Ma Shangde.
However, Guo Lian could not let go, and finally because her body could not withstand the punishment, she was discarded in a mass burial post outside the city, and was rescued home by well-wishers who passed by.
On her deathbed, Guo Lian called her son Ma Chongyun to the bed, handed him an old photo of her husband, and left her last words: "Don't give up, you must find your father!" ”
After his mother's death, Ma Chongyun followed his mother's last wishes and embarked on the road to find his father, but he searched all the Communist Party organizations and the People's Liberation Army troops in Qishan County, Henan Province, and did not find any information about his father, and he could not help but be a little discouraged.
After the founding of New China in 1949, the staff of the Qishan County Party Committee in Henan Province told Ma Chongyun: "Comrade Ma Shangde is indeed a communist, but he was transferred to other regions to work as early as the war of resistance against Japan, and since then he has broken off contact, and they do not know where he is now." ”
Finally with a little news, Ma Chongyun's heart rose again, and he applied for a job as a railway worker in Henan, deciding to continue to search for his father's whereabouts while working.
It was not until one day in 1952, when Ma Chongyun was preparing to go home for dinner after work, when the leading cadres of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee suddenly came to the door, that he knew that his father was actually General Yang Jingyu, a national anti-Japanese hero, but unfortunately, his father had already died heroically as early as 1940.
In 1953, Ma Chongyun was invited to Harbin thousands of miles away, and finally saw the remains of his father and fulfilled his mother's last wish before her death.
In 1958, at the Yang Jingyu Public Festival, Ma Chongyun personally spoke as a representative, determined to be a man who stood up to the sky like his father and was useful to the country and the nation.
After the ceremony, General Yang Jingyu was buried in the martyrs' cemetery in Tonghua, Jilin Province, in the specifications of a founding marshal.