He was the commander-in-chief of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, and he led the soldiers to hold their positions and never back down in the absence of water and food. He was extremely good at guerrilla warfare, always winning with a flexible and changeable approach to combat. Surrounded by Japanese and pseudo-crusaders, he let the warriors take a safe path, but he himself took the most dangerous road with two guards. He is Yang Jingyu— a hero who should not be forgotten by us.
This hero did not receive the rank of "general" before his death, but he was commemorated by thousands of people after his death. He was betrayed several times, but never succumbed to the Japanese army. The soldiers who betrayed him wept for him, and the Japanese generals left a will to praise him. So what is the style of this iron-blooded soldier who made the Japanese army feel frightened on the battlefield?
In February 1905, Yang Jingyu was born in an ordinary peasant family in Qishan County, Henan Province, and he was brought up by his mother because he lost his father at an early age.
In 1923, at the age of 18, he was admitted to the Henan Provincial Kaifeng Textile and Dyeing Industrial School, where he secretly participated in revolutionary activities and realized that as a young man, he should be loyal to the country and establish a life for the people of the world.
In 1925, he actively participated in the May Fourth anti-imperialist patriotic movement, and then joined the Chinese Communist Youth League, actively participating in the peasant movement throughout the country.
The May Fourth Movement
In 1927 he joined the Communist Party of China and participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, dedicating his share of the forces to the expulsion of the warlords. In Henan, the first revolutionary armed force, the Qishan County Peasant Revolutionary Army, was formed, which opened the prelude to the agrarian revolutionary war in Henan. In the spring of 1929, Yang Jingyu received an order to go to the northeast, for which he changed his name to "Zhang Guanyi" as the secretary of the Fushun Special Branch of the Communist Party of China, went deep into the Fushun Coal Mine, contacted the masses of workers, and led the workers in a fierce struggle against the Japanese mine owners who had invaded and occupied China's coal mines. In the process, Yang Jingyu's tenacity has been revealed, he has been arrested and imprisoned 5 times, tortured, but he has not once succumbed to the enemy army.
In 1931, after the 918 Incident, he was responsible for the leadership of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation. At that time, although the Northeast Army was bloody, it lacked unified command, and soon the "Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army" was reduced to zero by the Japanese army because of its relatively single tactical application, and it was no longer a climate. Therefore, Yang Jingyu was ordered to establish the 1st Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army on the basis of the South Manchurian guerrillas and the Hailong guerrillas, and since then he has repeatedly made great achievements in the anti-Japanese battlefield and led the army to carry out fierce struggles against the Japanese army in various places. In 1935 alone, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition launched a total of 39,105 battles, large and small, in various parts of the three northeastern provinces. By 1940, nearly 70,000 battles, large and small, had been fought.
In 1936, the three northeastern provinces had fallen for five years, and this land belonging to China was even put under the banner of "Manchukuo". Despite the Japanese army's efforts to eliminate the Chinese forces, they were still unable to eliminate the Chinese troops. The troops led by Yang Jingyu are the "nails in the eyes and thorns in the flesh" of the Japanese army. Although the Japanese have always wanted to get rid of the back quickly, they have always been helpless.
Lugou Bridge Incident
After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, Yang Jingyu launched a western expedition to attack the Japanese army to assist the battle in Guannei. The name Yang Jingyu also resounded on the battlefield, becoming a nightmare for the Japanese. Beginning in 1938, the Japanese Kwantung Army Command mobilized 60,000 troops to "kill" Yang Jingyu. At the peak of the Northeast Alliance led by Yang Jingyu, there were only 30,000 people. What is even more ridiculous is that the Japanese Kwantung Army also specially ordered that if it saw the Anti-Japanese Coalition and other teams, it could spare the other teams and only fight Yang Jingyu's Anti-Coalition troops. The Japanese Kwantung Army actually excusable in doing so. At that time, the anti-coalition troops led by Yang Jingyu were the "most stubborn bandit leaders", and it was not surprising that his army bore the brunt of the crusade.
Under the situation that the Japanese army was "going all out to hunt down and kill the bandit leader Yang Jingyu and his troops," some people in the Anti-Japanese Coalition actually suggested that the troops should be temporarily transferred to the Soviet Union to "avoid the wind." When Yang Jingyu heard this suggestion, he immediately became angry. He said: "We are the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, what is the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army when you run to the Soviet Union?" ”
Seeing that Yang Jingyu's attitude was very resolute, his subordinates once again proposed a plan for Yang Jingyu to hide the headquarters in the deep mountains of Changbai Mountain, leaving other troops to tie down the enemy outside and defend the headquarters. Although Yang Jingyu is a Native of Henan, he has been stationed in the northeast for many years and has a very straight temper. He saw that these subordinates did not think well about how to resist the enemy, but only wanted to defend the headquarters and hide deep in the mountains, and immediately became angry. He immediately howled in his own loud voice: "Anti-Japanese, anti-Japanese!" To the Changbai Mountains, the cat is still called what anti-Japanese! ”
In September 1939, the "Joint Combat Command of the Japanese-Manchu Army and Police in the Three Provinces of Jilin, Tonghua and Jiandao" was established, with 5 brigades of the Japanese Independent Garrison, 7 brigades of the Puppet Manchu Army, and reinforcement teams of the three provinces and the four provinces of Rehe, Fengtian, Binjiang, and Jinzhou, and about 25,000 people were gathered to suppress Yang Jingyu's troops.
At the same time, the Japanese Kwantung Army also specially changed its own style of play for Yang Jingyu's Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Forces. The first is to carry out the system of armed tun tian and armor protection in the areas infested by the Anti-Japanese League. This system is mainly to prevent the common people from contacting the Anti-Japanese League privately, and the Kwantung Army has also made great efforts to do this, they have circled every two or three hundred households with barbed wire, and also set up guard towers and patrol police, afraid that the people will secretly help Yang Jingyu. And this second is to keep a close eye on Yang Jingyu's anti-coalition troops, as long as they find the anti-coalition troops, they will bite to the death. The third article is: preferential treatment of traitors, for this reason, the Japanese Kwantung Army has changed its style of indiscriminate killing and chosen to give preferential treatment to defectors. These three points did play a role.
In particular, in July 1939, Cheng Bin, commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition under Yang Jingyu, defected. This Cheng Bin is his beloved general, and he is also known as "Little Yang Jingyu". However, the Kwantung Army captured Cheng Bin's mother in order to coerce him to go down the mountain and surrender, and Cheng Bin "had to" defect to the Japanese Kwantung Army. What was even more hateful was that this traitor, instead of going to surrender himself, pulled 115 of his men to surrender with him. He also simply led the Japanese Kwantung Army to destroy more than 70 secret camps set up by Yang Jingyu in Mengjiang County. It should be known that these secret camps are the life supply lines of the anti-coalition forces, storing food, medicine and firearms sent by the people. Yang Jingyu's team, whose secret camp was destroyed, immediately fell into a situation of running out of ammunition.
In the autumn of 1939, the Kwantung Army began to sweep up Yang Jingyu's troops, which they had forced into a desperate situation, and the vanguard of Yang Jingyu's troops was the "traitor" police brigade headed by Cheng Bin. Because these traitors were too familiar with the tactics and routes of Yang Jingyu and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, they could even guess what Yang Jingyu's troops were going to do next.
In January 1940, the Changbai Mountains were still snow-capped, and the temperature was approaching more than -20 degrees. Yang Jingyu led more than a dozen fighters to continue to negotiate with the enemy, while ordering a large army to break through to the north.
On January 22, a second traitor appeared in Yang Jingyu's troops, and Ding Shoulong, a staff officer of the Guard Brigade, was unfortunately captured by the Tonghua Provincial Police Brigade, and under the torture of the Kwantung Army, he confessed Yang Jingyu's hidden location and deployment. The situation was getting more and more severe, and watching the traitors appear one after another, Yang Jingyu was also very cold. But he did not expect that a third traitor would follow.
Zhang Xiufeng
On February 1, Zhang Xiufeng, the child that Yang Jingyu has been raising by his side, actually rebelled. What is even more frightening is that Zhang Xiufeng also took a large amount of funds and top-secret documents to defect to the enemy, and Yang Jingyu's position was fully exposed.
On February 22, Yang Jingyu was left alone, watching two guards die while going down the mountain to buy food for him, and he had to drag his tired body down the mountain by himself. By the 22nd, he had not eaten for 5 days and 5 nights.
On February 23, Yang Jingyu was forced to stop several villagers who had gone up the mountain to collect firewood and asked them to buy some food and cotton shoes for themselves. Unexpectedly, one of the villagers actually advised him to surrender immediately, saying: "Now the Japanese army does not kill those who surrender." Yang Jingyu was silent for a long time, and sighed a long time, knowing that this time he was bound to lose. But he still issued a soul-like cry: "Fellow countrymen, we have all surrendered Chinese, is there still China?" "Here Yang Jingyu had to fight the Japanese army to the end with an empty stomach, and the villagers over there betrayed him as soon as they got down the mountain." When the Japanese puppet army heard the news, it immediately sent people to rush to Yang Jingxu's hiding place in five groups, and divided into two teams to encircle Yang Jingyu.
Watching the enemy's encirclement shrink smaller and smaller, Yang Jingyu, dressed in a single suit and with an empty belly, gave up the opportunity to escape and burned all the documents next to a stone in order not to be seen by the enemy. Sure enough, the enemy caught up with him and surrounded him in the snow. Even so, Yang Jingyu still did not give up resistance, and he was alone in the face of the surging enemy army, without the slightest timidity. In fact, the Japanese puppet army at that time also respected "Commander Yang", and the Japanese army's Nishitani Kitsune also called out to Yang Jingyu when Yang Jingyu was resisting hard, telling him: "We are a police force in Tonghua, welcome you to submit to us, now you must not escape, why rush to die?" ”
Who knew that Yang Jingyu firmly told the Japanese Kwantung Army:
"I cherish my life, but it won't be what you want. Many of my subordinates have been sacrificed, and although I am left with only myself, my comrades are working everywhere, and the day of your demise will surely come. Needless to say, shoot. ”
Seeing that Yang Jingyu was so stubborn, the Japanese Kwantung Army knew that it was useless to talk too much, so it chose to shoot and kill the martyr.
For a moment, gunfire was loud. Seeing that Yang Jingyu was holding a double gun, he was not afraid to face death at all, even if his right arm had been hit by the enemy, he still stubbornly continued to fight. But his strength alone was limited after all, and after more than 20 minutes of stubborn resistance to the enemy, the bullet still pierced his chest. Yang Jingyu was only 35 years old when he died.
The Japanese army was both excited and disappointed to see this enemy that had frightened them finally fall. Because compared with the soldiers who surrendered without a fight, yang Jingyu's iron-blooded man is more worthy of people's respect. After Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, the cruel Japanese army dissected his body to see how this "iron man" fought a guerrilla war with the Japanese army for more than twenty days in the weather of more than twenty degrees below zero. But when the results of the autopsy came out, the Japanese army was shocked. Yang Jingyu's stomach actually did not have any food residue, all grass roots, bark, cotton wool and other things.
The Japanese commander who was in charge of recruiting Yang Jingyu at that time, Ye Baocangde, was frightened by this result, and he personally erected a monument for Yang Jingyu and held a spiritual worship meeting. He said that although Yang Jingyu was a nightmare for Japanese soldiers, his exploits were indeed outstanding. But the Japanese army was after all the Japanese army, and after commemorating Yang Jingyu, Ye BaoCangde ordered his men to cut off Yang Jingyu's head and save it to insult the Chinese army.
And Yang Jingyu's relics are only pistols, pocket watches and bullets. If there's anything special, it's a harmonica. It is said that when he discovered this harmonica, An Guangxun, the former chief of staff of the First Route Army of the Anti-Japanese League, could not help but cry bitterly, and he remembered the time when Yang Jingyu always played the harmonica for them during the battle to relieve their boredom. It's just that the person who plays the harmonica now has now become cold.
It was at that time that everyone knew that Yang Jingyu's real name was not Yang Jingyu, but "Ma Shangde". The name was changed to Jingyu because the name means "to expel foreign enemies" in Korean. Finally, as his name suggests, he was killed in the battle to expel foreign enemies. Later, in order to commemorate his outstanding contributions in the anti-Japanese resistance, the county where he fell was officially renamed Jingyu County.
On the eve of Japan's surrender in 1945, Kishitani Ryuichiro, who had fought yang jingyu face to face, left his last words before committing suicide by caesarean section. Bluntly: "It may not be appropriate for His Majesty the Emperor to launch this war of aggression against China." If China has a predatory soldier like Yang Jingyu, he will certainly not die. Although the authenticity of the last words has yet to be verified, it also proves that the Japanese are indeed very afraid of Yang Jingyu.
During the 14-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chinese soldiers swore to defend national interests to the death, and never stopped fighting. Although Yang Jingyu did not receive the rank of general until the moment of his sacrifice. But in our hearts, he has always been a general. And there is more than one general like him in China. It is precisely because of such a "uncrowned general" as Yang Jingyu that China has been able to become stronger! Let's salute him! Salute to martyrs like him!