Yang Jingyu, a hero of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, once led the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army to persist in guerrilla warfare for 8 years, and was betrayed by traitors on February 23, 1940, besieged by Japanese puppet troops, and unfortunately died in the process of breaking through, at the age of 35. Yang Jingyu's death is not only because the Japanese devils are fierce, but also because there are too many traitors and traitors around him.
Oil painting showing General Yang Jingyu
Scholars generally believe that there were four people who caused major damage to Yang Jingyu's guerrilla operations and eventually led to his death, namely, Cheng Bin, commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Former Northeast Anti-Japanese League, Zhang Xiufeng, a guard of Yang Jingyu, Zhao Tingxi, a platoon leader of the puppet army in Bao'an Village, and Zhang Xiruo, a puppet army machine gunner who besieged Yang Jingyu.
It is reasonable to say that these four people have all mutilated Yang Jingyu and should all be shot after liberation. However, the reality is that only two of the four men were dealt with, and the other two went into hiding and all ended up dying.
Let's start with the two who were dealt with. At that time, the living environment of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance was harsh, and some people with weak will eventually chose to treason and surrender to the enemy, and Cheng Bin was one of them. Because he knew both the Northeast Anti-Japanese League and Yang Jingyu, the damage caused was very serious. As the commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Anti-Japanese League, he knew every secret supply point of Yang Jingyu and led the puppet army to destroy them one by one.
Cheng Bin in the Japanese media
At the same time, the Kwantung Army adopted a strategy of "fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness" against Yang Jingyu's anti-coalition organization, and Yang Jingyu's team could not get food at all, and the scale suddenly dropped from more than 800 people to only more than 60 people. Cheng Bin's defection was an important reason why Yang Jingyu later fell into a predicament and was besieged by the Kwantung Army and the puppet army.
After Yang Jingyu was killed, The head of the Tonghua Provincial Police Department, Kishitani Ryuichiro, also asked Cheng Bin to identify Yang Jingyu's body, and together with others, cut off Yang Jingyu's head with a knife.
After killing Yang Jingyu, Cheng Bin has been following his master, Takaichiro Kishitani, around China to commit evil. At the end of World War II in 1945, Japan surrendered, and Kishitani Takaichiro committed suicide. Cheng Bin killed several Japanese prisoners of war, pretended to be anti-Japanese heroes, and even passed the customs in disguise, becoming the commander of the North China Field Army.
The arrow refers to Takaichiro Kishitani
Cheng Bin's arrest was a coincidence. On a rainy day in 1951, Cheng Bin was walking in the streets of Shenyang with an umbrella, and a person hid under Cheng Bin's umbrella in the rain. Both men wanted to get rid of each other and save themselves, so they secretly reported each other in private, and both were eventually shot.
The second person to be dealt with was Zhao Tingxi, a platoon leader of the puppet army in Baoan Village. On February 18, 1940, Yang Jingyu, who had been besieged for several days, had not eaten for five days, and the last two comrades around him were killed in search of food. Yang Jingyu could only go out on his own to find food, and as a result, he ran into Zhao Tingxi, who was dressed as a villager, in Baoan Village.
Zhao Tingxi is the pseudo-army platoon leader in the village, a standard traitor. He persuaded Yang Jingyu to surrender, saying that the pseudo-"Manchukuo" would not kill those who surrendered, and Yang Jingyu, when he was an ordinary villager, told him that he could not surrender, and if every Chinese thought so, China would be finished. Zhao Tingxi was surrounded by several people at that time, all of whom saw Yang Jingyu, and in order to ask for credit, Zhao Tingxi rushed ahead of them to inform the Japanese, exposing Yang Jingyu's specific location, attracting the enemy, and killing Yang Jingyu.
Group photo of northeast anti-coalition fighters
After Japan surrendered, Zhao Tingxi went into hiding because he had been a puppet army for fear of being liquidated. In October 1945, Mengjiang County, where Yang Jingyu was killed, was taken over by the people's government and renamed Jingyu County. The following year, Zhao Tingxi was picked out by the locals and shot by the people's government.
The next two are traitors and traitors who have not been dealt with and have a good death. First, let's talk about General Yang Jingyu's guard Zhang Xiufeng. Zhang Xiufeng, an orphan, has followed Yang Jingyu since he was 15 years old, and Yang Jingyu regarded him as his own and made him his guard platoon leader.
Zhang Xiufeng
On February 1, 1940, Zhang Xiufeng surrendered to the Kwantung Army with a large number of confidential documents and more than 9,000 yuan of funds from the Anti-League, exposing Yang Jingyu's location. As a result, the enemy moved closer to Yang Jingyu and basically cut off his breakthrough line. Yang Jingyu's range of activities was further reduced, so that he could not eat a little grain for several days.
After Yang Jingyu was killed, Zhang Xiufeng and Cheng Bin were both called to identify Yang Jingyu, and when the enemy dissected Yang Jingyu's body, he found that his stomach was seriously atrophied, which was caused by not eating for many days. Zhang Xiufeng's rebellion was fatal to Yang Jingyu. However, after Zhang Xiufeng surrendered in Japan, he has been hiding in the folk.
In 1983, Zhang Xiufeng was once found by reporters, but throughout his life, he did not receive any punishment for betraying Yang Jingyu until he was old.
Yang Jingyu
Another person who was not punished was named Zhang Xiruo. He was the machine gunner of the puppet army unit that besieged General Yang Jingyu, and it was Zhang Xiruo who used the point shot to shoot General Yang Jingyu to death. It can be said that he was the executioner who killed Yang Jingyu.
However, after liberation, Zhang Xiruo also went into hiding in the folk. Until 1965, Zhang Xiruo was picked up. During the interrogation, he insisted that Yang Jingyu had committed suicide, that is, he did not admit his crime. After two years of detention, Zhang Xiruo was released. In the 1970s, Japan published a photograph of Zhang Xiruo, confirming that he was Yang Jingyu's murderer. In 1984, Chinese journalists approached Mr. Zhang, but he could no longer be convicted.
Why did Zhang Xiufeng and Zhang Xiruo, the sinners of these two nationalities, and the murderers who betrayed and killed General Yang Jingyu, not get the punishment they deserved, and finally live their old age in peace? There is only one official explanation, when they are found and determined to be guilty, they have already passed the statute of limitations for crimes, and can only be counted.