In that revolutionary era, too many anti-Japanese patriotic heroes emerged. However, the way heroes sacrifice is different, some people die on the battlefield, some people die behind the battlefield, but some people die at the hands of traitors. For example, Yang Jingyu, an anti-Japanese hero who created the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District and the Air Force, and later led the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army to fight the enemy to the death. Some people once said that if Yang Jingyu did not sacrifice, he would have the rank of marshal after the founding of the Country, but he was helpless to say that history did not have an if.
Yang Jingyu started from the Henan Revolution, and after the September 18 Incident, under the appointment of the organization, Yang Jingyu rushed to the northeast to carry out the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement. After Yang Jingyu arrived in the northeast, he quickly began his work and formed an anti-Japanese wing. Before the July 7 Incident, Yang Jingyu's team was as high as more than 6,000 people, and the weapon firepower was basically complete. After the July 7 Incident, Yang Jingyu led his troops to the west to conquer the Japanese army many times to block the pace of the Japanese army's southward occupation of China.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Yang Jingyu vigorously called for the anti-Japanese forces to unite in the northeast. At the same time, Yang Jingyu began guerrilla warfare against Japan in the northeast region, effectively containing and attacking the Japanese army. After suffering repeated blows, the Japanese army gathered the well-armed mixed brigade troops to surround and suppress Yang Jingyu, but unexpectedly hit Yang Jingyu's ambush, and as a result, the mixed brigade was completely annihilated. Yang Jingyu also attracted the attention of the Japanese while winning successive victories. Subsequently, in the autumn and winter of 1939, Yang Jingyu fought hard and unfortunately died at the age of 35.
However, according to the recollections of some veterans of the Anti-Japanese League, Yang Jingyu's sacrifice is also another hidden plot. It is reported that Yang Jingyu's death has a considerable relationship with the four traitors. First, Cheng Bin, the former commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition, was originally Yang Jingyu's right-hand man, but in July 1938 he surrendered to the enemy and committed treason, and then led his troops to force Yang Jingyu's troops into a desperate situation, only because Cheng Bin directly destroyed all the supply bases of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League after surrendering to Japan.
Second, Zhang Xiufeng, the captain of the guard platoon. He was the eldest child of Yang Jingyu, but at the most difficult time for Yang Jingyu, he swept away all the funds of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Resistance League, led the guards to rebel, and then exposed Yang Jingyu's whereabouts; third, Zhao Tingxi, said that this person had the greatest degree of rebellion, and when Yang Jingyu was exhausted from fighting, Zhao Tingxi directly informed the enemy, resulting in Yang Jingyu's whereabouts being exposed. Fourth, Cheng Bin's subordinate Zhang Xiruo, Zhang Xiruo, and several of his brothers, under the orders of the Japanese army, shot at the former leaders, especially Zhang Xiruo and Bai Wanren, who cut off Yang Jingyu's head the next day and asked the Japanese for merit.
Among those traitors, Cheng Bin died in the post-liberation zhen rebellion, and Zhao Tingxi was shot in front of the tomb of Yang Jingyu hero in 1946. Most of the rest of the rest escaped due trial for various reasons, and even Zhang Xiruo refused to admit in front of reporters that he had participated in the Northeast Anti-Japanese League. From this point of view, Yang Jingyu's death was actually the comprehensive persecution of these four traitors to death.