In 1951, our soldiers arrested a traitor during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and what he did during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression directly led to the death of Yang Jingyu, the leader of the First Independent Division of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army. Why are there so many traitors around General Yang Jingyu? What are the untold stories behind this?
China's modern history can be described as a history of being tortured by foreign invaders, and Japan has always respected our country, but even when the Western powers invaded China, Japan, which performed the ritual of disciples, also wanted to share a piece of The Pie in China. Especially after the September 18 Incident, Japan occupied the northeast of our country, and in order to drive the Japanese invaders out of China, the people of the northeast rose up and spontaneously organized an anti-Japanese army. And Yang Jingyu is one of them.
In 1905, Yang Jingyu was born in Qishan County, Henan Province, his real name is not Yang Jingyu, but Ma Shangde, when the May Fourth Movement broke out, Yang Jingyu, who was only 14 years old, threw himself into the great wave of saving the Chinese nation, and it was in the process of this movement that he became a member of our party and was also valued by the top level of our party.
In 1929, Yang Jingyu went to Fushun to work, established a very prestigious image in the local area, and also organized many strikes. After a mine strike, Yang Jingyu was captured by the enemy and did not rescue him until after the 9/18 incident. As a patriotic and party-loving person, he dedicated his youth to the country.
In 1932, he went to Jilin Province to organize work, and in order to carry out the work more thoroughly, he went deep into the local people to conduct field investigations, and decided to launch a mass line, in this way to fight guerrilla warfare and protracted warfare with Japanese devils. At that time, Yang Jingyu organized the Rock Guerrillas, and the Japanese devils who often fought in the secret were caught off guard, which also made the Japanese devils very disgusted with the guerrillas organized by Yang Jingyu.
During the guerrilla war, Yang Jingyu met Cheng Bin, a native of Rock, who was born in 1912 and studied in a middle school run by foreigners because of his family's wealth. Later, under the inspection of the party, he joined our party and became a member of the anti-Japanese guerrilla group led by Yang Jingyu.
At that time, Yang Jingyu was the head of the Rock Guerrilla Group, and in his body, he had an extraordinary temperament, which made Cheng Bin, who was just an ordinary soldier, admire Yang Jingyu endlessly. After the September 18 Incident, the northeast fell into a very chaotic situation, and there were various factions of troops stationed in the local area, including the traitorous puppet army, the Japanese army, the Kuomintang army, the mountain thieves and bandits, and the guerrilla troops of our party.
In the face of the enemies of various factions, Yang Jingyu did not fear this, he not only eliminated the local mountain thieves and bandits, but also fought the Japanese army and the traitor puppet army. For the local people, the rock guerrilla led by Yang Jingyu was very close to the people and became a disciple soldier in the mouth of the local people.
As the guerrilla unit led by Yang Jingyu continued to grow in size, in 1933, under the instructions of the central authorities, Yang Jingyu gradually turned the guerrilla force led by Yang Jingyu into a regular unit, and he became the supreme leader of this unit.
Since the guard company is to protect the safety of the leaders of the troops, the soldiers inside are carefully selected, in addition to having excellent marksmanship, but also to be able to ensure absolute loyalty to the party. As the head of the guard company, Cheng Bin's ability was unbeatable in the guard company, and he was also absolutely loyal to the party, and later the scale of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army grew again, and Cheng Bin was promoted to division commander.
Although Yang Jingyu attaches great importance to Cheng Bin, this is enough to prove that Cheng Bin's ability is outstanding, so he can become a division commander. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cheng Bin led the team to fight against the traitorous puppet army and the Japanese army many times, causing heavy losses to the Japanese. In order to further crush the Japanese, he also organized various local anti-Japanese armed forces to join hands to launch attacks on the Japanese.
This Northeast People's Revolutionary Army dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese, so the Japanese also launched a strong counteroffensive in retaliation for Yang Jingyu. Since the essence of this people's revolutionary army was a guerrilla force, there was still a certain gap in strength compared with the large Japanese troops, so the Japanese seized the weakness of the army's insufficient supplies and besieged Yang Jingyu's troops.
At that time, the northeast was in the cold winter month, the troops were stationed in the extremely harsh environment of the mountains and forests, and the areas rich in grain production had been occupied by the Japanese, and the local people were also closely monitored, and they were not allowed to have any communication with the outside world, so under the supervision of the Japanese, Yang Jingyu's troops soon fell into the dilemma of material shortage.
Without food and clothing, in the deep mountains and old forests of the northeast, this group of soldiers can only wait for death. But Yang Jingyu did not admit his fate, he led the warriors to fight hares and wild boars in the mountains, although there was no grain in the deep mountains and old forests, fortunately, there was wild meat and wild fruits, these warriors could barely maintain their lives. To people's surprise, this group of people was trapped in the northeast mountain forest for three years, during which Yang Jingyu was circling with the Japanese.
In order to completely eliminate this unit, the Japanese want to plot against the fighters of our army and give them conditions, as long as they surrender, they will give whatever the Japanese want, and they want to bring these fighters to their knees in this way. At the same time, they also use their families to intimidate and induce.
It is understood that at that time, in order to completely eliminate this group of anti-coalition fighters, the Japanese also set up a special persuasion organization to shake the military spirit within the anti-Japanese coalition army through the families of these fighters. Because they had been trapped in the mountains and forests for three years, many people could not bear it for a long time, so under the temptation of the Japanese, many soldiers began to defect, and even the top brass of the troops defected.
Although some people around him defected to the Japanese, Yang Jingyu did not waver, but was bent on fighting the Japanese to the death, even if the troops were scattered, he also fought with the Japanese alone. But what makes Yang Jingyu very confused is that every time he hides in a place, the Japanese can find him, especially for his combat style and habits, the Japanese are even more familiar with him.
However, at that time, Yang Jingyu did not realize that he had been betrayed by traitors, in order not to let the Japanese catch him, he hid everywhere, but even in the guerrilla zone, Yang Jingyu was firmly stuck by the Japanese blockade line, and each blockade line was accurately stuck on Yang Jingyu's inevitable road, which made Yang Jingyu's escape road very difficult.
Later, a corpse was found in the deep mountain old forest, which was then regarded by the puppet army troops as Yang Jingyu, and reported this news to the Japanese, after many identifications, it was confirmed that it was not Yang Jingyu, so he continued to hunt Yang Jingyu in the deep mountain old forest.
In 1940, Yang Jingyu had been in the mountains and forests of the northeast for many years, and although he ran out of food, he always fought with the Japanese army, but under the cold and freezing, Yang Jingyu, who had not eaten for many days, finally could not support it, and finally fell on the northeast land.
Later, Yang Jingyu's body was found by the Japanese, and the Japanese were very confused, what did he rely on to support himself until now? So he opened Yang Jingyu's stomach, but found that except for some leaves and bark, he found not a single grain of grain. This also made the Japanese very shocked, in the case of many days of rice without entering, but also able to fight alone, I have to say that Yang Jingyu's vitality is very tenacious.
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended, but China's era of peace did not usher, our Party and the Kuomintang launched a civil war, the purpose of which is to create a new China, after four years of liberation war, the old Chiang Kai-shek lost the hearts of the people, he and the remnants of the army he led had to flee to Taiwan, but there are still some scattered soldiers active on the mainland.
Later, our Party arrested a Kuomintang agent named Liu Qichang, who, in an attitude of frankness and leniency and resistance to strictness, interrogated him; he confessed to his previous acts of rebellion and also revealed a shocking secret. According to his account, he knew who killed Yang Jingyu, and this person was still a high-ranking member of our army.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of the interrogators, and everyone present was astonished; according to Liu Qichang's confession, Yang Jingyu was killed by Cheng Bin, and the interrogators at that time directly called out that it was impossible, because at that time Cheng Bin was Yang Jingyu's most trusted person, and others betrayed Yang Jingyu.
To this end, Liu Qichang explained the origin of the whole incident, because the Japanese blockaded the entire deep mountain at that time, in the absence of foreign supply, the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army could only rely on wild animals for food, but at that time there were many people, the wild game on the mountain was limited, so people often went hungry. Coupled with the lack of medical treatment and medicine, many wounded warriors can only be tortured to death by diseases, which makes Cheng Bin, who has been very well-off since childhood, feel very afraid.
In order not to survive such a hard life, he accepted the Japanese letter of surrender, but at that time he left the anti-coalition forces in the name of saving his mother, ostensibly to prove that he was a filial piety, but in fact, his behavior had constituted a crime of treason. In order to get rid of the bitter sea, Cheng Bin led 115 soldiers to surrender to the han traitor puppet army, and after surrendering, he showed his degraded moral bottom line. Every time the Japanese arrested Yang Jingyu, they had Cheng Bin's advice. He also told the Japanese about Yang Jingyu's actual situation and his combat habits, so every time Yang Jingyu escaped, he would hit the Japanese blockade line.
The most infuriating thing is that at that time, there was a corpse that was recognized as Yang Jingyu's, and if during the autopsy, Cheng Bin nodded his head to indicate that the body was Yang Jingyu's, then the Japanese would not continue to search for Yang Jingyu, but he told the Japanese the truth, so Yang Jingyu could be said to have been killed by Cheng Bin.
Later, after the Japanese surrendered, Cheng Bin first defected to the Kuomintang, and with the heroic engagement of our Party fighters, the Kuomintang contingent was defeated, at which time Cheng Bin, in the name of the commander of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, switched to our army and became a commander in our army. However, what Cheng Bin did not expect was that even if he disguised himself cleverly, he was eventually recognized and ended up with the crime of rebel rebellion.
If there was no betrayal of Cheng Bin, Yang Jingyu would not have been able to sacrifice, fortunately, God would not spare any bad person, all this was seen by Cheng Bin's guard Liu Qichang, although Liu Qichang was only to protect himself, he exposed Cheng Bin's evil deeds, but no matter what, he finally returned General Yang Jingyu a justice. Soon after the founding of New China, Cheng Bin was sentenced to death and executed immediately.