On February 23, 1940, Baoan Village, Mengjiang County,
Yang Jingyu, who was seriously injured, was forced into a desperate situation by the Japanese Kou who were pursuing him.
He had been circling the enemy for nearly two months, and the warriors under his command had died and scattered, and now he was the only one left. The Japanese army looked at the famous General Yang Jingyu in front of them and sent out
Persuasion
Shouting.
But see you
Yang Jingyu took a sip dismissively
Maintaining a shooting posture, he fired several shots at the Japanese company in the front row.
The persuasion was fruitless, and as soon as the leading Japanese army waved their hands, dozens of soldiers shot at Yang Jingyu. Under the enemy's dense rain of bullets, Yang Jingyu
Heroic martyrdom
。
In order to deter the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, the Japanese generals also cruelly cut off Yang Jingyu's head...
Liberation
Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall
On the eve of its establishment,
Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China
Decided to take General Yang Jingyu's
relic
As a key display content.
The head of martyr Yang Jingyu, who was stored in a medical school in Changchun, was also taken to the museum after the preservatives were replaced.
However, in the preparatory process of the construction of the museum, a problem that cannot be ignored is placed in front of everyone's eyes -
How should the profile of martyr Yang Jingyu be written?
During the war years, the archives of many confidential personnel could not be well preserved, so until the eve of the opening of the museum, everyone did not know Yang Jingyu's
True origin
Where.
In 1950, the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee officially set up an investigation team to investigate Yang Jingyu's life, and with a yellowed resume, the first half of Yang Jingyu's life gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
"Ma Shangde, who used the names Zhang Guanyi, Nai Chao, and Yang Jingyu. In 1928, he led the Liudian Autumn Harvest Uprising..."
Investigators discussed the information on the resume.
Among the people present, there were some people who had contact with General Yang Jingyu, but most of them only knew that Yang Jingyu had come to the northeast from Guanli in his early years and could not provide more information.
Liudian uprising
It occurs on the border between Anhui and Henan
Dabie Mountain
One area, so some people infer that Yang Jingyu may be from Anhui or Henan.
During the discussion, another person who had contact with Yang Jingyu spoke:
"I remember That Commander Yang had a Shandong accent."
At this time, the scope of the investigation has been expanded a lot, and the question of Yang Jingyu's life is even more confusing.
Old photo of the Northeast Anti-Corruption League
Finally, the leader of the investigation team
Chen Lei
It was decided to personally visit these provinces and cities, and it was imperative to investigate the birthplace of General Yang Jingyu and at the same time search for his living relatives.
In the summer of 1951, the investigation team arrived day and night
Anhui
。 The group went straight to the old revolutionary area of Dabie Mountain, and finally with the assistance of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, found the record that "
Ma Shangde
" information.
In 1928, Ma Shangde, who was not yet 30 years old, served as the captain of the Eyu-Anhui Special Action Brigade of the Red 25th Army.
He was brave and good at war, heroic and enthusiastic, and the name "Ma Shangde" was a household name in the Dabie Mountains in Anhui Province.
But in addition to the memories of Marshand's heroic deeds,
The investigation team did not get more information here
So, the group came north again
Shandong
When the people came to Jinan to check the archives, they found that there was even less information about Yang Jingyu here, and there were almost no written records related to it.
This thread was thus interrupted.
Just when the investigation was in a bottleneck, Chen Lei found a copy of the People's Daily, and an article published on it brought hope to everyone.
That's an article titled
"Remembering Comrade Yang Jingyu, a model Communist Party member"
Article, published on July 1.
Mentioned in the text
"Yang Jingyu was born in Henan in his early years"
, and the author
Yang Yichen
It was one of Yang Jingyu's closest comrades-in-arms during his lifetime.
If the information in the article is true, then the previous clues have a reasonable explanation - the Henan accent is extremely similar to the Shandong accent, and the Liudian riots also happened in the Southern Henan area of Dabie Mountain.
The site of the Liudian Autumn Harvest Uprising
At this point,
All the clues point to one place – Henan.
For the sake of rigor, the investigation team still went to Yang Yichen, the author of this article, and prepared to verify it again.
Yang Yichen, then the leader of the Liaoning Provincial CPC Committee, this old comrade-in-arms who had crawled on the ice and lying in the snow with Yang Jingyu, immediately blushed when he heard the investigation team's intentions.
"Commander Yang personally told me that his hometown is in Qishan County, Henan Province, and there is a son and a daughter in the family."
When the goal was finally determined, everyone was relieved, and so on
After bidding farewell to Yang Yichen, Chen Lei boarded the train to Henan with the investigation team that night.
In the summer of 1952, Zhumadian City
Liwan Village, Queshan County
Outside a small courtyard on the east end, several cars were suddenly parked.
The owner of the house
Ma from the clouds
He was having lunch with his wife, and when he was confronted with several visitors who looked like cadres, the young man still seemed a little overwhelmed.
Everyone looked at the outline of his facial features, and their hearts were more determined, and their mood could not help but get excited.
Feng Zhongyun, vice governor of Heilongjiang Province, spoke first:
"You are Commander Yang's son, and you look really like your father!"
Ma Congyun was stunned, and then looked at his wife doubtfully,
"Commander Yang? I am ma, my father's name is Ma Shangde. ”
"That's right! When your father went to the northeast to lead the anti-Japanese resistance, he later changed his name after following the instructions of his superiors.
CallEd Yang Jingyu!
”
Feng Zhongyun (left)
Ma Congyun's face was shocked, the father he had never met, the father who had made his mother worry about for more than ten years, was actually a famous anti-Japanese general!
But soon, Ma Congyun's expression changed from shock to grief.
If his father is really Yang Jingyu, it means that the father he has been looking for for more than 7 years is no longer alive
, and left in a very heroic way.
Ma Congyun and his wife invited the investigation team to sit down in the house and took it out
A photograph left by her mother before she died
for everyone to see.
In the photo, a young man is sitting on a rattan chair, and it is indeed General Yang Jingyu who looks at the face, and this photo is obviously left before participating in the revolution.
A photograph of Yang Jingyu's wife, Guo Lian, left for her children
In the winter of 1953, Ma Congyun came to Harbin with his wife and children and sister Ma Jinyun to participate
Opening ceremony.
In the center of the exhibition hall,
The siblings were finally able to meet their father
Looking at the specimen of the head in the glass bottle, Ma Congyun and Ma Jinyun fell to their knees crying and prostrated their heads heavily on the ground:
"Dad, we're coming to see you..."
Ma Congyun's family was entertained by many anti-coalition veterans in Harbin, and some of them advocated giving Ma Congyun a stable job in the local area.
But he refused.
Soon after, Ma returned to his hometown to work in the material factory of the Zhengzhou Railway Bureau, and his sister Ma Jinyun also worked in a nursery in Zhengzhou.
In 1964, at the age of 37, Ma Congyun was killed in the line of duty and his remains were buried in the Zhengzhou Martyrs' Cemetery.
Like his father Yang Jingyu, he became a people's hero.
Ma Congyun's widow Fang Xiuyun and Ma Jinyun and others still live the lives of ordinary people.
In order to live up to the honor of General Yang Jingyu, the Ma family did not ask the government for too much help, but instead
Walking in the world step by step, truly living out the style of the descendants of martyrs.
Ma Congyun's wife and son
Text/Wood In-Green
References: "The Most Dangerous Moment", "My Anti-League Years"