After the September 18 Incident, the Japanese occupied the three northeastern provinces in less than half a year, and established a puppet state of Manchukuo to rule over the Chinese, and countless bloody Chinese who did not want to be slaves to the country rose up to resist, and General Yang Jingyu was one of the representatives of this group.
A photograph of General Yang Jingyu when he was young. In 1932, General Yang Jingyu was entrusted by the Party Central Committee to organize an anti-Japanese coalition army in the northeast and led the northeast military and civilians to fight a bloody battle with the Japanese and Kou in the White Mountains and Black Waters, and his heroic deeds encouraged more anti-Japanese soldiers to join in. However, in the later period, he was tragically betrayed by traitors, and he died heroically after several days and nights of fighting alone with a large number of Japanese and Kosku in an emergency of ice and snow and running out of ammunition.
The traitorous traitor Cheng Bin, who was originally the commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, was Yang Jingyu's most trusted subordinate, and he knew Yang Jingyu very well, including all the secret camps of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League. However, Cheng Bin defected to the enemy and destroyed all the secret camps set up by General Yang Jingyu in Mengjiang County. This is a bottom of the bucket for Yang Jingyu, and it should be known that the reason why the Northeast Anti-Japanese League has been able to fight against the Japanese army for so many years is mainly because of these secret camps. The deep mountains in the northeast provided a natural shelter for the anti-coalition fighters, especially in winter, and some grain and ammunition were stored in the secret camp to maintain the continuation of anti-Japanese activities.
Traitor Zhang Xiufeng. After the secret camp was destroyed, Yang Jingyu had to flee to other places. However, at this moment, his guard platoon leader Zhang Xiufeng defected. Zhang Xiufeng's parents died since childhood, and Yang Jingyu has always regarded him as his own son, trusting him very much, and it can be said that he has handed over his life to him. However, Zhang Xiufeng's rebellion (February 1, 1941) not only took away the secret documents, guns and ammunition of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, and more than 9,000 yuan of activity funds, but what was even more hateful was that he actually told the Japanese about general Yang Jingyu's escape route, forcing Yang Jingyu to be cornered.
Yang Jingyu's whereabouts were exposed, the Japanese traitors continued to shrink the encirclement, Yang Jingyu continued to break through and negotiate with the Japanese, and the fighters around him fell one by one, leaving him alone. After hiding in the kneeless mountains and old forests for more than 20 days, Yang Jingyu's cotton shoes had rotted into a mess, his feet were frostbitten, and he had not eaten for many days, and he was in urgent need of food and cotton shoes. On February 22, Yang Jingyu waited for four villagers in the mountains five miles west of Bao'an Village in Mengjiang County, and Yang Jingyu begged them to go back and bring some food and cotton shoes, and promised to give more money. Unexpectedly, the villagers told the Japanese of Yang Jingyu's whereabouts. Group photo of the Japanese police team that killed Yang Jingyu.
Yang Jingyu in the shack was full of hopes that the villagers would buy food for him to eat so that he could continue the fight, but he heard the sound of the car engine, he knew that things were not good, and quickly left the shack and ran to the mountain. On February 23, the Japanese surrounded Yang Jingyu and persuaded him to surrender, but General Yang Jingyu vowed to die! Bullets shot at him from all sides, Yang Jingyu took a gun and shot down several enemies who rushed in front of him, at the same time he was also shot in many places on his body, after being shot in his left wrist, a pistol landed on the ground, he still fought with a barge gun in his right hand, and finally he was shot in the chest and fell down, and a generation of anti-Japanese heroes was martyred in this heroic way! The time was 4:30 p.m. on February 23, 1940.
This is the photo of General Yang Jingyu when he was righteous. Yang Jingyu was only 35 years old when he was martyred. After his death, the Japanese cut open his stomach and found that his stomach was so hungry that it had changed shape, and there was not even a grain of grain in his stomach except for the grass roots and cotton wool that had not yet been digested! General Yang Jingyu's death was so tragic that even the brutal Japanese were shocked and convinced by this, and Ryuichiro Kishitani, director of the pseudo-Tonghua Provincial Police Department who participated in the "encirclement and suppression" at that time, had to admit: "Although he is an enemy, he also sighs at his grandeur: Great hero!" And specially held a "consolation sacrifice" for Yang Jingyu.
In order to "show off their military exploits" and "deter" the anti-Japanese people, the Japanese army cruelly used a knife to cut off the head of General Yang Jingyu and printed a large number of pictures, which were scattered in the places where the Anti-Japanese Coalition had fought and some residential areas, trumpeting that "Yang Jingyu's troops have been purged" and showing off their "outstanding battle achievements." This is the picture printed by the Japanese Kou at that time, and it also reads "Bandit Leader Yang Jingyu's First Rank and Seal".
This photo is of Ri Kou pulling General Yang Jingyu's head in a car and roaming the streets. Later, Yang Jingyu's head was soaked in a medicine bottle by a potion and sent to the medical room of the Kwantung Army Headquarters in the pseudo-Manchurian "capital" of Xinjing (present-day Changchun), where it was secretly hidden. It was not until 1948 that the head of General Yang Jingyu was found and then secretly sent to Harbin. At a time when the nation was in danger, General Yang Jingyu stepped forward to resist the Japanese between the White Mountains and the Black Water, and the matter was still unfinished, tragic and righteous, so that the Chinese children and grandchildren would be proud and could not bear to remember.