In 1951, two strange men came to Liwan Village, Qishan County, Henan Province, and after much inquiry, they found a farmer's home named Ma Congyun. Ma Congyun was very surprised by the visit of these two strangers, so he asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”
The man in the lead responded, "You are Ma Congyun, we are here to find you." ”
Ma Congyun asked doubtfully, "What are you looking for, but I don't know you." ”
Another man replied: "You don't know us, but we know you, we are an investigation team sent down from the province, and this time we came to tell you that your father is the famous anti-Japanese hero General Yang Jingyu." ”
After listening to this sentence, Ma Congyun was stunned on the spot, and he shouted angrily: "My father's name is Ma Shangde, not Yang Jingyu, are you confused?" ”
The two men in the investigation team looked at each other and smiled, then said in unison: "We are not mistaken, you are not wrong." ”
What's going on here? Why would the people in this investigation team say that Ma Congyun's father was General Yang Jingyu? What is the connection between Ma Shangde and Yang Jingyu?
Changed his name and surname, and resisted the Japanese in the northeast
In fact, Yang Jingyu is the pseudonym of Ma Congyun's father, Ma Shangde, and Ma Congyun is also the biological son of the anti-Japanese hero Yang Jingyu, and everything in the story needs to be told fifty years ago.
In 1905, Ma Shangde was born into a peasant family in Qishan County, Henan Province. Because his father died early, Ma Shangde began to work in the fields at a very young age to help reduce the burden on the family.
At the age of eighteen, Ma Shangde was admitted to the Kaifeng Textile Industry Institute with excellent results, and during his time, Ma Shangde was exposed to the ideas of the Red Revolution and gradually became interested in communism.
In the same year, Ma Shangde also met a rural girl, Guo Lian, and the relationship between the two quickly warmed up and went to the palace of marriage, since then, Ma Shangde began to focus on learning communist ideas, and all the affairs of the family were handled by Guo Lian.
Two years later, Ma Shangde joined the Communist Party of China and actively threw himself into the revolutionary cause. However, the good times did not last long, and just three months after Ma Shangde joined the party, the vigorous National Revolution ended in failure because of the rebellion of Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei and others.
On August 7, 1927, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held an emergency meeting in Hankou, Hubei Province, and decided to call on the people of the whole country to continue the revolution and organize armed forces to launch the Autumn Harvest Uprising. Affected by this meeting, Ma Shangde also launched a huge Liudian autumn harvest uprising in southern Henan.
After the success of the uprising, Ma Shangde actively formed an armed force and led the revolutionary team to attack everywhere, fighting local tyrants, dividing up land, and gradually launching an agrarian revolutionary war in Henan. In the process, Ma Shangde gradually grew into an experienced Communist, and repeatedly defeated the reactionary forces, which caused a great deterrent to the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang.
In 1928, with the changes in the revolutionary situation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to send Comrade Ma Shangde to the northeast region to lead the workers' group to fight against the Japanese miners who occupied china's coal mines.
After receiving the order from his superiors, Ma Shangde went back to his home and looked at his one-year-old son and daughter who had just been born less than ten days ago. Ma Shangde said to his wife: "After so many years, I have treated you badly, I am out every day making revolutions, and my family depends on you for support." ”
The wife shook her head and said, "I know that you are doing big things outside, and I have no other ability, all I can do is take care of your home and give you a stable rear." ”
Ma Shangde then said, "Tomorrow, I'm going to travel far away, and it may take years to come back, and then the family will all depend on you." ”
Guo Lian stepped forward to hug her husband and said affectionately: "I will take the children to wait for you at home, and you must come back safely." ”
Early the next morning, Ma Shangde got up, and before leaving he saw for the last time a pair of sleeping sons and daughters, and then resolutely embarked on the road of revolution.
In 1929, Ma Shangde arrived at the Fushun Coal Mine and entered the mine under the pseudonym Zhang Guanyi, becoming a coal miner. When they first arrived here, many miners were wary of Zhang Guanyi, believing that he was a traitor sent by the Japanese, and everyone was reluctant to communicate with Ma Shangde.
For this, Ma Shangde is both happy and uncomfortable, happy that the miners are very vigilant, and once they develop into members of our party, they will certainly become a powerful force. The uncomfortable thing is that no one wants to communicate with themselves, so the most basic mobilization work cannot be carried out.
Ma Shangde quietly waited for the opportunity, one day, an old miner was working, suddenly fainted at the side of the mine, just when everyone did not dare to act rashly, Ma Shangde stood up, he picked up the old miner, transferred it to the open area, and then carefully cared for it until the old miner woke up.
After this incident, Ma Shangde and the old miner gradually became friends who talked about everything, and it was also through the old miners that Ma Shangde gradually gained a foothold in the coal mine. In the process, Ma Shangde gradually learned about some of the problems in the coal mine, the workers suffered serious exploitation, had to work for more than ten hours a day, and did not get the pay they deserved, and every three to five, the workers here were also subjected to japanese whipping.
In order to solve these things, Ma Shangde took the initiative to lead the miners to launch a workers' movement and negotiate with the Japanese for their due interests. It was also because of this incident that Ma Shangde entered the japanese field of vision, they arrested Ma Shangde into the Fushun police station, and tortured and forced Ma Shangde to be a communist, Ma Shangde of course did not admit it, and finally after the rescue of the organization, Ma Shangde escaped from the palm of the Japanese.
After the outbreak of the "918" incident, the ambitious Japanese of wolf children brazenly annexed the three eastern provinces of China, and countless patriotic young people entered the northeast to defend China's territorial sovereignty and launched the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement. After the decision of the CPC Central Committee, Comrade Ma Shangde was appointed as the first secretary of Harbin City of the CPC and led the anti-Japanese work in the northeast region.
Ma Shangde resolutely accepted this task, but the pseudonym "Zhang Guanyi" could no longer be used, otherwise it would be easy to implicate the miners in the Fushun area, so Ma Shangde gave himself a new name, Yang Jingyu.
After seven years of resistance against Japan, Jing Yu died tragically
In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Yang Jingyu's work unfolded very smoothly, when the people of the northeast were jealous of the Japanese aggression, Yang Jingyu quickly pulled up the anti-Japanese guerrillas and anti-Japanese volunteer army in the southern Manchuria region, and created a guerrilla base area centered on the Rock region.
A year later, the anti-Japanese guerrillas led by Yang Jingyu continued to grow, and under the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, Yang Jingyu established the Independent Division of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army; at this time, the anti-Japanese sentiment of the people in the northeast was high, the anti-Japanese armed forces attacked everywhere, and coupled with the ventilated messages of the people of the northeast, the Japanese could not find any trace of these anti-Japanese troops, and for a time Japan's rule in the northeast region was in jeopardy.
In order to strike at the anti-Japanese forces in the northeast region, the Kwantung Army Headquarters of Japan did not hesitate to offer high rewards to the anti-Japanese elements, of which General Yang Jingyu offered a reward of as much as 20,000 yuan. At the same time, the Japanese also mobilized tens of thousands of Kwantung Army and more than 100,000 puppet Manchukuo troops to launch a great purge operation and swept all areas of the three eastern provinces.
Faced with this situation, General Yang Jingyu gave full play to the superiority of our party's guerrilla warfare, launched anti-encirclement and suppression operations at the enemy's weak points on many occasions, and severely damaged the Japanese encirclement and suppression troops.
Under the heroic command of General Yang Jingyu, our army has won many victories in battle, and more and more anti-Japanese troops are willing to accept the leadership of General Yang Jingyu; in order to strengthen the strength of the anti-Japanese armed forces, Yang Jingyu united these anti-Japanese armed forces together and formed the anti-Japanese coalition army in the northeast region.
With the growth of the anti-coalition team, the area where Yang Jingyu and others are active is also growing, and the vast areas from the eastern part of Jilin Province to Liaodong have gradually become active areas for anti-Japanese armed forces, and the Japanese Kwantung Army has called this "cancerous area", which means that even the Japanese cannot control this place.
In 1936, the Japanese Kwantung Army specially organized an officer training regiment, intending to launch an encirclement and suppression battle against the Japanese coalition forces. In view of the fact that the enemy was outnumbered and our strength was hugely disparity, General Yang Jingyu led the anti-Japanese coalition army to take the initiative to avoid the Japanese army's front, and lured the enemy to the mountainous forest area, and when the Japanese army entered the encirclement, General Yang Jingyu gave an order, and the anti-coalition fighters from all directions rose up in groups to attack, and the enemy was caught off guard.
Realizing that it was impossible to defeat the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army head-on, the Japanese Kwantung Army had to gradually disperse the anti-Japanese forces by means of money solicitation and surrender, so as to achieve the purpose of weakening the anti-Japanese armed forces.
At the same time, the Japanese also practiced the system of joint sitting in the northeast region, wantonly bribing the landlords and traitors of the pro-Japanese faction, and setting up posts such as self-defense regiments, chief guards, and chiefs of armor, so that the people of the northeast could report to each other and supervise each other.
After many difficulties, some fighters and cadres of the Anti-Japanese League gradually lost their firm anti-Japanese ideology, could not resist the temptation of money and high-ranking officials Houlu, and defected to the revolution one after another, surrendering to the Japanese as traitors and running dogs.
Among them was Yang Jingyu's right-hand man Cheng Bin, who was originally the commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition, and after surrendering to the Japanese, he actively campaigned for the Japanese, destroying more than 70 supply stations of the Anti-Japanese Coalition in one fell swoop, and completely forcing the Anti-Japanese Coalition Army into a desperate situation.
Due to the destruction of the supply station, General Yang Jingyu could only divide his troops into pieces and divide them into guerrilla groups to disperse the operations. In the winter of the same year, the Japanese army also took the opportunity to organize a large army to encircle and suppress Yang Jingyu.
General Yang Jingyu led a small number of guards and the Japanese army in a fierce battle with the Maojiang River, and after five days and nights of life-and-death fighting between the two sides, General Yang Jingyu left the battlefield alone and walked towards the snow-covered mountains and forests. At this time, Yang Jingyu was already seriously wounded, his blood kept pouring out, and the Japanese army also took the opportunity to shout and persuade Yang Jingyu to come out and surrender, but in response to them was bullet after bullet.
Losing his food and weapons, General Yang Jingyu nibbled on the bark of trees, drank snow water, and continued to fight the Japanese to the death until February 23, 1940, when General Yang Jingyu died heroically in The Mengjiang River in Jilin Province. However, the inhuman Japanese army did not choose to let his body go, but instead opened his stomach.
After seeing that General Yang Jingyu's stomach was full of bark and cotton, and there was not a single grain of grain, a Japanese officer sighed: "Although they are enemies of each other, they have to admit that Yang Jingyu is a well-deserved hero." ”
After the death of General Yang Jingyu, the Japanese even decapitated him and sent him to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army. The body of General Yang was taken by the Japanese to hold a burial ceremony to deter the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people in northeast China.
Jing Yu's aftermath, painstakingly looking for sources
Just after Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, her family did not know this news, they have been waiting for the return of this "Ma Shangde", Guo Lian alone raised two children to grow up, and to the mother-in-law to send the end, when idle, she will run to the village entrance, silently look at the road to the outside, until dark, will return home, she looks forward to the day, her husband can return safely.
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression finally ended, Guo Lian was still waiting bitterly for her husband, it had been sixteen years, in the long wait, Guo Lian gradually fell ill with love, completely ill.
Before dying, Guo Lian said to her son: "Son, I can't do it, my mother has nothing to put down in this life, only you can't put down your father, you have to remember, your father's name is Ma Shangde, he is a Communist Party member, when he said he wanted to make a revolution, the result was sixteen years, I did not wait for him to come back after all." But you're still young, and your sister and you must find your dad and tell him that I've been waiting for him to come home. ”
Descendants of Yang Jingyu
Since Guo Lian's death, Ma Congyun and his sister Ma Jinyun have also searched for their father's whereabouts many times, and whenever they see the People's Liberation Army passing by, the brothers and sisters always rush up with hope and ask: "Comrade, do you know a Communist Party member named Ma Shangde, he is my father?"
But each time they got the answer was "I don't know" or "I don't know", and after a long time, the brothers and sisters thought that their father had died in the eight-year War of Resistance, so they gave up the idea of looking for their father.
After the founding of New China, Yang Jingyu's deeds quickly spread throughout the country, and many former fighters of the Anti-Japanese League reacted to their superiors, hoping to find Yang Jingyu's descendants and treat the descendants of this group of revolutionary martyrs kindly. After receiving the news, the central leaders attached great importance to this matter and specially set up a department to look for Yang Jingyu's descendants, but to their surprise, Yang Jingyu's origin did not have any clues.
In order to solve this matter, the investigation team looked for the revolutionary comrades-in-arms of the year to the whole country, looking for clues about Yang Jingyu, a soldier of the Anti-Japanese League reacted, Yang Jingyu's original name ma Shangde is a Native of Henan, according to this clue, the investigation team found Ma Congyun, Ma Jinyun brothers and sisters, when they knew that their father had died, the two held their heads and cried.
In the winter of 1953, Ma Congyun and his whole family were invited to the northeast to participate in the opening ceremony of the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall, and when he saw the head of his father Yang Jingyu, Ma Congyun fell to his knees with red eyes, and he cried and told his father that he missed him.
After finding Yang Jingyu's descendants, the organization proposed to arrange work and preferential treatment for Ma Congyun's family, but Ma Congyun resolutely refused this kindness, he said: "We are the descendants of anti-Japanese heroes, we cannot shame our ancestors, I have hands and feet, I can support my family by myself." ”