On the night of February 2, 1940, Yang Jingyu was surrounded by enemy groups. In the cold environment of more than -30 degrees, the general wore tattered clothes and could only eat grass roots and cotton wool to fill his hunger. The next afternoon,
The Japanese army persuaded the general to surrender, and the general roared angrily: "I alone, one gun, will also fight until the last moment." If you can't kill me, I'll kill you!" ”
After a fierce battle, the general was shot several times and fell on the white snow. However, the story of the general did not end there, and there were still relatives waiting for him to return home.
Later, in order to ask for merit, Wang Zuohua and Zhang Xiruo carried Yang Jingyu's body to the sword, and Bai Wanren took down the head of General Yang. The Japanese took Yang Jingyu's head to "Xinjing" (Changchun City).
After Yang Jingyu's head was cut off, Kishitani Ryuichiro drew his command knife and cut open Yang Jingyu's stomach, except for some unknown things, he did not find a single grain of grain. After he found someone to test those unknown objects, he found that Yang Jingyu relied on eating grass roots and cotton wool, insisting on several days and nights in the ice and snow, and finally sacrificed heroically.
Yang Jingyu's resolute spirit like a steel warrior made the Japanese man full of evil and could not help but stand in awe, calling him a "great hero". In the end, the Japanese buried their fearful opponent.
In February 1905, Yang Jingyu was born in a poor peasant family in Liwan Village, Qishan County, Henan Province, and he was raised by his mother alone after losing his father at an early age.
His original name was Ma Shangde, and the name Yang Jingyu was taken from the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, which has the meaning of pacifying the world
He also used the name "Zhang Guanyi" for the development of the workers' movement and the protection of his family.
In 1927, Yang Jingyu's only son
Ma Chongyun
He was born, and on the day of his birth, he was participating in a battle, and he was unfortunately injured in his left leg, and the conditions were very difficult, but the birth of his son still gave him great comfort.
Later, Yang Jingyu found an opportunity to sneak back home, but when he returned home, he was pleasantly surprised to find that he had another daughter who had just been born five days ago, which made Yang Jingyu very excited, and recalled the days when he had been hiding in Tibet for more than half a year, so he named his daughter Ma Xiang, hoping that she would remember the hardships of her ancestors who had joined the revolution in the future.
The next day, before dawn, Yang Jingyu took advantage of the fact that Guo Lian was not awake, took a look at the mother and son, and then left a photo of himself and a handwritten letter.
Unexpectedly, this difference turned out to be a farewell.
After 1928, he engaged in secret revolutionary work in Henan, Northeast China and other places, was arrested and imprisoned 5 times, was repeatedly tortured, and was unyielding.
In the most brilliant period of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, there were a total of 11 armies with a number of 40,000 people, which brought a lot of trouble to the Japanese army.
Since the enemy's all-out invasion of China in 1937, the base area of the Northeast War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has also become a de facto 'enclave'.
No support, no supplies,
The war of resistance was particularly difficult.
Under the blockade and encirclement of the enemy army, the anti-coalition fighters were forced to break into pieces and carry out guerrilla warfare.
And at this time, a bad news came - Cheng Bin defected,
This makes the situation of the Anti-League even worse.
Cheng Bin was the commander of the former First Division of the Anti-Japanese War Coalition Army, and yang Jingyu's closest confidant, and his rebellion made the Anti-Japanese Coalition in front of the enemy army secretless.
Yang Jingyu fell into the encirclement of Japan, for Yang Jingyu such a capable person, Japan does not want to lose, it hopes that Yang Jingyu can surrender, Yang Jingyu is unwilling, and then heroic sacrifice, his life ended at the age of 35.
In a difficult life, Guo Feng has been waiting for her husband to return, which may be the belief that has supported her to persevere, and she will not know that she may not be able to wait for her husband for the rest of her life.
In 1944, Guo Lian was captured by the enemy and tortured, and in prison Guo Lianning died unyieldingly, and died shortly after being released from prison.
When Guo Lian died, she said to her son Ma Congyun and daughter Ma Cai: "
Your father went to the northeast to resist the Japanese, and after the victory of the War of Resistance, you took this picture to the troops to find him.
”
In 1949, when The liberation of Qishan In Henan Province, a moving scene appeared on the side of the road: when the PLA soldiers passed by, there was a pair of brothers and sisters on the side of the road, holding an old photo in their hands.
"In the picture is our father, he is also a soldier, his name is Ma Shangde, do you know where he is?"
The troops responded only by shaking their heads. They asked all the teams that passed, but they didn't find any trace of their father.
In 1951, the Communist Party of Heilongjiang Province sent Chen Lei, a veteran soldier of the Anti-Japanese League, to anhui province with a team to look for clues. The team's investigation determined that Yang Jingyu was indeed in Liudian in 1928, when he was still using his original name Ma Shangde.
They passed before
A reminiscence article written by Yang Yichen, one of the Anti-League
"Remembering Comrade Yang Jingyu, a model Communist Party member",
Important clues were found, and according to an investigation, the location of General Yang Jingyu's family was locked.
Subsequently, under the leadership of the staff of the County Government of Queshan County, the investigation team came to Yang Jingyu's hometown. Here they met Yang Jingyu's son.
As soon as he saw Ma Chongyun, Feng Zhongyun knew that the person in front of him was Yang Jingyu's son. Feng Zhongyun excitedly said to the cadres around him:
"He is Yang Jingyu's son!"
Ma Chongyun, who was beside him, was confused and said:
"Comrade, you are mistaken, my father's surname is Ma, not Yang."
See Ma Chongyun does not believe that he is Yang Jingyu's son. Feng Zhongyun said:
"Is your father's name Ma Shangde?"
Feng Zhongyun also said:
"We are an investigation team appointed by Heilongjiang Province. I came here specifically to find you. Your father, Ma Shangde, is General Yang Jingyu. ”
Hearing this news, Ma Congyun felt a "buzzing" in his brain and almost exploded. The name of Yang Jingyu, an anti-Japanese hero, he had heard many years ago, and the story of his unyielding and glorious sacrifice once brought tears to his eyes. But he never thought that this anti-Japanese hero, who the people of the whole country were praising, would be his father.
In the spring of 1953, Ma Congyun and Ma Jinyun set out on the road to Harbin. After 25 years of missing out on their father, they can finally fulfill their grandmother and mother's last wishes and meet him.
When they arrived at the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall, looking at their father's head soaked in formalin, the brothers and sisters were both sad and heartbroken. After 25 years apart, who would have thought that they would see their father again in such a scene, two brothers and sisters hugging each other and crying bitterly, and the staff present were all moved.
Finally, they knelt before their father's head and prostrated their heads three times.
During this trip to Harbin, the leaders of the Heilongjiang Provincial CPC Committee met with Ma Congyun's family and expressed the hope that Ma Congyun could come to the Heilongjiang Provincial CPC Committee to work.
After hearing this, Ma Congyun refused organizational attention and said:
"I was originally a peasant, and under the care of the local organization, I have become a railway worker, and I have not added to the chaos for you when I come to work in the provincial party committee?" Now that I know that my father is Yang Jingyu, I can't embarrass him. ”
In 1964,
He died in the line of duty on a business trip to Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, at the age of 37, and was buried in the Zhengzhou Martyrs Cemetery.
Wife Fang Xiuyun pulled up five children alone.
Ma Congyun had a total of five sons and daughters, named after each other
Ma Jiguang, Ma Jixian, Ma Jichuan, Ma Jizhi, Ma Jimin
。 The names are all given by her mother, Fang Xiuyun, who has been admonishing the children:
"You are the descendants of martyrs, you must set strict demands on yourself, know the responsibilities you shoulder, and even more understand the content."
Fang Xiuyun once set up a 9-word family training for the children:
"Strict requirements, heavy responsibility, understanding and contentment."