He sold salt, also worked as a ringing horse, formed an anti-Japanese guerrilla group when the War of Resistance broke out, and finally died in battle
During the Period of the Republic of China, there was social turmoil, and many bandits appeared everywhere, and they fought and robbed houses everywhere, and the people were very afraid of them. The most famous are the bandits in the northeast and Shandong, the bandits in the northeast are called beards, and the bandits in Shandong are called Xiangma.
Shandong and Jiangsu border, affected by Shandong Xiangma, there are also some Xiangma in northern Jiangsu, although they are bandits, they also have a patriotic heart, often go out to fight Japanese devils, so that the Japanese are very headache.
Among them, there is a leader of Xiangma called Ma Yuren, his hometown is in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, his family is a salt lord who sells salt, often runs on the rivers and lakes, and gets to know a lot of jianghu figures.
Ma Yuren was tall and burly, and he had learned martial arts since childhood, so he was very good at fighting, and the salt smugglers chose him as the leader. However, selling salt is not allowed, so he is wanted by the local government, and he does not want to be caught, so he takes the salt dealers to the grass and becomes a bandit who robs the house.
During the Republic of China, the local government extended an olive branch to Ma Yuren to recruit him, and this gang of bandits became a regular army, and also went to eliminate other salt lords, made many military achievements, and was later awarded lieutenant general by the Beiyang government.
Ma Yuren was born in 1875, he was 62 years old when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and he should have enjoyed his old age at home, but the country was invaded by the Japanese, and he was a Chinese, so he found Han Deqin, chairman of the Kuomintang Jiangsu Province, and wanted to go to the anti-Japanese war.
Han Deloitte had his own ideas, Ma Yuren's origins were not good, he had sold smuggled salt and made a ringing horse, which was not enough to trust, so he did not give him troops and weapons.
In order to resist Japan, Ma Yuren sold everything that his family could sell, pooled some money, picked up an anti-Japanese team, fought guerrilla warfare with the Japanese, and personally fought in battle.
Ma Yuren's guerrilla unit was later reorganized into the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army of the Sulu Theater, and he served as the commander of the guerrilla army, fighting the Japanese in the Yancheng and Funing areas.
Some people around him advised him that the strength of the Japanese is strong, and they cannot be tough, but can only save the country and cooperate with the Japanese. Ma Yuren listened to the anger and said how to cooperate with the invaders, and the task of this team was to drive the Japanese out of China.
Subsequently, he ordered that this man be thrown into the river and drowned, and used as an example, if anyone still wanted to be a traitor, the end would be the same as him, but the team finally produced a traitor.
In 1940, the traitors welcomed the Japanese and surrounded Ma Yuren, and he knew that he might not be able to rush out this time, so he told his subordinates that whoever was a deserter would shoot anyone and fight with the Japanese to the end.
He personally took a gun and fought with the devils, but unfortunately the enemy was outnumbered, and finally Ma Yuren's leg was injured, in order not to be caught by the Japanese, and finally died and martyred.