"Man is inherently dead, either heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than Hong Mao." In the history of the development of New China, there have been many revolutionary martyrs, who have sacrificed their precious lives to achieve national rejuvenation and independence. It is precisely because of their sacrifices that we can exchange for the happy life we have today. Today, I will talk about an anti-Japanese hero - Yang Jingyu and his heroic deeds.
Yang Jingyu, born in 1905 in Henan to a poor peasant family, was a great proletarian revolutionary, a national hero of the Anti-Japanese Resistance, and one of the founders of the famous Red Army in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region. Yang Jingyu's experience in his youth was very tragic, his father died when he was young, and his mother raised him to adulthood alone. Not only that, Yang Jingyu's mother also had an enlightened vision that was rare among women of that era. Yang's mother knows that if her children want to grow up and get ahead, they must study from an early age, so she saves money for her son to study. Yang Jingyu is also very sensible, he knows that it is not easy for his mother to raise herself alone for herself to study, so he is always at the top when he goes to school. In 1923, Yang Jingyu, who was only 18 years old, was admitted to the Henan Provincial Kaifeng Textile Industrial School with excellent results. During his school studies, Yang Jingyu's thinking was enlightened, and he responded to the call of the party organization while studying hard, and successfully joined the revolutionary team. This year was also the beginning of Yang Jingyu's revolutionary career. From 1925 to 1928, Yang Jingyu successively participated in the May Fourth Movement, the Peasant Movement, the Agrarian Revolutionary Movement and organized the Peasant Uprising, and it can be said that his revolutionary career was very good. Of course, Yang Jingyu's brilliant achievements are far more than that, because he is also a famous anti-Japanese national hero. So what contributions did Yang Jingyu make to the anti-Japanese work?
After the "918" incident in 1931, Yang Jingyu was dispatched by the party organization to carry out anti-Japanese work in the northeast region. During his time in the northeast, in order to effectively resist the aggressive acts of the Japanese army, Yang Jingyu successively formed anti-Japanese guerrillas and volunteer brigades, and skillfully commanded troops to maneuver with the enemy. With the rise of the anti-Japanese national style, more and more people joined the ranks of anti-Japanese national salvation, with the increasing size of the troops. Under the instructions of the party organization, Yang Jingyu established the Anti-Japanese Coalition Army and served as the commander and political commissar of the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Coalition Army. At that time, the Japanese army clearly felt the threat of the anti-Japanese coalition army, and the Japanese army called the anti-Japanese coalition army "the cancer of social security in the eastern frontier road" and attempted to mobilize troops to eliminate the anti-Japanese coalition army. In 1936, the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Major General Miki, personally led the troops to carry out encirclement and suppression operations against the Japanese coalition forces. Faced with the inferiority of weapons and equipment, Yang Jingyu led his troops to take guerrilla warfare by virtue of the conditions of familiar terrain advantages, and made a pretentious defeat tactic to lure the enemy into the depths, and finally gave the enemy a hard blow. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out. The Japanese army continuously sent troops and supplies to Guannei from the northeast, and Yang Jingyu, while exposing the Japanese army's ambition to invade China and calling on the people of the northeast to join the anti-Japanese army, led the anti-Japanese coalition army to continuously sabotage the transportation supply lines built by the enemy. During the Anti-Japanese War, the number of Japanese troops who were contained by Yang Jingyu reached 300,000, and he made an indelible contribution to containing the Japanese army and cooperating with the Anti-Japanese War in Guannei. However, heroes are short-lived. National heroes such as Yang Jingyu were betrayed by traitors. In 1940, during a mission he was stationed in a small county in Jilin Province, and the traitors were tempted by the enemy to defect to the Japanese army and cut off the supply lines of the garrison troops. Yang Jingyu had to lead his troops to retreat to the mountains and forests, and the Japanese army refused to give up, so they organized troops to encircle and suppress the mountains and forests, and the harsh natural conditions in the northeast winter coupled with the lack of weapons and living supplies of the anti-coalition fighters soon ran out of ammunition. But despite this, the troops held fast to the battle, and they fought until the last moment. Yang Jingyu and his brothers in the army could only rely on tree bark, grass roots, and cotton on their clothes to feed themselves under extreme conditions. However, in the end, because of the disparity in strength, Yang Jingyu was brutally killed by the enemy troops who came to encircle and suppress him. After his death, the Japanese troops who came to encircle and suppress him were very curious about what Yang Jingyu and others relied on to make a living in the deep mountains and old forests. So they cruelly cut open Yang Jingyu's stomach, and finally found that his stomach was some indigestible cotton, bark, and grass roots. The Japanese army was shocked by this scene in front of them, and they could not imagine that the Chinese soldiers' will to fight could be so tenacious. Although they were mortal enemies, the Japanese army was full of admiration when they saw this scene in front of them.
Indeed, the bravery of Yang Jingyu, who held out his fighting posts under extreme conditions, and the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Coalition Army were truly admirable. Yang Jingyu's deeds were deeply touched even by Chairman Mao. After the founding of New China, Chairman Mao led a delegation to visit the northeast region, and the local government learned that the chairman used rare ingredients to entertain the chairman after his visit, and the chairman was very angry when he saw it. Because at that moment he remembered the hero Yang Jingyu, remembered that he still fought heroically until he died when he ran out of ammunition. After some silence, Chairman Mao ordered the receptionists to remove the good wine and good food, and wrote a sentence to warn the staff not to pollute the bureaucracy.