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In December 1938, when the Jilu border area was already dripping into ice, in a high-gate compound, a man who looked like a bandit leader asked his subordinates to carry out a guillotine knife and smirk at a person who was tied up in front of him.
Then the bandit leader said Commander Yang, I'm sorry, it's time to ask you to go on your way. The man who was tied up was unmoved, and watched with contempt as the bandit pulled out the guillotine.
After that, he calmly said, we communists are not afraid of death, if you want to kill you at will, the bandit leader saw that he did not frighten him, felt embarrassed and embarrassed, and asked his subordinates to use a guillotine to cut him into three sections.
The Communist Party member who died heroically was called Yang Jingyuan, who was the commander of the Sixth Division of the Southern Hebei Military Region of our party at that time, and was also a tiger general under the command of General Xiao Hua.
So who was this landlord and bandit leader, and why did he dare to kill the commander of the Eighth Route Army? And what did General Xiao Hua do when he heard the news?
Commander of the Young Heroes
The martyr Yang Jingyuan, who was killed, was a Manchu who was born in Liaoning in 1902, and when he grew up, his family wanted him to live a stable life, and when he was 17 years old, he was sent to a medical college.
But in the process of learning Xi, Yang Jingyuan, like Mr. Lu Xun, found that simply studying medicine could not save the people, so he began to continue to look for a way to save the country, and finally realized that without subverting the current dark age, it is impossible for the motherland and the people to usher in light.
Three years later, Yang Jingyuan, who graduated, practiced medicine in the local area for a while, and was ready to serve the country in the army, but failed to join the army for various reasons and entered the Shenyang Arsenal as a worker.
Here, he became acquainted with several members of the Communist Party of China, so he also came into contact with Marxism-Leninism, and he was pleased to find that this was the way he was looking for to save the country, so he joined the Communist Party of China.
In 1931, the "918" incident broke out, and Yang Jingyuan was saddened by the Japanese invasion of the motherland, so he spontaneously organized eight patriotic comrades-in-arms to go to Shenyang Huanggutun to attack and kill several Japanese soldiers with grenades.
The Japanese immediately launched an investigation into the matter, and Yang Jingyuan immediately set off for Beiping, where he evaded the enemy's pursuit with the help of the organization.
After the Japanese army further invaded and encroached on China, Yang Jingyuan joined the resistance movement under the command of the party and served as a member of the Military Commission of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began, in April 1938, the party organization sent Yang Jingyuan to the Jilu border area and served as the deputy commander of the 31st guerrilla unit of the National Revolutionary Army under the leadership of the party.
Although Yang Jingyuan had never commanded an army in combat before, he humbly learned Xi from his old comrades, and at the same time went deep among the masses to actively develop and reorganize the local anti-Japanese armed forces, and quickly mastered the ability to command operations in actual combat.
In May 1938, Chiang Kai-shek's passive anti-Japanese and active anti-communist policy reached its peak, and the commander of the local Kuomintang security forces led troops directly to Yang Jingyuan's troops, wanting to "exterminate" the anti-Japanese forces under the command of the CCP.
The flexible and mobile command troops, with the support and cooperation of the masses, completely annihilated the enemy's army. Unwilling to accept defeat, the Kuomintang gathered more than 3,000 local bandits and so-called "militia groups" to besiege Yang Jingyuan's garrison again.
Yang Jingyuan, with the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, personally led the troops, adopted the tactics of encircling Wei to save Zhao, attacked the Kuomintang military headquarters, and successfully resolved the crisis.
In September of the same year, the 31st Guerrilla Force led by him was reorganized into the Pingjin Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, which was subordinate to the Luji Southern Military Region, and he himself served as the commander of the Sixth Division, and he became acquainted with General Xiao Hua of the Eastward Advance of the Eighth Route Army, and became his subordinate and close comrade-in-arms.
Although General Xiao Hua was more than ten years younger than him and was called "General Doll" by the people at the time, Yang Jingyuan respected Xiao Hua very much, and General Xiao also felt that this subordinate was very good at fighting and liked him very much, and the two cooperated very well.
After that, he continued to lead the troops and fought bravely against the Japanese puppet army many times, making the Eighth Route Army famous, and also attracting more local armed forces with justice to join the people's army.
took the initiative but died heroically
In the autumn, some local militias in the vicinity banded together to form a large militia group, led by Sun Zhongwen.
Sun Zhongwen's family was a local landowner, with thousands of acres of fertile land, and many family members, and when he became the leader of the militia group, he integrated his family's private soldiers with other armed forces, and waited for an opportunity to expand his power in the war.
Sun Zhongwen and his militia did not have any lofty ideals of defending the homeland and the country, he only took advantage of the great righteousness of resistance against Japan, deceived the masses who did not know the truth to participate, waited for an opportunity to expand his ranks, and often engaged in some kidnapping and extortion activities, so as to accumulate funds to increase weapons.
But in any case, this is a relatively large armed force, and if they can be co-opted, it will be very beneficial to the growth of the Eighth Route Army and the anti-Japanese forces.
So General Xiao Hua sent Yang Jingyuan to contact Sun Zhongwen, hoping that he could unite with the Eighth Route Army to resist Japan. Yang Jingyuan told Sun Zhongwen about the righteousness and the situation, which temporarily moved Sun Zhongwen, and he said that this matter can be considered.
And Sun Zhongwen's subordinates, there are also many righteous patriots, seeing that the Eighth Route Army is the people's team dedicated to resisting Japan, so they left the militia and joined the Eighth Route Army, which caused Sun Zhongwen to be very unhappy.
At this time, Lu Zhonglin, an officer of the Kuomintang, contacted Sun Zhongwen according to Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary strategy, hoping to draw this team under the command of the Kuomintang.
Sun Zhongwen was a bandit-like opportunist from the beginning, and when he heard that the Kuomintang promised that as long as he fought against the Eighth Route Army and took the initiative to provoke friction, he would provide funds, weapons, and instructor support, and he could also become a big official, so he immediately turned around and fell to the side of the Kuomintang.
After that, Sun Zhongwen became more and more reckless, often sending his subordinates to provoke near Yang Jingyuan's station, wantonly provoking conflicts. At the beginning, Xiao Hua and Yang Jingyuan adopted the strategy of saluting first and then soldiering, and communicated with him many times, hoping that he could stand on the side of the people and unanimously resist Japan, but at this time, Sun Zhongwen had been completely fooled by the Kuomintang and could not listen to him at all.
In order to solve this matter, Yang Jingyuan decided to go deep into the tiger's den in person and go to Sun Zhongwen's station to negotiate with him face-to-face, and the people around him advised him to pay attention to safety, because at this time Sun Zhongwen was already determined to oppose the communists, and it was likely to be dangerous to go to his territory.
But Yang Jingyuan still only brought a few guards, and told Sun Zhongwen that as long as he cooperated with the Eighth Route Army to resist Japan, he would not be guilty of his previous evil deeds, but Sun Zhongwen was angry and directly took out a gun to detain them.
Subsequently, Sun Zhongwen asked Yang Jingyuan to leave the CCP and the Eighth Route Army and join the Kuomintang, but he was sternly refused. So he prepared to kill Yang Jingyuan and then ask the Kuomintang for credit.
He tied up Yang Jingyuan and pulled him to the courtyard, threatening to kill Yang Jingyuan with a guillotine, but he didn't expect the other party to be righteous and awe-inspiring, and he was not afraid at all. Sun Zhongwen was very angry, and immediately asked his subordinates to kill Yang Jingyuan with a guillotine, and also cut his body into three pieces.
Later, in order to show off, he also hung the head of the martyr at the entrance of the village, and many villagers burst into tears when they saw the heroic and warlike Commander Yang sacrificed like this.
The general was furious and resolutely exterminated the militia to take revenge
When General Xiao Hua received the bad news, he was extremely sad and grieved, and personally wrote a couplet for Yang Jingyuan. Then he led the troops to personally act to avenge his comrades.
At this time, Sun Zhongwen, although he was proud on the surface, was also very frightened in his heart, he knew that after killing Commander Yang Jingyuan, the Eighth Route Army would not let him go, and those militia soldiers under his command were okay to bully the common people, and they were not the opponents of the heroic Eighth Route Army at all, so he was very afraid.
So he took the credit for killing the martyrs and found the Kuomintang to ask for credit, and at the same time hoped that the Kuomintang would help him. At this time, the Kuomintang saw that he had killed General Yang Jingyuan and that his use value was gone, so they coped with it and gave him a batch of weapons to send him away.
Sun Zhongwen was helpless about this, so he had to strictly order his soldiers to strengthen their defenses, but he was uneasy in his heart, afraid that the Eighth Route Army would come to the door to take revenge.
He packed up the valuable things he had looted over the years and took them with him, and he didn't dare to take off his clothes when he slept, or even dared to take off his weapons, planning to escape at any time once he was attacked by the Eighth Route Army.
In the early morning of more than ten days later, General Xiao Hua sent two elite troops of the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese advance team to attack Sun Zhongwen's garrison in two ways.
The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army acted quickly, and soon surrounded Sun Zhongwen's station, and then the battle began. Sun Zhongwen felt that his general situation was gone, so he asked the soldiers to resist on the one hand, and prepared to escape with a few cronies on the other.
However, the encirclement of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army was very tight, and Sun Zhongwen tried many times, but he was never able to escape, so he could only brand his pistol in despair, forcing the soldiers to resist desperately.
Many militia soldiers had long been dissatisfied with Sun Zhongwen's bullying of men and women, so they directly put down their weapons and chose to surrender, and some soldiers even defected and took the initiative to take the Eighth Route Army to arrest Sun Zhongwen.
After one hour of fierce fighting, some of the more than 1,000 militia groups under Sun Zhongwen surrendered, and the rest were all annihilated, and the big bandit Sun Zhongwen himself was also shot indiscriminately into a sieve and got his due end.
After the battle, General Xiao Hua told the martyr that he had avenged him, and wrote an elegy to pay tribute to him, hoping that he would be blind.
In August 1940, the Party Committee of the Hebei-Shandong Border District of the Communist Party of China divided the southern part of Yanshan and the northern part of Leling to form Jingyuan County to commemorate this martyr. In August 2014, martyr Yang Jingyuan was included in the first batch of anti-Japanese martyrs and heroes released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
The martyr's soul has rested, but his spirit lives on, still guarding the land for which he once shed his blood and fought.