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*This article is excerpted from the first series of "Xia Jin Literary and Historical Materials" (April 1983), collected and sorted by Yang Changxin and Wang Jianmin, and the original title is "The Fall of Yang Eagle"
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Yang Laoying, formerly known as Jijun, is Yingxian, a native of Ertun in the northwest of Xiajin County, his parents died when he was a child, and his uncle raised him.
1. The origin and meaning of the name of the eagle
In 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Chiang Kai-shek adopted a policy of non-resistance against the Japan invaders and repeatedly retreated his troops to the south. The 29th Kuomintang Army, that is, Song Zheyuan's troops, stationed in Hebei, also withdrew southward, and some ruffians, hooligans, bandits, and miscellaneous stubborn people took advantage of the opportunity to rise up one after another, and under the banner of resisting Japan, they organized "volunteers" and "joint regiments" to dominate one side, so that anarchy was formed in North China. It was really a war and chaos, and the people were not at peace.
At that time, in Xiajin County, the so-called "volunteers" headed by Zhu Xuwu also went to the villages to ask for money and grain under the banner of resisting Japan, and oppressed the good. The poor people are poorly clothed, underfed, and poorly studied. In this situation, the landlords and rich peasants in the second and third tun areas took out guns and money to set up a joint defense armed force headed by Yang Jijun and Xu Buying (Xu Xianzhou), and later called the militia to resist the volunteers, and proposed that whichever village was willing to send people, guns, and money to join the defense with that village, and the common people did not want to live and work in peace and contentment, so the people of all villages, landlords, and rich peasants all came to participate in the joint defense, but oneIn two months, more than a dozen villages and more than 1,000 people participated in the joint defense.
In September and October 1937, Zhu Xuwu led more than 200 men and horses of his "Volunteer Army" to the area of Ertun and Santun to grab things, where he met the joint defense regiment of Yang Jijun and Xu Buying, and all the men and horses of the "Volunteer Army" were surrounded by Yang Tuan, and the two sides launched a fierce battle. eliminated the "volunteers" Yang Jijun and Xu Buying, and became famous and deterred. People gave him such nicknames: Yang Jijun is called Yang Eagle, Xu Buying is called Xu Erxian Dog (because Xu is thin and tall, ranking second) It also means that the eagle dog cooperates with the rabbit to catch the rabbit, and the rabbit can't run, and the eagle is named after it, which is the original meaning. Later, as the Yang Tuan grew in strength, the nature of the militia also changed, and the eagle and its militia were associated with his crimes, becoming a derogatory, fierce and vicious old heron.
Second, the robbery and burning is greater than the village, and the fierce appearance is revealed
Yang Lao Ying sits on the ground and dominates one side, and the local self-defense organizations in the vicinity also have to listen to him. In 1938, the ruffians and hooligans who were bigger than Zhuang let go of gambling and summoned gamblers in the northern part of Xiajin City to gamble.
At that time, there was a local self-defense provisional district government in Bafang Tower, and the self-defense forces led by Liu Qinzhi, the head of the district, and Sun Jingsi, the district armed instructor, to Dazhuang to arrest the bureau. Yang Lao Ying was furious after hearing this, in the name of avenging Sun, the next day just dawned, he led the militia to surround Da Zhuang, first shot a row of guns into the village, saw that no one resisted, then rushed in, Yang ordered a house-to-house search, set fire to the school and part of the house, in the search, caught a middle-aged man named Zhou Haiquan, after interrogating Zhou Haiquan is a member of the Huangsha Society, without saying a word and shot to death.
Killing Zhou Haiquan is not over, and ordered to set up a car to pull things, the group members went door to door, rummaged through boxes and cabinets, smashed pots and pots, and grabbed indiscriminately, the frightened women and children lost their souls, crying and screaming, some women were distressed and things stepped forward to block, and were beaten and kicked by the group members, and they were beaten and kicked and scolded, which was greater than the Zhuang people shouting chickens, horses neighing and dogs barking, and it was a mess.
Yang Laoying stepped on the big Zhuang and robbed it, and gave Sun Jingsi compensation, according to the amount of land per mu of cultivated land to Lu Yuan, which was counted as "compensation money", so Yang Laoying was willing to give up.
3. Take refuge in Zhang Bashi
After the "77" incident, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to preserve his power and deal with the Communists, did not resist the Japan invaders and cut off the entire north China.
In 1938, the iron hooves of Japan imperialism stepped into the territory of Xiajin County, burning and plundering everywhere, ravaging the people, arresting strong men and repairing artillery towers, and doing all kinds of evil; the Japanese invaders also raised some puppet army traitors to sell their lives for the Japanese bandits and support the puppet government to do things for the Japanese invaders. At this critical moment, the Communist Party of China headed by Chairman Mao called on the people of the whole country to unite to resist Japan, and under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, carried out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. After a lot of work was done by the underground party organization, Yang Cai once expressed his resistance to Japan. At that time, when the Japan invaders were entrenched in the county town of Xiajin, they often sent large groups of men and horses to sweep outside the city, burning and looting everywhere, and the momentum was fierce and unstoppable; Yang Lao Ying saw that the Eighth Route Army was weak, feared of losses, and wanted to find a strong backer, so he crossed the river in the autumn of 1939 to the area around the Wujiahou Tower in Zaoqiang. At that time, it was the Eighth Division of Shiyou Third Division, and the division commander was Zhang Dongchen (Zhang Eighth Division), who was full of evil. Zhang Dongchen, who was born as a bandit, was also fighting Yang's doctrine, and Yang Lao Ying did not live here for long, so Zhang sent his henchman Yang's friend Wang Yuhua to invite Yang to write a book in Zhang's department. Yang saw that Zhang Bashi's strength was strong, and with Shi Yousan as his backing, Yang also wanted to curry favor with Zhang Bashi, so Wang Yuhua invited him to go. As soon as Yang arrived in Zhangbu, Zhang Dongchen greeted him from afar, and he was hospitalized with delicious food, so the two of them worshiped their brothers before the banquet, and then incorporated the Yang Minmin Regiment into the 32nd Regiment of the Eighth Division.
Fourth, betray the country to seek glory and become a traitor
Inspired by the Communist Party's anti-Japanese national united front, two generals, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, detained Chiang Kai-shek in Xi'an and forced Chiang Kai-shek to agree to resist Japan. In accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's policy, the Kuomintang Shiyou Third Division created friction with the Eighth Route Army in Hebei. In the spring and summer of 1940, the anti-stone struggle of the Eighth Route Army began, and after several major battles, Shi Yousan was driven out of Hebei and consolidated the anti-Japanese base area.
Zhang Eighth Division and Yang Laoying's 32nd Regiment were pursued by the anti-stone army, and fought again in the area of Linqing Pomiao, and Yang Regiment was beaten into an army. Comrade Zhang Boru asked Yang to do work again and again, and Yang promised to defect to the Eighth Route Army. Things gather by like, people by groups, Yang Lao Ying is not really in the eight ways, determined to resist Japan. Not long after, Wang Junqing, the magistrate of the puppet government of Xiajin County, sent Sun Qingwen to talk to Yang Mi, explaining how the county magistrate valued him, and after a period of secret talks, a deal was reached, and after the autumn of 194O, Yang Laoying took refuge in the puppet army and was stationed in Xiajin County, becoming a loyal servant of Wang Si Jinya (Wang Junqing), serving the Japanese puppet government and becoming a hardcore traitor.
Fifth, the anti-communist determination is great, and the people are brutal
Yang Laoying took refuge in the Japanese puppet government, Wang Junqing showed his golden fangs, and in order to use Yang Laoying to work for the puppet government, he built a mansion for Yang in the city and moved his family to enjoy heavenly happiness. There is also a pistol squad escort for safety. A cavalry team was set up, under the command of Yang, and there were several capable generals, such as Li Chengjiang (cavalry captain), Shao Pengfei (captain), Li Yanshan (captain), Han Fuzhong, Shan Jiarui, Li Guilin, Wang Yilin, etc., who listened to his instigation.
There is also a senior staff member Wang who advises Yang Laoying, and there are about 300 people in total. After Yang Laoying was favored, he worked hard for the puppet government of Wang Si Jinya.
1. In 1941, a detachment of the Eighth Route Army, under the leadership of the captain Comrade Li Binggang, came to Xiajin to do pioneering work, and was discovered by the puppet district department of Xiaozhangzhuang, and immediately reported to the government, so that Junqing sent Yang Lao Ying to encircle and suppress, Yang Lao Ying personally commanded the cavalry team and fought in the area of Sun Juzhuang (Sun Nu Zhuang), fought for a while, the detachment retreated while fighting, and quickly transferred to Yunxi, and there were no casualties on both sides.
2. In the autumn of 1941, Shao Pengfei, a subordinate of Yang Laoying, reported that there were five people with guns living in Yanmiao, probably the Eighth Road, and Yang personally led more than 30 cavalry and more than 30 infantry to Yanmiao, and surrounded the courtyard where these five people lived. But the five people in the courtyard withstood Yang's several impacts, and the five broke through several times, but they were also blocked by Yang's dense firepower, and the fight was very fierce. In the end, the five of them ran out of bullets, and were captured alive by Yang Laoying, taken back to the city, and shot dead outside the south gate.
When this battle ended, the pseudo-head of Yanmiao, in order to curry favor with Yang Eagle, sent people to send food to the Yang people to congratulate the victory of the battle. A farmer in this village, under the pressure of the pseudo-village chief, went to deliver steamed buns. Who knew that this innocent peasant was shot and killed by Yang Laoying's guard Li Guilin (Xu Wanxia's brother), and he said: "If you don't kill a few, it's hard to get out of my chest." ”
3. In order to resist the Japan invaders, the Xiajin underground county party committee led the anti-Japanese work group to secretly propagate to the broad masses of peasants the truth of resisting Japan and saving the country, encouraging the people to strengthen their confidence in resisting Japan, persisting in the guerrilla war proposed by the party, and leading the masses to fight to the death against Japanese puppets and traitors. Xia Xingwen of Xiazhuang was a member of the anti-Japanese work group, because he was known by Li Guilin, a traitor of the Yang Department of the village, and reported it to Yang Laoying, Yang led Li Guilin, Xu Wanxiang and others to arrest Xia Xingwen. Xia Xingwen, who was working in the field, was beaten to death by Yang Eagle in the field, Yang Eagle cut the grass and eradicated the roots, Min entered the village, and killed Xia's two sons. Yang Lao Ying can really be described as an executioner who exterminates human nature.
4. In order to be loyal to the Japanese puppet government, Yang Laoying extorted money from the people, destroyed today, levy money tomorrow, arrested the people, dug trenches and repaired artillery towers, bullied the people, and forcibly occupied people's houses. In order to build a turret in Santun, they forcibly occupied more than a dozen houses and more than 40 houses, leaving the people of these more than 10 households homeless and their families ruined. Yang Jichun, Guan Benshan, and Shang Qingrong of this village said a few words of dissatisfaction with Yang Eagle together, and Yang knew that he held a grudge, and one night in 1942, Yang Ying led more than 20 traitors to break into the homes of three peasants, smashed the doors and windows, arrested three people, pulled out of the village and tied to the horse's neck and dragged westward, if anyone could not keep up, they would smash it with the butt of a gun, and along the way Shang Qingrong was smashed and broke his leg, and the three of them scolded while running with the horse: "Yang Ying, you are not Chinese, you are a slave of Japan, the lackey of Wang Si Jinya, It is the scum of the Chinese. Yang Lao Ying was furious, dragged to the canal beach and shot the three dead. After killing the three people, Yang Laoying, in order to stabilize the hearts of the people, said that the three people were bandits (through the eight roads), and killed them to maintain law and order. and threatened, "Whoever opposes me, Yang Mou, is the same as him." After Yang Jichun's death, he left behind a family of four, the old mother was full of grief and anger, and died with hatred, and his wife and children were exiled. The other two families were also separated from their wives and families. Yang Laoying, a criminal traitor, killed countless innocent people and owed a lot of blood to the people of Xiajin.
6. Ambush Yang Eagle
In the autumn of 1943, in order to further eliminate the living force of the Japanese puppet army, the Eighth Route Army surrounded the county town of Wucheng, so that the Japanese puppet traitors in Wucheng were frightened, and hurriedly asked for help from the Japanese puppets in various counties. After the team drove to Wucheng to relieve the siege of Wucheng and escorted the puppet county magistrate and puppet government personnel of Wucheng to the old city, Yang Laoying was ambushed by the 19th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army on the way back.
The Eighth Route Army besieging Wucheng learned that the puppet army of five or six counties came to reinforce, so they withdrew one after another, and the 19th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army withdrew to the Zhuguantun area of Wucheng County to ambush it, and so Yang Lao Ying led the men and horses into the ambush circle, the 19 regiments ambushed all the men and horses of Yang Lao Ying in a sweet potato field, it was autumn, the 19 regiments of the Eighth Route Army occupied a favorable terrain, all corn fields and sorghum fields, at this time the enemy was in the light, the 19 regiments were in the dark, the enemy heard the sound of gunfire, only to see the soldiers and horses fall and die, but there was no trace of the Eighth Route Army, The traitor puppet army was in a mess, fleeing east and west, being beaten everywhere, Yang Laoying resisted for a while, and then led the outsiders to hug their heads and run away, Li Chengjiang led the remaining part of the men and horses, in a vain attempt to resist, and finally because of the dense guns and bullets of the 19th regiment, the enemy and the puppet lying in the sweet potato field could not raise their heads, so they had to shout and surrender. This beautiful ambush killed twenty or thirty of the enemy, wounded and captured hundreds of them; A number of guns, ammunition, horses, etc. were also seized. The captured enemy puppet soldiers were released after education.
7. The eagle died
The Communist Party of China led the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and the broad masses of the people, and after seven or eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, formed an extensive anti-Japanese national united front, strengthened the anti-Japanese armed forces, and caused the Japan aggressors to perish step by step, and eventually drowned in the vast sea of the people's war.
In May and June 1945, the Japanese army entrenched in Linqing, under the heavy blow of the anti-Japanese army and civilians, fled to Xiajin and joined forces with the Japanese puppet army in Xiajin. The 19th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the Xiajin County Independent Regiment uprooted a puppet stronghold in Xiaozhangzhuang in the north of the city one day in July 1945, before dawn. Wang Si Jinya gathered soldiers and horses, ready to go out of the city to relieve the siege and respond. The puppet army traitors were hit one after another, their morale was low, and no one dared to lead the troops to fight, and finally Yang Laoying said, "Fourth brother (referring to Wang Sijinya) no one will protect you, I will protect you, and no one dares to go to me." Wang Si Jinya was overjoyed and said, "I will give you 300 people and your cavalry to set off with, and the imperial army to go with you." The enemy dispatched, five or six hundred devils and traitors, with great momentum, marching towards Xiaozhangzhuang in the north of the city, at this time the enemy had two purposes, one was to relieve the siege of Xiaozhangzhuang's stronghold, and the other was to eliminate the Eighth Route Army that surrounded the stronghold.
When Yang Eagle's men and horses came to the 8th Route Army 19th Regiment and the Independent Regiment ambushed between Li Lou and Qilitun, suddenly the guns and bullets were fired together, and the fierce fire swept towards the enemy, making the enemy a mess, Yang Eagle was beaten in a daze, and when he came back to know that he was ambushed by the main force of the Eighth Route Army, most of them had been killed and wounded, Yang Eagle was also shot in the right arm, and wanted to resist stubbornly, but under the fierce blows of machine guns, rifles and grenades of the 19th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the Independent Regiment, he was unable to fight back, and he had become a turtle in the urn. The "bushido spirit" of the Japan devils also disappeared, and most of them were ghosts under the guns of the Eighth Route Army; this ambush battle, from morning to noon, almost all the Japanese puppet traitors were annihilated, and the big traitor Yang Eagle did not escape death, only his notorious general will be left behind for 10,000 years.
Note: Xu Buying was a staff officer of the Yang Regiment and secretly had ties to the Eighth Route Army. There is a sense of anti-Japanese nationality.
Sources:
Xia Jin Literary and Historical Materials, Volume 1 (April 1983)