Wu Lingyu was a college student in Shaanxi, and his grandfather had fought valiantly against the Japanese army under the leadership of the Communist Party. Unfortunately, because of the brutality of the Japanese army, Wu Lingyu's grandfather was brutally killed by the Japanese Kou. That year, Wu Lingyu's grandmother was still in her infancy, and she still had no memory of this world, but the heroic sacrifice of her father for the country and the people had always been the pride of her grandmother and the whole family
It is precisely because of this pride that Grandma has never seen what her father looks like in her life, which has become the biggest regret in his heart.
In order to make up for this regret, and in order to learn more about the story of the revolutionary martyrs, Wu Lingyu began to collect photos of the revolutionary martyrs.
In a batch of photos of traveling back home from Japan, Wu Lingyu found a photo. The person in the photo has no name and is holding only a sign that reads "Zhan Shan Hao". According to the annotations and information consulted, this photo should be a "posthumous photo" of the protagonist before he was executed by the Japanese army.
But the owner in the photo looks so calm and calm, and even has a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.
When Wu Lingyu saw this photo, only one word flashed in his mind: "Generous to death."
So, who exactly is the person in the photo? Did he know he was dying anytime soon? Why was he so comfortable facing the torture of the Japanese? What kind of story does he have?
The anti-Japanese banner held high
In fact, the name of the person in the photo is not called "ZhanShanhao", which is just a unique name in the northeast at that time, that is, the name of the leader of the mountain forest team. His real name is "Jiang Zhendong".
In 1931, the northeast fell. Along with the "918" incident, the people of the northeast who have no way to retreat and no escape from the northeast land. Watching their homeland fall, these poor and honest farmers did not know where they could go. Some people fled for their lives, while others stood up.
"Yang Jingyu, Zhao Shangzhi, Gai Changfeng..." These names that we can hear on our backs are all people who defended the motherland with their lives in that era. Jiang Zhendong is also one of them.
Jiang Zhendong was born in Liaoning Province in 1900 and later moved with his family to Liuhe Reclamation in Jilin Province.
The reason for the reclamation is that the family is poor and has no food, so they can only choose this difficult way to cut out the grain from the ground and feed the family. Young Jiang Zhendong likes to reclaim the land, in his view, this land always contains unlimited vitality, as long as you are willing to work hard, there is always a harvest.
If born in peacetime, Jiang Zhendong would probably be like his father, working hard to cultivate this land and feed his children until they grow up and have their own families.
However, in 1931, the Japanese devils came. They not only came, but also launched the "918" incident. This year, Jiang Zhendong learned what "life is ruined": the Kuomintang government ignored it, and the warlords withdrew from the northeast, leaving only the people to groan powerlessly on the land.
At that time, Jiang Zhendong was only 31 years old, in his prime, and he originally wanted to flee to the south like everyone else, but when he was packing up his things, he suddenly froze: Everyone ran away, will anyone remember that this land once belonged to China? The Japanese were the invaders, and they were the ones who should flee, weren't they?
At this moment, Jiang Zhendong's child ran to his side: "Dad, are we going to move?" ”
In a word, Jiang Zhendong's thoughts were pulled back to his body, yes, this is their home. He pulled his wife, who was standing by and cleaning up the house, and said calmly, "Since you are the people of this land, don't go anywhere!" ”
The wife's eyes were fixed on Jiang Zhendong for a long time, and finally she sighed softly and pulled her son out of the door.
Jiang Zhendong was originally the leader of the Self-Defense Regiment, and after deciding not to leave, he took advantage of the night to go to the place where the Self-Defense Regiment stored its weapons and polished the barrels of the few guns. He silently told himself in his heart that since he did not intend to leave, he would swear to defend this land to the death!
It is clearly recorded in the local literature and history materials that after the "918" incident, more than 40 anti-Japanese mountain and forest teams emerged in the Panshi area, and the total strength reached more than 10,000 people. The self-defense regiment led by Jiang Zhendong is one of the teams, and the name of his team is "Zhanshan Good".
Since Jiang Zhendong held high the banner of "anti-Japanese resistance" in 1932, countless young people have joined his ranks. By July of that year, his team had grown to more than 400 people.
Jiang Zhendong was from a poor background, and the soldiers under him were also the most ordinary people, and even if they scattered their family wealth, they could not raise enough guns and ammunition.
But before the national crisis, no one flinched, so they took large knives and spears, fought to the death with those enemies, resisted the pace of Japanese aggression with their flesh and blood, and defended the dignity of the motherland!
And people like Jiang Zhendong, there is not only one in the northeast.
Also in July 1932, Jiang Zhendong's team, like another, tried their best to "occupy the Northern Plains" for the sake of the revolution, and this team combined into one team, one of them carrying the banner of "Zhanshan Good Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army" and the other carrying the banner of "Zhanbeiyuan Regiment Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army", standing on the northeast plain and making the final efforts for this land.
Unfortunately, the combined number of these two teams is less than a thousand, and if they really want to compete with the Japanese soldiers stationed in the northeast, it is almost "grasshoppers shaking the trees". In order to reduce unnecessary sacrifices, Jiang Zhendong changed directions, and he decided to spy on intelligence and harass the Jihai Railway, which was controlled by the Japanese.
Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army
The meaning of fighting resistance
In August 1932, Jiang Zhendong received information that there would be two carriages of Japanese on the train from Chaoyang town to Jilin. It was rare for the Japanese to appear so concentrated, and then Jiang Zhendong quickly organized his own team and set up an ambush at Yongning Station, through which the train had to pass.
This time the ambush went well. However, after Jiang Zhendong and others successfully attacked the train, they found that there were not so many Japanese people on this train, only two Japanese officers and a Japanese businessman.
Jiang Zhendong stood in front of these three people with a pistol, looking a little angry.
The officers were the ones who mutilated the people, and naturally they were going to shoot them and make them apologize for their sins with death, but what about this Japanese businessman? He was just an innocent Japanese citizen, and like them, he was a blind follower of the trend of the times. Looking at the Japanese businessman kneeling on the ground and prostrating his head and admitting his mistake, Jiang Zhendong wanted to let him go.
Almost at the moment when Jiang Zhendong's heart softened, a person in the team stood up and identified him: "Where does he earn money for this Japanese profiteer?" He earns money by squeezing our strong labor! When I was working under his hands and being beaten, I had never seen him so timid! ”
Yes, the mountains that weigh on the people of the northeast are not only the Inhumane And Wanton Japanese devils in Japan, but also these unscrupulous businessmen who wear human skin but never regard those poor people as people! They forced the mighty laborers who had to enter the factories in order to make a living, and the slightest disobedience would allow the whips in their hands to whip the skins of the workers. What is the difference between a worker who doesn't have enough to eat and don't wear warm clothes to do such high-intensity work every day than being in hell?
Jiang Zhendong looked at the Eight Silver Cakes and Gold Bars that the Japanese merchant had taken out of his body in order to beg for forgiveness, and a wave of sadness surged into his heart, how many people were working under their hands for the sake of the one or two copper plates, and they were eager to sell their lives, but they could easily take out so much money.
The warriors behind them are mostly people who sell their lives under such black-hearted merchants, and they are not willing to let go of such profiteers. In the end, Jiang Zhendong still decided to deal with these three people in a fair way. When the people at the bottom can only bear oppression and exploitation, but no one can decide for them, these innocent people can only pick up the tools to defend their right to live.
After returning home, Jiang Zhendong pondered for a long time, why did they risk their lives to defend this land? Because people not only have to live, but also live with dignity, they have the right to choose whether to live like a person or live like a slave.
Jiang Zhendong gently touched his son's sleeping face, and secretly swore in his heart: "Even if his life will fall because of this rebellion, he will let his children and grandchildren stand with dignity!" "He tried everything he could to exchange all the money he had taken from the Japanese merchants for weapons, and he must lead his brothers to defend his hometown!"
Yes, although they were not numerous and their weapons were not advanced, they never gave up and insisted on relentlessly attacking the seemingly powerful Japanese army. And the repeated attacks also made the Japanese unbearable and very upset.
As time went on, the warriors were no longer satisfied with such petty fights, and they had to find a way to drive the Japanese out of China. The will of all the people was surprisingly unanimous and firm at that moment, and Jiang Zhendong also understood that if he wanted to really attack the japanese forces, it was necessary to gather the spontaneous anti-Japanese troops of these northeastern people.
8,000 bounty heads
On August 30, 1932, Jiang Zhendong was invited to participate in the inaugural meeting of the Northeast Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. At this congress, Jiang Zhendong was appointed as the leader of the fourth detachment, and at the same time, his team was also incorporated into the Panshi Workers' and Peasants' Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, which was the predecessor of the 1st Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army.
After the organization, Jiang Zhendong's team is no longer a single fight, and the name of "occupying the mountains" has been retained.
After joining the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army of Rock Workers and Peasants, Jiang Zhendong continued to lead the team to kill the enemy bravely. It's just that many times, in the face of the enemy's powerful forces and advanced weapons, there is always some inadequacy. Several major battles were fought, Jiang Zhendong's original team was greatly damaged, even people were much less, and even later, because of the lone army, his team also lost contact with the Northeast Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.
In those days, Jiang Zhendong really thought that he and this team had reached the end of the road and had no chance of survival. Just as he was about to lead his brothers in a final attempt, he met a man. This person is the famous Yang Jingyu.
In 1933, Yang Jingyu was leading the South Manchurian guerrillas to fight against the Japanese army in the northeast while accumulating the vitality of the team. In February of that year, Jiang Zhendong led his own team and the Southern Manchurian guerrilla group led by Yang Jingyu met. Jiang Zhendong had long admired the Communists, but he had little chance to contact them, and Yang Jingyu's arrival seemed to give him a bright light and guide his direction.
Yang Jingyu
Since Jiang Zhendong joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, he became the commander of the Second Division of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army. Not only was he very combat-minded, but he had never been killed when he started a war, and even the devils were afraid when they saw him.
As early as 1932, Jiang Zhendong constantly harassed Japanese trains along the Jihai Railway, and now he is the leader of the anti-Japanese team in northeast China, repeatedly dealing heavy blows to the Japanese forces.
Such a brave and resourceful figure makes the devils hate and itch their teeth, and they can also be regarded as a thorn in the eyes of japanese devils and a thorn in their flesh.
The Japanese even offered a reward of 8,000 yuan to take Jiang Zhendong's head.
Who thought, after Jiang Zhendong learned of this news, he laughed instead: "The devil really hates me." The more he hated, the more he proved that I was a man who resisted Japan! ”
The 8,000 yuan in the 1930s was an astronomical amount for those northeasterners who were squeezed by Japanese merchants and could not earn a few oceans a month. However, no one is willing to stand up and report Jiang Zhendong, who would want to be a slave to the state? Who would want to kill their own big hero?
In 1937, the Japanese saw that the time was ripe and launched a war of aggression against the entire Chinese nation. The northeast, the land they had seized for six years, was also not spared and suffered even more bitterly. In order to avoid the tragedy of the destruction of the country and the death of the family, countless warriors like Jiang Zhendong rushed out and defended the land with their own bodies.
Part of the commander of the First Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army
Heroes betrayed by traitors die generously
However, Jiang Zhendong did not expect that the 8,000 heads of the ocean that had not been bought were easily betrayed by traitors! In 1938, just as Jiang Zhendong was leading the team to fight against rikou, a traitor appeared in his team.
Since the "918" incident, Jiang Zhendong has led his brothers in this land to resist to the death for seven years, and only one traitor has been produced. It was also because of this traitor that Jiang Zhendong and his party of 13 people all fell into the trap of the Japanese army. In the end, 6 people died on the spot under the guns of the Japanese army, and Jiang Zhendong and 6 other fighters were captured alive by the enemy and returned to the enemy camp.
This photo of Jiang Zhendong was taken at this time. The Japanese officer named Fukushima, who had captured Jiang Zhendong alive, was not only cruel but also perverted, and every time he caught a Chinese anti-Japanese fighter, before executing them, Fukushima would take a "posthumous photo" of them as his booty.
Fukushima was naturally very happy to catch Jiang Zhendong, a person who had been hated by the Japanese army for so many years, and he wanted to take pictures of those lonely and nameless anti-Japanese fighters, and generals like Jiang Zhendong immediately decided to put Jiang Zhendong at the forefront of this batch of anti-Japanese fighters who were to be executed.
At that time, Jiang Zhendong had been beaten to death, and he was injured, and when the Japanese army came to arrest him, Jiang Zhendong originally thought that he would interrogate himself as before. But the moment he was dragged out of his cell by these Japanese, he understood that maybe his life was coming to an end.
Group photo of Japanese officers
When Jiang Zhendong was in prison, he had already heard that Fukushima would take a picture of everyone who was about to be executed. When he was led to the camera, Jiang Zhendong, who originally thought that he was going to die calmly, suddenly felt a little reluctant at that moment. He has not yet seen his children grow up, he has not yet raised his parents to grow old, he has not seen these Japanese devils driven out of his homeland, he has not seen his motherland get back on its feet.
Regrets? He asked himself secretly in his heart.
Without the slightest hesitation, Jiang Zhendong quietly said a word, no regrets.
Death, or heavier than Tarzan, or lighter than Hong Mao. He had given everything he had, including his life, for this motherland, and from this moment on, his life was tightly bound to this land. Maybe years later, no one will remember his name, but so what? At least remember that there was such a group of people who stood up in times of national crisis.
Without half a hesitation, Jiang Zhendong sat on the stool that the enemy had prepared, calmly and calmly looked at the camera in front of him, waiting for the enemy's photographer to take a "posthumous photo" of himself.
What kind of state of mind it was, still so calm and self-assured in the face of life and death, Jiang Zhendong even smiled a little. He knew that forty million people of the Chinese nation, even if one of them fell, countless others would stand up. As long as this nation still has the courage to resist, it will certainly be able to drive the Japanese out of China!
Seeing that Jiang Zhendong had the courage to die with such generosity, and did not show the slightest horror of death, Fukushima was very dissatisfied. In Fukushima's eyes, Jiang Zhendong is his booty, how can the booty not be afraid at all?
Fukushima ordered his subordinates to force Jiang Zhendong with a gun, making Jiang Zhendong feel afraid and making him afraid. However, Jiang Zhendong did not panic in the slightest in the face of these little tricks of the enemy, and still quietly held the wooden sign in his hand that read, "Occupy the mountain well."
Fukushima felt an insult he had never felt before, and he held up his saber to Jiang Zhendong's neck. He didn't believe that anyone could be so calm in the face of death, so he forced Jiang Zhendong to say, "Long live the Emperor of Japan." But Jiang Zhendong just smiled faintly and responded: "Long live the Chinese nation!" ”
This deafening cry completely ignited Fukushima's anger to the highest point.
Fukushima raised his saber high and stabbed at Jiang Zhendong's chest, Jiang Zhendong did not panic in the slightest, he clenched the knife that was slashed at him with both hands. Fukushima's strength was great, and Jiang Zhendong's hands were severed deeply when he held his knife. Blood flowed down the palms of Jiang Zhendong's hands and dripped down Fukushima's blade to the ground. Fukushima used all his strength, and he couldn't get the knife any closer to Jiang Zhendong by an inch.
Jiang Zhendong stared fiercely into his eyes and repeated word by word: "Long live the Chinese nation!" ”
Fukushima roared angrily to let his men come to help, two Japanese soldiers one by one held Jiang Zhendong's arm, before breaking his hand, two Japanese soldiers dragged Jiang Zhendong's arm to the sides deadly, at that moment Jiang Zhendong was like a goshawk, two "wings" spread high.
However, the next second, Fukushima swung his saber and cut off jiang Zhendong's two arms.
Jiang Zhendong's face changed in pain in an instant, and his facial features twisted and twisted together, but he did not shout out. He bit his mouth fiercely, and beads of sweat kept falling. Fukushima looked at Jiang Zhendong's look of such pain, which made him happy, he smiled viciously, and once again raised his saber, this time, he used his fast knife to instantly cut off Jiang Zhendong's head.
Jiang Zhendong's head left his body in an instant, but until the last moment, Jiang Zhendong's eyes were dead open, and he kept staring at the land in front of him. The blood from the severed carotid artery splashed on the ground, and Jiang Zhendong's blood was intertwined with the land he deeply loved, and he no longer worried about the need to leave this homeland he loved so much...
And the "posthumous photo" that belonged to him, after several turns, returned to Chinese's hands again. Although it has been more than 80 years, when all the sons and daughters of China see this photo, they will still lament the greatness and strength of the revolutionary ancestors!