Introduction: Yang Jingyu, born in 1905, is a native of Qishan County, Henan Province (now Zhumadian City). In the early years, he led the peasant associations in Henan, overthrew the rule of warlords, and spread the seeds of revolution throughout the Central Plains. After the "918" incident, Yang Jingyu began to lead the guerrillas in the northeast to resist Japan, and spent several years with the Japanese army in the ice and snow. However, because of the betrayal of the traitors, the hero Yang Jingyu was eventually killed. Who is the traitor who betrayed Yang Jingyu? What evil have they done? What happened? Let's take a look.
One: Yang Jingyu's anti-Japanese experience
After the "918" incident, Jiang Moushi and Zhang Mouliang both chose not to resist, so that Dahaoheshan fell. However, the people of the northeast did not give up their resistance, and under the leadership of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, they constantly resisted the Japanese puppet army. The state did not ignore their existence, so it changed the original eight-year War of Resistance to a 14-year War of Resistance, affirming the anti-Japanese merits of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation.
According to statistics from the Heilongjiang Provincial Anti-Japanese War Research Association, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition fought with the Japanese army about 100,000 times, killed 460,000 people, eliminated 180,000 Japanese puppet troops, and contained nearly 800,000 Japanese troops. Yang Jingyu was the commander and political commissar of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, who had been dealing with the Japanese army for a long time in the northeast region and was a well-deserved anti-Japanese hero.
Yang Jingyu began to lead guerrillas to resist Japan as early as 1932, and established a revolutionary base area centered on red stone stones in the northeast region.
In 1934, the General Headquarters of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army was formally established, with Yang Jingyu as the commander-in-chief. Subsequently, when the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolution was formed, Yang Jingyu concurrently served as the commander and political commissar of the army, responsible for leading the First Army to resist Japan.
The First Army of the Northeast People's Revolution continued to attack the police stations of the Japanese Railways and the Japanese Puppet Army, so much so that the Japanese Puppet Army was very disgusted with the Northeast Revolutionary Army, listing Yang Jingyu's troops as cancerous to public order and the areas of anti-coalition activity as cancerous areas.
In order to eliminate the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance and the base areas of our army, the Japanese army constantly encircled and suppressed the base areas. However, Yang Jingyu led the troops to use the tactics of guerrilla warfare to move to the northeast, which not only preserved the living forces, but also posed a serious threat to the Japanese army. During this period, it also saved some Chinese laborers and spread revolutionary ideas well in the northeast.
When Japan invaded northeast China, the common people saw very clearly who did not let go of a single shot and who had led the guerrillas to resist Japan for a long time. This profound popular foundation is one of the reasons for the smooth liberation of northeast China, and the contribution of Hero Yang Jingyu in northeast China is obvious to all.
However, due to the continuous encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, there were also some fighters who retreated in the Anti-Japanese League, and some fighters could not stand this kind of life of hiding in Tibet, so they chose to betray.
Two: Kill Yang Jingyu's traitors
The first traitor: Cheng Bin
Cheng Bin was the commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, and he was Yang Jingyu's right-hand man, but at the crucial moment he betrayed Yang Jingyu. Because of his weak revolutionary will, in July 1938 he led 115 men to the Japanese army.
In order to disintegrate the revolutionary will of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, the Japanese army deliberately supported them, and formed more than 100 people into the "Cheng Bin Advance Team", with Cheng Bin as the captain, and encouraged more revolutionaries to defect to the enemy in a preferential way.
In order to gain the trust of the Japanese, Cheng Bin began to attack the Northeast Anti-League, and he led the advance team to destroy the anti-coalition's life supply line - the secret camp. This secret camp is a secret camp, which is full of supplies and supplies needed by the Anti-League. The anti-coalition army fought guerrilla warfare during the day, returned to the secret camp at night to supply, and the next day was revived with blood to continue the anti-Japanese resistance. However, Cheng Bin's betrayal caused the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army to lose its life supply line and fell into the point of running out of ammunition and food.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Cheng Bin quickly shot and killed several Japanese prisoners, and then mixed with human heads into the North China Field Army. However, in 1951, Cheng Bin met an anti-Coalition cadre who had defected to the Japanese army, and the two people rushed to report each other for the sake of crime and merit. After some investigation, the organization confirmed Cheng Bin's criminal behavior, so it shot him.
The second traitor: Zhang Xiufeng
Zhang Xiufeng was Yang Jingyu's guard platoon leader, who adopted him at the age of 15 and raised him as an adult. But when he grew up, he betrayed the Anti-League and betrayed Yang Jingyu.
His defection exposed Yang Jingyu's whereabouts, and the Japanese army further narrowed the scope based on his intelligence and began to encircle and suppress Yang Jingyu. His only conscience was that he did not personally attack Yang Jingyu, when he led the entire guard platoon to defect, and Yang Jingyu only had a few people around him, and he chose to leave without a clear conscience, and did not take Yang Jingyu's head to ask for credit.
However, this does not mean that he is a good man, he took 9960 pieces of ocean (anti-coalition fee) to the enemy, so that the anti-coalition lost a large amount of military expenses, but also indirectly killed Yang Jingyu.
Unfortunately, he was not tried in the future, and he was not shot because of the expiration of the prosecution period and insufficient evidence.
The third traitor: Zhao Tingxi
When Yang Jingyu was surrounded and suppressed, he met Zhao Tingxi, who was short of food at that time, so he asked Zhao Tingxi to help him buy some food.
Zhao Tingxi: Why didn't you surrender? Puppet Manchukuo was not to kill the surrendering allies.
Yang Jingyu: Fellow countrymen, we are all going to surrender Chinese, is there still China?
Zhao Tingxi failed to convince Yang Jingyu, so he left, and before leaving, promised to get Yang Jingyu some food. Yang Jingyu thought that he had met an enthusiastic ordinary person who insisted on resisting Japan, but he did not expect that this "enthusiastic ordinary person" was a pseudo-army platoon leader and reported Yang Jingyu's hiding place to the Japanese.
Because of Zhao Tingxi's intelligence, the Japanese puppet army soon surrounded Yang Jingyu and killed him. In 1946, our army liberated Mengjiang County, established a people's government in the local area, and arrested Zhao Tingxi. In order to pay tribute to the spirit of Yang Jingyu's hero in heaven, the people's government shot Zhao Tingxi in front of Yang Jingyu's grave.
The fourth traitor: Zhang Xiruo
Zhang Xiruo was a machine gun shooter, who originally defected to the Japanese army with Cheng Bin, and then formed a combat squad with his brothers Bai Wanren and Wang Zuohua, of which Zhang Xiruo served as the main gunner, Bai Wanren as the deputy shooter, and Wang Zuohua as the ammunition hand.
At first, yang Jingyu's cause of death was suicide, when there was a villager named Lin Changgui, who compiled the contents of hearsay into what he saw with his own eyes, and also told reporters, so that it was once rumored that Yang Jingyu committed suicide.
However, after Japan's defeat in the war, more and more information began to be disclosed, and the "Minor History of Public Security in Manchukuo" (Manchukuo is a pseudo-Manchukuo) and the "Battle Log of the Kwantung Gendarmerie" all revealed that Yang Jingyu was killed, but because it was not killed by the Japanese army, there was no hype.
At that time, the Japanese army formed Zhang Xiruo and Bai Wanren and others into an advance team. After the persuasion was ineffective, the Japanese ordered the shooting, and Zhang Xiruo personally pulled the trigger. When the gunshots rang out, Yang Jingyu fell to the ground in response, and a generation of famous anti-Japanese generals was buried here.
But because the book does not state who shot Yang Jingyu, it becomes difficult to hold the blame. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Zuohua and Bai Wanren were arrested one after another, and the two of them exposed Zhang Xiruo in the activity of making meritorious atonement.
However, due to complicated factors such as insufficient evidence and the expiration of the prosecution period, Zhang Xiruo only squatted in prison for two years and was not shot. In 1984, Jilin Daily interviewed Zhang Xiruo, and in the face of reporters, Zhang Xiruo said that he had never joined the Anti-Japanese League and had never shot Yang Jingyu.
The reporter provided a photo of him and other rebels of the Anti-League, and in the face of Zhang Xiruo in the photo, he insisted that it was not him. Because he was not tried, and he did not repent in the future, there was no trace of remorse for Yang Jingyu's death, and many veteran fighters of the Anti-Japanese League were grumpy.
After seeing his interview, he was even more angry, and Huang Sheng, who had been Yang Jingyu's guard, sent Zhang Xiruo to court, but because of insufficient evidence and the expiration of the prosecution period, the matter was not resolved. The failure to get the murderer tried is a lifelong affront to the veteran.
And Wang Zuohua beat a single stick all his life, and in the end he died in prison; Bai Wanren also beat a single stick all his life, but he did not die in prison, and was released in his old age, and he lived a miserable life alone.
In order to commemorate the hero Yang Jingyu, the people's government changed Mengjiang County to Jingyu County, and to this day it pays tribute to Yang Jingyu's anti-Japanese spirit. Moreover, a memorial hall was also established in Yang Jingyu's hometown (Zhumadian) for future generations to pay tribute to Yang Jingyu's hero.