In the history of mankind, the most hated is undoubtedly the traitor, Wu Sangui betrayed the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, was remembered and scolded for more than three hundred years, Wang Jingwei surrendered to the enemy and treason, after death even the grave was blown up, history has proved that most traitors can not escape the trial of history in the end, but it is inevitable that there will be one or two fish that slipped through the net, but they will certainly spend the rest of their lives in shame, Zhang Xiruo is an example.
Who is Zhang Xi? This man is unknown, neither a traitor, nor a place where the world can remember him, and the reason why he is unforgivable is because he shot Yang Jingyu, the main leader of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army at that time, and his position was only a machine gunner in the Anti-Japanese League.
In order to ask for merit and reward in front of the Japanese masters, Zhang Xiruo tried everything to curry favor with the Japanese, and in order to obtain a high-ranking official Houlu as soon as possible, Zhang Xiruo took advantage of his own advantage of being familiar with the characteristics of the Anti-Japanese Coalition Tactics to lead people to surround and suppress the Anti-Japanese Coalition forces, because of the rebellion of Zhang Xiruo and others, the Anti-Japanese Coalition soon suffered a large number of casualties, and the materials became more and more scarce, and for a while they fell into a situation of running out of ammunition and food.
On February 23, 1940, Yang Jingyu was surrounded by Japanese puppet troops, and no one thought that this place called Sandaoweizi on the banks of the Songhua River under the Changbai Mountain had become the place where Yang Jingyu fought for the last time, at this time he had been starving for 5 days, not only was he suffering from a serious cold, but also his feet were seriously frostbitten and his right arm was injured, and he leaned against a twisted tree and shot at the enemy with his left hand with a gun.
According to later Japanese military archives, on the morning of February 20, Yang Jingyu and his soldiers were found in a mountain pass, the Japanese army frantically pursued and wanted to completely annihilate Yang Jingyu, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese deputy Ito shouted to Yang Jingyu: You can't run, surrender! Yang Jingyu knew that he was in the Jedi, so he pretended to promise the Japanese army:
"Don't fight, I'll surrender right away." But before surrendering, I have something to say, please come alone. ”
Ito thought that Yang Jingyu really wanted to surrender, very happy, got up and prepared to surrender, did not expect Yang Jingyu to shoot three shots at Ito's "snapping", and Ito fell in response. The fighters immediately returned fire, the enemy was killed 1, 6 wounded, into a chaos, Yang Jingyu and the warriors temporarily escaped.
On February 22, Yang Jingyu met four firewood collectors in the mountains, namely Zhao Tingxi, the head of the false brand, and sun Changchun, Xin Shunli, and Chi Deshun, and entrusted them with some food and cotton shoes, and Yang Jingyu promised them more money. Zhao Tingxi persuaded Yang Jingyu to surrender, and Yang Jingyu said calmly:
"If we surrender Chinese, we will be finished in China."
Zhao Tingxi was worried about angering Yang Jingyu, and promised to go back to the village to get some food for Yang Jingyu, but he did not expect that after the four people returned to the village, they immediately reported to the Japanese puppet army, and then a large number of Japanese puppet troops surrounded Yang Jingyu's location. Yang Jingyu did not expect to wait for the grain and winter clothes sent by his fellow villagers, but instead waited for the pursuing enemy.
In the twenty or thirty years of Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, many specific details about Yang Jingyu's sacrifice are unknown. There are also many opinions and disagreements about how Yang Jingyu was sacrificed, and the hundreds of Japanese and puppet soldiers who witnessed this historical event at that time naturally remained silent in order to evade trial.
So a theory came out: Yang Jingyu committed suicide when he ran out of food. However, this is not the truth, as the Japanese Military Combat Archives' "Battle Log" records this:
On February 23, 1940, in the seventh year of Kant's reign, on a plateau six kilometers southwest of the county seat, Yang Jingyu asked the villagers for food. Receiving a report from the residents of Baoan Village, the members of the team (including the special search fingerprint squad) immediately dispatched, engaged in battle for twenty minutes, and killed the bandit leader Yang Jingyu. ”
The "Little History of Security in Manchukuo" is much more detailed, which describes the last moments of Yang Jingyu's life as follows:
"Nishitani gave an order to 'kill him,' and as the machine gun shooter hooked the trigger, Yang fell."
In the 1970s, in order to find out the truth about General Yang Jingyu's death, Liu Xian, who was working in the Propaganda Department of the Jingyu County CPC Committee at the time, was transferred to the County History Office to compile the county chronicle, and Liu Xian visited a number of people who worked with General Yang Jingyu in his lifetime in the following years, including those who betrayed him and killed him, and now many historical details are slowly emerging. After several twists and turns, Liu Xian found Yang Jingyu's guard platoon leader Zhang Xiufeng. Zhang Xiufeng's identity is not glorious, he is a traitor to the Anti-League, Zhang Xiufeng stayed by Yang Jingyu's side at the age of 15, Yang Jingyu took great care of him, once said to him:
"You are an orphan, you have no father and mother, I have no children, you are like my son."
It can be said that Zhang Xiufeng was one of the most trusted people around Yang Jingyu, who turned to the north and south and was born into death, but when the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Coalition encountered the most critical situation, there were only dozens of soldiers left around Yang Jingyu, but Zhang Xiufeng surrendered to the Japanese puppet army with guns and ammunition and more than 9,000 pieces of ocean.
When Liu Xian found Zhang Xiufeng, Zhang Xiufeng was already an old man with a broken candle, and his feelings for Yang Jingyu were very complicated, and gratitude and gratitude were more guilty, so he told Liu Xian a shocking secret:
At that time, Yang Jingyu actually did not commit suicide, but was killed by Zhang Xiruo, which is absolutely not wrong!
Zhang Xiufeng said: Zhang Xiruo joined the Anti-Japanese Coalition in June 1935 and was a machine gunner of the First Division of the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, because the gun was well fired, Zhang Xiruo was well-known in the army, he followed Yang Jingyu to participate in hundreds of battles, but in June 1938, when Cheng Bin, commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, instigated a rebellion, Zhang Xiruo did not hesitate to choose betrayal.
In the puppet army, Zhang Xiruo's position was only an ordinary machine gunner, but this time his muzzle was turned to his comrades who had fought side by side, becoming an out-and-out traitor.
On February 23, Zhang Xiruo was playing cards with several traitors, suddenly got the news to find the traces of Yang Jingyu, the Japanese puppet army poured out, Zhang Xiruo naturally would not give up this opportunity, when the Japanese army shouted to Yang Jingyu to surrender and was rejected, the Japanese were angry and angry, and ordered Zhang Xiruo to "kill Yang Jingyu", Zhang Xiruo immediately pulled the trigger, and General Yang Jingyu was sacrificed.
On the night of Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, the Japanese puppet army held a celebration banquet in the county town, and Zhang Xiruo was arranged to sit in the chief, and Zhang Xiruo boasted at the wine table:
"Just as Commander Yang raised his leg to run, I shot a point, brushed the ground and gave him a point here..."
As he spoke, he pointed his finger to his chest. That was the location of Yang Jingyu's fatal wounds.
Zhang Xiufeng sat next to him, and he was also very sad to learn the news that Yang Jingyu was dead, he walked over to Zhang Xiruo and watched Zhang Xiruo shamelessly show off the process of shooting Yang Jingyu, threw the wine glass on the table fiercely, and scolded: Bastard! Come to a sticky end!
The next day, the Japanese army Kishitani Ryuichiro gathered the Japanese puppet army in the courtyard, while the body of General Yang Jingyu lay quietly in the middle of the courtyard, at this time the fierce Kishitani Ryuichiro did a thing that destroyed humanity. General Yang was shown to the public, Yang Jingyu's body was placed next to a knife, Cheng Bin originally wanted Zhang Xiufeng to cut off the head, but Zhang Xiufeng did not follow, and the people next to him said that if Zhang Xi was the head of the gong, let Zhang Xiruo come!
Therefore, Bai Wanren held the knife, Wang Zuohua held Yang Jingyu's head, Zhang Xiruo held Yang Jingyu's leg and lifted it to the knife, and Bai Wanren stabbed Yang Jingyu's head down.
What makes people sigh is that as the direct murderer of Yang Jingyu, Zhang Xiruo and the other two were not tried and punished for this matter, and later after many searches by the local history office, it was finally found that Zhang Xiruo and Bai Wanren both lived to the 80s of the last century.
Zhang Xiruo was very resistant to the investigation team at that time, always calming his face and not saying a word, and when he was forced to ask urgently, he vigorously denied it, saying that he had not participated in any anti-coalition and did not kill Yang Jingyu, when Shi Zhiban showed him a group photo of him pulling the body of General Yang Jingyu, he pointed out that many people in the photo, but did not know "himself", and Bai Wanren was more cooperative with this, recalling many valuable clues and details.
They had also been imprisoned for many years because of this matter, and they had also exposed that Zhang Xiruo was the murderer of Yang Jingyu, but at that time, they all believed that Yang Jingyu was a suicide martyr, and Zhang Xiruo also refused to admit death, coupled with the age, there was no evidence, and finally it was not resolved. At that time, many veterans of the Anti-Japanese League offered to take them to court. However, after consulting the legal department, the first came too long, "has passed the effective prosecution period", and second, there was no conclusive evidence, and finally failed to prosecute.
Bai Wanren, who had been sloppy all his life, left a confessional summary in an interview with the Jingyu County Shizhi Office in his twilight years:
"We are a bunch of people, we are not adults, and it is difficult to become a ghost." It's all retribution. Just in response to what Lao Cheng said to us when he was about to be liberated: 'Let's just mix it up in the future, clip up our tails and squint quietly, where to die and bury where we die.' ’”
History cannot be forgotten, everything in that year has long been recorded, no matter how Zhang Xiruo denies it, the crimes he committed will not disappear. Those warriors who shed their blood for the Anti-Japanese League and preferred to die rather than betray them would never forgive a traitor like Zhang Xiruo. He will be forever nailed to the pillar of shame by history, and he will always be regarded by the world as the object of verbal criticism.