Stories of Anti-Japanese Heroes

Yang Jingyu, Yang Jingyu is an outstanding senior military commander of our party and our army. His original name was Ma Shangde and his courtesy name was Jisheng. Born in 1905, he joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1926 and the Communist Party of China in June 1927. In July 1936, he served as Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and South Manchuria, commander and political commissar of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, commander-in-chief and political commissar of the First Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. He led his troops to fight at the foothills of Changbai Mountain, the banks of the Songhua River and the Yalu River for a long time, and his activities covered 30 counties.

Yang Jingyu’s command post fought hundreds of battles with the Japanese and puppet troops, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese and puppet troops and expanding the guerrilla base area. Mao Zedong once wrote an article praising: "The famous leader of the volunteer army Yang Jingyu... his record of resolute and hard struggle against Japan is well known to everyone." The Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China spoke highly of him and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and sent a message to praise him. They are "examples of arduous struggle who have been fighting the enemy for more than seven years in ice and snow". In December 1937, with the approval of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Yang Jingyu was confirmed as a member of the Preparatory Committee for the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Yang Jingyu's military commanding ability made the enemy as ruthless as a wolf fearful and helpless, so he always tried to induce him to surrender and "submit". The article "Yang Jingyu's Crusade Symposium" published in the 263rd issue of the Japanese "Concord" magazine published by the Puppet Manchukuo in April 1940 has this record: Yang Jingyu "not only has martial arts, but also has literary talent" and "has extraordinary talents and is not an ordinary person." Someone whose character is comparable.” Ryuichiro Kishitani, the police chief of the pseudo-Tonghua Province, explained to the reporters present why he had to persuade Yang Jingyu to "submit", saying, "In order to keep Yang (Jingyu) alive and transform his talents into a good role, we Consider persuading him to surrender."

After the autumn of 1939, in order to eliminate the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, the enemy launched the "Three Provinces Joint Crusade" in Tonghua, Jiandao, and Fengtian, and launched a long-term large-scale offensive against the anti-Japanese allied forces. In order to catch the "big boss" Yang Jingyu as soon as possible, the enemy mobilized heavy troops to carry out brutal and cruel "encirclement and pursuit", "combing grate style" and "stamping style" "crusade" against Yang Jingyu's tribe.

The struggle against the enemy has entered an extremely difficult stage. In just over 50 days from the beginning of 1940 to mid-February, Yang Jingyu led his troops to fight the enemy more than 40 times, sometimes fighting multiple battles a day. Yang Jingyu gave full play to his commanding skills and broke through the enemy's siege time and time again. However, because the enemy was too powerful, we had no food and ammunition to supplement, so we could only eat grass roots and bark, and even swallow the cotton wadding on our bodies. Fight again. Yang Jingyu had to decide to break up the troops into parts and disperse to break out in order to preserve their strength and wait to regroup.

Comrade Peng Zhen once summed up the difficulty of the Anti-Japanese Forces’ struggle against the Japanese invaders: “In the revolutionary struggle led by our Communist Party for more than 20 years, there were three most difficult things. The first One: the Red Army’s 25,000-mile Long March; the second: the three-year guerrilla war of the Southern Red Army after the Red Army’s Long March; the third: the fourteen-year hard struggle of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.”

Now. Many people cannot imagine what the hardships and hardships were like at that time. Huang Shengfa, an old man who once served as a guard beside Yang Jingyu, recalled:

“The weather was extremely cold, our cotton-padded clothes were uneven, and some comrades had frostbite on their hands and feet. However, the enemy’s troops became denser and denser. "Punitive attacks" became more and more frequent. Just when Commander Yang and others were convening a meeting with the leaders of various front armies to solve the problem of cotton clothes, the Northeast Fork area of ??Narko was surrounded by Japanese and puppet troops led by Ryuichiro Kishitani due to betrayal by traitors. There are more than 40,000 enemy troops. There are planes in the sky, machine guns and artillery on the ground, and cars transporting food and ammunition back and forth. In order to cover the enemy troops' separate movements, Commander Yang led more than 300 of us. Attracting the enemy from the front, the machine gun company opened the way and tore a hole open.

“However, when we broke through Nanbozi and reached Wujing Dingzi, the enemy had already gathered more troops, and we got rid of them. It is difficult to get a chance to take a break when one stock falls and another stock falls. When marching in the snow, my pants are always wet. When the cold wind blows, they freeze into ice armor. It is difficult to bend. I don’t know how heavy it is, and it is difficult to take steps. The shoes were also worn out, so I had to cut a few soft elm strips and twist them from beginning to end to use as ropes to tie the shoes to my feet. The clothes were all torn from the branches, the flowers were blooming, and there was thick frost hanging day and night. The whole body was white and cold.

"How much fire is needed at this time! Make a fire and bake it, melt and dry the frozen clothes, and warm the cold body. Especially at night, The temperature dropped to more than 40 degrees Celsius, and the big trees were so cold that they cracked and cracked. How could people bear it? But when there was a fire, the fire shone far away, and the green smoke floated. As we climbed to the top of the forest, enemies would swoop upon us like a swarm of blowflies. We had to keep jumping up and down on the snow, for fear that we would never get up again after sitting down.

“What’s more difficult is not eating. Not to mention food, even grass was buried in the snow two to three feet deep. There was no way to find or dig it out, so we had to eat the unpalatable bark. First scrape off the old skin, peel off the green tender skin piece by piece, put it in your mouth and chew it, but you can't swallow it.

I barely ate it, and my stomach felt bad..."

In the process of repeatedly dealing with the enemy, in order to narrow down the target, Yang Jingyu divided his team into small groups to break out, leaving only a dozen Soldier. Due to his flexible command of operations, the enemy was never able to grasp his whereabouts and whereabouts. Later, the traitor revealed Yang Jingyu's whereabouts and whereabouts, and the enemy narrowed the encirclement and trapped Yang Jingyu and the six guard soldiers in the mountains. < /p>

On February 18, 1940, the last two guards around Yang Jingyu were recognized by traitors when they were buying food and clothes from the masses, and died heroically. As a result, the enemy further narrowed the encirclement of Yang Jingyu.

Zhou Baozhong, who once served as Secretary of the Military Commission of the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and Commander-in-Chief of the Second Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, wrote in "The Life and Deeds of General Yang Jingyu": "By February 18, His only two guard soldiers also died in Dadonggou. At this point, he was alone and trapped in the clutches of the enemy. The enemy tried to capture him alive, but fearing that the puppet troops would be ineffective, the Japanese invaders encircled the southeastern area of ????the Mengjiang River and blocked all major and major intersections, forcing him to a desperate situation. At the time of extreme urgency, Comrade Cao Yafan, who was active between Mengjiang and Fusong, learned of his danger and led his assault troops to rush towards Huanghuadianzi from Dulizi and Niucaogou in the southeast. However, the enemy's troops were too thick and Cao's troops were also heavily attacked. Surrounded by dozens of enemy aircraft, they took turns bombing. On the afternoon of February 23, more than 20 people were killed by the approaching enemy. The enemy was approaching step by step, shouting: 'Put down your weapons, keep your life, and you will still be rich. ’ What answered the enemy was the bullet fired from the gun in his hand. Seeing that the surrender was ineffective, the enemy concentrated their firepower. As a result, he was shot several times and died gloriously for his country. He was 35 years old. The time is: 4:30 pm on February 23, 1940.

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