In the spring of 1951, the rain in Beijing was always much more abundant than in previous years. This may be a good thing for farmers in the suburbs of Beijing. But for Liu Qichang, the rain made him worried.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the "anti-counterrevolutionary movement" to catch spies and reactionaries has been launched across the country. As a former Kuomintang reactionary, Liu Qichang spent his whole day hiding in Tibet and living in embarrassment. Now it has been raining in Beijing for days and days, leaving him without a place to stay. As expected, the saying goes, "It rains all night when the house leaks."
On this day, it started to rain in Beijing again. Liu Qichang, who was already more miserable than a beggar, could only hide in the front door to avoid the rain. Just as he was wondering when the rain would stop, a man approached the front door.
The old door in Beijing
Liu Qichang was about to curse, but when he took a closer look, he saw that the person coming was his old acquaintance: "Mr. Cheng?!" Cheng Bin who originally just wanted to hide from the rain suddenly heard someone calling him "Mr. Cheng" ", he was so frightened that he almost lost his soul. He immediately looked at the speaker, and then he realized that the little beggar in front of him was actually his former guard Liu Qichang.
Meeting an old friend in a foreign country should be a happy thing. But when Cheng Bin saw Liu Qichang, he ran away as if he had seen a ghost, regardless of Liu Qichang's pleas from behind.
Seeing Cheng Bin being so ruthless, Liu Qichang, who was arrested and imprisoned not long after, immediately reported to the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: "There is an inside story behind the death of General Yang Jingyu! He was killed by Cheng Bin!"
Yang Jingyu General
must know that Cheng Bin is Yang Jingyu's old subordinate. Even Yang Jingyu can be called a teacher and Bole to Cheng Bin. How could he kill Yang Jingyu? This starts with Cheng Bin’s experience.
A progressive student who embarked on the anti-Japanese road
In 1911, Cheng Bin was born in a small village in Yitong County, Jilin Province. Because the village is located in a remote area, it has not been severely exploited. Therefore, Cheng Bin's family is relatively wealthy. Not only can they have enough to eat, but they can also send Cheng Bin to school.
School during the Republic of China
When he was young, Cheng Bin was studious and hard-working, and was deeply loved by the teachers in the school. Although the family was not wealthy, seeing their son's excellent academic performance, Cheng Bin's parents gritted their teeth and sent their young son to Changchun Ziqiang Middle School.
In that era when illiteracy was everywhere, being able to go to middle school was already a very powerful cultural person. Many advanced cultures and ideas are circulated among middle school students. Cheng Bin also borrowed many progressive books and periodicals from his classmates, and systematically understood the advanced nature of Marxism.
At the age of 17, Cheng Bin successfully graduated from middle school. After seeing the glitz of big cities, he did not choose to return to his hometown, but stayed in a watch shop in Changchun as an apprentice.
Changchun in the late 1920s
The young Cheng Bin thought very well at that time. As long as he could learn the craft of repairing watches, he could open his own watch shop in Changchun in the future, and his life would gradually get better. stand up.
However, the good times did not last long. In 1931, the Japanese army brazenly launched the "September 18 Incident" in order to invade Northeast China. Chiang Kai-shek 's " non-resistance policy " made Zhang Xueliang who had submitted to the Nanjing National Government withdraw from the Northeastern Provinces without firing a single shot.
Zhang Xueliang and his army can go, but where will the millions of people living in the three northeastern provinces go? The Northeast became a hell on earth under the destruction of the Japanese army, and tens of thousands of Chinese people living on this land became the souls of the Japanese invaders.
Innocent people who were bombed by the Japanese army
In order to save themselves and prevent the great rivers and mountains of the motherland from falling into the hands of others, the people of the Northeast and the underground members of the Communist Party of China lurking here resolutely organized various organizations and organizations to oppose the Japanese invaders. Team. As a progressive young man, Cheng Bin also joined the "Yitong Students Anti-Japanese Salvation Association".
It was at this time that Cheng Bin met Yang Jingyu. Although Cheng Bin was just an unknown pawn under Yang Jingyu at this time, Yang Jingyu cherished this talent very much. After learning that he was a top student who graduated from middle school, he personally recalled Cheng Bin who was out of work due to an injury to his left hand. Rock Volunteer Army.
At this time, the Panshi Volunteer Army had been reorganized into the South Manchu Guerrilla Force of the 32nd Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army with the efforts of the Communist Party. After Chen Binhui joined the team, he was immediately appointed by Yang Jingyu as the captain of the Fourth Team of the Second Brigade. Later, he successfully joined the Communist Party of China on the recommendation of Yang Jingyu.
Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrillas
On September 18, 1933, two years after the "September 18th Incident" broke out, after going through many difficulties and dangers, the independent division of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army was finally established, and the anti-Japanese movement in the Northeast region also went smoothly. A new situation has ushered in.
Everyone has seen Cheng Bin's efforts over the years. Yang Jingyu even promoted Cheng Bin to his side and personally taught him the experience of the Red Army team in fighting guerrillas. He also taught Cheng Bin whenever he had time. Revolutionary concept, hoping that Cheng Bin can truly become a person useful to the country and nation.
Looking back at the first half of Cheng Bin's life, Yang Jingyu was not only a teacher and friend to him, but also a role in his life. He not only helped Cheng Bin grow up and guided him in the direction of progress, but also constantly explored Cheng Bin's abilities, giving him an extremely important position in the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces .
General Yang Jingyu
However, Yang Jingyu did not expect that such a "good student" whom he single-handedly promoted and taught would make a huge "contribution" to his sacrifice.
Under the difficult environment, the heart of rebellion emerged.
After the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army was formally established, Cheng Bin successfully took over the position of commander of the First Division. Cheng Bin was just 23 years old this year. With the main force of the revolutionary army in hand, he had high confidence in the prospects of the anti-Japanese cause and hoped that he could lead the people in the Northeast to rebuild their homes.
Soldiers of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army
However, the revolutionary cause will not always be smooth sailing. Especially after the outbreak of the " Marco Polo Bridge Incident", the Japanese invaders accelerated their plan to encroach on China. They not only continuously attacked China's North and Southeast China, but also increased their military strength to suppress the anti-Japanese forces in the Northeast. Yang Jingyu The Northeast Revolutionary Army under his leadership directly suffered the "severe winter" in the anti-Japanese cause.
The First Division of the First Army of the Revolutionary Army led by Cheng Bin has always been the main anti-Japanese force in the Northeast region, and naturally it has become a major concern for the Japanese devils. At this time, most of the Japanese invaders were dispatched to Shanhaiguan. How to deal with the effective anti-Japanese forces in the Northeast with as little force consumption as possible has become the biggest headache for the Japanese invaders stationed in the Northeast.
In order to eliminate the team led by Cheng Bin, the Japanese first mobilized a large number of teams to implement an encirclement and suppression plan against the First Division, which made the soldiers of the First Division very tired and unable to rest. Then, the First Division implemented "returning villages and merging households" in the base areas where the First Division had been stationed for a long time, and established "group tribes". These policies caused the First Division, which had been hidden in the vast and sparsely populated Northeastern forests for a long time, to cut off contact with the masses and lose contact with the masses. An important source of supplies.
Soldiers marching hard in the snow
The winter in the Northeast is very long. Even in March and April of the coming year, the nights in the woods are cold and dry, and there is not much to eat. Cheng Bin and the soldiers of the First Division endured like this day by day, sometimes to the point of collapse.
It was under such a long-term siege that Cheng Bin had to lead his team to the Kuandian area. However, due to the size of the anti-Japanese troops in the Kuandian area, the Japanese army's raids in this area became even more aggressive. At one point, food was taken away by the Japanese army and the people starved to death.
Cheng Bin originally planned to get in touch with the anti-Japanese team here and then fight with them. However, because he was unfamiliar with the place, he repeatedly inquired about the news but failed to find any useful clues.It is absolutely impossible to expect a team that knows nothing to fight. Cheng Bin, who is well versed in guerrilla warfare, also realized that the First Division had reached a very dangerous situation.
Perhaps it was precisely because of such a difficult and difficult environment that Cheng Bin suffered severe frustration. He became negative about the war against Japan and directly led his team back to the Old Monk Hat area and continued to wait. New opportunities.
At that time, in order to speed up the dismantling of the effective forces of the Northeast Revolutionary Army, the Japanese invaders established a Japanese spy organization called the "Long Island Work Team". The mission of the Changdao Work Team is to use various means to assassinate, attack, disrupt and instigate revolutionary generals to resist the Japanese. As the main leader of the First Division, Cheng Bin naturally became their target.
Although the first division that returned to the old monk's hat ushered in the late spring in the Northeast, and the forest was also glowing with new vitality, Cheng Bin's mood did not change with the improvement of the environment. He was still immersed in the feeling he had received previously. During the attack, he had no intention of leading the team to fight against the Japanese army.
The Japanese invaders who besieged the Northeast Anti-Japanese War fighters
Cheng Bin thought about "surrendering" to the Japanese army, but he had no reason. Recalling the difficult situation of the main force of the Red Army during the Long March, and recalling that 40 million people were still struggling to survive under the iron heel of the Japanese invasion, although the situation of the First Division was difficult, it was not at the end of the road. Therefore, as the commander of the First Division, he was You must never take the initiative to surrender to the enemy.
When Cheng Bin's heart was being broken down bit by bit, the traitors Hu Guochen, An Guangxun, Feng Jianying and others who had betrayed the anti-Japanese work successively suggested to the Japanese invaders that Cheng Bin's mother and brother were still at home, so it was better to keep it secret Arrest his family and force Cheng Bin to rebel.
Sure enough, after Cheng Bin's mother and brother were arrested, Cheng Bin was very anxious after learning the news. He wanted to break out of the encirclement several times and rush to Jianchang Street, Benxi County, where his family was imprisoned, but he was stopped by his comrades around him. .
The Japanese army brutalized the anti-Japanese warriors
Everyone was able to persuade Cheng Bin for a while, but they could not persuade him forever. As a person who no longer had any hope for the revolution, Cheng Bin could not listen to a word of everyone's advice. Instead, he kept thinking about how to betray the revolution.
Murder his comrades and "submit" to the Japanese invaders
On the afternoon of June 27, 1938, Cheng Bin ordered the first division that had marched to the junction of Benxi County and Fengcheng County to stop, but instead used the excuse of "an emergency" Troops were sent to call Li Cisu, the political commissar of the Sixth Regiment of the First Division, and Li Xiangqian, the political commissar of the security company, to their temporary residence.
Li Cisu and Li Xiangqian originally thought that General Yang Jingyu had given them some news, and they didn't want to let outsiders know, so they ran to Cheng Bin's residence without any soldiers.
Former soldiers of the Northeast Anti-Resistance Alliance
But unexpectedly, Cheng Bin actually persuaded these two people to follow him to "go to the alkali plant to collect supplies." At this time, who doesn't know that the Japanese have laid a dragnet on Jianchang Street, just waiting for Cheng Bin to fall into the trap. Now Cheng Bin wants to take all the strength of the First Division to the alkali plant to collect supplies. He clearly wants to lead his team to surrender to the enemy.
Li Cisu originally thought that Cheng Bin was anxious because his family was arrested, so he kept doing work for Cheng Bin: "Even if we don't have food for three days and three nights, we still have to revolution! What will happen to China without revolution?" It would be shameful to surrender to the enemy!"
Li Xiangqian saw Li Cisu and Cheng Bin were at war with each other and was busy trying to persuade them to make peace: "Mr. Cheng, you were the one who called us before. As for people like this, they must first work hard on their minds, work their muscles and bones, and starve their bodies. Although there are difficulties now, as long as we are willing to overcome them, we will definitely be able to wait until the day when the revolution is victorious!"
Seeing Li Cisu and Li Xiangqian. The two of them had no intention of surrendering to the enemy and betraying their country, and Cheng Bin was extremely worried.These two people have always had charisma in the team. If they are determined not to rebel now, how can they exchange a division for their own families? In order for him to surrender to the enemy smoothly, these two people must not be left behind!
The ruthless Cheng Bin pretended to think about their suggestions and walked around the room. He was almost collapsed and Li Cisu couldn't help but comfort him not to worry too much about his family.
Just when the two of them lowered their guard, Cheng Bin suddenly took out a pistol from his sleeve and shot Li Cisu and Li Qianqian. Because they trusted Cheng Bin too much, Li Cisu and Li Xiangqian were completely unprepared. Li Cisu was hit on the spot by a sudden sneak attack, while Li Cisu escaped because he had a thick notebook hidden in his chest.
Li Qianqian, whose life was saved by the notebook, turned around and ran out. Cheng Bin was shocked when he saw that Li Qianqian was not dead, and fired several shots in the direction in which Li Qianqian was running. Although Li Xiangqian was not killed, he was seriously injured and could only hide secretly.
The soldiers who rushed over after hearing the gunshots saw Cheng Bin holding a pistol in shock and quickly asked what happened. Unexpectedly, Cheng Bin kicked away the little soldier who was about to collect Li Cisu's body. This honest little soldier was so frightened by Cheng Bin's appearance that he squatted there and did not dare to move. He only dared to secretly cover Li Cisu with his hands. The wounds on Su’s body. In the little soldier's heart, Li Cisu has always been a good person.
Seeing the appearance of the soldiers, Cheng Bin, who was afraid of being seen, roared: "Traitors! They are all traitors! They are all traitors! They actually wanted to betray the revolution. I killed this one and the other one was injured and ran away. !" After saying this, Cheng Bin couldn't help but shoot several times into the sky to vent his anger.
The soldiers originally believed in the character of Li Cisu and Li Xiangqian, but now Cheng Bin's reaction made them so scared that they dared not speak out, so they could only listen to Cheng Bin's words with suspicion.
Cheng Bin, who had killed his own man, knew that he had no way out. He immediately drafted a letter and sent it to the Changdao work team stationed at the alkali plant, expressing his willingness to "surrender."
Then, Cheng Bin called the soldiers together again and tricked them into rebelling with him. Some soldiers in the team were unwilling, saying, "We came to fight to drive away the Japanese devils, not to sacrifice our lives for the Japanese devils."
When he heard that there was a soldier who fit this sentence, Cheng Bin took out his pistol and ordered the soldiers in the security company to raise their machine guns. After Cheng Bin fired a shot into the sky and ordered everyone to quiet down, he looked gloomy. The face sneered: "Don't surrender? Then what are you going to do? Continue fighting with the Japanese and then meet the King of Hell? I can send you to see the King of Hell now!"
Seeing that the soldiers were all confused by the formation of long guns and short cannons , Cheng Bin started to perform in tears again: "Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot have both. I, Cheng Bin, have been loyal to the country, but the Japanese can't be beaten away and they can't blame me. Now, my mother and brother have been captured by the Japanese. I If they can't go and surrender, they will all die!"
Cheng Bin, who surrendered in the name of being loyal to his mother, left the soldiers at a loss for a while. This group of uneducated soldiers joined the army to fight in order to drive away the little Japanese devils and have enough food and clothing for their families. Now facing Cheng Bin's mother who moved out, no one knew what to say.
The betrayed soldiers were captured by the Japanese army.
Seeing Cheng Bin, a grown man, crying so hard that he was out of breath, he couldn't say anything. However, the soldiers of the First Division did not expect that the reason why Cheng Bin wanted to "persuade" them was to have a bargaining chip with the Japanese so that he could be promoted and make a fortune.
Under the threat of artillery and machine guns, the 115 soldiers of the First Division of the Anti-Alliance Army had no choice but to follow Cheng Bin down the mountain and walked into the Japanese encirclement. The Japanese invaders, who had received the news long ago, surrounded Cheng Bin and others as soon as they saw them arriving at the designated location.
At 10 a.m. on July 31, 1938, Cheng Bin also took these 115 soldiers to participate in the "Submission" ceremony at Benxi Lake Primary School. At this ceremony, this group of young soldiers who had sacrificed their lives and blood for their motherland and were wounded in battle performed a military salute to the national flag of the puppet Manchukuo.
Cheng Bin
As the leader of this "surrender", Cheng Bin also delivered a speech under the Japanese flag on behalf of the "surrenders". He not only thanked the "Imperial Army" for their forgiveness, but also said: " I am willing to work with the Changdao Work Team for the rest of my life to deal with other bandit groups, and I vow to atone for my past sins and never be a gangster again."
Anyone who hears such words can hardly imagine that it was said by a division commander of the Northeast Anti-Resistance Alliance. of. But Cheng Bin not only said it, he even did it.
Cheng Bin (first from the right) who joined the Japanese army
killed Zhongliang for selfish reasons and was eventually shot.
Perhaps it was because he rebelled and no longer wanted the revolutionary cause to win, or perhaps in exchange for a "splendid future." The rebellious Cheng Bin intensified his efforts to destroy the resistance team that had finally been established, and even wantonly slaughtered his comrades.
As a "student" led by Yang Jingyu, Cheng Bin knew very well the work arrangements of the Northeast Anti-Resistance Federation. At this time, 's frantic Cheng Bin not only led the teams assigned to him by the Japanese invaders to destroy some of the secret storage points of clothing factories, hospitals and even grain and weapons and other military supplies established by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the woods one by one, but also Destroy the bases one by one that the team had finally established.
These actions of Cheng Bin not only caused great losses to the anti-alliance team, but also caused the team led by General Yang Jingyu to completely lose supplies.
The Northeast Anti-Union fighters who lost their base
Even Cheng Bin led the Japanese and puppet troops, who were originally very afraid of the Anti-Union fighters, to carry out counter-sweep operations in the base area. The Japanese and puppet troops raided during the day and rested at night. Cheng Bin led people to raid at night and rested during the day. .
In the midst of such a 24-hour siege, in 1939, Yang Jingyu had no choice but to lead the remaining teams to evacuate the guerrilla base area that had taken several years to establish, and headed north into the Mengjiang River. Finally, on the afternoon of February 23, 1940, General Yang Jingyu fought alone to the last man. Then he ran out of ammunition and food and died for his country.
Faced with the sacrifice of General Yang Jingyu, Cheng Bin, as a former subordinate, did not feel any sadness. He even went to the Japanese and puppet army headquarters in Mengjiang County to confirm whether the body recovered by the Japanese army belonged to General Yang Jingyu.
Cheng Bin, who went to identify the body of General Yang Jingyu
Looking at the old leader who had been kind to him, Cheng Bin smiled contemptuously. He nodded and bowed to the Japanese like a pug, and said that this was Yang Jingyu himself.
The Japanese invaders were very proud of the confirmation. They cut off General Yang Jingyu's head in front of Cheng Bin and hung it on the city gate. Seeing how excited the Japanese were, Cheng Bin even proposed holding a "Victory Celebration of the Crusade against Yang Jingyu."
If Cheng Bin really had his reasons for rebelling, how should we explain his evil deeds of destroying his comrades and abusing the corpse of General Yang Jingyu? After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War , Cheng Bin, who was already crazy, fell into the arms of the Kuomintang because he was afraid of the punishment of the Communist Party, and massacred innocent people and progressive young people across the Northeast.
Cheng Bin, who served in the Kuomintang
As a person who has systematically studied the combat experience of the Communist team, Cheng Bin used all these experiences in the battle against the People's Liberation Army soldiers during the Liberation War. In just one battle in Zunhua , Cheng Bin used the military tactics given to him by General Yang Jingyu to kill a battalion of soldiers of our army.
Even when the "Armistice Agreement between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party" officially came into effect in 1946, Cheng Bin did not give up killing the Communists. He first personally commanded the troops to invade Faku County, and even used everyone's trust in him to personally hunt and kill more than 30 Communists.
Cheng Bin, who took the wrong path, knew that he would not end well if he was caught by the Communist Party, so he was just as eager to kill the Communist soldiers as he was to kill Yang Jingyu and the Northeast Anti-Resistance Alliance soldiers. As long as this If the world is still in the hands of the enemy, then he who has already stood on the opposite side of the revolution will be safe.
Murdered Communists
However, the trend of history will never change because of one person. Although Cheng Bin's counter-revolutionary behavior caused huge losses to our party, no one can stop the victory of the Communist Party and the people.
In November 1948, Cheng Bin, who realized that the Chiang Dynasty was over, took a family and fled from Shenyang to Peiping by plane. At that time, he was still serving as the deputy division commander of the Kuomintang major general. After witnessing the liberation of Peiping, his original intention to flee to Changsha and serve the Kuomintang changed.
Cheng Bin relied on the Kuomintang officer certificate in his hand to build himself into a progressive person who "knew his way back" and "surrendered" to the People's Liberation Army in Peiping. At this time, he cleverly changed his name and surname to hide his many crimes in the Northeast. Following our army's policy of preferential treatment of prisoners, he entered the Ordnance Department of the Logistics Department of the North China Military Region of the People's Liberation Army.
Beiping Liberation
Until he met Liu Qichang in 1951, Cheng Bin never thought that the big lie he had told would be exposed.
Liu Qichang, who used to be Cheng Bin's bodyguard, followed Cheng Bin and did many bad things. After the founding of New China, he knew that he would not be let go by the party and the people, so he hid in Tibet all day long, and his life was worse than a beggar. When he saw Cheng Bin at the front door, he seemed to have seen a life-saving straw and wanted to catch him and let him help him get out of the predicament.
However, seeing his old subordinate, Cheng Bin was like seeing a savage beast. Not to mention greeting him, he even trotted out of the front door regardless of the heavy rain outside.
A spy who was arrested after the founding of New China
In order to seize Cheng Bin's handle, Liu Qichang followed the running Cheng Bin all the way and saw him running into a military compound. After getting the clue, Liu Qichang squatted at the door of the military compound all day long, constantly inquiring about Cheng Bin.
When he learned that Cheng Bin had become a minor official, Liu Qichang even came up with the idea of blackmailing Cheng Bin. But before Liu Qichang could implement this plan, he was taken away by the police for squatting at the gate of the military compound in recent days.
At that time, the policeman at the police station thought he had caught a local gangster. Unexpectedly, Liu Qichang actually confessed his identity and identified Cheng Bin as the mastermind behind the death of General Yang Jingyu. He also took the initiative to confess how Cheng Bin instigated his subordinates to attack Liu Qichang. The resistance and liberation of Northeast China caused huge harm.
After hearing the whole process, the policemen at the police station were so frightened that they dropped the water glasses in their hands. The criminal who endangered the country and revolutionary heroes was actually hiding in the ranks!
On April 28, 1951, with the approval of the Minister of Public Security Luo Ruiqing, Cheng Bin, who murdered loyal people, undermined the revolution, and killed innocent people, was finally arrested at his home at No. 11 Dongdan Pailou Hutong, Beijing.
Later, in order to appease the countless innocent souls persecuted by Cheng Bin in the three northeastern provinces, the Rehe Provincial Public Security Department proposed to the central government that Cheng Bin be escorted back to Rehe Province for disposal.
The Traitor on Trial
On May 12, 1951, Cheng Bin, who murdered countless anti-Japanese fighters and innocent people in the Northeast, killed General Yang Jingyu, and seriously hindered the anti-Japanese cause and liberation cause in the Northeast, stood on Chengde People's Court and was sentenced to death.
The moment he stepped onto the execution ground, 40-year-old Cheng Bin's thoughts suddenly drifted back to 1932. That year, the Northeast was devastated due to the "September 18th Incident". As a progressive student, he joined the China Communist Youth League. It was also in that year that he met General Yang Jingyu.
Before death, all senses become particularly sensitive.He clearly heard the bullet that was about to kill him being loaded. The moment the bullet shot out of the barrel, Cheng Bin seemed to hear General Yang Jingyu's instructions to him again: "Bin, be a man who is useful to the country and the nation." "
Cheng Bin
recorded in Japanese information is just that he took the wrong path and never had a chance again.
