On February 22, 1940, on the morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, General Yang Jingyu came to Sandaoweizi, Baoan Village, 6 kilometers southwest of the city of Bengjiang County, and spent the night in a broken cellar.
Under the siege and attack of traitors and Japanese and puppet troops, since the first month of the first month, General Yang Jingyu has been trapped in this ravine, with no water and rice inflows and lack of people and horses. The general knows very well that his life has reached the last moment.
pic | Yang Jingyu
Although this day is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, under the invasion of the Japanese invaders, it is difficult for ordinary people in the northeast to have a peaceful day. General Yang Jingyu looked at the bright moon in the sky, feeling worried. At this moment, the lights of thousands of families are the moment of reunion for his family, but he is alone in the snow and ice, and he can't even have a warm meal.
But isn’t his sacrifice alone just for the reunion of lights in thousands of families?
Yang Jingyu thought of this and tore out a ball of cotton wool from his cotton coat, and swallowed it.
This cotton coat, for a long time, not only served as a function of keeping cold, but also as a feeding supply. At this moment, General Yang Jingyu, due to the fierce battles over the past few days, hunger and injuries, he no longer had the strength to peel the bark outside the door...
Sleeped in a drowsy night until midnight at 10 o'clock the next morning, General Yang Jingyu heard someone talking outside the door.
As soon as the door was opened, four farmers were about to go up the mountain to chop firewood. In order to get some food, Yang Jingyu stopped them.
"I haven't eaten for several days and I'm so hungry. Please buy some things for me and get a set of clothes."
The four farmers were startled by Yang Jingyu's appearance. Later, they heard him speak and realized that he was from the Anti-Japanese United Nations.
"You should surrender. Now the Manchus will not behead the surrenderers."
Although Yang Jingyu was weak, he still shook his head firmly:
"I am a Chinese and will not surrender to foreigners."
Picture|Yang Jingyu looks like
What Yang Jingyu did not expect was that among the four farmers, one of the puppet army platoon leader Zhao Tingxi, who betrayed Yang Jingyu. That afternoon, the Japanese and puppet gathered five teams of more than 200 people up the mountain and surrounded Yang Jingyu.
Yang Jingyu fought and retreated, retreating to the side of Laoye River until he was shot and died heroically.
"Although I am a Chinese man, I am a dignified and silenced man. My belief in fighting Japan and saving the country is as solid as a rock and unshakable! Today I can splatter blood in the mountains and rivers, and I am enough!!"
A group of enemies surrounded Yang Jingyu's body, first shouting long live, and then there was a silence. Surprisingly, after the silence, these people actually burst into tears.
According to Japanese newspaper records:
"It's Yang, so all the siege team members burst into tears."
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The direct murderer of General Yang Jingyu was the former anti-Japanese warrior and traitor Zhang Xiruo. This person was a machine gunner, and he shot General Yang Jingyu in the chest. It was him and Wang Zuohua who placed General Yang Jingyu's body on the switch knife and chopped off his head.
After the liberation, Zhang Xiruo escaped and lived until the 1980s. In 1984, a reporter from Jilin Newspaper came to interview him. Until his death, Zhang Xiruo refused to admit that he had participated in the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and killed General Yang Jingyu, which became a regret for many veteran anti-Japanese Allied Forces.
The person who discovered and betrayed General Yang Jingyu was Zhao Tingxi, the platoon leader of the puppet army. Zhao Tingxi was captured alive by the People's Liberation Army in 1946 and shot.
The last one who rebelled was his guard platoon leader Zhang Xiufeng, who also took away the remaining guard platoon around General Yang Jingyu, causing General Yang Jingyu to fight alone between the white mountains and black waters. Zhang Xiufeng later escaped and died and lived until the 1980s. There was also an interview with reporters in 1983.
After 20 years, someone learned that Zhang Xiufeng, who was rebelling at that time, did not receive legal punishment, and also posted anger on the Internet to question:
"After the liberation, why was Zhang Xiufeng, the traitor of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, not shot?!"
Although the above people were the murderers who directly or indirectly killed General Yang Jingyu, it is undeniable that compared with the next person, the above three people can only be considered minor evil.
This person is the most trusted assistant General Yang Jingyu had when he was alive. He was the commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Anti-Japanese United Army - Cheng Bin .
The predecessor of the Anti-Japanese United Army was Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army , which was active in the Northeast since the September 18th Incident. With the later development, the Anti-Japanese United Army built 11 armies. Except for the First to Seventh Armies, which are under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the other four armies are all anti-Japanese armed forces of the united front nature.
Among them, the earliest established anti-Japanese Allied Forces was Yang Jingyu's First Army, where Yang Jingyu was the commander-in-chief. In June 1936, the First Army and the Second Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces were merged into the First Route Army, and Yang Jingyu also served as the commander-in-chief and political commissar of the First Route Army. Before the first place, the guerrillas scattered everywhere, the total strength of the First Route Army was about five or six thousand.
Picture | Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces Memorial Hall
Although the number of people is small, the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces has fought with the Japanese and puppet troops several times its own since the day it was established. By July 1936, the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces had formed a scale of more than 4,000 people in three divisions.
Yang Jingyu was appointed as the commander and political commissar, Song Guangxun was appointed as the chief of staff, Song Tieyan was appointed as the director of the political department, and there were three divisions under his jurisdiction, Cheng Bin, the commander of the First Division, Cao Guoan, the commander of the Second Division, and Wang Renzhai, the commander of the Third Division.
There is no doubt that Cheng Bin is an important senior general in the development period of the Anti-Japanese United Nations League, but unfortunately he was only once.
Cheng Bin was born in Yitong County, Jilin in 1911. After the September 18th Incident, Cheng Bin participated in the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Conference in Panshi County and joined the Volunteer Army. This unit was adapted from the Panshi Central County Committee of the Communist Party of China based on the Li Hongguang Red Guards and was the predecessor of the First Army of the Anti-Japanese United Army.
In November 1932, Yang Jingyu, the representative of the Provincial Party Committee, was sent to Nanman to contact the Anti-Japanese Volunteers in various counties, and established the South Manchuria Guerrilla Detachment of the 32nd Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army with the Anti-Japanese Volunteers in Panshi . It was at this time that Cheng Bin followed Yang Jingyu to participate in the War of Resistance. He served as the captain of the Fourth Squad of the Nanman Guerrilla Detachment.
It is undeniable that Cheng Bin did make a lot of contributions during his anti-Japanese war with Yang Jingyu.
pic|Pseudo-Jilin Tonghua Police Team
According to data records, Cheng Bin is both civil and military, deeply favored the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, commanded dozens of battles of all sizes and big and small. Among them, the most famous "Motianling Victory", annihilated 48 Japanese Imata Squadron.
What makes people angry is that during the difficult period of survival of the Anti-Japanese United Nations, Cheng Bin chose to rebel and surrender to the enemy.
After entering 1937, the survival and development of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces had difficulties under the oppression of the Japanese and puppet troops. The Japanese army not only strengthened its military actions, but also strengthened the " Baojia System " and "Group Tribes", cutting off the ties between the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and the people. The First Division led by Cheng Bin fought unfavorably and it became increasingly difficult to obtain material supplements.
From December 1937 to February of the following year, the former military commander of the First Division of the Anti-Japanese United Army Hu Guochen and the Director of the Political Department and Chief of Staff An Guangxun were arrested and rebelled against the enemy. They simply explained to the enemy:
"Cheng Bin is very filial to his mother, and can secretly arrest Cheng Bin's mother and brother to force him to surrender."
The Japanese army was overjoyed, and then sent Changdao working class spy Shen Yadong to investigate the address of Cheng Bin's relatives. After successfully arresting Cheng Bin's mother and brother Cheng En, the Japanese invaders sent the traitor Han Rong, who surrendered with Li Wanrong, to take Cheng Bin's brother to persuade Cheng Bin to surrender.
"Do you want your mother?"
Cheng Bin struggled and hesitated in his heart.
The Japanese army not only stepped up their persuasion to surrender Cheng Bin, but also dispatched a large number of military forces to force Cheng Bin to surrender. .
Photo | Cheng Bin wearing Japanese military uniforms
938 On June 29, 1938, 87 Japanese Nagashima working squad, 80 Kurosaki guerrillas and 25 police officers of Matsuda, the police station of the alkaline factory surrounded the main force of Cheng Bin's First Division.
In front of the enemy, Cheng Bin lost his position and surrendered voluntarily. He even persuaded the rest of the staff of the First Division to surrender with him. According to statistics, there were 115 cadres and soldiers of the First Division who surrendered with Cheng Bin, and also disarmed the Japanese army infantry artillery one, five light machine guns, two automatic rifles, 82 rifles, 72 pistols, and more than 6,000 bullets.
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On July 31, 1938, the Japanese invaders held a grand surrender ceremony for Cheng Bin's rebellion, and Cheng Bin spoke as the leader of the traitor.
"...I am grateful to the emperor's grace, but I regret the past and surrender." I am willing to work with the Changdao working class to deal with other "bandit groups" and swear to redeem my previous crimes, and no longer be aware of being a bandit..."
's words also fully exposed Cheng Bin's shameful traitor's face.
As a former senior general of the Anti-Japanese United Nations, Cheng Bin is very familiar with the Anti-Japanese United Nations strategy and tactics and logistics supply system, especially Yang Jingyu himself.
pic | Secret camp
According to the memories of the old soldiers who had participated in the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces: Cheng Bin is so familiar with Yang Jingyu. At that time, he led his team to the mountains to encircle and suppress the enemy without meeting. He could tell who it was just by listening to the gunshots.
To a certain extent, Cheng Bin followed Yang Jingyu since childhood. Yang Jingyu was also like a brother and a father to him, but in front of the Japanese invaders, he chose to betray him without hesitation.
Cheng Bin grabbed the "fatal hole of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces as soon as he made a move. "—— Secret camp .
After the Japanese army strengthened the Baojia system and the group tribe, Yang Jingyu created a secret camp in particular in the deep mountains and forests in order to obtain survival supplies. The secret camp is an important logistics supply base for the Anti-Japanese United Army. It not only stores supplies such as food and ammunition, but also serves as the important task of collecting enemy situations and promoting anti-Japanese resistance.
Although the living conditions of the Anti-Japanese United Army are very difficult, the living facilities of the secret camp are very complete.
According to historical records, there are more than 30 secret camp sites around the Hongshi Forest District, among which Yang Jingyu secret camp is established in Songzi Lake. Also known as the headquarters secret camp.
According to the memories of some elderly people who visited in 1946,
" secret camp is a one-piece horse rack house carved with wood rims. The roof is covered with birch bark and wooden mixer. The sack is divided into two fire kangs, both of which are "warm sacks" (the sacks with kangs or ground fire dragons). The chimney is made of hollow wood, the secret camp structure is very neat and complete, and it is equipped with dormitories, kitchens, warehouses, pharmacies, granaries, gun stations, outposts, Yang Jingyu's residence and other facilities. "
The reason why the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces could persist in the War of Resistance for 14 years in an extremely difficult environment was a large part of the fact that they depended on secret camps.
As soon as Cheng Bin rebelled, he immediately colluded with the Japanese and puppets to destroy the more than 70 secret camps established by Yang Jingyu in Mengjiang County .
destroyed the logistics supply base of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, and Yang Jingyu's troops were in trouble.
Not only that, Cheng Bin also led his team deep into the mountains and forests several times to encircle and suppress the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, and even shouted in front of the formation, intending to disintegrate the morale of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.
In the past, the Japanese and puppet troops fought with the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, and they only dared to act during the day and retreated from the forest to rest at night. The Anti-Japanese Allied Forces could have a chance to breathe. However, since Cheng Bin rebelled, the Japanese and puppet troops' siege and suppression of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces day and night, and it was difficult to obtain material replenishment, and the combat effectiveness of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces has also been greatly reduced.
Under Cheng Bin's pursuit, the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces suffered huge casualties, and his hands were covered with the blood of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces soldiers.
In August 1938, Cheng Bin led his team to encircle and suppress the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, and bombarded the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in Mengjiangnaer, killing 3 Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, and killing 1 Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in Heishi Town, Panshi County;
1939, he surrounded and suppressed the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in Huadian , Jinchuan and other places and killed 7 people, two of whom were beaten to death by Cheng Bin;
July 1939, 6 Anti-Japanese Allied Forces were killed at the Fifth Branch of Huinan County;
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It was also under his pursuit that Yang Jingyu's troops were fighting less and less, until he lost contact with the main force and penetrated into the mountains and forests.
On February 23, 1940, Yang Jingyu was surrounded by Japanese and puppet troops in Sandaoweizi, Mengjiang County. After fierce war, Cheng Bin said shamelessly:
"This time, my job is gone."
pic|During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Japanese newspaper about Yang Jingyu
After Yang Jingyu's death, Cheng Bin ordered people to cut off his head. He and his traitors participated in the "Celebration Conference" held by the Japanese and puppets in Mengjiang County.
According to archives, before the first month of the year, Japanese puppet convened gendarmerie , puppet army, and traitors to convene the "Yang Jingyu symposium". Although the two sides have different positions, the Japanese invaders generally believe that Yang Jingyu is a respectable opponent and sarcasticize Cheng Bin, who is a traitor.
At the symposium, reporter Miyamoto asked:
"Please talk about Yang Jingyu's resume and appearance first."
Sitting next to him, Ichiro Kikiraki said to Cheng Bin sarcastically:
"Cheng Jun knows the best in this regard, because he was Commander Yang's arm before!"
Picture | Ichiro Kikirakiraki
Cheng Bin lowered his head and said:
"Don't make jokes, I know a little about Yang Fiance."
It is worth mentioning that after Cheng Bin killed Yang Jingyu, he went home with his elder brother Cheng En. His mother always refused to meet him, and his grandmother was even more angry. Until her death, she also specifically told her:
"You don't need to raise a thief in life, and you don't need to bury a thief in death."
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Maybe he was worried that he would lose his role, so Cheng Bin became even more serious since then.
In August 1941, Cheng Bin's brigade was transferred to Rehe to participate in the Japanese invaders' sweep. During his stationed in Anjiangtun area, Cheng Bin followed the Japanese invaders' policy of "returning to the village and combining households" and implemented the "three lights" policy in the local area, killing the masses on a large scale, creating an unmanned land.
In 1942, Cheng Bin transferred the captain of the Rehe Provincial Police Brigade, which was under his command of three squadrons to assist the Japanese invaders in fighting the Eighth Route Army and the Anti-Japanese Forces.
In September 1944, when the Japanese invaders were dead, they remembered Cheng Bin and other traitors, so they specially transferred all police brigades under the pseudo-Tonghua Provincial Police Department to the front line of Great Wall to be responsible for fighting with the Eighth Route Army, and renamed the "Yixin Criminal Brigade", with its headquarters in Zunhua County, Hebei.
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Photos | Newspaper about the Anti-Japanese United Traitor Cheng Bin
In fact, Cheng Bin never realized until his death, or since he decided to betray Yang Jingyu, he could never look back on this road.
On August 13, 1945, Cheng Bin accidentally heard about Japan's defeat and immediately discussed with his confidants Qu Huanwen and Wu Taifu to arrest and execute more than 80 Japanese people from the "Yixin Criminal Brigade" and controlled this force to observe the changes in the times.
After the Japanese invaders announced their surrender, Yang Zhengxian, the 15th Military Sub-district of the Eighth Route Army, went to the city of Zunhua, and persuaded Cheng Bin to surrender. However, Cheng Bin was worried about his crime at that time and decided to surrender to the Kuomintang. So he deliberately made a false conspiracy during the negotiations and detained Political Commissar Yang. Afterwards, Political Commissar Yang died in prison.
The reactionary stance of the "Yixin Force" aroused the indignation of our army. In September 1945, with the assistance of Yang Dezhi and Su Zhenhua Columns who were about to go to the northeast, the Eighth Route Army of Hebei East invaded Zunhua County and destroyed the "Yixin Force". However, unexpectedly, Cheng Bin disappeared later.
In fact, Cheng Bin escaped from Zunhua with a part of his team and defected to the Kuomintang. The troops were reorganized into the Third Column of the Northeast Headquarters. Cheng Bin served as deputy commander. After the unit was incorporated by Chen Mingren, Cheng Bin was renamed the deputy division commander of the Kuomintang.
Picture | The bark, cotton wool and other things that General Yang Jingyu ate before his death
With the full liberation of the Northeast, until the Liaoshen Battle came to an end, Cheng Bin and his family fled to the Beiping and was appointed as the Kuomintang Major General Gao Guan.
Until January 1949, when Peiping was liberated, Cheng Bin concealed the history of rebellion and transformed himself into an uprising officer.
In February 1949, Cheng Bin mixed into the Ordnance Office of the Logistics Department of the North China Field Army.
This is how Cheng Bin was free for more than two years.
In the spring of 1951, it started raining on the streets of Shenyang (some say it was in Peiping). Cheng Bin was holding an umbrella on the street. A man hid under his umbrella to shelter from the rain. Cheng Bin looked carefully and found that the person in front of him was actually Liu Qichang, a traitor to the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.
Liu Qichang surrendered to the Japanese and puppet during the Anti-Japanese War, and later defected to the Kuomintang Military Control Commission, but for some reason appeared in Shenyang.
The specific detailed process of each party is different. Some say that both of them recognize each other and later report each other. Unexpectedly, after following the clues, they found that both of them were traitors; some say that after each recognizes each other, they did not report it out of concern. Until later, after Liu Qichang was arrested, he expelled Cheng Bin's situation in order to make meritorious service.
Picture | General Yang Jingyu's relics
According to limited information, Liu Qichang also has many identities. It is said that he once served as the guard of Cheng Bin, but there are also articles that Liu Qichang surrendered to the Japanese and puppets in 1935, and Cheng Bin was also the commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance at that time.
Cheng Bin later rebelled. During his tenure as the captain of the police brigade in Rehe, Liu Qichang was also in the Rehe area, and his positions were similar, so the two had some interactions. It is said that after Liu Qichang was later arrested, he used "close friends" to describe their relationship. Moreover, the two had an intersection after liberation. After Liu Qichang was arrested, he roughly told the location of Cheng Bin, the public security organ who was in charge of the case.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Qichang joined Military Control Commission . Because the level was too low, when the Kuomintang authorities retreated, he was not allowed to leave, but was ordered to lurk.
It can be verified that Liu Qichang was arrested before Cheng Bin. He told him in prison:
"The murderer who killed Yang Jingyu was an official in the People's Liberation Army."
951 On April 28, 1951, the public security organs followed the clues and arrested Cheng Bin. After interrogation, it was confirmed that this person was the rebellious former anti-union division commander, Cheng Bin, the murderer who killed Yang Jingyu.
On May 12, 1951, after public trial, Cheng Bin was sentenced to death by in accordance with the law, and was executed on the same day.
