On February 23, 1940, the anti-Japanese hero General Yang Jingyu was brutally killed by the enemy. Prior to this, Yang Jingyu had been fighting the Japanese army in the Northeast for many years. The troops he led had grown from a guerrilla of dozens of people to a division and then an army. They were active in the white mountains and black waters of the Northeast, attacking the Japanese army in a mysterious way.
The Japanese army continues to increase its strength. The ordinary people scattered in the village were forcibly confined to create a "no man's land" in an attempt to cut off the connection between the Resistance and the people, and isolate the resistance economically and politically. At the same time, a special agent organization was set up to fight against allied soldiers to induce surrender.
In order to deal with Yang Jingyu, the Japanese army tried almost everything. Although these measures have brought great difficulties to the Anti-Union League, the troops led by Yang Jingyu still attacked frequently. Even in 1939, when the number of Japanese "criminal" troops increased to more than 80,000, , according to Japanese statistics, had 540 battles in the first half of that year alone, of which more than 60% were active attacks by the Anti-Union.
But why did Yang Jingyu, who frequently attacked, be suddenly killed by the enemy? Actually, this was related to a rebellion, if it hadn't been for him to disclose important information about Yang Jingyu to the Japanese army, and personally lead the troops to "criminate" the Resistance. Even if the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army would cause some losses to the Resistance, it would never lead to Yang Jingyu's sacrifice.
The name of this traitor is Cheng Bin. Before the rebellion, he was the commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Anti-Union Army and Yang Jingyu's right-hand man. Cheng Bin in the spy war drama " Patriot " is based on this man. What's more shameless is that this traitor even got into the army and became a petty official after liberation. However, good and evil will pay off, and the traitor finally exposed his identity in a heavy rain.
Today’s article will introduce how Cheng Bin killed Yang Jingyu step by step, and how he mixed into the army after liberation and was finally exposed.
Yang Jingyu
Cheng Bin was born in 1912 in Jilin Yitong ,He had some culture in middle school, and worked as an apprentice in a watch shop in Changchun after graduation. After the September 18th Incident, the Northeast fell, and the Japanese army began a cruel colonial rule. At the same time, underground organizations of the CCP secretly organized anti-Japanese activities in the Northeast.
Cheng Bin was still a passionate young man. After all, Wang Jingwei once wrote a poem like "Success with the sword and live up to the young head". Cheng Bin, 20, didn't want to be a subjugated slave. He joined the anti-Japanese organization led by the Chinese Communist Party, and soon joined the anti-Japanese guerrilla forces in Panshi.
At that time, the guerrilla armed forces were weak, and conflicts with local landlords and people in the green forest were sharp, and development was relatively difficult. At the end of 1932, Yang Jingyu, who was the acting secretary of the Military Committee of the Manchuria Provincial Party Committee, was appointed by the organization to rectify the guerrillas in Panshi. Cheng Bin became the team leader and began to make his mark.
Under the leadership of Yang Jingyu, the guerrillas attacked the Japanese puppets and traitorous landlords, and won widespread support from the people. On September 18, 1933, in accordance with the instructions of the central government, Yang Jingyu combined the guerrillas of , panshi and Hailong into the first independent division of the First Army of the Northeast People’s Revolutionary Army, under the jurisdiction of two regiments and a political security guard. Company, Cheng Bin served as the political commissar of the company.
The political security company is somewhat similar to the guard company and requires extremely high loyalty. Cheng Bin can be the leader of this core force, which shows that he was already quite trusted at that time. Cheng Bin was promoted very quickly after that, and he was promoted to the first division commander in only two years. Yang Jingyu handed over the troops he created to Cheng Bin, which shows that he is highly regarded.
The reason why Cheng Bin was promoted so quickly was that the northeast guerrillas lost contact with the central government at that time and were unable to recruit cadres. Cheng Bin, who was slightly more educated, was reused. Second, Cheng Bin did have a certain level of leadership in fighting. In 1935, he organized a meeting of various anti-Japanese armed forces, and caused a team of more than 1,000 people, including some people from the green forest, to agree to cooperate with the anti-Union movement.
During the growth of the first division, Cheng Bin led his troops to achieve some victories, became a general, and became famous .But with the improvement of his status, the feelings of greed for enjoyment and pride in his heart also grew, and the revolutionary will began to waver.
Due to frequent anti-Union activities, they often attacked the rear bases of the Japanese army. The Japanese army began targeted actions. Since 1935, it has implemented the policy of "collecting families and garrison" throughout the northeast, and forcibly merged some remote small villages into large villages in order to realize the economic and political isolation of the opposition alliance.
In addition, a "Long Island Work Team" composed of traitors and Japanese troops was organized to instigate rebellion and induce surrender against coalition fighters. Intimidation and profit entice the family members of the Alliance, asking them to find their relatives. Under this offensive, some teams allied with the First Division of the Anti-League of China were shaken, and the strength of the First Division was weakened.
Under heavy encirclement of the Japanese and puppet troops, Hu Guochen, director of the Political Department of the First Division, and An Guangxun, director of the Political Department and Chief of Staff of the First Army, were arrested and rebelled. These two people are very familiar with the confrontation with the soldiers, and they have a very insidious idea for the Long Island work team. They said: "If you want to destroy the Resistance Alliance, you must first destroy the First Division. The first division commander Cheng Bin is a filial son. As long as his mother is captured, he can be forced to submit."
Patriot stills Cheng Bin
Due to the oppression of the Japanese army, the first division entered the area of the old monk of Benxi to fight guerrillas. At this time, they had lost contact with the military, the supply was interrupted, and they were surrounded by heavy Japanese and puppet troops, and the soldiers' mood became depressed. Cheng Bin, as the leader of the army, should find ways to encourage morale. But he failed to withstand the pressure and took the lead in rebellion.
In June 1938, the Japanese army listened to two traitors' suggestion to arrest Cheng Bin's mother and brother, and sent planes to throw leaflets to the anti-union forces hidden in the dense forest. When Cheng Bin learned that his relatives had been arrested, his already shaken will became more fragile, and his surrender mentality became stronger and stronger, and he began to send people to contact the Japanese army.
In the end, under the duress of Cheng Bin, 115 people from the 1st Division of the Anti-Lianhe Division brought weapons to the enemy. Another 30 fighters resolutely refused to surrender and left the first division. Cheng Bin became the deputy head of the Fusen Police Brigade of the Puppet Tonghua Police Department after surrendering.And participated in the round up of Yang Jingyu.
Cheng Bin was very familiar with Yang Jingyu. According to the memories of the Anti-Union veteran, Cheng Bin looked for Yang Jingyu in the dense forest. He didn't need to meet at all, and he could tell by the gunshots. In addition, Cheng Bin is very familiar with Yang Jingyu's activities and many secrets about military supplies. His participation poses a great threat to Yang Jingyu.
Cheng Bin led the Japanese and puppet troops to madly attack the Anti-Union troops hiding in the forest, and destroyed the hidden logistics facilities of the Anti-Alliance, including food and ammunition storage points, making the living environment of the Anti-Alliance extremely difficult.
According to the memories of Japanese soldiers, before Cheng Bin surrendered, the Japanese and puppet troops did not dare to spend the night in the forest when they pursued the Resistance. Before it gets dark, they will find a safe place to camp, and then go into the mountains to search for them until the next day. But after one night, where can I find the shadow of the Anti-Union League? This is also an important reason why Yang Jingyu can get away again and again.
But Cheng Bin is different. He is familiar with the mountains and forests and dares to spend the night in the mountains. Cheng Bin formed a "shift" with the Japanese and puppet troops after participating. The Japanese and puppet troops were active during the day and rested at night, while Cheng Bin was dispatched at night to rest during the day.
In addition, Cheng Bin also actively made suggestions for the Japanese army, and he proposed the strategy of "catch the thieves first." The Japanese army adopted his suggestion, specifically targeting Yang Jingyu to become 4 "criminal" brigades, uniting with the peripheral Japanese and puppet forces, and set up dozens of blockades in the Anti-Union guerrilla zone. By this time Cheng Bin had already served as the captain.
In the process of "crisis", Yang Jingyu led his troops to fight flexibly, successfully highlighting the encirclement of the Japanese and puppet forces again and again, but he also suffered a lot of losses. However, Cheng Bin seems to have installed a locator on Yang Jingyu, who can always follow him, pushing Yang Jingyu into desperation step by step.
Anti-Union guerrillas (stills)
In the face of powerful enemies, Yang Jingyu can only adopt the strategy of breaking up his strength into zeros, so there are fewer and fewer troops around him. In early 1940, when Yang Jingyu was active in the Mengjiang River area, there were only more than 200 people left. and there is no supplies. At this critical moment, Ding Shoulong, a staff member of the Guards Brigade Regiment, rebelled after being captured and confessed Yang Jingyu's location and action plan.
After the Japanese army learned of the news, they organized 9 police brigades including Cheng Bin and some puppet troops with a total of more than 40,000 people to implement an "iron wall encirclement" on the mountainous area where Yang Jingyu was located. Yang Jingyu led the troops to dash from left to right, swearing to the death, but Cheng Bin's shouts from time to time came down the mountain, which made some people waver.
By the morning of February 15th, there were only 6 soldiers left beside Yang Jingyu, and they were discovered by a troop of traitors. Immediately, the Japanese and puppet troops rushed towards the mountainous area where Yang Jingyu was hiding like a mad dog. The Japanese and puppet forces once found 6 Anti-Union fighters in the ravine, killed one and arrested 2 people. They thought that the person who was killed was Yang Jingyu, and they issued a "good news".
However, the traitor Cheng Bin came to identify that it was not Yang Jingyu. The Japanese commander became angry and ordered to increase the search. At this time, Yang Jingyu had already dispersed with several soldiers around him, and he was alone in the mountains and forests with the enemy for several days. Due to hunger and cold, he revealed his identity in the process of searching for food and was again rounded up by the Japanese puppet army. During the fierce battle, Yang Jingyu died heroically.
Traitor Cheng Bin ran to identify again and confirmed Yang Jingyu's identity. As a reward for rounding up Yang Jingyu, Cheng Bin and others were arranged by the Japanese army to go sightseeing in Japan. Although didn't kill Yang Jingyu by Cheng Bin himself, he pushed Yang Jingyu into desperation step by step and was undoubtedly the culprit.
Throughout the process of Yang Jingyu from being rounded up to sacrifice, not only Cheng Bin, but also several traitors appeared one after another in the Anti-Union, many of whom Yang Jingyu trusted the most. These people not only didn't know the gratitude, but in order to survive, they sold Yang Jingyu one after another. The appearance of every traitor puts Yang Jingyu into a more dangerous situation, and it makes people embarrassed to see this ending.
Cheng Bin did a lot of bad things after he killed Yang Jingyu. In August 1941, he was transferred to Jehe to reinforce the Japanese raids against the Eighth Route Army.Cheng Bin helped the Japanese army implement the policy of "returning the villages to the households", burning down houses, killing ordinary people, and creating no-man's land. Also often blockade and siege the Eighth Route Army.
On August 13, 1945, Cheng Bin heard on the radio that the Japanese army was about to surrender. In order to find a way out, the cunning and cruel Cheng Bin launched a "mution" and arrested and executed 80 Japanese in the army.
Two days later, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. Immediately, the Eighth Route Army sent Political Commissar Yang of the 15th Divisional Guard Corps to Cheng Bin's station to negotiate with him about his surrender. Cheng Bin knew that his crimes would not be forgiven by the Eighth Route Army, and that the Kuomintang troops were stronger. He decided to bet on the KMT and once again showed a cunning and vicious side. detained Political Commissar Yang, who was later killed in prison.
Japanese puppet army (stills)
After joining Jiang Jun, Cheng Bin served as the deputy commander of the third column of the Northeast New Line, and fought with the Eighth Route Army in the area of Zunhua for several months. After the Eighth Route Army captured Zunhua, Cheng Bin fled to Tangshan with the remnants, and was incorporated by Chen Mingren as the deputy commander of the 6th Division. Since then, he still led his troops to attack the Northeast Liberated Area.
Through the unremitting efforts of the Chinese Communist Party and the people of the whole country, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached an agreement on a truce in the Northeast, which will come into effect on June 6, 1946. However, after the agreement came into effect, Cheng Bin still commanded more than 1,700 people to attack Faku County occupied by our army.
In order to investigate this undermining of the armistice agreement, the "three-person investigation team" of the Peking Army Dispatch Department sent people to Faku to conduct an on-site investigation. At this time, Cheng Bin set up numerous obstacles, disguised as ordinary people as soldiers, and bribed foreign missionaries as perjury, claiming that he occupied the law library before June 6.
To make matters worse, Cheng Bin was secretly ordered by the Northeast authorities of the Kuomintang to send more than one hundred soldiers in uniforms of the Eighth Route Army to attack members of the investigation team and blame the Eighth Route Army.
What Cheng Bin never expected was that our army grew rapidly in the Northeast. By the beginning of 1948, the People's Liberation Army had begun a large-scale strategic counterattack. In November of that year, Shenyang was liberated. Cheng Bin believed that the Kuomintang had gone. After making a sum of money, he fled to Peking with his wife, children and children, and lived an incognito life.
However, the situation is developing too fast. Cheng Bin hasn't settled down in Peiping. The army of the four fields immediately sent troops into the customs, encircling Peking. Cheng Bin, who was already a bereaved dog at this time, panicked. While hiding at home to observe the situation, he contacted an old friend of the Changsha Garrison Command and tried to fly to Changsha.
But soon after, Peiping declared its peaceful liberation, and the People's Liberation Army entered the city and took over various institutions. Cheng Bin could not escape. In order not to expose his criminal history, Cheng Bin once again used his speculative skills. He pretended to be progressing, under the pseudonym Chen Ziping, joined the People's Liberation Army, and was assigned to work in the Logistics Ordnance Department of the North China Military Region. Because of his literacy and leadership experience, he soon became a deputy section chief.
Just as Cheng Bin was complacent about deceiving the People's Liberation Army's review, something very unexpected happened to him. In the spring of 1951, the "counter-rebellion" movement began. The enemy agents who were lurking in the city were unable to survive and fled everywhere in an attempt to avoid censorship.
One day, a heavy rain suddenly started in Beijing. Cheng Bin, who was on his way, came to the Qianmen Cave to hide from the rain and accidentally ran into Liu Qichang, an old acquaintance. One of these two was a traitor who concealed his identity and got into the People's Liberation Army, and the other was a lurking enemy agent. The two recognized each other with their eyes facing each other, and the two hearts couldn't help but startled.
Why did Liu Qichang suddenly appear in Beiping? Many articles say that Liu Qichang was Cheng Bin’s guard, but according to the files I found, Liu Qichang had already served for the Japanese puppet army in 1935, when Cheng Bin had just become the commander of the Anti-Japanese Army. Later, Cheng Bin rebelled and the two worked in different brigades.
The intersection of the two that can be found is that when Cheng Bin was transferred to Rehe as the captain, Liu Qichang was also one of the several captains in the area. Liu Qichang used "best friend" to describe the relationship between the two in his later confession, which shows that the two are still very ironic.
After the Japanese surrender, Liu Qichang joined the military commander as a spy in Chengde .After liberation, due to insufficient levels, he was naturally left to serve as a latent mission. That day, when he went to Beijing for an event, he met Cheng Bin while hiding from the rain in the doorway. It was also this heavy rain that allowed Cheng Bin's identity to be seen through.
Some articles say that after the two met, they reported to each other and both were arrested. This seems to underestimate the IQ of the two. Because it is obvious that in the environment at the time, either party would confess to the other party in order to get meritorious service, and reporting the other party would undoubtedly plant a time bomb for himself. The
file shows that Liu Qichang was arrested during the "anti-rebellion" movement. He confessed to Cheng Bin to save his life and knew his detailed address.
It can be speculated: Liu Qichang was trained as a professional spy and was in a state of exhaustion at the time. When he met old acquaintances, he would definitely try his best to win him in. And Cheng Bin is also a person at both ends of the mouse, and he is still looking forward to "counterattack the mainland." Meeting Liu Qichang made him think that there will be one more retreat.
The End of the Traitor
So the two went together, Liu Qichang gained Cheng Bin's trust and may have visited his residence. Therefore, after Liu was arrested, he confessed that "Cheng Bandit is not in Paifang Hutong, that is, he is in Pailou Hutong". On April 28, 1951, public security officers arrested Cheng Bin at No. 11 Dongdan Pailou Hutong.
Cheng Bin was then taken to Rehe for trial because Cheng Bin committed heinous crimes here. Finally, on May 12, 1951, Cheng Bin was sentenced to death and executed on the same day.
There are two reasons for the analysis of Cheng Bin's rebellion: one is that the living environment has become bad; the other is that his relatives are arrested and threatened. But in the final analysis, there is one thing-fragile conviction and wavering of will. There is only one reason for persistence, and there can be 10,000 reasons for giving up. Countless martyrs who participated in the revolution were ruined by the enemy, but they did not give up. This is the greatest thing about revolutionaries.
Cheng Bin can't be such a great person, but he can choose to live on his own. There is no need to work hard for the Japanese. However, for the sake of his own prosperity and wealth, he chose to avenge his gratitude, and forced Yang Jingyu, who had a good understanding of him, into danger.Such a traitor is destined to be nailed to the pillar of shame forever.
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