Person Country: China

Patriotic hero

Yang Jingyu (1905- 1940), formerly known as Ma Shangde, was born in Li Jiawan, Queshan, Henan.

1927 in may, Yang Jingyu joined China in the spring of 1929, arrived in the northeast, assumed the pseudonym of Zhang, served as the secretary of Fushun special branch of the CPC, and organized coal miners to carry out the anti-Japanese movement. In organizing the movement, Yang Jingyu was arrested and imprisoned twice by the Japanese police and tortured by the Japanese military and police, but he never admitted that he was a member of the * * * and engaged in the anti-Japanese movement. After the September 18th Incident, Yang Jingyu was released from prison and served as secretary of the Daowai District Committee of Harbin, and later as secretary of the Harbin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and acting secretary of the Military Commission of Manchuria Provincial Committee.

1932, Yang Jingyu established the Nanman Guerrilla of the 32nd Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army in the northeast, engaged in the anti-Japanese movement based on Hongshilazi in Qingshi County, and served as the commander and political commissar of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army 1 Army 1 Independent Division Commander, 1 Army Commander and Political Commissar,1Army Commander and Political Commissar. Yang Jingyu waged a fierce struggle with the Japanese and puppet troops at the foot of Changbai Mountain in the ice and snow, and adopted the tactics of "dividing the enemy into two groups, retreating while taking advantage of the enemy's weakness" in accordance with the principles of "don't fight if you don't hit the enemy's vital points" and "don't fight if it hurts the local people", and soon established Mengjiang (now Jingyu County, Jilin Province), Naerhong and Jinchuan (now).

Seeing the growing anti-United front, the Japanese army was very scared. 1938 in the second half of the year, we mobilized heavy troops to "encircle and suppress" the United front, and offered a reward of 10,000 yuan for Yang Jingyu's head. 1940 in the first 50 days, Yang Jingyu led the anti-United fighters to fight with the Japanese army for more than 40 times. Under the crazy "encirclement and suppression" of the Japanese army, the Anti-Union was in trouble and almost ran out of ammunition. Soldiers had to eat grass roots and bark, and even took out cotton wool from their clothes to swallow. The Japanese army tried every means to induce it to surrender, but Yang Jingyu firmly said: "For the liberation of the Chinese nation, we will not hesitate to throw away our heads. We can spray blood, but our loyal will is unshakable."

When the struggle entered an extremely difficult situation, Yang Jingyu decided to organize the Anti-Japanese League into several small units, dispersed their activities and preserved their strength. Yang Jingyu led more than 400 anti-United fighters to break through in the direction of Mengjiang. Because of the traitors' informers, the Japanese army soon discovered their whereabouts. In order to make the troops transfer safely, Yang Jingyu decided to break through again and lead some anti-United fighters to contain the Japanese army. 1940 On February 23rd, after several battles, Yang Jingyu was wounded, leaving only a few anti-United fighters around him. The Japanese puppet troops tracked Yang Jingyu's blood and soon surrounded Yang Jingyu with several anti-United fighters. At this time, Yang Jingyu hasn't eaten a grain of rice for several days, and he is extremely weak with a belt and cotton wool. The enemy's "crusade team" surrounded him and shouted for his surrender. Yang Jingyu calmly took out his double guns and shot at the Japanese puppet troops, killing several enemies. If the enemy wants to take him alive, stop shooting and surrender loudly. He didn't answer, so he took the opportunity to burn the document and shoot at the enemy. After the enemy's hope of taking Yang Jingyu alive failed, they shot him crazily. Yang Jingyu was shot several times and died heroically. After Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, the Japanese army cut off his head, cut open the belly of the corpse, and found that there was no grain in his belly except undigested bark, grass roots and cotton wool, which shocked the ferocious enemy.

In order to commemorate the glorious life of Yang Jingyu's heroic anti-Japanese war, 1946, China decided to rename Mengjiang County, where Yang Jingyu died, as Jingyu County. 1949, Guo Moruo wrote an inscription for Yang Jingyu: "The head can be broken and the abdomen can be cut, and the ambition will not be exhausted. The bloody book Artemisia annua has been two hundred years, and the red flag is full of mountains and rivers today. " 1958 On February 23rd, Yang Jingyu's head and body were ceremoniously sacrificed and buried in Jingyu Cemetery, Tonghua, Jilin. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and other parties and countries, as well as international friends such as Kim Il Sung and Cui Yongjian, respectively sent wreaths and spoke highly of his brilliant fighting career.