Guo Lian asked her husband to name her daughter. After thinking for a while, he said:

Before dawn the next day, the husband rolled out of bed, kissed his wife and a pair of sleeping children, and left in a hurry. He left and never came back. Not only is there no news, but life and death are unknown.

16 years later, Guo Lian raised a pair of children alone and struggled. Her husband left only one photo. Whenever it is dead of night, she looks at photos, misses her husband and imagines a happy family reunion.

Until 1944+00, Guo Lian died at the age of 37, because she was badly beaten by a Japanese traitor and had no money to treat her.

Before her death, Guo Lian called her son, daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law to the bedside, took out the only photo left by her husband and told them, "Hide your father's photo. When the Red Army comes back, take this photo to your father. Remember, your father's name is Ma Shangde ... "

On her deathbed, Guo Lian didn't know that her husband who missed her day and night had left her as early as four years ago and died in the northeast anti-Japanese battlefield. She didn't know until she died: her husband, Ma Shangde, was the famous commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition, and the anti-Japanese hero who fought bloody battles-General Yang Jingyu.

From 1932, Ma Shangde organized anti-Japanese guerrillas to attack the Japanese puppet troops under the pseudonym of "Yang Jingyu". Guerrillas are elusive and powerful, which makes the Japanese puppet troops suffer a lot and turn pale at the smell.

1936, Yang Jingyu formed the First Army of Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces with more than 6,000 troops, which was the largest anti-Japanese armed force in Manchuria at that time. In order to deal with the Anti-Japanese Union, the Japanese army hung a big reward on Yang Jingyu's head: whoever killed Yang Jingyu, he was rewarded with one or two pieces of gold, one or two bones, and one catty of gold.

By 1938, the Japanese army had increased more than 700,000 troops in the northeast, and the puppet troops had more than1000,000. The Northeast Anti-Union is in a difficult situation, lacking clothes and food, thirsty for snow, hungry for bark, wild vegetables and grass roots, and fighting the Japanese army with tenacious will.

The temperature in Changbai Mountain is cold and the environment is harsh. It was too hard to fight the devils, and a small number of anti-United fighters wavered. The Japanese army threatened and lured those anti-United officers and men who were not determined to split and disintegrate the anti-United.

Cheng Bin, commander of the first division of the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, defected to the enemy, which brought disaster to the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. Cheng Bin was very familiar with the whereabouts and tactics of the allied forces and was used by the Japanese to deal with Yang Jingyu.

Cheng Bin led the traitors and puppet troops to form an advance team, and destroyed more than 70 camps where the Anti-Japanese Alliance stored food and ammunition. At that time, the Anti-Union was in a state of running out of ammunition and food.

The Japanese army besieged and intercepted, the traitors wantonly destroyed, and the Northeast Anti-Union was in jeopardy. Yang Jingyu divided the army into several parts and handled the Japanese flexibly.

1940 65438+ 10, the Japanese and puppet troops dispatched 25,000 people to "encircle and suppress" the anti-alliance and sent planes to scout and bomb. Facing the Japanese siege, Yang Jingyu asked the main force to retreat northward, and led hundreds of guerrillas to continue the war of resistance in mountainous areas.

Due to the traitors' informers, Yang Jingyu and others were exposed and suffered heavy losses under the pursuit of the Japanese army.

On February 15, there were only seven soldiers left beside him, three of whom were injured. Leaving a soldier and the wounded, Yang Jingyu took two soldiers to the south, ready to meet the Anti-Union Second Route Army.

In the early morning of the next day, two soldiers were found by the enemy when they went down the mountain to buy food and clothes, and they died in the fierce battle. The Japanese army found Yang Jingyu's seal on the dead soldiers, so it strengthened the blockade of the mountain and sent a crusade team of more than 600 people into the mountain for "encirclement and suppression".

Yang Jingyu was alone, with a high fever, and stubbornly dealt with the enemy in the dense forest.

On February 22nd, Yang Jingyu, who had not eaten a grain of rice for several days, came to Sandaowaizi, Mengjiang County and spent the last night of his life in a shack with air leakage all around.

On the morning of February 23rd, four villagers, including Zhao, from Baoan Village, Mengjiang County, went up the mountain to cut firewood and met Yang Jingyu, who was in rags. Yang Jingyu gave them some money, hoping that they could help buy back some food and a pair of cotton shoes.

I didn't expect Zhao to report to the puppet troops immediately after he came back. According to the physical features described in the report, the leader of the Japanese puppet government identified this person as Yang Jingyu. Immediately ordered Zhao to lead the way and led the Japanese puppet crusade team to Sandaowanzi.

The Japanese Puppet discovered Yang Jingyu and subdued him. Yang Jingyu glared and fired his gun. Seeing that he could not be taken alive, the Crusaders opened fire on him with machine guns. Yang Jingyu was shot several times in the chest and died heroically at the age of 35.

After Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, his anti-Japanese deeds soon spread all over the country.

However, a pair of children living in Queshan, Henan Province did not know that this famous anti-Japanese hero in Northeast China was their father Ma Shangde, who was looking for him day and night.

When Yang Jingyu was 5 years old, his father died and his mother Zhang Jun raised him alone.

Like many rural women, Zhang Jun is kind-hearted. Although I haven't studied for a few days, I can tell many historical stories, such as Hua Mulan joined the army as her father, Yue Fei served the country faithfully, and Yang Jingyu often listened to it when she was a child.

Yang Jingyu has been influenced by his mother's example and good influence since childhood. He is honest, kind, intelligent and studious. Although his family was poor, when he was 8 years old, his mother scrimped and saved and sent him to a private school.

1922, Yang Jingyu 17 years old, still studying in high school in Queshan county. According to the custom at that time, he should get married. According to the matchmaker, he married Guo Lian of runan county Shuitun Little Guo Zhuang.

Yang Jingyu is still at school. After marriage, the couple get together less and leave more. All farm work in the family falls on the shoulders of mother and wife. Although life is hard, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are very happy when they think of Yang Jingyu's great future.

1926, Yang Jingyu graduated from Kaifeng School and returned to Liwan Village to take part in the revolution. Mother was very worried when she heard that her son was making a revolution outside and beating local tyrants and evil gentry.

One day when he came home, his mother asked, "Suntech, what have you been doing?" ? Don't let your mother worry about you! "

Yang Jingyu explained to his mother: We should devote ourselves to the revolution and strive to build a society where there is no distinction between rich and poor. Although the mother didn't understand, she believed that her son wouldn't do bad things, but only told him to be careful.

1927, Yang Jingyu's eldest son Ma was born. In 65438+February of the same year, Wang Lou was defeated and Yang Jingyu was injured. The enemy searched everywhere for him and his family.

The enemy couldn't catch Yang Jingyu, so they persecuted his family. His house was robbed many times, things were robbed and his house was burned. My mother, wife and children are hiding in Tibet and wandering around.

1928 In March, my daughter Ma Haiting was born. Yang Jingyu went home to visit his mother, wife and children, and was sent to work in Xinyang, and never came back. Mother Zhang Jun cried her eyes out because she missed her son for a long time.

1938, my mother fell ill and died soon. After the death of her mother-in-law, her wife Guo Lian shouldered the burden of life alone, collecting rags and begging, and living with a pair of children.

The photos of Yang Jingyu when he was studying in Kaifeng became the only thoughts he left for his family.

The wife hid the photo in a crack in the wall. On the way to escape, she sewed the photo in her daughter's cotton-padded jacket and waited for her husband to return. She waited 16, and both children grew up and got married, but there was no news of her husband, let alone the family reunion.

1944, Guo Lian died because he was beaten and persecuted by the enemy. Before she died, she took a photo of her husband and told her children, "When the Red Army comes back, take this photo to find your father."

However, where did she know that Yang Jingyu, an anti-Japanese hero who died four years ago between Baishan and Heishui in Northeast China, was her husband Ma Shangde? They, husband and wife, can only be reunited in the grave.

1949, Huaihai Campaign started, and guns resounded across the Yellow River. Yang Jingyu's hometown, Queshan County, Henan Province, is punctuated by PLA troops from the northeast.

Ma has been renamed Jin Yunzang at this time. When brother and sister heard that the PLA was coming, they took their father's photos and stood on the street of Queshan County every day, asking the PLA soldiers passing by one by one:

"Comrade, do you know my dad? My father is also a Red Army. His name is Ma Shangde. "

I don't know how many days I stood there and asked how many troops there were, but PLA soldiers kept shaking their heads at the name Ma Shangde. Brother and sister are very depressed. It's been 2 1 year since my father left in 928.

2 1 years, mothers and their brothers and sisters have been looking for their father. After the mother died, the brothers and sisters never gave up looking for their father, but the result was disappointing.

When my father left, my brother was only 1 year old and my sister was just born for five days. They have no memory of my father at all. Only one photo proves that the father is real; However, this father named "Ma Shangde" seems to exist only in his mother's last words.

The two brothers and sisters continued to search hard, and an ominous thought flashed through their hearts: perhaps their father was ill-fated and no longer alive.

1950, in memory of the anti-Japanese hero Yang Jingyu, the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee decided to build the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall on the Songhua River. In the process of preparing for the memorial hall, they encountered a big problem: the mystery of Yang Jingyu's life experience.

Because many confidential files could not be saved during the war, they only found a yellow resume, which vaguely recorded: "Ma Shangde, who used to be named Yang Jingyu after arriving in the Northeast ..."

Although some old comrades had contact with Yang Jingyu, in wartime, few people knew that Yang Jingyu's real name was "Ma Shangde" for the sake of confidentiality.

From this preserved file, it is found that Yang Jingyu took part in the revolution in his early years and led the riots in Liudian. Therefore, it can be speculated that his hometown may be in Dabie Mountain, Anhui Province.

Chen Lei, who is in charge of investigating Yang Jingyu's life, came to Anhui with the investigation team. They soon discovered that Ma Shangde was one of the leaders of the Liudian riots, but they were not sure whether Ma Shangde's native place belonged to Anhui.

Just then, People's Daily published an unforgettable article, which revealed the mystery of Yang Jingyu's life. The author of the article is Yang Yichen, who was one of Yang Jingyu's closest comrades-in-arms during his stay in Northeast War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

As stated in Yang Yichen's article, Yang Jingyu was born in Henan in his early years and led Queshan riots in the spring of 1927. Chen Lei soon found Yang Yichen, and after a detailed understanding, he confirmed that Yang Jingyu's hometown was in the countryside of Queshan County, Henan Province.

The investigation team came to Queshan County and finally found a pair of sons and daughters of General Yang Jingyu-Ma Congyun and Ma Jinyun. According to the only photo of his father preserved by Ma's brother and sister, it is confirmed that Yang Jingyu is.

Until now, brother and sister knew that Yang Jingyu, a famous anti-Japanese hero in Northeast China, was their father who had been searching for years. Brother and sister couldn't help crying when they heard the story of their father's heroic sacrifice in 1940 Changbai Mountain War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

For a long time, there have been different opinions about the truth of Yang Jingyu's sacrifice. No one witnessed the fierce battle between him and the enemy except the Japanese and puppet troops, and no one could tell how he died.

Yang Jingyu was once regarded as "the last bullet left to commit suicide", and he would rather die than surrender, in line with the heroic image of the people.

It was not until the end of 1970s that the details of Yang Jingyu's sacrifice came to light with the publication of the Japanese puppet data "Battle Diary": Yang Jingyu was killed by a machine gun, and it was not the Japanese who shot him, but the hateful puppet troops and traitors.

After Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, the Japanese puppet army crusade team found a door panel, put his body on the door panel and took photos. He hasn't eaten a single thing for five or six days. What strength did he support for so long?

The Japanese puppet police chief in Tonghua ordered the general's body to be cut open, and all the Japanese puppets present were shocked: Yang Jingyu had no food in his stomach, only undigested grass roots, bark and cotton wool from his cotton-padded clothes!

Junichiro Masatani sighed in shock: "Although he is an enemy, his heroism is also amazing-a great hero!"

The Japanese puppet army cut off the general's head with a hay cutter and put it in a transparent glass wooden box. It was transported by car to Tonghua, the provincial capital at that time, and marched in the streets in an attempt to deter the anti-Union fighters who were still stubbornly resisting Japan.

After that, the general's head was sent to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army and soaked in a glass bottle by the Japanese. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang took over the Japanese puppet regime, and the general's head was transferred to the medical equipment room of Changchun Medical University.

1948, Liu Yaguang broke into the Kuomintang internal guard and waited for an opportunity to smuggle out the glass bottles in the name of dismantling medical devices. After the liberation of Changchun, the general's head was sent to Harbin and stored in the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall.

/kloc-in the winter of 0/953, Ma, the eldest son of the general, was invited to attend the opening ceremony of the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall with his wife and children. When the horse and his wife saw their father's head in the glass bottle, they immediately fell to the ground and cried!

1957 In late August, the general's bones were moved from Jingyu County to Tonghua City. On September 25, the general's head was also transferred from the Northeast Memorial Hall to Tonghua City, where it joined the body.

General Yang Jingyu was buried 17 years after his death in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

In memory of General Yang Jingyu, Mengjiang County was renamed Jingyu County, the village near Yang Jingyu's sacrifice site was renamed Jingyu Village, and Mengjiang Town was renamed Jingyu Town.

General Ma's eldest son was assigned to work in Zhengzhou Railway Bureau Material Factory after graduation. Daughter Ma Jinyun works in the nursery of Zhengzhou Railway Bureau. Brother and sister refused to take care of the organization, never asked for special treatment, and lived on their own in their native land of Henan.

1August, 964, Ma died in the line of duty at the age of 37 and was buried in Zhengzhou Martyrs Cemetery. 1986, Ma Jinyun also died of illness.

After Ma's death, his wife Fang raised five children by herself and had a hard life. She often warns her children:

An old comrade-in-arms from Yang Jingyu, who shared life and death, named his five grandchildren as: following the light, following the first, following the biography, following the ambition and following the people, which means to inherit the glorious tradition of our ancestors and be five brothers and sisters worthy of the descendants of General Yang Jingyu. Later, they all grew up and made contributions to national construction.

Speaking of Yang Jingyu's name, we are familiar with it and know that he is a famous anti-Japanese national hero. But few people know his real name is Ma Shangde, and Yang Jingyu is just an alias for his revolutionary work.

Many people still don't know that behind the hero is an ordinary family. Yang Jingyu's mother Zhang Jun, his wife Guo Lian, his son Ma and his daughter Ma Jinyun all made sacrifices for China's anti-Japanese cause. Yang Jingyu's descendants never took credit for this, but silently contributed to national construction.

They are worthy of being "heroic families" and "heroic descendants"!

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