Yang Jingyu once said the most classic sentence: Without a country, how can a family survive?

1. Yang Jingyu

Yang Jingyu (February 1905-February 23, 1940), formerly known as Ma Shangde, courtesy name Jisheng, was born in Queshan County, Henan Province, China An outstanding member of the Communist Party, a proletarian revolutionist, strategist, and a famous anti-Japanese national hero, one of the founders of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area and its Red Army, and one of the main founders and leaders of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. In 1932, he was entrusted by the Party Central Committee to organize the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in Northeast China, and successively served as the general commander and political commissar of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.

He led the soldiers and civilians of Northeast China to fight the Japanese invaders in a bloody battle between white mountains and black waters. Under the emergency situation of ice and snow, with no ammunition and food, he finally died heroically after fighting alone with a large number of Japanese invaders for several days and nights. General Yang Jingyu was named one of the 100 heroic models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China. On September 1, 2014, he was included in the first batch of 300 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes published by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

2. Yang Jingyu’s heroic deeds

The situation of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces at that time was very critical. At this time, Cheng Bin, Yang Jingyu's most trusted general, rebelled and helped the Japanese expedition team to encircle Yang Jingyu's troops. In that environment, Yang Jingyu's troops were isolated and helpless, so they urgently held a meeting to discuss a strategy.

According to notes from an interview with the traitor Zhang Xiufeng at that time: The situation became tense in the spring of 1939, and contact with superiors and local authorities was lost. The branch held a meeting, and everyone proposed that if this was not possible, they would withdraw to the Soviet Union to conserve strength. , this was denied by Jingyu. Yang Jingyu's insistence on staying to fight against Japan was not understood by some people within the Anti-Japanese Alliance. At that meeting, some generals suggested hiding deep in Changbai Mountain, and many people agreed.

But Yang Jingyu always insisted on resisting Japan to the end. After the meeting, everyone asked Zhang Xiufeng to talk to Yang Jingyu. As a result, Yang Jingyu said: "We are an anti-Japanese force. How can we do it if we don't resist Japan? If we fight the Japanese, fight the Japanese. If we don't fight the Japanese, how can we call it an anti-Japanese coalition? How can we call it a revolutionary force? Even the remaining one will fight to the end!" In the end! At the meeting, it was established to reserve strength and adopt the method of breaking up into parts and decentralizing guerrilla operations.