Yang Jingyu's last words: Revealing the whole story of Yang Jingyu's sacrifice.

1940 On February 23rd, Yang Jingyu, Commander-in-Chief of the First Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, died heroically in Sandaowaizi, Mengjiang County, Jilin Province after 55 consecutive exchanges of fire with the Japanese wild deputy punitive team.

Therefore, in 1946, it was decided by * * * that Mengjiang County was renamed Jingyu County to commemorate this national hero.

There have been two different versions of Yang Jingyu's death in battle: "death in battle" and "suicide". With the deepening of historical research in recent years, it has been proved that Yang Jingyu died after being shot alone for 20 minutes by Zhang Xiruo, an anti-United traitor, and fighting with Japanese and puppet troops. According to the Japanese and puppet archives, especially the related historical materials compiled in Kato Dongye's "The Importance of Integrating Manchukuo Police * * *", China historians now have a very detailed account of Yang Jingyu's martyrdom.

But what was Yang Jingyu's last words before his martyrdom has not been recorded accurately.

In The Historical Mystery Before and After Yang Jingyu's Sacrifice, it is described as follows: "Extremely exhausted Yang Jingyu finally hid under a big tree, and the enemy advised him to surrender, and the answer was bullets. The devil commanded that a bunch of evil bullets were fired at Yang Jingyu ... "

It is recorded in The Great Security Integration of the Puppet Manchukuo that Dai Xi, the Japanese commander, judged that he could not surrender, so he ordered an attack, and Yang Jingyu died in the battle.

In the TV series Yang Jingyu, the Japanese commander once persuaded Yang Jingyu to lay down his arms and wanted to be brothers with Yang Jingyu. Yang Jingyu replied, "If someone invaded your hometown, killed your brother, molested your sister and wanted to be your brother, would you agree?"

Although forceful, it is artistic creation after all.

Others said that when Yang Jingyu died, he shouted: "I have something to say when I am anti-United!"

What did Yang Jingyu say before he died? With the help of the Research Association of the Teaching Brigade of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces (the 88th Brigade of the Red Flag in the Far East of the Soviet Union), the author finally got a clue in Japan that the Japanese army had a record of the last battle in pursuit of Yang Jingyu. During the battle, the two sides did have a dialogue, and it was Xizi, the commander of the Japanese crusade team, who exchanged news with Yang Jingyu.

The Japanese even recorded the answers from both sides, but unfortunately they were all preserved in Japanese.

Yesterday, a Japanese friend who was entrusted by me to look for this document called me and told me that this document had been found. On the phone, he briefly described the last conversation between Yang Jingyu and Xigu Dai Xi. Since this document was written shortly after Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, it should be highly reliable. There are also some contents related to Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, such as the traitor An Guangxun touching the corpse and crying after Yang Jingyu's death, which should also be absent from our previous data.

I decided to go this afternoon to retrieve these materials, hoping to translate them as soon as possible in these two days, so that the general's last words, which may have been hidden for 70 years, can be seen again. I hope to live up to my mission.

On the afternoon of March 3 1, I walked out of my friend's house in Japan and it rained heavily. It began to rain intermittently in the morning, and with the wind, people couldn't help feeling cold.

In late March, Osaka should have warmed up, so there was little cold rain. There is still a distance from the front of the car. I lifted my bag to my chest to try not to let it get wet by the rain, because there was a record in it, which was the last moment of the general's life recorded by the Japanese officers present when General Yang Jingyu was martyred on February 23rd, 940.

I still feel very heavy when I started writing this article today.

I hate touching this history, as if tearing a sealed wound. Today, China is a busy country, and I think this kind of sadness in the depths of history is somewhat out of place.

It was a sad day. After eight years of hard struggle, the people of China, who fought alone between Baishan and Heishui, have almost reached the end of their tether. On this day, in this land of Northeast China, even our commander-in-chief fought to the last man and died in the battlefield.

Two years later, another commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition, Zhao Shangzhi, also died in battle. His words were: "I am the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition, and I will die in the Northeast."

In World War II, France died, Poland died, Norway and Greece died, and none of their commanders died on the battlefield. In Korea conquered by Japan, the deposed Crown Prince Li Yin not only did not die for his country, but became a Japanese brigade commander and a lifelong pro-Japanese faction.

No country has fought so hard as China, even though it is regarded as the lost three northeastern provinces because of its non-resistance.

The death of General Yang Jingyu, I think, deserves the pride of everyone in China, and makes everyone in China unwilling to look back at the moment when the general died.

That's Li Lingbei of our country.

Therefore, I have a gnashing feeling when I open this record of the martyrdom of Japanese generals. But I decided to translate this passage, because the information in it recorded the situation of General Yang Jingyu at the last moment of his life in considerable detail. Although this record may not be amazing, it is an echo from the depths of history. Looking up the existing records of General Yang Jingyu's martyrdom in China, and consulting Shi Yijun and other anti-United historical research experts, no such materials have been made public. I don't know if I was lucky enough to see it first, which means I have to bear this responsibility.

The Japanese file recording the martyrdom of General Yang Jingyu is called No.222, the original of which is kept in the Japan International Good Neighborhood Association, and I got a copy. The editor's name of this document is Xiong Yi Fuyong.

In order to determine the accuracy of this passage, Lisa specially investigated the identity of Fu Yongyixiong.

1940, Fu Yongyixiong is a senior police officer of the Public Security Department of Puppet Tonghua Province. The head of the police department is kishida fumio Ichiro, the main person in charge of the final hunt for Yang Jingyu. Shotani's department headquarters is directly under the police, guards, secret agents, education and security departments, as well as the headquarters of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Crusade. Cheng Bin, an anti-Japanese traitor, commanded the "Cheng Bin Police Brigade" and Cui Yifeng commanded the "Cui Xian Police Brigade", both of which belonged to this crusade headquarters. The headquarters still has nine police brigades, military stations, health classes and automobile distribution departments in nine counties in this area. (The above information comes from The History of Manchukuo Police written by Xiong Man.)

The East Road Security Rectification Work was compiled in the Puppet Manchuria era. It is a series of internal files produced by Japanese military and police who fought against the United front in Tonghua province of Manchuria, recording the process of "crusade" at that time. The military and police personnel who participated in the war recorded a large number of activities of Japanese police forces in the form of notes. Because Japan was partially destroyed in the defeat, only some documents were left, scattered all over Japan. Japan International Good Neighborhood Association is a non-governmental organization that advocates Sino-Japanese friendship. It is located near Ginza, Tokyo, and also preserves part of this file.

In this document, the last battle with General Yang Jingyu was recorded. Judging from the text, Fu was never present at that time, but he interviewed and collected the contents described by the Japanese military police present. Because this document itself belongs to the unpublished document used by the Japanese army, and its content does differ from the information published by the Japanese side, I personally tend to have certain historical value.

It should be said that Fu Yongyixiong's document reveals a lot of things that we didn't know during the Japanese and anti-Japanese war.

For example, when describing the composition of the pseudo-Tonghua police force, he mentioned that Cheng Bin, the most famous traitor of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, was almost shot by the Japanese army when he defected to the enemy.

Cheng Bin, the former division commander of the First Division of the Northeast Anti-Union Army, was once Yang Jingyu's most trusted right-hand man, known as "Little Yang Jingyu", and was once a firm commander of the anti-Union Army. However, due to the increasingly difficult environment and the Japanese threat to his mother's life, Cheng Bin finally led his 1 15 people to betray the country and defect to the enemy in July 65438. Since then, the Japanese army has incorporated his troops into the Crusaders, and Cheng Bin has quickly changed from an anti-alliance rebel to a crazy accomplice of the Japanese army. He and his traitor played an important role in the siege of General Yang Jingyu.

However, it is recorded in Dongdong Road Public Security Rectification Work that after Cheng Bin and others arrived in Tonghua, "the above-mentioned' Long Island Task Force' was called' guerrillas'".

As mentioned earlier, 150 people in Cheng Bin were arrested or surrendered by the Kurosaki guerrillas (Sake: the mobile crusade team commanded by Captain Kurosaki, the enemy Benxi crusade team) and the Long Island Task Force (Sake: the special service team commanded by Nishida, the captain of the enemy Tonghua Gendarmerie) (Sake: slightly different from the Chinese statistics, which may contain Regarding the handling of them, many people supported the idea of' all shot, hanging their heads to show the public', which was also a common handling method at that time. "

But in the end, the opinions of Shenqi, the staff officer of Kwantung Army, and kishida fumio, the police chief of Tonghua, the enemy, prevailed. They called Fu Sen Kumajiro, the police chief concerned, and Aoqi, the police chief, to have dinner at a Japanese restaurant in Tonghua City. At the dinner table, they decided to put all these anti-Union traitors under the police department. Fuyong recorded in his notes that Cheng Bin and others lived in the normal school outside the south gate of Tonghua that night. The next day, a grand ceremony was held at the police station to accept kishida fumio, a traitor of the Anti-Union Movement, and presented Cheng Bin with his saber on the spot.

It's hard to believe that Kishi Nobusuke spent so much money on using Cheng Bin's men if it wasn't recorded in Japanese literature. However, this "Cheng Bin Guard" which was subsequently formed has indeed become one of the fiercest eagle dogs in the Japanese army.

This notebook also records that in the spring of 1939, Cheng Bin and his men were forced to enter the military camp in huinan county for training and rest, but the reason was somewhat ironic. It turned out to be "between players." There are many members and young people in Cheng's army (18-24 years old, 5 years old), and there are many sexually transmitted diseases, and they are in a rest period. One of them is the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among players. The adult members are mostly young people (18-24, 5 years old). Due to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, they have to receive treatment for this sexually transmitted disease during their breaks.

Regarding the battle with General Yang Jingyu, the previously discovered documents also recorded the dialogue between the general and the Japanese army. It happened on February 15, when the Japanese army surrendered, and Yang Jingyu loudly asked the Japanese army to send someone to talk. Ito, the police officer of the Japanese crusade team (a Japanese police officer who served as the "reward department" in the Cheng Bin Police Brigade and was edited by the police captain) stood up and expressed his willingness to negotiate. At this time, Yang Jingyu immediately shot and hit Ito 300 meters away with his superb marksmanship. Unfortunately, the distance is too far, the bullet has no power, and his chest is empty. Subsequently, Cui Yifeng, another traitor's public security brigade battalion chief who is just as famous as Cheng Bin, was also injured by Yang Jingyu. Yang Jingyu seized the opportunity to get rid of the pursuers and broke free.

Regarding the last battle in Yang Jingyu, Fake Concord Magazine (No.1940, No.933) once published the report of Yang Jingyu Crusade Forum, in which Japanese police officer Yoshiko Rixiong (Note: The headquarters of the Puppet Tonghua Police Force is called the task force because the commander-in-chief is the police chief Fu Sen Kumajiro, and Yoshiko Rixiong belongs to the headquarters of the force, with the rank of police chief, and is also one of the Japanese police officers at the scene in Yang Shi. We advised him to surrender again, but he didn't answer. It was a pistol bullet. Play! "Kill him!" Even more than 30 meters, he has been in a dilemma. Then we divided into two groups. Intense shooting starts from two aspects. About 10 minutes of fighting, I don't know which side the bullet hit the enemy. "Pa da" fell down. I saw this with my own eyes. "

There is no dialogue between the two sides in this description, but later, I found Yang Jingyu shooting at the other side and burned the confidential documents I carried with me with a short buffer time.

However, there are different records in The Righteousness of the East Road, which show that in the crossfire, Dai Xi, commander of the first echelon of the Japanese army, tried to persuade Yang Jingyu, and the two sides had a short talk. The following is a Japanese record of this conversation-

"... かくてはにののメートルのまででした"

"Commander Yang Jun"? 」

"そぅだわたしがだだがだがだだだがだがだがだがだがが 」

"I know the police force." My comrades in the army, the police force and the police force. The staff live in the headquarters. Welcome to Kamiya, Nagano, Jun, Shun, Wen and Ying. Today, I am in a hurry. I am in a hurry. Death is urgent, urgent and smooth. "

"I don't know what to do with my life." Most subordinates are divided by one person. Today, they are in trouble and comrades are everywhere. Imperialism will eventually perish, and this day will come. Self-determination, final resistance, foresight, shooting and "martial arts"

とぃぅと *にででってたのでもなくPlease forgive me, shoot. は?をくけげてばったり にれ ととなななととり にととと 12

In this passage, there is a Japanese original note, which is an analysis of the meaning of Yang Jingyu's "comrade". Among them, "Wei's staff" should refer to Wei, the political commissar of the First Route Army, who died in the secret camp of 194 1; The commander of the Third Division of Chen Hanzhang should refer to Chen Hanzhang, commander-in-chief of the Third Army of the First Route Army, who died in Nanhu Head of Jingbo Lake in February 1940; Commander of the Sixth Division of Kim Il Sung should refer to Commander-in-Chief of the Second Army of the First Route Army Kim Il Sung.

Because there is something wrong with the scanner at home, I can't scan the original at present. This passage is also quoted in full on pages 17 1 to 172 of Manchukuo Police History published in Japan. If you have serious friends, you can look up this book. If you can compare it, you will find that I have recorded this passage completely, without changing a word.

I tried to restore this passage with my own translation-

"... the right-wing troops approached 30 meters ahead of him. Captain Xizi ordered the suspension of shooting, and the two sides exchanged the following words.

"Are you Commander Yang?" (Note: Yang Jingyu is often called Commander Yang or Commander Yang Bandit in Japanese literature and news, so many people only know Commander Yang, but don't know that Commander Yang's name is Yang Jingyu. This should be the reason why both sides adopt the name Commander Yang. "

"Yes, I am Commander Yang."

"We are the police force in Tonghua. In our army, your comrades Cheng (Bin) and Cui () are the commanders of the police force. A staff officer (An Guangxun, the former chief of staff of the First Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Union who defected, is now the monitor of the political work class under the headquarters of the crusade team of Tonghua Police Department) also works in the headquarters. If you can submit it, the director of Shotani will warmly welcome you. Now this place, it is impossible to escape, why rush to die? Think about submission? "

"I cherish my life, but it can't be as you wish. Many of my subordinates have died, and now I'm the only one left. Although faced with many difficulties, my comrades-in-arms fought bloody battles in various places (original note: he may refer to Wei's staff, his third division commander, Kim Il Sung's sixth division commander, etc.), and the day when imperialism will surely come. I will fight to the end, needless to say, shoot. "

With that, (Yang Jingyu) started shooting at us with two pistols, and the fight immediately started here. ..... West valley sergeant said,' alas, there is no way out. This is a matter of life and death, shoot! "At his command, the teams began to storm ... our deadly bullet penetrated his chest. He raised his hands and fell to the ground, never moving again ... "

This conversation should have been conducted in Chinese. When Xigu mentioned the traitor among Yang Jingyu's "comrades-in-arms", Yang Jingyu talked about "my comrades-in-arms are fighting everywhere" in his subsequent reply. The dialogue between the two sides is logical and recorded shortly after Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, so it is more credible. We can even speculate that General Yang Jingyu used this short conversation time to complete the destruction of documents. The fatal bullet that hit Yang Jingyu came from the traitor Zhang Xiruo.

At that time, Yang Jingyu had been deprived of food for five days, suffered from a bad cold and severe frostbite on his feet, but he still took a mauser pistol 1, two colt pistols and 230 rounds of ammunition, and did not give up these weapons until the last moment.

Yang Jingyu's death is a heavy blow to the United front, but their fighting continues. The No.1 10 Army of the Anti-Japanese Coalition held out until the 95th summit, until War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression won. The Japanese army always marked them as the remnants of "Shuanglong (the name of Wang Yachen, commander of the 10th Army)" on the battle map. Because of their isolation, they remained in hiding after the Japanese surrendered until they were escorted out of the mountain by Tian Zhongqiao, a traffic policeman of Zhou Baozhong (later a librarian of Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall).

1935, the Anti-Japanese Union became an isolated army, 194 1 year, Wang Yachen, commander of the 10th Army, died. These soldiers of the Tenth Army became an isolated army, but they struggled for five years. This army has about 200 people in five years, which adds up to a thousand years of war of resistance.

Most of them chose to go back to the fields after coming out of the mountains, and none of them later became senior cadres, so no one remembered their achievements. However, they used this 1,000-year war of resistance to declare that the northeast of China never fell in that war.

Although the commander-in-chief is dead, his soul is still fighting on this land.

In the same document, the Japanese recorded that Yang Jingyu's body was sent to the county seat, so as to prove that the traitor An Guangxun mentioned by the Japanese was the one mentioned above. As a result, after confirming that it was Yang Jingyu himself, An Guangxun burst into tears unabashedly.

An Guangxun played an important role in the Japanese army's crusade against the United Front after the mutiny, including sparing no effort in the final pursuit of Yang Jingyu. However, his crying reminds us that An Guangxun surrendered after being injured and captured in a haphazard battle. Perhaps, when he faced Yang Jingyu, he found a little shame and conscience too late.

Although the dialogue between the two sides seemed short and the general didn't say anything brave at the last moment, he was as firm and strong as every time he faced the Japanese army before. But it is this calmness that makes us feel the general's determination to face death. The phrase "I will fight to the end" seems to reverberate between heaven and earth.

At that moment, heaven and earth may cry for the general.