In 1950, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau received a report that Zhao Yukun, a medicinal herb merchant in Beijing, was a traitor who had absconded for ten years and a traitor who killed the five heroes of Langya Mountain.
After receiving the report, the public security organs immediately dispatched police forces to track down the suspect, and finally found the medicinal herb merchant. Seeing the arrival of the police officers, the suspect appeared very nervous, and he repeatedly denied his past identity.
What he didn't expect, however, was that the person who reported him was none other than his cousin, and many of his fellow villagers could also serve as witnesses. In the end, the big traitor Zhao Yukun, who had been absconding for ten years, was arrested.
General Yang Chengwu was excited after receiving the news: "I've been looking for him for ten years, and I finally caught him!" "For the blood feud in Langya Mountain, Yang Chengwu has never forgotten it for ten years.
Now, he is finally able to get justice for those soldiers who have died. So, what did the traitor Zhao Yukun do back then? Banditry is rampant, and everything has to start from the beginning.
Zhao Yukun was born in Yi County, Hebei Province, from a poor family, and in order to change his fate, he joined the Northeast Army. However, with no background or even literacy, it was very difficult for him to be promoted.
However, Zhao Yukun won a good popularity with his wit and bold character, and was gradually promoted to the position of battalion commander in the Northeast Army.
However, Zhao Yukun's promotion did not last long, coinciding with the outbreak of the 918 incident. At that time, the Northeast Army was ordered to exercise restraint, therefore, before a single shot was fired, the Northeast was occupied by the Japanese.
The Northeast Army used to be powerful, but once it lost the Northeast, their foundation was shaken and they could only be at the mercy of others. Zhao Yukun faced the bleak prospects, and had no choice but to pack his bags and return to his hometown.
But this did not bring Zhao Yukun a good life, his lack of stable income**, coupled with the turbulent times, no matter what kind of business he engaged in, it was difficult to avoid being exploited.
In the end, Zhao Yukun began to have crooked ideas.
After returning to his hometown for a while, Zhao Yukun got to know many local ruffian bullies. They mingled every day, and Zhao Yukun came up with a bold idea: go up to the mountains to be a bandit and rob homes to make money.
At that time, the society was chaotic, and it was a paradise for the bandits, because they only had to hold their territory and could survive by robbing the people. Even some ** will give the local big bandits three points of thin noodles.
Zhao Yukun gathered a group of ruffians, established a cottage, and became a bandit leader. Since he had been a soldier and had killed people, he was more ruthless than others in managing bandits.
He ordered his subordinates to go down the mountain regularly to rob, and neither rich merchants nor ordinary people would be spared.
Zhao Yukun, a bully too. He forced the passing merchants and the people under the mountain to pay protection money regularly, and those who did not obey were directly caught up in the mountain and tore up the ticket. The local people dared to be angry, and they were powerless to resist this group of thugs armed with knives and guns.
Zhao Yukun became more and more arrogant, and even robbed openly in broad daylight, which caused dissatisfaction among the government. The bandits were about to arouse public anger and shake the government's rule, so the government decided to act.
Zhao Yukun was defenseless, his men collapsed at the slightest touch, and Zhao Yukun was quickly arrested by the government and faced execution.
However, in the days leading up to the execution, the entire county was thrown into chaos. It turned out that the Japanese army was attacking the city. The ** of the government hurriedly packed their bags and fled, and even the prison was left unguarded.
Zhao Yukun was overjoyed, he immediately gathered his subordinates who were imprisoned with him, and took advantage of the chaos to escape from the prison. Although Zhao Yukun under the banner of the Anti-Japanese Resistance escaped death, his strength was not as good as before.
There were only a dozen or so brothers under him, and he only had three or four guns, and in the face of the Japanese army that had already occupied the county, his power was too weak and could be quickly wiped out by the Japanese army.
However, Zhao Yukun saw the tragic situation of the county being destroyed by the Japanese army, and actually came up with a clever plan. He thought, the common people hate the Japanese army so much, so why don't they take advantage of this opportunity to recruit troops for themselves under the banner of anti-Japanese resistance?
Zhao Yukun learned the lessons of the past and understood that only by doing great things can he soar. So, with the slogan of resisting Japan and saving the country, he awakened the anti-Japanese enthusiasm in the hearts of the people of Yixian County.
Everyone supported it one after another, and joined Zhao Yukun's anti-Japanese rescue with their family property and**. Watching the army gradually grow, Zhao Yukun's heart was full of confidence and joy.
Zhao Yukun realized that he needed to change his previous way of doing things in order to avoid the collapse of the army. So, he turned around, abandoned the habit of banditry, and found his former colleague Song Xuefei, hoping that he could join him as a military advisor.
Song Xuefei was also originally the battalion commander of the Northeast Army, but unlike Zhao Yukun, he had a literati cultivation, was kind and good at military command. Although Song Xuefei knew what Zhao Yukun had done in the past, Zhao Yukun's sincere attitude and determination to resist Japan and save the country gradually moved him, and finally Song Xuefei agreed to go out of the mountain to assist Zhao Yukun.
With the help of Song Xuefei, Zhao Yukun's team gradually expanded and became more regular. Zhao Yukun gave his team a name, called the Seventh Route Army. But here's the trouble.
Another local bandit, Meng Gechen, also created a team, and deliberately named it the Seventh Route Army, and the two teams looked at each other unpleasantly. Although they were under the banner of resisting Japan, the leaders of the two teams, Meng Gechen and Zhao Yukun, were selfish people who only used this banner to confuse people and satisfy their own selfish desires.
Soon, they clashed over territory and business, and before they could resist the Japanese, the two sides were likely to fight in the streets. In terms of the strength of the two sides, Meng Gechen was slightly superior, so in the early stage, Zhao Yukun was in a state of defeat.
In the end, Song Xuefei came up with a way to allow Zhao Yukun to successfully avoid a disaster and defeat Meng Gechen.
Although Zhao Yukun's Seventh Route Army did not have the ability to resist Japan, and he himself did not have the heart to resist Japan, his reputation was very high, so he was often pursued and killed by the Japanese army, which made him very distressed.
He was in a deep predicament and couldn't get out. However, in 1938, the Eighth Route Army came to Hebei, and the ** marshal was working hard to open up the Jinchaji base area. In order to achieve this goal, the integration of local teams is crucial.
After investigation, it was found that Zhao Yukun and Meng Gechen were the two most influential teams. Although there were contradictions between them and the common people in the past, the first task now is to resist Japan and save the people.
Therefore, ** hopes to influence them and let them join the Eighth Route Army to fight against Japan together.
**Song Xuefei was overjoyed when he heard that the Eighth Route Army was willing to be absorbed. Song Xuefei is different from Zhao Yukun, he is sincerely anti-Japanese, and considering the reality, if their "Seventh Route Army" wants to survive, cooperating with the Eighth Route Army is the best choice.
Therefore, Song Xuefei persuaded Zhao Yukun to accept the incorporation of the Eighth Route Army. Zhao Yukun was worried about an existential crisis, so he agreed to this suggestion. In this way, Zhao Yukun's troops became the three corps of the Jizhong Military Region.
However, although he became the Eighth Route Army, Zhao Yukun's thinking did not make any progress. He mistakenly thought that the Eighth Route Army, like other armies, survived by bullying the people, but he didn't know that the Eighth Route Army was really fighting for the country's righteousness.
Soon after Zhao Yukun joined the Eighth Route Army, he felt unwell. He found that the Eighth Route Army had many regulations, and he could no longer bully the people like before, and even had to chop wood and carry water for the people.
Zhao Yukun felt incomprehensible about the policies of the Eighth Route Army, and in private he did not follow the instructions of his superiors, but often drank wine and ate meat in the headquarters, and even secretly carried out illegal transactions.
This kind of behavior makes the atmosphere of the three corps very bad. The top brass of the Eighth Route Army had a great headache about this, and they found that many bandits who had accepted the reorganization had not completed their ideological changes, and even did bad things under the banner of the Eighth Route Army.
In 1939, Zhao Yukun heard the news that Meng Gechen's troops had been wiped out by the Eighth Route Army. Meng Gechen, like Zhao Yukun, originally accepted the adaptation of the Eighth Route Army, but Meng Gechen acted recklessly, even robbed the people, continued to cause trouble, and was finally exterminated by the Eighth Route Army.
Zhao Yukun was tormented by fear, because he deeply felt that he was like-minded with Meng Gechen, but his actions might turn the Eighth Route Army against him. However, he did not really repent, and in order to escape punishment, he decided to betray his country.
In 1940, Zhao Yukun led his cronies and subordinates to defect to the Japanese army. This news shocked Yang Chengwu and others, because they always thought that Zhao Yukun had the will to resist Japan and patriotism, but his personal requirements were relatively lenient.
However, they did not expect that Zhao Yukun was the biggest danger.
Yang Chengwu cares about the masses and is both wise and brave. He saw through Zhao Yukun's treacherous scheme, personally led the team to fight the Japanese army, and rescued the people from danger. Under the fierce offensive of the Japanese army, a large number of soldiers and civilians took refuge in the area of Langya Mountain.
However, the Japanese are not familiar with this place, while Zhao Yukun is very familiar. He took this opportunity to take the initiative to act as a pioneer and guide the Japanese into the mountains to conduct a search.
In the end, more than 3,000 Japanese troops surrounded Langya Mountain. Yang Chengwu knew that the safety of the people's lives was of paramount importance, and resolutely decided to personally lead the team to confront the Japanese army and buy time for the people to escape.
In an attack, the actions of Yang Chengwu and others made the Japanese army mistakenly believe that they had discovered the main force of the Eighth Route Army, so the Japanese army concentrated its forces against Yang Chengwu, resulting in a flaw in the siege of Langya Mountain.
At this time, the five heroes of Langya Mountain seized this limited time window and successfully assisted in the large-scale transfer of the main force and the common people, while they themselves were responsible for the rearguard defense, continuing to disguise themselves as the main force and attract the attention of the enemy.
In this process, Zhao Yukun led the Japanese army to continuously reduce the encirclement, eager to make meritorious contributions. However, after a fierce battle, almost all the personnel of the unit where the five heroes of Langya Mountain were located had been killed.
In the final battle of Langya Mountain, five strong men were cornered, and they would rather die than become prisoners of the Japanese army. They chose to destroy **, and then jumped into the abyss, paying a heavy price for the Eighth Route Army.
If it weren't for the traitor Zhao Yukun leading the way, the number of sacrifices would not have been so many. This incident made General Yang Chengwu deeply painful, and he has always harbored the obsession of catching Zhao Yukun.
However, since that battle, there has been no news about Zhao Yukun. Zhao Yukun was full of fear in his heart, fearing that the Eighth Route Army would retaliate against him, so he kept a low profile since then.
In 1945, Japan announced its surrender, and the Japanese troops in the Hebei region were either captured or sent back to Japan.
Zhao Yukun was afraid of his sins, and he knew that if he stayed in China, the consequences would be unimaginable. He tried to beg the Japanese to take him to Japan, but the Japanese ignored him at this critical moment.
In desperation, Zhao Yukun was forced to change his face, and he burned his face with a pot of fried soybeans, making himself unrecognizable. Then, he changed into the clothes of a beggar and successfully escaped to Beiping in the midst of the chaos in the city.
In Peiping, no one recognized him because of his new image. He found that the Eighth Route Army had not found him, so he was relieved and started a medicinal herb business in Beiping.
In 1949, the People's Republic of China was born. General Yang Chengwu specially instructed the Ministry of Public Security to find Zhao Yukun, who had the blood of his comrades on his hands, and if he did not carry out the death penalty, how could he be worthy of the soldiers who sacrificed?
However, Zhao Yukun is like evaporating from the world, and the whole country searches and interrogations of the spies in the prison have been fruitless. But as the old saying goes: Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky. In 1950, Zhao Yukun's distant cousin came to Peking to do business, and a shout from the crowd caught his attention.
This voice is very familiar to him, even if Zhao Yukun is disfigured, he can't hide it from the eyes of his relatives. Although they are related, their family members have long hated Zhao Yukun's treason.
After his cousin recognized him, he immediately reported it, and Zhao Yukun was arrested. The traitors were duly punished, and the martyrs who died were laid to rest in peace. References: Xinhuanet's "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain" Yixian character "Song Xuefei, the general of the republic who transformed the bandit army".