**Yu Tianfang: Calculate the sun, escape from the Japanese military prison, and be praised as a hero
In the early hours of one morning in April 1945, the small town of Bei'an, Heilongjiang Province, was disturbed by the sound of an early warning and a beam of searchlights. The surprised people walked out of the door and saw the defeated Japanese army, who usually lived in fear at the camp gate, but now they appeared en masse on the street, as if they were crazy looking for something, every house, every corner refused to let go.
The next day, when the wanted notices were plastered all over the streets, some well-informed people learned what happened, that is, last night, Yu Tianfang escaped from Bei'an Prison under the noses of the Japanese army.
As soon as the news spread, the people of the three eastern provinces cheered and vied with joy to celebrate their heroic return. The newspapers of the "puppet Manchukuo" pessimistically voiced: "If you escape from the heavens, Manchukuo will lose more than half of it."
The Japanese army even offered a reward of one million and organized an unprecedented scale of "widening the net search", but found nothing. Yu Tianfang, a champion and ** general, if it weren't for the War of Resistance Against Japan, his life might have been another success.
He was born in a famous family, his family is a prominent family in Hulan County, Heilongjiang, because of his solid family background and good education, he became a young man in Tianfang, and was admitted to the Department of Economics of Tsinghua University at the age of 20 with the provincial top score.
His wisdom and courage made him shine in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and won the respect and praise of the people. However, his success was not without its challenges, he had spent a long time in prison, and his tenacity and wisdom allowed him to successfully escape and return to the arms of the people.
His deeds inspire each and every one of us, no matter what difficulties we face, to maintain our perseverance, to move forward bravely, and to realize our dreams.
Yu Tianfang, a talented and talented Northeast native, has won high praise from teachers and classmates for his unique personality traits and unlimited potential. In that turbulent era, many people felt unable to move forward due to the pressure of the current situation, but Yu Tianfang was not limited by this predicament.
His family's wealth and personal ability gave him the option to study with peace of mind or study abroad. However, Yu Tianfang did not choose to live only for his own future, his heart was full of love for his hometown and hatred for the invaders.
Yu Tianfang was a witness to the "918 Incident" in 1931, he witnessed the crimes of the Japanese army, and also actively participated in the resistance activities of his classmates. However, despite their efforts, the invaders could not be driven away.
At this time, Yu Tianfang made a decision, he chose to leave and fight for the liberation of his hometown. Yu Tianfang and several of his friends from northeastern college students sneaked back to Bayan County in Heilongjiang, where they formed an anti-Japanese guerrilla force of 200 people, known to the outside world as the 36th Army of the Red Army.
The army commander Zhang Jiazhou is a friend and classmate of Yu Tianfang for many years, and the political commissar is Zhao Shangzhi, a hero of the Anti-Japanese Federation. Yu Tianfang's decision shows his bravery and determination, and his choice proves his love for his hometown and his hatred for the invaders.
His actions were a response to that era and a defense of justice. His story is a part of history that we can never forget, and his spirit will always inspire us to move forward.
From a scholar at Tsinghua University to the chief of the intelligence department, Yu Tianfang completed the role change almost overnight. In the Red 36th Army, he accurately grasped the enemy's movements with extraordinary numbers and material sensitivity, transmitted information with friendly and neighboring teams, and secret transportation became the key to the survival of this small and poorly equipped anti-Japanese team.
Under the command of Zhang Jiazhou and Yu Tianfang, the 36th Army ambushed and broke strongholds in the mountains and forests, developed internal lines, planned the uprising of the puppet army, acted secretly and quickly, and moved around to fight freely, and it grew to more than 4,500 people in half a year, making the Japanese army complain.
Although this period was short and glorious, with the "77 Incident" and the Japanese army's "iron wall encirclement" and "grate comb mountain forest" tactics, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation base area was swept many times, and the scope of the Anti-Japanese Federation's activities became smaller and smaller, and the team became more and more scattered.
Zhang Jiazhou was ambushed by the puppet army on the way to transfer, and was shot in the abdomen and died in Fujin; Zhang Wenzao died fighting in his hometown of Tangyuan; Zhao Shangzhi was betrayed by traitors, was seriously wounded and was captured, refused to be treated, and died a heroic martyr.
Former comrades-in-arms and classmates, one after another, fell one after another, breaking through and transferring every day, and there was no hope of victory, and many people were shaken. The Anti-Japanese Union ordered the whole army to withdraw to the Soviet Union to rest and recuperate, and then return to China to fight when the strength was mature.
Yu Tianfang, the political commissar of the 6th Detachment of the 3rd Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, refused this order. He once wrote in his memoirs: "The Northeast is my hometown, I love the motherland, I love the Northeast, I love my hometown, I also love the boundless Xing'an Mountains, no matter how vicious and brutal the enemy is, the anger of the anti-Japanese struggle cannot be suppressed, I decided to bury the body of my homeland, and I will not leave the Northeast for a step!" ”
It's easy to survive, and it's easy to go out, but the Anti-Japanese Federation is gone, what should the Northeast folks do? An important reason why the common people were able to persist in the struggle under the control of the Japanese army was that the soldiers of the Northeast never left, fighting behind enemy lines day after day, and they had the backbone and hope.
Someone has to stay and give the people a hope. Yu Tianfang moved the team to the mountain, and the headquarters was set up in the village, mobilizing the masses to act as the eyes and ears of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and obtain accurate information at any time for mobile combat and transfer.
They fought alone behind enemy lines, and even lost contact with friendly forces for a time, but at the insistence of Yu Tianfang, they created one military miracle after another in the most difficult environment.
In the land of the Northeast, they are just waiting for the spark to ignite the prairie fire. However, on December 19, 1944, 13 years after the fall of Northeast China, Yu Tianfang was unfortunately arrested by the Japanese army in Suileng County because of the betrayal of traitors.
Second, the "genius" escaped from prison in the face of the legendary figure of the Anti-Japanese Federation in front of them, the Japanese army was very excited, they knew Yu Tianfang's status and influence, as long as they pry open his mouth, or say that he surrendered, then the blow to the Anti-Japanese Federation and even the entire Anti-Japanese War situation is unprecedented.
On January 9, 1945, Yu Tianfang was transferred by military special car to Cell No. 2 of the North Ante High School. The cell is surrounded on three sides by a three-metre-high wall, with only a sturdy iron window letting in the faint amount of sunlight.
All the guards and men were insiders of the Japanese army, and there was not the slightest flaw to exploit. Unlike the other interrogators, Yu Tianfang sometimes yelled and sometimes spoke wildly, leaving experienced Japanese interrogators helpless.
The interrogators were unable to get any information from Yu Tianfang's mouth, and even collapsed because they were unable to respond to his actions. However, although Yu Tianfang looked like a madman, the Japanese realized that he was a tough guy and began to use all the punishments in the special high school class.
Despite the pain, Yu Tianfang finally chose to cooperate with the Japanese army, providing detailed information on the Anti-Japanese Federation and a map of the combat route. This made the Japanese army overjoyed, and immediately gave preferential treatment to Tai Tianfang and asked him to mark more detailed information.
However, Yu Tianfang's work progress was very slow, and he even leaned against the wall every day, walked staggeringly, coughed constantly when he spoke, and looked like a sick seedling.
The Japanese army was frightened by this situation, and they were worried that if Yu Tianfang suddenly fell, the intelligence ** would be cut off. Therefore, they did not dare to force Yu Tianfang, and could only wait for his body**.
However, all this is a trap set by the heavens.
After Yu Tianfang**, he had only one goal in mind: to escape from prison. He knew that in winter the mountains would be covered by heavy snow, food would be scarce, and he would be caught without the cover of trees, so he decided to wait for spring and summer, when the vegetation was lush and the crops were close to maturity, and then find a way to escape into the mountains and forests.
While making preparations, he pretended to be unwell and dealt with the Japanese army in order to delay time. However, the biggest problem he faced was how to find a place to escape.
He could only calculate the latitude of the prison by the time and angle of the train horn and the sunrise and sunset, and used his memory to recall the cities at this latitude, excluding cities without railway stations, and finally determined the point of Bei'an.
Yu Tianfang is a member of the Anti-Japanese Federation, he is very familiar with the mountains and dense forests of the three eastern provinces, **there are mountains, **rivers, **dense forests, **is a dead end, **there are tunzi that can provide supplies, the Japanese puppet army is stationed in **, he remembers the deployment of troops clearly, it is completely a living map.
Yu Tianfang and Zhao Zhongliang, a comrade-in-arms of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, managed to contact and worked out an escape route. After they were ready, Yu Tianfang began to curse the Japanese guards and refused to cooperate with the Japanese army again.
Enraged, the Japanese put him in the interrogation room and tortured him again, but at this time, Yu Tian spotted a broken fireplace in the interrogation room and stole a piece of iron from it, which was a key step in the whole plan.
In the middle of the night on July 11, Yu Tianfang called the Japanese guards on the night shift to guard Ishimaru and asked to go to the toilet. Zhao Zhongliang also took the opportunity to shout to go to the toilet. Shi Maru was not surprised, and directly took the two people into the toilet for convenience, not wanting to be hit in the back of the head by Yu Tianfang who took out the hidden iron weapon from behind, and fell down immediately.
It was late at night, and the guards were already lax, but Yu Tianfang and Zhao Zhongliang figured out the route again, easily opened a few iron doors after getting the key from Shi Maru, and then successfully escaped with dexterity.
Yu Tianfang deliberately left a "farewell poem" in prison to express his belief in salvation. In the face of the search and arrest of the Japanese army, Yu Tianfang, under the cover of the common people, walked all the way through the mountains, passed through the villages, and wanted to go to the Nehe River and the Nenjiang River to find the team.
However, unfortunately, Zhao Zhongliang, who escaped separately from Yu Tianfang, was betrayed by traitors again and finally died heroically. Although the escape was full of dangers, Yu Tianfang's determination never wavered.
He believed that as long as he persevered, he would one day be able to find a team and continue to participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
On August 16, Yu Tianfang learned of Japan's unconditional surrender in Laolai Village, Nehe County. Thinking of more than ten years of hard resistance, those comrades-in-arms who died before dawn, he couldn't suppress the complex emotions in his heart, sometimes crying bitterly, sometimes laughing like a child.
He had deceived the Japanese army by pretending to be crazy and stupid, and now he was celebrating the final victory in this way. Many years later, ** met the hero who once led the Anti-Japanese Federation to sweep the Songnen Plain and participated in the creation of "Camping Song", he humorously said in Hunan accent: "Tianfang, although you were caught by the enemy, I am fortunate to see you, a wise and brave people's hero today." ”
On May 3, 1967, 59-year-old Yu Tianfang returned to his hometown and ended his glorious life.