In June 1951, in the former Kuomintang Secret Bureau in Shenyang, a group of interrogators of our party were intensively preparing to close the case, and the prisoner in this case was a Kuomintang spy named Liu Qichang, who committed a very deep crime, and after a simple interrogation, the relevant departments quickly set the death penalty for him.
Liu Qichang had obviously accepted his fate, but the night before he was about to be taken into the execution ground, his emotions instantly became excited, and he shouted to the prison guards guarding the door
Comrade, I want to meet your senior officials, I have an important situation to explain, it is about the cause of General Yang Jingyu's death, please excuse me, I want to live.
So what's going on here?What Liu Qichang said is true or false, and what is the mystery of General Yang Jingyu's death?
Let's turn the time back to 1 month ago, that is, on the day of Liu Qichang**.
On the morning of the same day, Comrade Chen Ziping, then chief of the Material Reserve Section of the Military Commission of Dongcheng District, Beijing, called the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, saying that he had found a suspicious man suspected of being a spy in the downtown area of Beijing.
* According to him, his name is Liu Qichang, a former member of the Shenyang Secret Bureau of the Kuomintang, and this time he came to Beijing to try to spy on the intelligence of the troops.
Knowing that Liu Qichang was from Shenyang, the staff of the State Security Bureau took him back and prepared to confirm the evidence while interrogating him, but what everyone didn't expect was that Liu Qichang, who was still very happy in Beijing, stopped eating as soon as he arrived in Shenyang, and he never said any useful information again, at best, it was just some trivial things.
This confession made the interrogators very disappointed, so they did not say anything else, and the organization sentenced Liu Qichang to death for his crimes, and decided to execute him three days later.
Of course, it was only at this time that Liu Qichang finally panicked, so there was the scene at the beginning:
Comrade, I have a situation to report, and it is about General Yang Jingyu!”
General Yang Jingyu's deeds are well known to the world, and when they heard this, the prison guards naturally did not dare to delay and hurriedly reported the situation to their superiors, who also attached great importance to this, and interrogated Liu Qichang overnight in the early morning of the same day.
Seeing that the person who came was the leader of the National Security Bureau, Liu Qichang hurriedly spoke in order to survive
Did you know?General Yang Jingyu did not commit suicide at all, he was killed by someone, and this person is now an official in Beijing!”
Hearing this, the leading cadres at the scene looked at each other, obviously no one believed Liu Qichang's statement, and they even suspected that Liu Qichang was "biting" for his life, so several people packed up their things and left the prison without making any other inquiries, and seeing that the opportunity to live was about to be missed, Liu Qichang suddenly became anxious, and he shouted through the iron railing:
You believe me, don't go, Yang Jingyu's death is really strange!”
Liu Qichang's roar did not call back several cadres of the National Security Bureau, but it attracted the attention of one person, this person was an ordinary interrogator, he was once an old unit under General Yang Jingyu, and he also had great respect for Yang Jingyu, so after everyone left, he tentatively found Liu Qichang and asked:
We want to believe what you say, but you have to show some evidence, right?”
The interrogator's words rekindled Liu Qichang's hope for life, so he hurriedly replied:
I have evidence, I even know what the name of this person is, his name is Chen Ziping, his original name is Cheng Bin, he was Yang Jingyu's comrade-in-arms, and now he is working as a section chief at the Beijing Military Commission, I don't believe you can go and investigate!”
Chen Ziping?Hearing this name, the interrogator was momentarily stunned, and he thought to himself:
Isn't this the comrade who reported Liu Qichang?We did not disclose the name of the whistleblower to Liu Qichang, there should be no indiscriminate biting, could it be that what he said is true?”
With this idea in mind, the interrogators immediately found the leaders of the National Security Bureau, and after hearing his account and analysis, the superiors believed Liu Qichang's words a little, not only did they believe it, but they also telegraphed Beijing overnight to launch a comprehensive investigation of Chen Ziping.
After some careful evidence collection, everyone was surprised to find that what Liu Qichang said was true, Chen Ziping's original name was really Cheng Bin, and he was really a friend and subordinate of Yang Jingyu!
If Liu Qichang was biting, would he know these things that were not even clear to the organization?Therefore, Cheng Bin's suspicion expanded instantly, and the Beijing public security immediately launched an arrest operation against him, and with Cheng Bin's arrest, a past incident more than ten years ago finally surfaced.
According to Cheng Bin's confession, he is indeed the real murderer who killed Yang Jingyu, and the two of them are indeed close comrades-in-arms and friends, and when it comes to this, we have to start from the beginning.
How good was the relationship between Cheng Bin and General Yang Jingyu at the beginning?Let's put it this way, he has been following Yang Jingyu since he was sensible, and the two of them are like brothers, Yang Jingyu is the big brother, and Cheng Bin is the little brother.
Yang Jingyu has always been very optimistic about Cheng Bin, urging him to learn knowledge and culture, telling him about revolutionary ideas and communist ideas, and Cheng Bin has always trusted each other, so after the 918 incident, after Yang Jingyu established the Northeast Revolutionary Army according to the instructions of **, he joined it without hesitation.
In the following days, Cheng Bin's performance can be described as quite good, under his strategy, General Yang Jingyu defeated one after another Japanese troops who came to sweep, and fought one big victory after another, with this feat, Cheng Bin's status in the team is also rising, and some soldiers even put him alongside Yang Jingyu, calling their unit "Yang Cheng" Northeast Army.
Things have developed to this point, Cheng Bin is completely a good young man who loves the country and the party, but there are unforeseen circumstances, and everything has changed with a kidnapping incident in July 1938.
At that time, because the cooperation of the "Yang Cheng" Northeast Army was too tacit, the Japanese had no way to deal with them. Unable to catch and capture, fighting and winning, and often worrying that each stronghold would be attacked by the other side, this pressure made the Japanese military high-level stationed in the three eastern provinces both angry and resentful, so in order to completely solve this group of "sparrows", the Japanese army resorted to a "dark trick" under the proposal of a group of traitors, that is, to break up Yang and Cheng, and break them one by one.
So how do you break up this intimate duo?Obviously, Cheng Bin, who is young and inexperienced, has become a breakthrough, in order to persuade him to surrender to the Japanese invaders, it can be said that they have tried their best, and they are coercive and lure again, seeing that Cheng Bin has never taken the bait, they even extended their claws to Cheng Bin's family.
Taking advantage of a snowy night, the Japanese army kidnapped Cheng Bin's old mother and brother, and then sent a fellow to find Cheng Bin, and the fellow said to Cheng Bin:
Xiaobin, the Japanese let me tell you, your mother and your brother let them be arrested, if you want them to live, you will surrender with the guerrillas under your command, otherwise.
Cheng Bin also knew what the latter words meant, he immediately fell into contemplation, his heart was extremely entangled, on the one hand, he was the trust of the organization and Brother Yang, and on the other hand, he was his closest family, he really didn't know how to choose.
Cheng Bin thought about it all night, and under all the pain, he finally made a decision, that is, to give up his family and continue the revolution, he immediately wanted to inform General Yang Jingyu of this matter, but before he could go out, a familiar figure appeared in front of him, Cheng Bin fixed his eyes, this person is not his own brother!
As soon as he saw his brother, he scolded Cheng Bin, and he cried and shouted:
You rabbit cub, you want to revolution, you want to go crazy?I don't even want our mother's life?I told you that it was my own mother who gave birth to us and raised us, and it was she who brought us up when our father died, so you can watch it!”
His brother's words made Cheng Bin's determination collapse again, and under some contemplation and his brother's persuasion, he also made the final choice, that is, to surrender to the Japanese army in exchange for his mother's life!
After learning of this, General Yang Jingyu's heart can be regarded as mixed, there is hatred of iron and steel, there is regret, and there is a trace of expectation, he expects that Cheng Bin's move is a fraudulent surrender, he will kill back at the right time, and also imagine that no matter how bad Cheng Bin is, he will be like Xu Shu back then, "in Cao Ying's heart in Han" even if it is lowered, it will be hindered by family affection, and will not be a lackey of the Japanese devil.
But Yang Jingyu obviously overestimated Cheng Bin's lower limit, after surrendering to the Japanese army, instead of trying to escape back to the team, he happily became a traitor, and used his experience in the army for so many years and the intelligence he mastered to wantonly beat up his former comrades-in-arms!
In just one year, countless guerrilla strongholds were breached by Cheng Bin's team, hundreds of party members and progressives were slaughtered, and many anti-union generals were suddenly attacked and finally sacrificed their lives for righteousness.
But soon Yang Jingyu believed it, because this time Cheng Bin actually pointed the finger at him.
Relying on his familiarity with the combat methods and secret strongholds of his "old comrades-in-arms", Cheng Bin first blocked all his material supplies, and then led heavy troops to round up Yang Jingyu's direct troops from hill to mountain.
Under Cheng Bin's advice, in the winter of 1939, Yang Jingyu was finally forced to a dead end, seeing this situation, he knew that he could not escape, so in order for the fire of the revolution to continue, he immediately dismissed the troops and he entered the deep mountains and forests alone, determined to fight the enemy to the end.
Alone, lack of materials, ammunition bottomed out, during the Japanese army surrounded the mountains and forests, he thought several times that Yang Jingyu had frozen to death and starved to death, and there were many traitors and devils who proposed to withdraw the army during the long wait, but these proposals were vetoed by Cheng Bin one by one, he tried his best to disagree with the public and sent the news to the Japanese command, his general meaning:
Although no one can survive for more than ten days in such a cold winter, but he is Yang Jingyu, I think he must still be alive, give me some more time, I want to see people die and corpses!”
In fact, if Cheng Bin could remember the old feelings in the past at this time, and could say to the Japanese invaders, "Yang Jingyu must be dead", or in the face of the corpses of the anti-union fighters all over the ground, he could say "This person is Yang Jingyu", then General Yang could still survive, but unfortunately Cheng Bin was completely rebellious, not only did he defect, but he also lost the last trace of conscience, which finally caused General Yang's death.
After learning the truth of everything, everyone at the interrogation scene was furious, and the interrogator who had followed Yang Jingyu even scolded
It was the Japanese devil who kidnapped your mother, not General Yang, why can't you leave him a way to live!You're a white-eyed wolf!”
Yes, this question is also what many National Security Bureau cadres want to ask, and in the face of everyone's eyes, Cheng Bin also said the reason why he is so vicious, according to him, the reason why he has to kill Yang Jingyu is because of fear, and the other is out of jealousy, what he is afraid of is Yang Jingyu's attitude towards traitors who must be killed, and jealousy is that the other party can insist on the revolution, but he is just a shameless villain.
This was the whole process of Cheng Bin's murder of General Yang Jingyu, and afterwards the party and the state also gave him the punishment he deserved, and executed him on May 12, 1951.
A generation of big traitors and traitors have been scolded by the people in this way, but in the author's mind, Cheng Bin died like this is still too cheap, because if nothing else, he will not be able to escape the blame for the fate of General Yang Jingyu's body.
First of all, in the early morning of the second day after his sacrifice, Cheng Bin and a group of big traitors cut off his head privately in the warehouse, and then went to the Japanese headquarters to ask for merit.
After seeing the head, Takichiro Nagagishi, then director of the puppet Tonghua Provincial Police Department, was overjoyed, and he immediately praised Cheng Bin and others, and raised a question, that is, whether food was found on Yang Jingyu's body.
Hearing this, Cheng Bin hurriedly replied:
The Director of the Reporting Department did not find any food. ”
Without food, how did Yang Jingyu survive in the icy and snowy forest for more than ten days?With this question in mind, Turyuichiro Nagagishi asked again:
Did you find any traces of him hunting in the woods?For example, animal fur, bones, etc”
Cheng Bin once again denied the words of the "chief", but this time he learned smartly, and when he guessed the other party's intentions, he immediately offered a plan, and he said flatteringly:
If the director of the hall wanted to know what Yang Jingyu had eaten, wouldn't he know by opening his stomach?”
Cheng Bin's idea was very right for Guryuichiro Nagashi, so that night the group used a knife to cut open General Yang Jingyu's stomach and dug out his stomach.
After that, Yang Jingyu's head and body went through a long separation, the head was collected by the Japanese high-level, and the body was buried on a hillside in the west of Baoan Village by Guryuichiro Nagashi, which was the first burial of General Yang's body.
This burial was obviously a face-saving project done by the Japanese army in order to appease the people of the three eastern provinces, and countless revolutionary masses were also extremely resentful of this, so as soon as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended, the relocation of General Yang Jingyu's tomb was put on the agenda by our party.
At the beginning of 1946, after several months of preparation and negotiation, our party's democracy in Mengjiang County was finally established, and at the first time after the establishment of the county, the county party committee called the local people and party members and cadres at all levels to come to the meeting, the theme of the meeting was very simple, that is, to re-bury the body of Comrade Yang Jingyu.
The meeting went very smoothly, with the unanimous consent of the broad masses of the people and party members and cadres, not only the cost of building Yang Jingyu's tomb was properly solved (almost everyone was actively donating), but the county ** under the suggestion of the people, but also specially changed Mengjiang County to Jingyu County, in order to forever commemorate this great patriotic general.
After more than a month of excavation and construction, General Yang Jingyu was finally transferred from the enemy's tomb into the arms of the people, and not only that, but his original tombstone, the version signed by Ryukichiro Nagagishi, was also replaced
The tomb of General Yang Jingyu, an anti-Japanese national hero.
Jingyu County is democratic, and people from all walks of life in Jingyu County stand together. ”
This is not over, on February 23 of that year, that is, the day of the 6th anniversary of General Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, the party and the people also held a grand memorial service for him, at which thousands of people and party members wept bitterly in the audience, in order to avenge General Yang Jingyu, the county party committee also specially brought out several traitors who had just been captured and caused his death, and executed them in front of all the people and in front of General Yang's tomb.
With the ambush of several traitors, everyone at the scene applauded, and this memorial meeting came to a successful conclusion.
However, when it comes to this, I believe many people will question, that is, since General Yang Jingyu's body has been buried by the people, why will there be a third burial after that?
It turned out that it was not that people deliberately wanted to disturb the general's heroic spirit, but because the body of Comrade Yang Jingyu was incomplete at that time.
Do you remember what I said before, Cheng Bin and others cut off Yang Jingyu's head and went to invite merit?
That's right, since the fight has been Yang Jingyu's head has been "collected" by the Japanese invaders, and after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, it fell into the hands of the Kuomintang **, and finally ended up with a whereabouts unknown, based on this situation, the organization had to give up the search for the hero's head, and this is the reason why the search for the head and the head and body were not mentioned in 1946.
But unexpectedly, in 1948, when the Liberation War was in full swing and the Kuomintang reactionaries were defeated one after another, the whereabouts of Yang Jingyu's head suddenly had news!After learning of this, *** and *** paid special attention to it, and immediately ordered that the head must be recovered and brought back intact.
After receiving the order, a group of investigators did not dare to delay, and they quickly went to the place of the incident to investigate and inquire, and finally recovered the head of General Yang Jingyu before October 1, 1949.
Since the head is recovered, it must be buried with the body, it stands to reason that only the tomb located in Jingyu County needs to be opened, and then the head can be put into it, but *** and *** Considering that all this is not easy to come by, and Yang Jingyu's contribution should be treated better, so after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country rebuilt a martyr's cemetery on Nanshan in Tonghua County, and named it "Jingyu Cemetery".
At the beginning of 1958, this cemetery was finally completed, and on February 23 of that year, on the day of General Yang Jingyu's death, the party and the country also combined the body of General Yang Jingyu into one, and then buried in the cemetery under the attention of the people of the whole country.