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Yang Jingyu is a famous anti-Japanese national hero, the founder and leader of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. After Yang Jingyu sacrificed, when the cruel devil cut off his head and disemboweled, he was shocked to find that his stomach was full of withered grass, bark and cotton wool, and there was not a single grain of grain. Chinese proletarian revolutionary, famous anti-Japanese national hero, one of the main founders and leaders of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army.

Formerly known as Ma Shangde, the word Jisheng. On February 26, 1905 (the twenty-third day of the first month of the 31st year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty), he was born in a poor peasant family in Liwan Village, Qushan County, Henan Province (now Yicheng District, Zhumadian City). When he was engaged in the party's underground work in Northeast China, he used the pseudonym Zhang Guan.

1. Naichao. In 1932, when he went to South Manchuria to lead the anti-Japanese armed struggle, he changed his name to Yang Jingyu.

In 1926, he joined the Chinese Communist Youth League. In April 1927, he participated in and led the peasant rebellion in Queshan, and in May of the same year, he was transferred to the Communist Party of China. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, he organized the Queshan Uprising and served as the commander-in-chief of the Peasant Revolutionary Army.

After 1928, he engaged in secret revolutionary work in Henan, Northeast China and other places. He has been imprisoned 5 times, tortured repeatedly, and is unyielding.

After the "918" incident in 1931, he served as the secretary of the Harbin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the first secretary of the Military Commission of the Manchuria Provincial Party Committee. In the autumn of 1932, he was sent to South Manchuria, where he formed the South Manchurian Guerrilla Force of the 32nd Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, served as political commissar, and established a guerrilla base area centered on Panshi Hongshizi. In September 1933, he was appointed commander and political commissar of the First Independent Division of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army.

In April 1934, he united 17 anti-Japanese armed forces to establish the General Headquarters of the Anti-Japanese United Army, and served as the commander-in-chief. Later, he served as the commander and political commissar of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and the commander-in-chief and political commissar of the First Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. He led his troops to fight in the southeast and Manchurian land for a long time, shocked the northeast, and cooperated with the national war of resistance against Japan.

The Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent a telegram to express condolences to the anti-Japanese armed forces in Northeast China represented by Yang Jingyu, praising him as "a model who has been fighting the enemy in the ice and snow for more than seven years without fear of hardships and hardships."

In 1939, in the autumn and winter anti-"crusade" operations in the southeast Manchurian region, he and Wei Zhengmin and others commanded the troops to break up and disperse guerrillas. He led the guard brigade to fight in the area of the Mengjiang River, and finally fought with the enemy alone for 5 days and nights. On February 23, 1940, he died heroically in Sandaoweizi, Mengjiang, Jilin Province, at the age of 35.

In order to commemorate him, in 1946, the Tonghua Detachment of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army was renamed Yang Jingyu Detachment, and Mengjiang County was renamed Jingyu County.

General Yang Jingyu's deeds were written into elementary school textbooks and movies.