Zhang Haipeng

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  • Zhang Haipeng
  • Chang Hai-p'eng
張海鵬
Manuchukuo General Zhang Haipeng
Governor of Rehe Province
In office
March 1933 – November 1934
MonarchEmperor Puyi
Personal details
Born1867
Beiyang Government)
  • Fengtian clique
  •  Manchukuo
  • Branch/service
    Unit(Fengtian) 2nd Provincial Defense Brigade

    Zhang Haipeng (

    State of Manchuria
    .

    Biography

    Zhang was a member of the

    Zhang Xun's abortive attempt to restore the Qing dynasty in 1917. He afterwards joined forces with Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin. In 1923 he was appointed a commissioner of the Chinese Eastern Railway and participated in the First Zhili–Fengtian War. in early 1931 his forces were involved in the suppression of the Gada Meiren
    uprising.

    In early October 1931, shortly after the

    Mukden Incident at Taonan in the northwest of Liaobei province, Zhang—who was commander of the 2nd Provincial Defense Brigade—took command of the local forces including the Xing'an Reclamation Army and declared the district independent of China, in return for a shipment of a large quantity of military supplies by the Imperial Japanese Army
    .

    Zhang followed up his political move by leading the men of the Xing'an Reclamation Army north to attack Gen. Ma Zhanshan, the newly appointed governor of Heilongjiang province. Soon after Zhang advanced upon Ma's capital at Qiqihar, Ma offered to surrender it. Encouraged by Japanese Kwantung Army Gen. Shigeru Honjō, Zhang advanced cautiously to accept Ma's surrender. However, Zhang's advance guard was attacked by Ma's troops in the Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge and it was routed.

    Following the establishment of the State of Manchukuo in March 1932, Zhang was reappointed to command his old force, which was now renamed the

    Operation Nekka. Afterwards he was appointed to command the newly organized Rehe Guard Army, which became the 5th District Army "Chengde"
    after the 1934 reorganization of the Manchukuoan Army. From March 1933 to November 1934 he was Governor of Rehe Province. He was promoted to full general in the Manchukuo Army in 1936. In 1941 he went into retirement.

    After the collapse of Manchukuo in 1945, Chang went into hiding in

    People's Republic of China
    in 1949 in Beijing.

    Sources

    • Boycott, Bloodshed & Puppetry From TIME magazine Oct. 26, 1931
    • Jowett, Phillip J., Rays of the Rising Sun Vol 1., Helion & Co. Ltd. 2004.
    • Rugui, Guo (2005). China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations. Jiangsu People's Publishing House. .