The popular TV drama "Decisive Battle of Jiangqiao" not only reproduces the image of General Ma Zhanshan, who fired the first shot of the Chinese people's anti-Japanese resistance, but also reveals the ugly faces of the leaders of the Japanese army invading China and some hardcore traitors in that era.
In the play, Zhang Haipeng, a traitor played by actor Liu Jinshan, enslaves his knees in front of the Japanese Kou and fights against the vicious and cruel ugly deeds of the Japanese compatriots, which makes people hate with their teeth.
Zhang Haipeng's actions are not fictional. On the pillar of shame in Chinese history, he is one of the most evil traitors.
(Han traitor Zhang Haipeng in the TV series)
According to historical sources, Zhang Haipeng fled into the mountains as a bandit in his early years because of revenge and murder, and before and after the Sino-Japanese War, he threw himself into Feng Delin's large stock of Hu bandits and married Feng Delin as a righteous brother. Feng Delin submitted to the Qing Dynasty, and Zhang Haipeng served as the pipe belt of the patrol team. After that, he studied in the Fengtian Lecture Martial Arts Hall. Legend has it that he and Zhang Zuolin once became "jinlan allies", but there is no relevant record in the historical data.
Zhang Haipeng was born five years old and three thick, tiger back bear waist, when he was a child, he was born with smallpox and left pockmarks, nicknamed Zhang Hemp, which is similar to the image created by the actors in the play.
In 1912, Zhang Haipeng served as the brigade commander of the 55th Brigade of the 28th Division under Feng Delin, and in the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917), Feng Delin echoed Zhang Xun's restoration and raised troops, and was arrested by Duan Qirui and lost power. After that, Zhang Haipeng defected to Zhang Zuolin. He was the commander-in-chief of the Middle East Railway Escort Army. After the Second Zhifeng War, he served as the commander of the 1st Guerrilla Group of Fengtian Cavalry, and later served as the defender of Taoliao Town in Liaoning Province and the commander of the 32nd Division of Northeast Cavalry.
Zhang Haipeng, who was already old at the time, always felt that he had not been reused under the father and son of the Feng family. In particular, he found it difficult to accept that Zhang Zuolin's "suppression" was not counted, and when the young marshal came to power, he did not "care" for him as usual.
During the Huanggutun incident, Wu Junsheng, the governor of Heilongjiang Province, was also killed, and Zhang Haipeng was bent on picking up this stubble and tasting the taste of being a feudal official. Unexpectedly, the young marshal let Wan Fulin make up for Wu Junsheng's vacancy. In this regard, Zhang Haipeng held a grudge in his heart and had a negative intention. At the time of the "Yang Chang Incident," the political situation in the northeast was tense for a time, and Zhang Haipeng thought that the young marshal's mishandling would be difficult to convince the public, so he wanted to take the opportunity to rebel. However, the situation did not cause turmoil, and Zhang Haipeng also lay dormant.
By the time of the "September 18 Incident" in 1931, Zhang Haipeng could no longer bear it. Under the inducement of the Japanese officials to make a wish, he decided not to do anything with the old Zhang family. Soon after, he surrendered to the Japanese Kwantung Army in Taonan, issued the "Declaration of Independence", and called himself the "Commander of The Border Security of Taosuo", echoing the Kwantung Army's aggression against China's three eastern provinces.
In mid-October 1931, the Japanese side asked Zhang Haipeng to show his attitude, and said that as long as Zhang Haipeng "took" Heilongjiang, then the governor of Heilongjiang Province would be Zhang Haipeng. Zhang Haipeng gladly agreed and prepared to "take" Heilongjiang. As a result, when he attacked Jiangqiao, he was beaten badly by General Ma Zhanshan. When the Japanese Kou instigated him to invade Rehe, Zhang Haipeng led his troops out of the nest, burned all the way, and invested all his "capital" to "explore the way" for the Japanese army. After the fall of Chengde, Zhang Haipeng moved the "Former Enemy Headquarters of the Pseudo-Manchu War" to Chengde, and ordered the fourth detachment to enter Fengning and the third detachment to enter Longhua. It can be said that the rapid progress of the Japanese invasion of Hebei is inseparable from the "dedication" of Zhang Haipeng, a big traitor.
Zhang Haipeng's diligent service finally received the "reward" of the Japanese master and sat on the coveted provincial governor's throne as he wished. In May 1933, Zhang Haipeng was appointed commander of the pseudo-Manrehe garrison and governor of the puppet Manrehe Province. After becoming a "high official," Zhang Haipeng actively followed the requirements of the Japanese Kou and sent troops everywhere to clear out the remnants of Tang Yulin of the Northeast Army on the one hand; on the other hand, he wantonly promoted opium cultivation in Rehe. It is not a light disaster for the people of Rehe.
After the "governor" throne sat for more than a year, Zhang Haipeng was dismissed from his post and replaced by the puppet Manchu Emperor Puyi as a military attaché, becoming a close retinue of the puppet Manchu Emperor, and also realizing the dream of "protecting the emperor" that he had when he was young.
(Zhang Haipeng)
Zhang Haipeng obediently served as a military attaché for eight years, and in February 1941, when he was old and frail, he was dismissed from his post and lived a "peaceful" life in Changchun as a "pseudo-Manchu general".
According to historical sources, when Japan surrendered in 1945, Zhang Haipeng was so frightened that he knew that the end of the traitors had arrived. In the summer and autumn of that year, the Soviet Red Army searched for war criminals in Changchun, and Zhang Haipeng, who had served as Puyi's "military attaché chief," actually escaped from Changchun barefoot and ran to a small fishing village in Jinzhou called Wangjiawopu, hiding in the home of an old relative. Unexpectedly, the population of the small fishing village is too small, and it is very sensitive to the living people from the outside world. Fearing suspicion, Zhang Haipeng hid in a small fishing village for only 10 days, then fled to a monastery in Lushan Mountain, a doctor in Beizhen, and lived in seclusion as a monk.
However, Zhang Haipeng, who was accustomed to living a life of spending days and drinking, failed to endure the loneliness of the Buddha Gate. Two years later, he thought that the wind had passed, and then he thought of the mansion he had bought in Beiping for more than 100,000 oceans, and decided to quietly go to Beiping to live this remnant.
After another two years, Peiping was peacefully liberated and New China was founded. Zhang Haipeng fell into panic again, and he hurriedly distributed the real estate and floating wealth to his wives and concubines and children, but because of the uneven distribution of the stolen goods, he caused a dispute, and his fourth aunt reported to the Beiping People's Government, and Zhang Haipeng, a traitor who had been hiding for more than four years, was immediately arrested.
(Former site of the Puppet Manchurian Imperial Palace)
The judiciary eventually sentenced him to death for traitors and historical counter-revolutionaries, and sent the scum of the nation to the guillotine in 1951 during the revolt.
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