During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was a "Jiaodong King" in Shandong, whose life was legendary, he was originally a scholar, and later he was inexplicably promoted to lieutenant general, and then became a county magistrate, pulling up an army of 30,000 people, which can be called a general life. Who is this person? How did he get on the revolutionary road?
This person's name is Zhang Jinming, he served as the principal of Pingdu County Middle School in Shandong in 1936, and he was the principal for two years, of course, this is not unusual, at that time many revolutionary cadres were teachers in the early years. We know that at that time, there were two powerful figures in Shandong, one was Han Fuyu, chairman of Shandong Province and commander-in-chief of the Third Army, who had 100,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and the other was Shen Honglie, mayor of Qingdao City and commander-in-chief of the Qingdao Defense Command, with more than 7,000 people under his command. On January 10, 1938, the Japanese Banyuan Division marched to Qingdao in three ways, but before the battle could begin, Han Fuyu fled, and Shen Honglie was also "ordered to retreat", so the Japanese army drove straight in, and by the nineteenth day, Qingdao had completely fallen.
Under such circumstances, people with lofty ideals accused Han Fuyu and Shen Honglie of their "inaction", and at the same time spontaneously organized local armed forces to resist the Japanese invasion, it should be said that Zhang Jinming was also a "person with lofty ideals", at that time, Ji Chuntang, the governor of Pingdu County, saw that the situation was not good, left the people of the whole county, and also fled, and the result was that the whole Pingdu County was completely chaotic. The so-called "chaotic world out of the hero", Zhang Jinming is indeed a "hero", the Japanese army is approaching, the school can not be done, direct escape is also a bit unusual, and finally he simply took a move "dangerous chess". Zhang Jinming went straight to Xuzhou and met Li Mingyang, the guerrilla commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater, and Zhang Jinming said to Li Mingyang: "The country is in danger, and the people are deeply poisoned by the Japanese invaders. Drive the Japanese troops out of Jiaodong! ”
As soon as these words came out, Li Mingyang couldn't help but clap his hands and applaud Zhang Jinming for his patriotism, so he directly gave him the rank of lieutenant general, so that Zhang Jinming had the qualifications to form an army. When Zhang Jinming heard that he was going to award himself the rank of lieutenant general, he was also a little stunned, but then he was overjoyed, the rank of lieutenant general meant that he could form a division or even an army unit, which was a great thing! Of course, Li Mingyang awarded Zhang Jinming the rank of lieutenant general, and he also had his own selfish intentions, and once Zhang Jinming pulled up the troops in Jiaodong, he could effectively contain the Japanese army and alleviate the pressure on the guerrilla zone. After Zhang Jinming left Xuzhou, he immediately came to Yishui County, which is the temporary residence of the Shandong Provincial Government, and the new chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, Shen Honglie, is also here, why did Zhang Jinming come here to meet Shen Honglie? Because he still lacks the title of a bright and upright army, that is, the post of county magistrate of Pingdu County, as long as he becomes the county magistrate of Pingdu County, he can recruit soldiers and buy horses in a bright and upright manner, and he will not be restricted.
Zhang Jinming showed Shen Honglie the letter of appointment of the lieutenant general commander, and Shen Honglie immediately agreed to appoint him as the county magistrate of Pingdu County, and since then, a middle school principal has completed the change from a student to a soldier. As soon as Zhang Jinming returned to Pingdu, he immediately began to form an armed force, and by the beginning of 1938, Zhang Jinming basically reorganized all the guerrilla troops in Pingdu County and established the sixteenth detachment, with nineteen columns under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of more than 30,000 troops. At that time, Zhang Jinming also ordered his subordinate third column to attack the Japanese army in Pingdu City, which defeated the Japanese army in a hurry and retook Pingdu City, and from then on, Zhang Jinming entered the peak period of his life.
At that time, in the Jiaodong area, Zhang Jinming's reputation was so great that the people called him "King of Jiaodong", and as a result, Shen Honglie of Shandong Province heard about it, and he was greatly ignited. Therefore, he ordered his lieutenant general rank to be revoked and demoted to brigade commander, after which Zhang Jinming gradually went downhill, first with Li Wenli, the commissioner of the Eighth District of Shandong Province, and then clashed with the Eighth Route Army, resulting in the enemy on his back, and finally defeated by the Eighth Route Army, and even the bottom of his family was exhausted, and he could only leave Pingdu in ashes and go to the Shandong Provincial Government as an idle errand.
In 1948, Zhang Jinming fled to Taiwan, served as the director of the Kaohsiung Municipal No. 2 Middle School, and later served as the prison director for a period of time, always depressed, and died of illness in 1985 at the age of seventy-five.