During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the three commanders-in-chief of the North China Public Security Army of the Pseudo-North China Political Affairs Committee served as commander-in-chief
After the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, the Japanese army invading China supported a puppet regime in North China and established the "Provisional Government of the Republic of China", with the traitor Wang Kemin as the leader. In March 1940, after the establishment of Wang Jingwei's puppet Nanjing government, Wang Kemin's "Provisional Government" was renamed the "North China Political Affairs Committee". The Japanese army supported a traitor armed "North China Security Army", also known as the "Imperial Allied Army", which is actually a puppet army.
When the puppet army was first founded, Qi Xieyuan was appointed as the commander-in-chief, and it mainly targeted patriots or the anti-Japanese Eighth Route Army, and a large number of patriotic anti-Japanese people were arrested or killed.
In 1943, Du Xijun succeeded Qi Xieyuan as the second commander-in-chief of the "Imperial Allied Army".
In 1944, Menzhizhong succeeded Du Xijun as the third commander-in-chief of the "Imperial Allied Army".
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Qi Xieyuan was arrested by the Nationalist government, and in court, he refused to admit guilt, but was still sentenced to death, and in 1946, he was shot at Yuhuatai in Nanjing.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Du Xijun was also arrested by the Nationalist government, but was released. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Du Xijun was arrested by the people's government, and after a public trial, he was shot on August 22, 1951.
The only commander-in-chief of the puppet army who died well was Menzhizhong, why was he not arrested and tried after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War?
The "Imperial Allied Forces" during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
History of the origins in Menzhi
Menzhizhong was born in 1889 in Hunchun, Jilin (now Wangqing, Jilin). In 1914, Menzhizhong graduated from the 1st Infantry Section of the Baoding Army Officer School. In 1918, he served as a staff officer of Feng Yuxiang's 16th Mixed Brigade, and since then, he has been all the way up the mountain.
In 1928, Men Zhizhong served as the first chairman of the Ningxia Provincial Government of the Kuomintang, and in 1930, he became the commander of the 17th Army of the Northwest Army.
In March 1940, Wang Jingwei's puppet Nanjing government was established, and Menzhizhong participated, fell into the water and became a traitor, was highly used by Wang Jingwei, and served as a member of the Military Commission.
In 1944, he succeeded Du Xijun as commander-in-chief of the North China Public Security Army and was promoted to general of the Wang puppet regime. At this time, he saw that the Japanese army was in the quagmire of war, and the broken ship was in danger of being destroyed at any time, so he stepped on two ships and secretly established relations with Chiang Kai-shek's Chongqing government, in a vain attempt to seek a way out for himself.
Arrogant Japanese army
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Menzhizhong was transformed into an important member of the Kuomintang
In 1945, after the surrender of Japan, the "Imperial Allied Army" in North China was absorbed by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government, and Menzhizhong also became the commander of the 9th Army of the North China Advance Army, and he was not liquidated by the Kuomintang government because of his previous speculation.
It is really strange that a big traitor has transformed himself into a senior officer of the Kuomintang army! In order to show his loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek, he led his puppet army to act as cannon fodder for the Kuomintang reactionaries, and seized territory with the Eighth Route Army to prevent the people's army from liberating the city. Gained the favor of Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek did not treat him badly, and later, he was not held responsible for being a traitor, but simply left his military post and lived a life of leisure.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang government, under the pressure of the people of the whole country, arrested a number of traitors, and after a trial, shot some of them. Such as Chen Gongbo, Qi Xieyuan and so on.
Shoot the traitor
This also frightened Menzhizhong, who was wary of the Kuomintang meeting settling accounts after the autumn and fidgeting all day, so he tried every means to bribe high-ranking government officials, take his whole family, and carry the money he had looted for many years, and moved to Hong Kong in 1946, living in seclusion in Hong Kong, and living a good life. In 1951, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Kowloon, Hong Kong, at the age of 63.
Due to the cover-up of the Kuomintang reactionary government, this traitor was not tried by the court, but he was forever nailed to the column of shame of history.