On October 1, 1945, the Third Front Of the Chinese Army Headquarters released a list of the first 39 traitors arrested on September 27, of which the second was the puppet governor of Zhejiang Province, the acting chief of staff of the puppet military commission Xiang Zhizhuang.
Xiang Zhizhuang may not be familiar with many friends, but mentioning his uncle can be said that everyone knows everyone. Xiang Zhizhuang's uncle was Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu's brothers. Therefore, Xiang Zhizhuang actually has some status in the Kuomintang.
Born in 1894 in Hangzhou, Xiang Zhizhuang graduated from the artillery section of the third phase of the Baoding Military Academy, served as the commander of the artillery regiment in the Northern Expedition, and then successively served as the commander of the artillery brigade of the guard army, the chief of education of the artillery school of the Military and Political Department, and the counselor of the training director of the National Government. He was a small number of generals installed in the kuomintang central party affairs system in the army.
In 1934, with Chen Guofu being appointed chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, Xiang Zhizhuang's nephew was also appointed by his uncle as the lieutenant general of the Security Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Government. It was also at this time that Xiang Zhizhuang got involved with Zhou Fohai, who was then the director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education.
After the outbreak of the All-People War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Gu Zhutong was transferred to Jiangsu as the chairman of the government and the commander of the Third Theater. With the departure of his uncle, Xiang Zhizhuang should have followed him in the knowledge of current affairs, but he refused to leave, hoping that Gu Zhutong could still give him an official and a half-job.
Gu Zhutong was originally unaccustomed to Chen Guofu's CC department, plus Xiang Zhizhuang was not a soldier from Huangpu, or how could Chen Guofu's nephew use it? Gu Zhutong dismissed Xiang Zhizhuang from his post as chief of the security department and assigned him to an idle post as deputy commander of artillery.
Feeling frustrated, Xiang Zhizhuang later joined the Wang puppet regime as a traitor in 1942 under the persuasion of his old friend Zhou Fohai, who had surrendered to the enemy one step ahead.
After joining Wang, Xiang Zhizhuang finally satisfied his addiction to rising up and down, and held the posts of member of the Central Military Commission, deputy chief of staff and director of the General Affairs Department, director of the Northern Jiangsu Appeasement Office, commander-in-chief of the pseudo-Fifth Group Army, and pseudo-governor of Jiangsu Province.
In the later period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xiang Zhizhuang accepted the arrangement of his uncle Chen Lifu and secretly provided some services for the Central Command, but also made some achievements.
Therefore, after being arrested on September 27, 1945, Xiang Zhizhuang did not take it seriously. He thinks that with the support of his uncle, he has also done some things for the Central Unification, not only unscathed, but may also be able to discuss merit and reward and continue to rise high.
However, according to the Regulations on the Handling of Traitor Cases promulgated by the Nationalist Government at that time, a traitor of Xiang Zhizhuang's level should have been sentenced to death, and the acquittal was too much to say. In 1946, under the activities of his uncle, Xiang Zhizhuang was sentenced to 7 years in prison, and his life was saved.
When Xiang Zhizhuang's verdict was handed over to Chen Cheng, then chief of staff, Chen Cheng stopped doing it. Holding the verdict, he found Lao Jiang and said that this person was extremely evil and had to be killed. In the end, Xiang Zhizhuang was commuted to the death penalty, and Chen Cheng, worried about the long night dream, issued the execution approval to the Military Justice Department overnight on November 25, 1946.
When the Military Justice Department received the approval document forwarded by Chen Cheng, it did not dare to slack off and carried out the work related to the execution of the death penalty overnight.
On 26 November, at about 8 a.m., the ticket was issued, and at 10:20 a.m., Zhuang was taken from the prison where he was detained and was brought to the Military Justice Department. The Military Justice Department composed of five people, including Chief Judge Xu Zhennan and Juror Bao Qihuang, conducted questioning.
When Xiang Zhizhuang was brought into the courtroom, he was wearing a Yin Danshilin coat, white velvet socks, and cloth shoes, and although his face was pale and emaciated, he looked calm, and he did not expect that he would mutate from seven years of imprisonment to death, thinking that it was another formal interrogation.
When the judge verified his body, he immediately read out Xiang Zhizhuang's death sentence: "Xiang Zhizhuang conspired with the enemy country in an attempt to rebel against his own country, sentenced him to death, stripped of public power for life, and confiscated his property except for the necessary living expenses for his family members." He also told Xiang Zhizhuang that the judgment would be executed today.
When the judge asked him what he had to say, Xiang Zhizhuang suddenly turned back to his senses and shouted at the judge: "No! ”
Xiang Zhizhuang then asked for a pen and paper to write down a will, the will was left to his second brother Xiang Huimin, the will mainly has three points: the body can be sent to the hospital for autopsy research, do not have to be transported back to the original place of burial; do not hang filial piety at home; mourning to stop sorrow, live diligently, and keep to yourself.
After writing the suicide note, Xiang Zhizhuang followed the gendarmes out of the house, tied up and was escorted to the prison cart under strict guard and taken to the Yuhuatai execution ground.
Although it rained lightly that day, there were still many residents watching at the Yuhuatai Execution Ground.
Upon arriving at the execution ground, Xiang Zhizhuang was taken to a muddy vacant spot and asked to kneel, and the executing gendarme shot him dead at the back of his heart with a rifle at about 11 a.m.
By the time Chen Guofu heard that Xiang Zhizhuang had changed his sentence to death and was ready to save his life, Xiang Zhizhuang was already lying on the ground.
This is exactly "the cold wind and the miserable rain are tens of thousands of people vying to see the tiger, and a shot on the side of the rain flower platform suddenly whines."