Wang Ying A Chinese bandit and minor Japanese puppet warlord from western Suiyuan. Wang was involved in the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army

Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army

The Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army consisted mostly of former Northwestern Army units under Feng Yuxiang, troops from Fang Zhenwu's Resisting Japan and Saving China Army, remnants of the provincial forces from Jehol, Anti-Japanese volunteers from Manchuria and local forces from Chahar and Suiyuan...

 in 1933, commanding a formation called the 1st Route. Following the suppression of the Anti-Japan Allied Army, Wang Ying went over to the Japanese Kwangtung Army and persuaded them to let him recruit unemployed Chinese soldiers in Chahar

Chahar (province)

Chahar , also known as Chaha'er, Chakhar, or Qahar, was a province of China in existence from 1912 to 1936, mostly covering territory in what is part of eastern Inner Mongolia. It was named after the Chahar Mongolians....

 Province. He returned to Japanese occupied Northern Chahar with enough men to man two Divisions that were trained by Japanese advisors. By 1936, Wang was commander of this Grand Han Righteous Army

Grand Han Righteous Army

The Grand Han Righteous Army was a collaborationist Chinese army cooperating with the Empire of Japan in campaigns in northern China and Inner Mongolia immediately prior to the official start of hostilities of the Second Sino-Japanese War.-History:...

 attached to the Inner Mongolian Army

Inner Mongolian Army

The Inner Mongolian Army was first formed by Prince Demchugdongrub with his personal bodyguard of 900 men in 1929.Although only armed with rifles and a couple of field guns from the Mukden arsenal, a gift of the Young Marshal in 1929. His force became very efficient with the assistance of...

 of Teh Wang.

Following the failure of their first Suiyuan campaign

Suiyuan Campaign (1936)

The Suiyuan Campaign was an engagement between the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Japanese-trained Inner Mongolian/Grand Han Righteous Armies before the outbreak of official hostilities during the Second Sino-Japanese War....

 the Japanese used the Grand Han Righteous Army to launch another attempt to take eastern Suiyuan in January 1937. Fu Zuoyi

Fu Zuoyi

Fu Zuoyi was a Chinese military leader. He began his military career in the service of Yan Xishan, and he was widely praised for his defense of Suiyuan from the Japanese. During the final stages of the Chinese Civil War, Fu surrendered the large and strategic garrison around Beiping to Communist...

 routed Wang’s army, where it suffered heavy losses.

Later after 1937 he was able to establish a small puppet army, independent of Mengjiang

Mengjiang

Mengjiang , also known in English as Mongol Border Land, was an autonomous area in Inner Mongolia, operating under nominal Chinese sovereignty and Japanese control. It consisted of the then-Chinese provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan, corresponding to the central part of modern Inner Mongolia...

, in Western Suiyuan under Japanese protection. His Self Government Army of Western Suiyuan, in 1943 is numbered at over 2300 men in three divisions in a March 1943 British intelligence report.

After Japan had been lost, Wang Ying surrender to Fu Zuoyi, and was appointed to the Commander of the 1st Cavalry Group. Next, he transferred to the Commander of the 14th Cavalry Zongdui , the 12th War Area. In 1946, he was appointed to the senior staff officer of the Beiping Camp for the Chairperson of the Military Committee . After that he also held the Supreme Commander of the Military for Subjugation Communists, the Route of Ping-Pu .

In 1950, Wang Ying was arrested by People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

. Next January, because of the charge of Anti-Revolution, he was executed.

Sources

• Jowett, Phillip S. , Rays of The Rising Sun, Armed Forces of Japan’s Asian Allies 1931-45, Volume I: China & Manchuria, 2004. Helion & Co. Ltd., 26 Willow Rd., Solihul, West Midlands, England.
• International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Chapter 5: Japanese Aggression Against China
• 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 (China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations)
  • Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang
  • Jiangsu People's Publishing House
  • Date published : 2005-7-1
  • ISBN 7214030349
  • Online in Chinese: http://www.wehoo.net/book/wlwh/a30012/A0170.htm
• from the Special Edition of Literary&Historical Materials Vol.15 (文史资料选辑 第15辑)