Zhang Haipeng

Chang Hai-peng, (? - ?), Northeastern Army general, that went over to the Japanese during the [Invasion of Manchuria]] and was a general in the Manchukuo Imperial Army of Manchukuo.

In early October 1931, shortly after the Mukden Incident, at Taonan in the northwest of Liaoning province, General Chang Hai-peng of the Hsingan Reclamation Army declared the district independent of China, in return for a shipment of a large quantity of military supplies by the Japanese Army.

General Chang Hai-peng followed his political move up by leading the men of the Hsingan Reclamation Army north to attack General Ma Zhanshan the newly appointed governor of Heilungkiang province. Soon after Chang Hai-peng advanced upon Ma's capital at Tsitsihar, Ma offered peacefully to give up the old walled town. Encouraged by General Shigeru Honjo, Chang advanced cautiously to accept General Ma's surrender. However General Chang's advance guard was attacked by General Ma's troops and it was sent fleeing in a rout.

Following the establishment of the State of Manchukuo in March 1932 Chang Hai-peng commanded his old force now called the Taoliao Army leading Manchukouan troops against the Manchurian volunteer armies and in the Japanese invasion of Rehe in Operation Nekka. Afterward he commanded the newly organized Rehe Guard Army, later the 5th District Army "Chengde" after the 1934 reorganization of the Manchukuoan Army.

Sources

• Boycott, Bloodshed & Puppetry From TIME magazine Oct. 26, 1931
• Jowett, Phillip J., Rays of the Rising Sun Vol 1., Helion & Co. Ltd. 2004.