Wang Ying (hanjian)

Wang Ying (Chinese: 王英; Pinyin: Wáng Yīng; ? - ?) A Chinese bandit and minor Japanese puppet warlord from western Suiyuan. Wang was involved in the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army in 1933, commanding a formation called the 1st Route. [Guo Rugui, China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations: Anti-Japan military alliance] 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 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 attached to the Inner Mongolian Army of Teh Wang.

Following the failure of their first Suiyuan campaign the Japanese used the Grand Han Righteous Army to launch another attempt to take eastern Suiyuan in January 1937. Fu Zuoyi routed Wang’s army, where it suffered heavy losses. [Jowett pg. 57]

Later after 1937 he was able to establish a small puppet army, independent of Mengjiang, 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. [Jowett pg. 85, 133]

Notes

See also

*Hanjian
*Second Sino-Japanese War

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.

* [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/IMTFE/IMTFE-5a.html 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