**Period, the Japanese launched the "918 Incident", due to Zhang Xueliang's policy of non-resistance, the Northeast was occupied by the Japanese without blood, the main force of the Northeast Army retreated into the pass, and did not withdraw into the Northeast officers and soldiers in the pass, most of the soldiers who chose to surrender to the Japanese became traitors, and the other part of the Northeast Army generals swore not to surrender to the death, and led the troops to fight with the Japanese army.
After the Japanese occupied the Northeast, Pu Yi became the emperor of the "puppet Manchukuo", and many of the former Northeast Army also became traitors, among which the highest official position was Zhang Zuolin's sworn brother Zhang Jinghui. In addition to Zhang Jinghui, Xiqia, Zang Shiyi, Jixing, Yu Chencheng, etc., are also important traitors of the "puppet Manchukuo".
Yu Chencheng participated in the patrol battalion of Fengtian at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and became the battalion commander when ** was first established, so he was also a veteran of the Northeast Army. But Yu Chencheng couldn't get Zhang Zuolin's reuse, it took nearly ten years from battalion commander to brigade commander, seeing that many of his juniors had surpassed him, Yu Chencheng was very unwilling and planned to participate in Guo Songling's anti-Feng action.
Later, Guo Songling's rebellion failed, and Yu Chencheng was also implicated, so he was dismissed and became a businessman. After the outbreak of the "918 Incident", under the pull of Xiqia, Yu Chencheng also became a traitor, and led the puppet army to attack the anti-Japanese forces in Jilin. Yu Chencheng relied on his "excellent" performance to become an army general of the "puppet Manchukuo", but the Japanese did not trust him, only gave him a name and did not give him real power, and when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression just ended, Yu Chencheng fell ill and died.
In 1887, Yu Chencheng was born in Wuchang, Heilongjiang, his ancestral home is Shandong, and his grandfather's generation came to the Northeast through "Guandong". Through the hard work of his grandfather and father, the Yu family successfully took root in Wuchang, and later the family earned some money, and the family moved to Shuangcheng County, and the Yu family also became a wealthy local family.
Yu Chencheng has been smart since he was a child, and his head is also big, he was nicknamed "Yu Datou", when he was studying in a private school, his academic performance was very good, and he was later admitted to the new school in the county with excellent results.
In 1906, Yu Chencheng, who had just turned eighteen, chose to abandon literature and martial arts, and was admitted to the cavalry department of the Beiyang Army Academy, where he studied military affairs for two years. Because he studied cavalry, Yu Chencheng especially liked horses, and later raised a lot of horses after he developed, as long as a good horse died, he would be sad and sad, and set up a monument for the horse.
In 1909, Yu Chencheng returned to his hometown of Heilongjiang and participated in the local patrol battalion, where he served as a sentry commander.
In 1911, after the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, there were uprisings everywhere in the country, and Yu Chencheng was already the pipe band (battalion commander) of the Qing army's patrol battalion at that time, and he led his troops to suppress the rebel army in Heilongjiang.
In 1912, after the establishment of **, the Qing Army Patrol Battalion in the Northeast was transformed into the Army of the Northeast, and Yu Chencheng continued to serve as a soldier in Heilongjiang.
In 1914, Zhu Qinglan served as the military envoy of Heilongjiang, and he appointed Yu Chencheng as the deputy commander of the lieutenant colonel.
In 1922, the first Zhifeng War broke out, and Zhang Zuolin's Feng army was defeated by Wu Peifu's direct army, so Zhang Zuolin began to reorganize the troops, dismissed many old-school officers, and chose to use new-style officers to train the troops. At that time, Yu Chencheng served as the commander of the first brigade of the Feng Army, although he was not removed, but at this time, Zhang Zuolin began to reuse Yang Yuting, Guo Songling and other new-style officers, and left Yu Chencheng and other old officers aside, which made Yu Chencheng very dissatisfied.
In 1924, the Second Zhifeng War broke out, Yu Chencheng led his troops to participate in the battle, and when the Zhijun and Feng troops fought in Shanhaiguan, Feng Yuxiang suddenly launched a mutiny in Beijing and put the direct leader Cao Kun under house arrest, resulting in Wu Peifu's defeat at the front line and the victory of the Feng army. After Zhang Zuolin defeated Wu Peifu, the power of the Feng warlords reached its peak, from Heilongjiang to Shanghai, it was the sphere of influence of the Feng army, and Yu Chencheng also followed and became the lieutenant general and commander of the 16th Division of the Feng army.
In November 1925, Guo Songling raised troops against Fengtian and led the army to kill Fengtian, Zhang Zuolin appointed Yu Chencheng as the deputy commander of the Fourth Army, and asked him to lead his troops to Shanhaiguan to resist Guo Songling. Yu Chencheng was originally dissatisfied with Zhang Zuolin's partiality with the new officers, and felt that he had been working hard for Zhang Zuolin all his life, but now he was only a deputy army commander, and when he arrived at Shanhaiguan, he sent someone to secretly contact Guo Songling.
Yu Chencheng and Guo Songling planned that when Guo Songling attacked Fengtian, he would lead his troops to respond to Guo Songling, and if the time came, he would replace Zhang Zuoxiang and become the new "King of Jilin". It's a pity that with the support of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Zhang Zuolin not only turned defeat into victory, but also executed Guo Songling and his wife, Yu Chencheng knew that he would also be implicated, so before Zhang Zuolin was arrested, he fled to Harbin to hide.
Later, Yu Chencheng found a lot of connections, so that Zhang Zuolin canceled his want, and after Yu Chencheng lost his official position, he started a coal mining business with the Soviets and made a lot of money.
In 1931, the Japanese created the "918 Incident", and Zhang Xueliang, the major marshal of the Northeast Army, ordered the Northeast Army not to resist, resulting in the occupation of Mukden by the Japanese, and then marched towards Jilin. At that time, the person in charge of military and political affairs in Jilin was Zhang Zuoxiang, but at that time, Zhang Zuoxiang's father died, and he went back to his hometown to take care of the funeral, so he temporarily handed over the military and political affairs of Jilin to his confidant Xiqia.
This Xiqia is a descendant of Aixin Jueluo, he wants Puyi to be emperor again, so he has always colluded with the Japanese Kwantung Army, so after the Japanese army occupied Fengtian, Xiqia immediately announced the surrender of the Japanese in Jilin, and Jilin was also occupied by the Japanese without blood. After Xiqia surrendered to the Japanese, he sent people to Shuangcheng County to ask Yu Chencheng to "go out of the mountain", but Yu Chencheng couldn't stand it, and decided to follow Xiqia to be a traitor and was appointed commander-in-chief of Jilin's "suppression of bandits".
Although Xiqia surrendered, there were still some generals of the Northeast Army in Jilin who were unwilling to surrender, and soon after Li Du and Feng Zhanhai and others formed the Jilin Self-Defense Army to resist the Japanese in Harbin. At that time, there were a total of seven brigades in Jilin, one brigade each for Li Du and Feng Zhanhai, and the remaining five brigades became puppet army units, helping the Japanese to suppress the anti-Japanese forces in Jilin and poisoning their former colleagues.
In January 1932, the Japanese asked Xiqia to send troops to attack Harbin, Xiqia ordered Yu Chencheng to lead four brigades of puppet troops to attack in the direction of Harbin, Li Du led troops to resist the attack in Harbin, and Feng Zhanhai also took a brigade to support Harbin. On January 27, the Jilin Self-Defense Army and Yu Chencheng's puppet army officially exchanged fire, Li Du commanded the battle at the front, and with the cooperation of Feng Zhanhai, the two joined forces to defeat the attack of Yu Chencheng's puppet army. Although the enemy's attack was temporarily repulsed, with the reinforcement of the Japanese army, the "Battle of Harbin" finally failed, and Li Du and Feng Zhanhai led the remaining troops to withdraw into Heilongjiang.
After the establishment of the "puppet Manchukuo," Yu Chencheng served as the commander of the puppet garrison in the Yilan region and the commander-in-chief of the puppet road protection army of the North Manchukuo Railway, and was awarded the rank of general of the "puppet Manchukuo" army in the north.
According to Pu Yi's younger brother Pu Jie's recollections, Yu Chencheng often likes to win people's hearts with small favors and wants to buy the ** of the "puppet Manchukuo". But Zhang Jinghui looked down on Yu Chencheng's approach, because Zhang Jinghui had a high prestige in the Northeast Army, so in the "puppet Manchukuo", except for Pu Yi, there was no one he wanted to tie up, and he usually only interacted with the Japanese.
After all, Yu Chencheng's qualifications are not as deep as Zhang Jinghui, so he has to talk to the people around him, at that time, the Japanese Kwantung Army sent a Shao Zuo to his side, nominally an adjutant and translator, in fact, to monitor Yu Chencheng. And Yu Chen clarified these things, so he never hid anything in front of the Japanese Shaozo, and often gave him money, so this Japanese Shaozo always said good things about Yu Chencheng at the Kwantung Army Headquarters.
Yu Chencheng was also very good at buying people's hearts, and he often invited the officers of the "puppet Manchukuo" to his house to play cards, and he would deliberately lose some money to the officers, which made the puppet officers have a good impression of him. At that time, in order to control the Northeast, the Japanese did not allow the ** gangs of the "puppet Manchukuo" to form gangs, but in the face of Chencheng's gangs, they also turned a blind eye, because the Japanese knew that Yu Chencheng was a hardcore traitor.
In 1935, Yu Chencheng led a delegation of "puppet Manchukuo" to Japan to visit military exercises, and the Japanese emperor also awarded him a medal, which Yu Chencheng regarded as a lifelong "honor".
In 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Yu Chencheng led his troops to actively suppress the anti-Japanese armed forces in the northeast, and his hands were stained with the blood of anti-Japanese heroes, and he was appointed by the Japanese as the Minister of Public Security of the "Puppet Manchukuo". Although Yu Chencheng was determined to be a traitor and proved it with his actual actions, the Japanese never believed in the traitor, which meant that when Chencheng lost his use value, he was also discarded aside.
At the beginning of 1943, the Japanese exempted Yu Chencheng from all real power, and only gave him the title of pseudo "general" in the name of "superior military merits" and made him a military counselor. Yu Chencheng knew that this was the Japanese unloading the mill and killing the donkey, and he had no choice but to accept it, and later felt that it was not interesting to hold a false position, so he returned to his hometown to retire.
After returning to the field, Yu Chencheng began to concentrate on teaching calligraphy at home, and his handwriting was particularly good, and ordinary calligraphy masters could not compare with him. In addition to practicing calligraphy, Yu Chencheng also likes to listen to operas, often invites opera troupes to sing at home, and lives the life of a landlord and old wealth, the wicked will always have retribution, but the time has not yet come.
In 1945, after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, traitors were being arrested everywhere in the country, Yu Chencheng heard from the radio that the national ** had listed him as a Class A war criminal of "puppet Manchukuo", he was seriously ill after hearing the news, and finally died of illness, so he also escaped the trial.