Traitor Ye PengFu Fa, begging for the execution to be on time, and not wanting to be called a traitor after death
In 1947, Ye Peng, who was once known as "the most military-savvy traitor in Wang's puppet". During the interrogation, Ye Peng always insisted that he was a "heroic war fighter" and hoped that he would not be reported as a "traitor".
This Ye Peng, who once served in the Wuhan Garrison Command and later became the Minister of the Army, is he a "traitor"?
Revolutionary martyr Ye Peng, originally from Huangpi, Hubei, joined the revolution at the age of ten at the time of the Wuchang Uprising, and joined the student army with the ideal of "creating a republic". After the peace negotiation, he entered the Hubei Army Primary School to study military affairs, and later promoted to the Baoding Military Academy and became a professional officer.
He worked as a teacher at the Guanzuo Children's School, but soon realized that he was more suitable for a military career, so he switched to Wang Zhanyuan's army, and successively served as a battalion commander, military instructor, and prison warden.
However, for several years, he has never been promoted to an official position above the regimental commander, which makes him feel a little anxious.
Fortunately for Wang Zhanyuan, his division commander Xia Douyin was promoted by Chiang Kai-shek, and Ye Peng was also promoted as a result, and with his efforts, he eventually became a staff officer of the Wuhan Garrison Command.
Since then, Ye Peng has been intoxicated with the power of the first, and he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy He Yingqin, and was successfully promoted to the commander of the Wuhan garrison, realizing the leap from a school officer to a general.
However, before Ye Peng's position was secured, Chiang Kai-shek began to purge the local **, and Xia Douyin was removed and replaced by Chiang Kai-shek's confidant Zhang Qun.
Zhang Qun is Chiang Kai-shek's sworn brother and has always been a loyal follower of Chiang Kai-shek, and this time he came to Hubei with Chiang Kai-shek's "Shangfang Sword". However, what Zhang Qun didn't expect was that at the reception party to welcome him, he was made a big fuss, and one of them was Ye Peng.
Not long ago, a hole was dug in the courtyard wall of the patriarch Kong Geng by two thieves, stealing a large amount of treasure left by the previous owner. On the way to escape, the patrol force sent by Ye Peng caught them.
Because they both wanted to obtain this batch of treasures, Kong Geng and Ye Canopy had a conflict. Ye Peng held the power of the army, and Kong Geng was powerless to fight with it, so he held a grudge. At a drinking party, Kong Geng used his status as a veteran to accuse Ye Peng of ***
Ye Peng also fought-for-tat, accusing Kong Geng of stealing and stealing with the intention of encroaching on domestic production. Zhang Qun came with Chiang Kai-shek's intention of "cutting the feudal domain", and he took advantage of this opportunity to publicly reprimand Ye Peng in front of everyone.
Although the turmoil has temporarily subsided under the persuasion of everyone, the contradiction between Ye Peng and Zhang Qun has already laid the fuse.
Zhang Qun cleared the obstacles for the Japanese invaders and dismissed the anti-Japanese war soldier Ye Peng from his official post Ye Peng carefully held an air defense exercise targeting the Japanese army to express the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Chinese people.
The results of the exercise were excellent, and the crowd at the scene chanted anti-Japanese slogans. However, this move caused dissatisfaction among the Japanese ambassadors present, and they sued Ye Peng to Zhang Qun and the people.
As a pro-Japanese faction who returned from studying in Japan, Zhang Qun took the opportunity to remove Ye Peng from all official positions, clearing an obstacle for the Japanese invaders.
Ye Peng was injured by Zhang Qun and vowed to take revenge. He became a member of the Fuxing Society by bribing the secretary of the Blue Coat Society, and became the chief of the railway police department.
At this time, the leaders of the Fuxing Society were at odds with Zhang Qun, so Ye Peng took the lead in organizing an assassination operation against Zhang Qun. However, Zhang Qun's life did not deserve to die, and the spies of the Fuxing Society jammed the bullet during the assassination and were captured on the spot.
After interrogation, the spy confessed to instructing Ye Peng behind the scenes. This incident angered Zhang Qun, and Lao Jiang also scolded him, and directly pushed Ye Peng's official position to the end and removed him from his post for investigation.
However, there was also the Fuxing Society behind the leaf canopy, and the Fuxing Society found Zhang Qun through Wang Jingwei, and let Zhang Qun no longer pursue it under both soft and hard measures, so Ye Canopy saved his life.
Ye Peng's official luck was not good, he was forced to resign from the post of deputy division commander of the garrison force, and he failed in business in Hong Kong, and felt very difficult. At this time, he met Zhou Fohai, a traitor who took refuge in Japan, who was searching for talents for Wang Jingwei's pseudo-**.
Ye Peng's professional background and frustrated army general experience are in line with the needs of Wang Pseudo**.
Ye Peng was very excited about Wang Jingwei's defection to Japan, and he immediately ran to Hanoi to find Wang Jingwei, expressing his gratitude for saving his life, and saying that he would do his best to help Wang Jingwei become a leader like Sun Yat-sen.
He promised that he would serve as a loyal supporter of Wang Jingwei, and be responsible for protecting Wang Jingwei and his wife and Wang Puppet's army building. However, when the negotiations between Japan** and Wang Puppet** reached an impasse, Chen Bijun was worried about Wang Jingwei's safety, so he found Ye Peng, hoping that he could protect Wang Jingwei and others to flee to Guangzhou.
However, the leaf canopy said that the difficulty and risk of the task were too great to accept. This once talkative man has now become a timid and cowardly softie.
In 1940, Wang Puppet ** was established in Nanjing with the support of the Japanese army, and Ye Peng entered the political arena again as a member of the ** committee, the director of education of the army school, and a member of the military committee.
As a thief, he once went to Japan to give a lecture tour on behalf of Wang Puppet ** as the Minister of the Army, and vigorously advocated pro-Japanese and flattering remarks; He also returned to Hubei as a security commander.
He not only maintained law and order for Wang Puppet** and sent heavy troops to attack Chen Cheng's Sixth Route Army, but also cultivated a large number of puppet soldiers and puppet police as the chief of education of the Army Military Academy, providing support for Wang Puppet**'s rule.
Ye Peng's high position and power in the Wang puppet regime made him like a fish in water, fame and fortune, and he had obtained a lot of assets from various channels such as **, military spending, and disaster relief, and he may have never been so satisfied.
However, after Japan's defeat in 1944, Wang Jingwei died of illness, the puppet regime changed hands, and Ye Peng lost his backer and was soon marginalized. In order to make ends meet, he began to brazenly loot money and buy and sell tobacco.
In order to find a way out as soon as possible, Ye Peng secretly contacted Chiang Kai-shek again. Chiang Kai-shek was also plotting to snatch the fruits of victory and collude with the puppet forces. The two had the same idea, so Chiang Kai-shek secretly appointed Ye Peng as the "commander-in-chief of the new Seventh Route Army".
Ye Peng was overjoyed after receiving the appointment, thinking that his official road would continue. However, reality played a big joke on him, and just as he was about to take office, Japan announced its surrender.
Ye Peng hurriedly arranged for the plane to fly back to Wuhan. At this time, Zou Pingfan, the commander of the puppet 29th Army, under the persuasion of Hu Lancheng, announced his separation from the puppet **, and Wuhan declared "independence" and waited for the reception of the people.
After Zou Pingfan's announcement, the surrounding puppet armies also followed suit and announced their separation from the puppet regime.
Ye Peng was appointed commander by Chiang Kai-shek, but he had no soldiers or horses in his hands. His identity became awkward, and he became a "bare-pole commander", and he also lost his usefulness.
In 1945, Guo Xin came to Wuhan as a receiver and received the property and personnel of the puppet **, including the former puppet ** general Ye Peng, who was still commanding there.
At the end of 1945, Ye Peng was transferred from his Shanghai residence to the Judge Advocate General's Office, and it was then that he realized that he had been "played" by Chiang Kai-shek.
Ye Peng was still pretentious at the interrogation, claiming that he was the commander-in-chief personally appointed by Chairman Chiang, and that he was one"Resolutely resist Japan"of people. He repeatedly emphasized that his determination to resist Japan was well known, and stressed that he was forced to go to the pseudo-**.
He also specifically instructed reporters not to call him a traitor, nor to use the name traitor in their reports. However, Ye Peng did not know that his former puppet army had attacked Chen Cheng, and Chen Cheng had already written a complaint about him and submitted it to Chiang Kai-shek through Zhang Qun.
Of course, Chiang Kai-shek would not admit to having ever issued a commission to a traitor, so he signed Ye Peng's indictment and sentenced him to death for treason. On September 18, 1947, Ye Peng was dragged to the execution ground and became one of the first traitors to be executed after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
When Chairman Jiang walked to the execution ground, Ye Peng, the once powerful "commander", turned to the executioners and pleaded, "Please be punctual, clean and neat, please." ”
After the gunshot, the bullet entered through the back, passed through the right lung, and then flew out of the front chest, and the life of the leaf canopy ended. Ye Peng, who was once full of thoughts about "getting promoted and getting rich", did not hesitate to leave his family and nation, and was willing to be a traitor, and finally came to the end of his life.
In fact, history once gave Ye Peng a chance, if he could stick to the original intention of the revolution, he might still be an outstanding general; If he had been brave enough to protect Wang Jingwei and his wife back in Guangzhou, then perhaps there would have been no Wang puppet regime, and he might have become a hero of the country.
But Ye Canopy, who was bewitched by fame and fortune, did not seize this opportunity. Maybe this is the arrangement of fate, who would have thought that the once enthusiastic young man would become a big traitor who was willing to degenerate?
References include Zhou Wenliang "** Reporter Witnesses the Last Moment of Wang Wei's Traitor", "Ye Peng: From Anti-Japanese Pioneer to Military Traitor" Wang Xiaohua, and "Analysis of the Phenomenon of Wang Pseudo-Traitor during the Anti-Japanese War" Xiong Xiaowei.