Allegiance Republic of China Name Wan Fulin Rank General officer | Years of service ?-1945 Died 1951 | |
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Similar People Song Zheyuan, He Yingqin, Chiang Kai‑shek, Sun Lianzhong, Zhang Fakui | ||
Wan Fulin (Chinese: 万福麟; 1880–1951) was the military governor of Heilongjiang province from 1928, and part of the Fengtian clique. On Dec 29th 1928, Wan Fulin along with Zhang Xueliang, son of the late Zhang Zuolin, together with Zhang Zuoxiang, against Japanese threats and coercion, declared in a public wire that the four provinces of Fengtian (Liaoning), Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Rehe would change the flag to that of the Republic of China, and obey the National Government.
During the Mukden Incident he was in Peking, cut off from his province of Heilongjiang, by the Japanese invasion of Liaoning and Jilin provinces. Zhang Xueliang promoted Ma Zhanshan Governor of Heilongjiang Province in his place. After the Northeastern Army retreated from the Japanese-occupied Northeast he commanded its 32nd Corps including the 139th Division at Lengkou Pass during the Defense of the Great Wall in 1933. Afterward Wan Fulin commanded 53rd Corps retained in Northern China while most of the Northeastern Army was sent to Northwestern China to fight the Communists.
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident he sent a brigade to reinforce 29th Corps during the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin. His 53rd Corps also fought in the following Peiking – Hankow Railway Operation and Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation. He commanded the 26th Army in the Battle of Wuhan. During the war he was the chairman of the Liaoning province government in exile and from 1942 to 1945 he was a Member of the National Military Council. He died in 1951.
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