Yao Zhenshan

Who was Yao Zhenshan?

Yao Zhenshan was a Chinese soldier and the leader of the anti-Japanese army force in the resistance to the Pacification of Manchukuo.

Before the Mukden Incident, Yao was a captain commanding a company in the Third Battalion, 676th Regiment, 27th Brigade of the Kirin Provincial Army. Following the invasion of Manchuria he joined Wang Delin's Chinese People's National Salvation Army.

After the Army of Wang Delin was defeated and retreated from Manchukuo, Yao Zhenshan remained behind in eastern Kirin province. The National Salvation Army's acting Commander-in-Chief, Wu Yicheng, soon appointed him brigade commander. He led it on various expeditions, and coordinated with other anti-Japanese forces in harassing the Japanese. In 1934 he was made one of the three First Corps commanders of the in the National Salvation Army. He later cooperated with the 2nd Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army in the war against Japanese and their Manchukuoan armies.

Following Yao's death in battle in 1938, the wife of Kong Xianrong, another of Wang Delin's subordinates, led the small band of his remaining forces, which continued to fight until the spring of 1941, when the group was annihilated.