Feng Zhanhai Feng Zhanhai or Feng Chan - hai , 冯占海 , ( 1899 – 1963 ) , was one of the leaders of the volunteer armies resisting the Japanese and the puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria . Feng was born on November 6 , 1899 . At eighteen he joined the Dongbei Army , and later entered a military school graduating in 1921 . After he graduated , he was successively a platoon leader , company commander , and battalion commander . At the time of the Mukden Incident and invasion of Manchuria he was a colonel commanding a regiment of the Kirin Guards Division . After the Mukden Incident , he opposed the Northeast border defense headquarters surrender to the Japanese forces , and commanded his troops on September 19 to withdraw from the Kirin provincial capital , and sent his troops during October to oppose the Japanese , fighting near Binxian . In at the end of January , 1932 , Feng joined Ting Chao , Li Du , Xing Zhanqing , Zhao Yi to form the Jilin Self - Defence Army , and was chosen for assistant deputy commander and commanded troops in the defense of Harbin . After Ting ' s beaten forces retired from Harbin to the northeast down the Sungari River , to join the Lower Sungari garrison of Gen . Li Du . Feng Zhanhai withdrew his forces to Shan - Ho - Tun , a village in the Wuchang District . He then called for volunteers , and the Public Safety Bureaus in the local districts turned over to them their police and militia , and established Feng as the General in command of a force , the Northeastern Loyal and Brave Army , of 15 , 000 men in the hills with the capital of Kirin City to his south and the metropolis of Harbin to his north . There he was able to wreak havoc on the Japanese rail communications on the Chinese Eastern Railway running through his area of control . In response the Japanese and Manchukoans launched two campaigns to clear Feng ' s force out of the countryside . From June to July 1932 the Feng Chan - hai Subjugation Operation cleared the districts of Shuangcheng , Acheng , Yushu , Wuchang , and Shulan of Feng ' s Anti - Japanese forces . This forced Feng to retreat to the west . In September 1932 during the Second Feng Chan - hai Subjugation Operation a force of 7 , 000 Manchukuoans cornered the now 10 , 000 men Volunteer force " bandits " of Feng retreating from the previous attack . Although surrounded , over half the guerrillas were able to slip through the encirclement and make good their escape to Jehol . Later Feng ' s force joined in opposing the invasion of Jehol , and was forced to draw back into the area inside the Great Wall . Subsequently he participated in Feng Yuxiang ' s Chahar People ' s Anti - Japanese Army , as its Fourth Route Army commander in chief , against Japan and their Manchukuoan allied forces in the Dolonor area of Chahar . Following the dispersal of that force by Chiang Kai - shek , his force was formed into the 91st Division which Feng commanded until July 1938 when the Division suffered heavy casualties during the battle of Wuhan . He later left the army and went to Hong Kong to engage in business . In 1949 he returned to China assuming directorship of the Jilin Provincial Sports Committee . He also served in various government offices . Feng died on September 14 , 1963 .