Yang Yuting (warlord)
Yang Yuting | |
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Governor of Jiangsu |
Yang Yuting (
Zhang Xueliang
during a political power struggle.
Biography
A native of
Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and served in various military posts in the Beiyang government, and was chief of staff to Zhang Zuolin, the founder of the Fengtian clique, during the First Zhili–Fengtian War of 1922 and the Second Zhili–Fengtian War of 1924. He was governor of Jiangsu Province from August–November 1925. During Guo Songling's uprising against Zhang Zuolin (Anti-Fengtian War), he was forced to retreat to Dalian and seek help from the Japanese Kwantung Army
.
In 1928, after the assassination of Zhang Zuolin in the
Northeast Flag Replacement, which united Manchuria with the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China. He was invited by Zhang to his home to play cards; when he arrived, he was seized and executed by firing squad
on January 10.
Sources
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