Chinese Forces

Yang Hucheng

nationalist army general Yang Hucheng was a Chinese warlord during the Warlord Era of Republican China and Kuomintang general during the Chinese Civil War. A bandit of unknown origins, Yang Hucheng had become a popular warlord of Shaanxi Province by 1926. Following the defeat of Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan in the Central Plains War of 1930, Yang allied himself with the Kuomintang's Republic of China government becoming commander of the Kuomintang's Northwest Army. Ordered to destroy the newly established Communist Party of China stronghold at Yan'an with Zhang Xueliang's Northeast (Manchuria) Army in 1935, both Yang and Zhang Xueliang were impressed with the Communists' determined defense and fighting capabilities. They were convinced by the Communist proposal for a united Chinese defense against the Japanese invasion of China, he was executed by Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 for joining to the communisty side