Education
Imperial Japanese Army Academy.
杨宇霆, 楊宇霆
Imperial Japanese Army Academy.
He was executed by Zhang Xueliang during a political power struggle. Yang was a native of Shengyang, and was sent to Japan in 1904 to study at the Tokyo Shimbu Gakko, a military preparatory school, by the Qing government. He continued on for training at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, with a specialty in artillery.
He returned to China after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, and served in various military posts in the Beiyang government and was chief-of-staff for Zhang Zuolin during the 1924 First Zhili–Fengtian War and in the 1925 Second Zhili–Fengtian War.
He was governor of Jiangsu Province from August–November 1925. During the revolt of Guo Songling against Zhang Zuolin, he was forced to withdraw to Dalian and seek assistance from the Japanese Kwantung Army.
In 1928, after Zhang Zuolin was assassinated in the Huanggutun Incident, Yang came increasing into conflict with Zang Zoulin’s son Zhang Xueliang.
He was especially opposed to the Northeast Flag Replacement unifying Manchuria with the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China, and was arrested in July 1929 and was shot by a firing squad.