Yang Hucheng

• Yang Hucheng, a general of the Shaanxi Army of the Republic of China. Born as a swordsman, he became the commander-in-chief of the 17th Route Army, a second-level general of the army, and the chairman of Shaanxi Province. Later, he joined forces with Zhang Xueliang to launch the "Xi'an Incident", arrested Chiang Kai-shek and was imprisoned for twelve years. On September 6, 1949, he was killed in the Dai Gong Temple of the Sino-US Cooperation Institute in Chongqing for being the mastermind of the armed mutiny.