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Feng Yuxiang
Feng Yuxiang
(; ; 6 November 1882 – 1 September 1948) was a
warlord
and leader in
Republican China
from
Chaohu
,
Anhui
. He served as
Vice Premier of the Republic of China
from 1928 to 1930. He was also known as the
Christian General
for his zeal to convert his troops and the
Betrayal General
for his penchant to break with the establishment. In 1911, he was an officer in the ranks of
Yuan Shikai
's
Beiyang Army
but joined forces with
revolutionaries
against the
Qing Dynasty
. He rose to high rank within
Wu Peifu
's
Zhili warlord faction
but launched the
Beijing coup
in 1924 that knocked Zhili out of power and brought
Sun Yat-sen
to Beijing. He joined the
Nationalist Party (KMT)
, supported the
Northern Expedition
and became blood brothers with
Chiang Kai-shek
, but resisted Chiang's consolidation of power in the
Central Plains War
, and broke with Chiang again in resisting Japanese incursions in 1933. He spent his later years supporting the
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
.
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