19 12, when the Qing emperor abdicated, Yuan Shikai became the president of the Republic of China in Beijing. Opened the Yuan Shikai period. Yuan Shikai has three favorite students: Wang Shizhen, Duan and Feng. These three men are called the Three Heroes of Beiyang, and they are called dragons, tigers and dogs by the people. These last few people will appear, not to mention for a while.

In Yuan Shikai's time, in the northern land, there were two local warlords in the north besides the northern warlords in the central government. They are Zhang in the northeast and Yan Xishan in Shanxi. These two men are still under the control of Yuan Shikai, and their influence is not great, but they later became Feng warlords and Jin warlords respectively.

After talking about the north, look at the land in the south (the territory of the revolutionary party). The south is also the place where new ideas are born. At that time, the south did not show its loyalty to Yuan Dashuai, because it existed independently of the north.

Let's talk about the command of the Yunnan army, namely Cai E, commander-in-chief of Yunnan. Cai E responded to the revolutionary army during the Wuchang Uprising. After the success of the revolution, he naturally became the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan military government. Yunnan is called Dian for short, so Cai E's army was changed to Dian warlord.

In Guangxi, Lu Rongting, who was originally appointed as the prefect by the Qing government, called for counter-revolution. Guangxi is called Guangxi warlord for short. Then Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor and was reviled by Chinese people. The Beiyang generals in the north did not support or express their views.

Not to mention the Southern Revolutionary Party, the local warlord led by Cai E launched the national protection movement. Yuan Shikai soon died in the bristle, and Yuan Shikai's era was over.

2. Anhui period (19 16- 1920)

After Yuan Shikai's death, no one has the ability to unify the rivers and lakes and take charge of the overall situation. Even the northern world is falling apart. At the central level, Li is the president, Duan is the prime minister, and the constitution and parliament have been restored.

But Sun Yat-sen refused to recognize Duan's central government in the south, and then I fought against local warlords and Duan in the southwest. Anhui Duan asked Feng to fight with him at the front, but Feng quit after two battles. So Sun Yat-sen successfully captured Hunan, and the loss of Hunan made Duan very angry and led to the division.

3. Linear period (1920- 1924)

During this period, the direct boss Feng died and Cao Kun became the direct boss. Because he was fed up with Duan Ricky of Anhui, he went to work directly, which was called Anhui Zhanzhi (1924, Xia). Direct generals Wu and Zhang teamed up to besiege the old areas. Duan was defeated. Without guns, there is no regime. Naturally, it is necessary to resign and abdicate, leaving the power of the Beijing government to the direct line and the Feng system.

4. Feng Period (1924- 1927)

At first, the Zhifeng War was a direct victory, but later, Feng Yuxiang, a local warlord in the northwest, defected and supported Zhang, leading to the final victory of the Zhifeng War, which was to control the central government. The reason why the Northern Expedition National Revolutionary Army organized by Sun Yat-sen marched smoothly in the south at this time was because the north was at war and had no time to take care of the south.

Therefore, the Northern Expedition triumphed all the way, and the Northern Expedition won a great victory, basically eliminating the influence of Sun and Wu, and at the same time hitting Zhang.

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The Rise of Chiang Group

Chiang Kai-shek's warlord was the biggest warlord in the twenty years after the Republic of China. Chiang Kai-shek controlled China's political arena for twenty years, relying on the powerful military and political strength of Chiang Kai-shek's warlords, and Chiang Kai-shek was the only warlord force that was not eliminated after the Republic of China. The rise of Chiang Kai-shek warlords can be roughly divided into three stages:

The first stage is from the establishment of Whampoa Military Academy to the victory of the first Northern Expedition, which is the initial stage of the establishment and development of Chiang Kai-shek warlords. After the First Northern Expedition, the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army with Chiang Kai-shek as the main body was established, and Chiang Kai-shek became one of the four warlords of the Kuomintang: Jiang, Feng, Yan and Gui.

The second stage is Nanjing government from 1928 to 1936. During this period, many wars broke out between the new warlords of the Kuomintang, including the Chiang Kai-shek War, the two Chiang Kai-shek wars, the Chiang Kai-shek War, the Jiang-Tang War, the Central Plains War and the Guangdong-Guangxi Incident. The Chiang warlords won a great victory, especially after the Central Plains War, which became the most important decisive force leading the political trend of China at that time.

The third stage is the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. During this period, due to the Japanese invasion, political forces of various factions across the country put aside their differences and joined forces to resist Japan, forming an anti-Japanese national united front including China. Because the Chiang family controlled the government and enjoyed financial and American assistance, while other warlords were pushed to the front by Chiang Kai-shek as cannon fodder, their territory was occupied and their strength was greatly reduced.

Although the Chiang warlords fought actively in the battles and battlefields such as the Sino-Japanese War in Songhu, the Battle of Wuhan, and the battlefield in Myanmar, they did not match their strong strength on the whole, especially after 1938, the Chiang warlords occupied their old nest and responded passively.

By the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, with the help of Chiang Kai-shek's policy of blindly guarding his office and beating people with a knife, the strength of Chiang Kai-shek's warlords reached its peak, and Chiang Kai-shek's warlords mastered the power in most parts of the country, making it as powerful as the Beiyang Military and Political Group when Yuan Shikai was in power.

The difference is that during Yuan Shikai's period, China actually completely unified the Beiyang Army, and Beiyang was the only military and political force in China that controlled the whole of China. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek was an disunited separatist regime in China, and its greatest strength far surpassed that of other separatist warlords in the Republic of China, becoming the most important reactionary enemy in the war of liberation.

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