The Chinese Situation At The Beginning Of The Nationalists’ Northern Expedition

The Chinese Revolution

In the lead up to Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition, both the KMT's Hu Hanmin and the Christian General Feng Yuxiang were in Moscow. Hu sought admission by the KMT to the Comintern as China's representative. Feng was seeking weapons and engineers for his National People's Army.

Both returned deeply skeptical about the Soviet Union and its intentions towards China.

The USSR wanted an alliance with a northern warlord to bolster its interests in Mongolia and Manchuria. For two years, the Christian Warlord and the atheist Soviets formed an awkward alliance. It wouldn't work out for the Communists, but Feng would end up helping Chiang's Northern Expedition. Chiang needed all the help he could get. The Nationalist's Army was only one-tenth the size of the combined forces of the other armies on the eve of the Northern Expedition.

Image: "Kenraali Feng Yuxiang (1882 - 1948) (Fung Yu Hsiang) telttansa edessä" is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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