9 jul 1926 ano - Northern Expedition

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Sensing an opportunity, the KMT Government launches the Northern Expedition July 9th. Chiang gave a lecture to 100,000 soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) in a ceremony that was the official commencement of the Northern Expedition. The NRA was set up by cadets trained in the Whampoa Military Academy; its soldiers were better organized than many of the warlord armies they faced due to their military advisers and were equipped with French weapons. In addition, the NRA believed itself a progressive force on behalf of ordinary people, who were persecuted and mistreated by warlords, and the NRA troops did receive a warm welcome and strong support from peasants and workers who had suffered under the brutal rule of the warlords. In addition to this they had the assistance of a number of French military advisers, and a well-respected unit of Red Russian exiles led by the famous Russian General Vasily Blyukher (many Bolsheviks who operated in the far east theatres of the Russian Civil War ended up in the service of either the Guominjun or NRA, although few joined the former after the Anti-Fengtian War). Confident of victory, as the KMT arguably had the best motivated and led military in China at the time, they surged north against the warlord armies of Wu and Sun. Perceiving the expedition as Syndicalist due to French aid, and as a threat to the existing order in China, the concessions garrisons are placed at a heightened state of alert.

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