Those warlords are not only experienced in combat, they are strong and strong, and their people are powerful.
If you don't believe me, tell me the data and listen.
The warlord Wu Peifu of his direct lineage held 200,000 horses and horses in his hands, occupying the xiang'eyu and Shaanxi-Hebei regions; from within the direct lineage, there were also Sun Chuanfang's 200,000 men and horses, occupying the five provinces of Gansu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, and The Soviet Union; and Zhang Zuolin of the Feng clan even had 350,000 people and horses, occupying the northeast region plus the Beijing-Tianjin region.
There are seven hundred and fifty thousand horses in these teams alone, which is not counting other small warlords who occupy a small place and hold a small force, so some people say that the Northern Expeditionary Army is facing a hundred warlord troops, which is really not too exaggerated.
Looking back at the Northern Expeditionary Army, the eight armies were only 100,000 people, occupying a small area of Guangdong.
Seriously, let's not say that the combat experience is not combat experience, let's say that this number is listed together, you will not feel that the Northern Expeditionary Army can win the war, the number is small, not to mention, the territory is still small.
As an afterthought and reading history, we knew the results of the Northern Expedition, but the participants at that time did not know.
Among other things, there were eight armies of the National Revolutionary Army participating in the Northern Expedition at that time, and at the beginning, except for Li Jishen's Fourth Army, whose attitude clearly expressed positive support, the other armies were all negative on their faces, feeling that the Northern Expedition had no results.
In their view, these warlords in Beiyang, this unit has been fighting for many years, well-trained that is needless to say, advanced weapons that are not to mention, after all, they have their own arsenal to build guns, there are land taxes and Britain, France, the United States and Japan these powers behind the support, the flow of funds is not lacking, there is nothing to buy.
Go back and look at the Northern Expeditionary Army.
When the Whampoa Military Academy was built, a piece of land was built, and the cadets lost their clothes. When Guangzhou arrived at the military factory, Dr. Sun Yat-sen went down one by one and asked the military factory to send three hundred guns to the students of the Whampoa Military Academy for daily training.
Do you know the result? The military factory gave thirty, and that was it? What's enough to summon? Just enough for the trainees to stand guard and put on the sentry, but also training?
Seriously, this is not a question of whether it is enough to summon, through the phenomenon to see the essence of the military factory will not listen to you at all, similar to such a unit, do you feel that you will listen?
So who does this arsenal listen to? He listened to the foreign warlords in Guangzhou.
You see that all the units with a little strength he does not support you, so is the money enough to summon? As far as a name is concerned, what money is not money is simply not enough to make a call.
You don't know what the shortage of funds in the early days of the Whampoa Military Academy was, and the cadets began to enter the school to study, and three meals a day were tense.
I ate tonight, and I don't know where the money for tomorrow morning's meal is. This is not what the editor said, the historical data said so.
If you want to get more funds, it depends on Liao Zhongkai, the minister of finance, to go to the warlords in Guangzhou to beg for it.
People were lying on the bed and sucking up the big smoke bubbles, so they had the kung fu to take care of Liao Zhongkai, who was standing in front of the bed, and in a few hours, he gave thousands of oceans, and he was not happy, not a single one.
You say, that's really called a penny to the hero!
With Liao Zhongkai busy before and after, the students of the Whampoa Military Academy did not stop cooking.
Therefore, Liao Zhongkai was known as the commander of the party army and the loving mother of the Whampoa Military Academy, to tell the truth, Liao Zhongkai's prestige was much higher than Chiang Kai-shek's, but later Liao Zhongkai died in assassination.
That's a bit of a stretch, so let's move on.
So how did the Whampoa Military Academy grow? After all, there is no money, how easy is it to want to grow?
Later, the Soviet Union gave support to the Kuomintang and made several appropriations to the Whampoa Military Academy, totaling 2.5 million rubles.
With this money, the Whampoa Military Academy turned around. At that time, the Soviet Union not only gave money, but also gave a lot of ammunition, and for the first time it transported more than 8,000 rifles, all with bayonets and bullets.
The second time there were not only twenty thousand rifles, but also a hundred machine guns, and bullet grenades were also transported along with one piece. There have been several such supports.
With this support, the base area of Guangdong was only laid down, otherwise even Guangzhou would not be able to go out.
After the cannons, the sabers were all transported.
You see that you want money without money, and you want guns without guns, so some people unconsciously feel that the Northern Expedition is impossible, and it is understandable.
This is coupled with the praise of the great powers, and if we don't say anything else, let's say that the Americans touted Wu Peifu on the cover of Time magazine two years before the Northern Expedition, saying that wu Peifu was the one who was most likely to unify China.
So at that time, the Northern Expeditionary Army could be said to have no one (just 100,000), no equipment, no money, you say why did you win in the end? In just two years, the task objectives of the Northern Expedition were completed.
Then we must chew this matter to understand, we had better follow the matter of the Northern Expedition, and give the big guys a good cover, you will understand.
It is said that in January 1924, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated for the first time. Then in June, the Whampoa Military Academy was created in preparation for the formation of a revolutionary army.
The purpose of forming the revolutionary army was actually for the Northern Expedition, so in September, we saw Dr. Sun Yat-sen issue the Northern Expedition Declaration.
And after that, he also organized a team to go north to Shaoguan. Everyone knows the result, Mr. Sun Yat-sen actually organized the Northern Expedition many times, but these few Northern Expeditions have not been successfully organized for many reasons.
In 1925, it was only then that two more crusades were waged against the warlord Chen Jiongming, who was entrenched in eastern Guangdong.
These two crusades were called the Eastern Crusades, and at that time Chen Jiongming was supported by the British and the Beiyang warlord Duan Qirui, so if you don't crusade against Chen Jiongming, he still wants to attack Guangzhou?
After the end of the Crusade, this was another southern expedition, which lasted for four months, until February 1926, with the aim of attacking the warlord Deng Benyin in the southwest of Guangdong.
Then, with this Eastern Expedition and the Southern Expedition, the National Revolutionary Army had a basic plan and brought Guangdong into the National Revolutionary Army's sphere of influence.
This is the strength of the Northern Expedition, without the place of Guangdong, there would be no heels, to fight the 750,000 Beiyang warlords, basically impossible.
Then, just after the first anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's death, that is, in July 1926, the Northern Expedition began.
The Northern Expedition could not be started at once, and there was another process in between.
In January 1926, the Kuomintang held its Second National Congress, at which it put forward a program for overthrowing the warlords, overthrowing imperialism, and unifying all of China.
This set a goal for the Northern Expedition, a fundamental strategic objective. Then in February, the Northern Expedition entered the preparatory stage.
On June 5, the Provisional Plenary Session of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee finalized the Plan for the Northern Expedition.
At this point in time, a contingent with the teachers and students of the Whampoa Military Academy as the backbone was established and organized into the National Revolutionary Army.
Why? The Northern Expedition should actually be divided into two periods.
The first phase began in July 1926 and ended in June 1927, which was the Northern Expedition of kuomintang-communist cooperation.
After that, the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation ended, because Chiang Kai-shek saw that the victory of the Northern Expedition was in sight, seized the fruits of victory, and launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, killing not only the butcher knife to the Communist Party, but also to the left wing of the Kuomintang, which was called the Qing Party.
After the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, the Kuomintang's grass-roots organizations were basically paralyzed.
You don't know that before Chiang Kai-shek carried out the so-called Purge of the Party, there were 1.21 million ordinary members of the Kuomintang, not including military and political circles and overseas party members.
One year after Chiang Kai-shek's purges, there were only 220,000 Kuomintang members left, the vast majority of whom were military and political personnel. This is equivalent to a major change of the entire System of the Kuomintang.
The Kuomintang can basically only be seen in the major cities, and it must be at the top, and as for the most basic rural areas in China, don't think about it, and even the Party department established by the Kuomintang in the counties accounts for only 17% of the country.
This was what happened in the middle of the two Northern Expeditions.
The second period was from April to September 1928, when Chiang Kai-shek joined forces with Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren, four powerful factions of the Kuomintang, in a crusade against Zhang Zuolin.
These two time periods are called the Northern Expedition, but the impression of the big guys should be more of the first phase of the Northern Expedition.
The subject's question
As we said earlier, before the start of the first phase of the Northern Expedition, the other armies of the six armies, except for Li Jishen's Fourth Army, still had scruples about this battle.
The change was in the battle of The Ye Ting Independent Regiment from Guangdong to Xiang, and this time the battle was fought in a mighty battle to conquer Youxian County, and the Ye Ting Independent Regiment defeated four times the enemy with a regimental strength.
This battle has stabilized the entire hunan war situation.
This can be said to be the first victory.
Of course, this point in time was on June 5, 1926, when Guangzhou had not yet sworn to the Northern Expedition, that is to say, the Northern Expedition had not really begun.
Therefore, this battle is equivalent to a shot in the arm, making people realize that the troops fighting the Beiyang warlords are not invincible.
Moreover, the battle to conquer Youxian also contained Wu Peifu, who was preparing to go south, and we will not say anything about other troops, at that time, the troops of the Fourth Army followed Ye Ting's independent regiment into Xiangxiang, but they did not all enter it?
Ye Ting's independent regiment held a position in Youxian County, covering the assembly of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
Why? The Ye Ting Independent Regiment was the first regular army led by the Communist Party of China, and most of the cadres above the level were Communists, and during the entire Northern Expedition, the casualties of an independent regiment alone reached 1,000 people, and the number of casualties was more than 600.
You must know that the entire Ye Ting Independent Regiment, the whole regiment is only more than 2,100 people, which is half lost.
Why not call it the Iron Army?
Speaking of this, it is estimated that there are small partners to say: "Why do you say that Ye Ting is independent?" This doesn't seem to fit in with the problem! ”
In fact, what Xiaobian wants to tell the big guys is that the Northern Expedition you don't look at the small number of people, that is, 100,000, but these people are all faith-oriented, and they all want to change the face of this country.
This belief is several levels higher than killing people, guns, and money.
And, more importantly, this faith serves the masses. What is Volkswagen? It is the common people, the ordinary people all over the world, and the beiyang warlords who have more people, does he have more ordinary people?
So do you think the Northern Expedition was a hundred thousand people? No! In fact, this is put aside to the number of people on the surface, the peasants who participated in the Northern Expedition, and how many workers there were.
In 1924, before the Northern Expedition began, the Guangdong merchant group rebelled. At that time, in order to defend the revolutionary government of Guangdong, more than 200 trainees of the Second Peasant Movement Training Institute formed the Guangdong Peasant Regiment Army, which served as a guard for the Guangzhou Provincial Bureau and also participated in counterinsurgency.
The peasants of the First Crusade not only served as guides and reconnaissance to the revolutionary army, but also carried stretchers and transported grain and ammunition.
The peasant self-defense army annihilated the enemy by four hundred and captured a large number of firearms.
In June 1925, the Crusade was still fighting? Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan, who were mixed in the ranks, launched a rebellion, and it was the Peasant Self-Defense Army that assisted the Nationalist government in suppressing the rebellion.
A convoy of more than three thousand people helped the Crusaders to return to reinforcements.
During the second crusade against Chen Jiongming, the peasants and peasant self-defense forces in Lufeng County surrounded Chen Jiongming's troops of more than 3,000 people, and the frightened gang shrank and did not dare to move.
Turning face, the Northern Expedition began, and tens of thousands of peasant self-defense troops and ordinary people took the initiative to serve as transport teams, health teams, propaganda teams and teams.
In July 1926, when the Ye Ting Independent Regiment attacked the Liling Sifen Bridge, the enemy destroyed all the ships and blocked the bridge with machine guns, and the battle was extremely fierce.
The Peasants' Self-Defense Army attacked the enemy's positions directly with shotguns and darts.
By August 21, when the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Pingjiang, some of the local peasant self-defense forces did not even have darts, but charged with hoes and these agricultural tools.
The first attack on Nanchang in September, the peasants guided the enemy's rear road to crush the opponent, the second attack on Nanchang was when the peasant self-defense army led the troops to climb into the city from the ditch and break through the Desheng Gate.
You see, the revolutionary army of the Northern Expedition has ordinary people to help everywhere, do you think that 100,000 Northern Expedition soldiers are fighting? Wrong, the Beiyang warlord is fighting with the people of the whole country, and he has the reason to be undefeated.
To give you another list of data, 50,000 peasant armed forces in western Henan fought against the enemy Zhang Kang, and hundreds of thousands of peasant armed forces in Henan cooperated with the Northern Expeditionary Army to attack various places to help crush the Beiyang warlords.
The Xiangtan peasants armed more than 10,000 people and attacked Xu Kexiang, and you should have heard of the peasant army besieging Changsha, which happened during the Northern Expedition.
On the contrary, look at the Beiyang warlords, these people seem to be strong and strong, but if they are rootless, the water without a source, the wood without a root, is it long-lasting?
The Beiyang warlords were unpopular at this point in time. Why?
After Yuan Shikai's restoration and illness and death, the beiyang warlords divided into too many factions, large and small, in order to expand their power, they fought with each other in the sky, do the common people have a good life?
And their rule is to protect their own interests, the darkness in the middle does not need to be said by the editor, what kind of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are only you can't imagine.
Then ending the rule of the Beiyang warlords is not only the purpose of the revolutionary army, but also the purpose of the common people.
You say, if you count it this way, there are more people on that side? Fighting wars pays attention to the advantages of heaven and place, and the people of heaven and time are on the side of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the geographical advantages are also familiar to the common people!
So we saw that the 100,000 Northern Expeditionary Army at the beginning gradually grew larger in the war, and finally developed into more than 40 armies and nearly a million people.
It took a year to basically eliminate Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang's troops, and severely damage Zhang Zuolin's troops.
After the end of the first phase of the Northern Expedition, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists broke down.
The Second Northern Expedition you see is different from the previous one.
As we said earlier, after Chiang Kai-shek's qing party passed, the Kuomintang has changed a lot, and the Kuomintang at the grass-roots level has disappeared.
Then the direction of his action also changed, which led to a joint Northern Expedition with Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren.
Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek also began to seek the support of the great powers, such as contact with the japanese admiral, meeting with the Japanese consul general in Jiujiang, Chitaro Edo, and contacting people from the Japanese military department.
In addition to contact with Japan, Chiang Kai-shek also established contacts with the Americans through channels, in addition to which he also made contacts with Britain, France, and Italy.
This is Chiang Kai-shek colluding with imperialism.
Of course, the source of wealth must be stable, after all, in collusion with imperialism, which recognizes interests as the various unequal treaties that have preceded it, and these treaties involve various interests and debts.
Therefore, we have seen the connection between Chiang Kai-shek and the chaebols of the north and the south, especially the chaebols of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which have strong economic strength.
A huge sum of money was thus funded to Chiang Kai-shek's body, of course, this money was not funded in vain.
So we have seen in history that the Shanghai Federation first pledged five million, and then advanced three million, and even Rong Zongjing of the Shanghai cotton spinning industry said that as much money as he wants, he will give as much as he wants, which is only part of it.
Later, he accepted the gang.
At this time, the Kuomintang was already different from the previous one.
This is also why there are four joint northern expeditions.
After the end of the Northern Expedition, the four of them fought again.
The old warlords were defeated, and new warlords appeared, after all, out of touch with the popular will.
After that, Chiang Kai-shek began his army reorganization, and this whole was not successfully concluded until he was defeated and retreated.
Therefore, the reason why the Northern Expedition was able to win was the desire of the people. In fact, why not the War of Liberation? If nothing else, before the Battle of Huaihai, not to mention the Kuomintang, even the People's Liberation Army that launched the campaign did not dare to take the Battle of Huaihai with a vote.
That's not just a gap in the number of troops, it's also a huge gap in armaments.
However, the Battle of Huaihai was pushed out and carried out by the common people with their carts and shoulders.
There are only a few hundred thousand plasters fighting on the front line, but there are millions of ordinary people who cannot stand the support of the rear.
There are more people than people, who has more people? Experienced, where there is faith to come from the strong.
Xiaobian gave you a set of data, Huangpu Phase V graduates a total of 7,000 people, but the number of sacrifices is 3,000, nearly half ah!
The first class of graduates was five hundred and ninety-two, but the number of casualties was three hundred, more than half of the casualties.
In the second period, there were 454 people, and the number of casualties reached 200.
In the third period, 1,259 people were killed, and the number of casualties reached 500.
Of the four periods of two thousand six hundred and fifty-one men, seven hundred were killed.
In the fifth period, there were 1,989 people, and the number of casualties was 300.
In the face of faith, what death counts is only the beginning of the good life of the common people!
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Whampoa Military Academy had 200,000 graduates, but 190,000 were killed.
In the face of these people, you have to ask, if you can do it all over again, what is their choice? I believe that their choice is still the same, magge shrouded corpse died on the battlefield. For the sake of faith, there is only one death!