campaign, major, interwar and Second World War

Northern Expedition

Name: Northern Expedition
Location: People's Republic of China

Northern Expedition was a campaign fought in 1928 at People's Republic of China. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at People's Republic of China. It was part of Warlord Era, which ran from 1916 to 1928.

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Fought1928

WherePeople's Republic of China35.845N, 103.452E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeNationalist government victory; All Chinese warlords accept Nationalist rule of China; Overthrow of the Beiyang government; End of the Warlord Era; Nanjing–Wuhan split; Beginning of the Chinese Civil War

BelligerentsNationalist government; United Front (until April 1927); National Revolutionary Army; Kuomintang; Chinese Communist Party (until 1927); Allied warlord armies (Guominjun, Guangxi, Shanxi army, others); Soviet Union; 23px CominternagainstBeiyang government; National Pacification Army; Fengtian clique; Zhili clique; Empire of Japan

Part ofWarlord Era1916 to 1928

Record

Date	1928 (year precision) to 1928
Place	People's Republic of China 35.845N, 103.452E
Kind	Campaign, interwar and Second World War
Strength	100,000 (July 1926); 264,000 (Dec. 1926); 700,000 (spring 1927); 1,000,000 (1928)	700,000–1,000,000 (1926); 190,000–250,000 (Dec. 1928)
Commanders	Chiang Kai-shek Feng Yuxiang Li Zongren Bai Chongxi He Yingqin Yan Xishan	Zhang Zuolin Zhang Xueliang Zhang Zongchang Yang Yuting (warlord) Wu Peifu Sun Chuanfang

Placed at People's Republic of China; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Jicheng AD 213, 210 km SE
Battle of Jieting AD 228, 247 km E
Battle of Mount Qi AD 231, 304 km SE
Battle of Qi Mountains AD 214, 304 km SE
Battle of Mount Dingjun AD 218, 332 km S

In the same war

Before: Battle of Langfang 1917

Elsewhere in 1928

Northern Expedition is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 448 in present-day China.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q1073476, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Northern Expedition, revision 1384546963, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.