During the reign of the Beiyang government, who were the representatives of the three warlords, and what happened to the warlords?
From 1912 to 1928 for more than ten years, we habitually call it the period of Beiyang warlord rule, also called Beiyang government. As the first Chinese government recognized internationally after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, it was mainly a government organization dominated by the Northern Warlords in the late Qing Dynasty headed by 袁世凯. Since after the death of Yuan Shikai, the first President of the Republic of China, no one had enough ability to command the entire Beiyang army and regime, which led to many warlords establishing their own forces with the province of separation, and all the power of the government at that time was the strongest. Controlled by the warlord.
At that time, the Beiyang warlords were mainly divided into three factions: Zhili, Anhui, and 奉系. Each faction has representatives, and they fought for power. Don’t make contact, whoever has the strong military power will control the government. Then who are the representatives of these three factions and what is the final outcome of the major warlords?
Anhui representative: 段祺瑞
After Yuan Shikai’s death, Duan Qirui served as Chief of the Army and Prime Minister of State successively. 张勋 drove away the then new president Li Yuanhong. When Zhang Xun wanted to restore the Qing Dynasty, he used his army to drive away Zhang Xun to restore the republic, successfully served as prime minister, and began to control the power behind the scenes. In the ninth year of the Republic of China, the two lines of Zhifeng and Feng formed an anti-segment alliance to attack Anhui. The army organized by Duan Qi, the General Secretary of the Anhui Department, and the Zhifeng Department were defeated during the war. The tens of thousands of newly formed frontier defense forces were mostly wiped out, causing the Anhui army to lose its vitality and gradually lose all its territory and withdraw from the stage of history.
Direct representative: Wu Peifu
After the army of the two groups directly broke into Beijing and took over the Nanbeiyuan barracks, Each other began to prepare for the battle for power in Beijing. During the first Zhifeng war, the Zhili warlord with Wu Peifu as the military commander relied on the main force in Luoyang to successfully defeat the Fengshi warlord represented by 张作霖. Since then, the Beijing regime has been directly controlled by the Zhili. . It is said that during the heyday of the Zhili warlord led by Wu Peifu, he had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and controlled the territory of 18 provinces including Zhili, Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan, and Hubei. But in 二次直奉战, he was defeated by Feng Clan and his vitality was greatly injured, and he was finally wiped out by the National Revolutionary Army.
Representatives of the Feng Family: Zhang Zuolin
After Zhang Zuolin as the representative of the Feng Family won the second Zhi-Feng war, successfully driven away After Wu Peifu and 冯玉祥, they successfully mastered the Beiyang government. Zhang Zuolin himself became the supreme ruler of the country and exercised the power on behalf of the Republic of China. In the third direct-to-Feng war, 郭松龄, who commanded Fengjun's third front army, rebelled and almost hit Feng's lair, causing severe damage to Fengjun's vitality. Later, under the siege of the Northern Expedition, it collapsed across the board, and had to take the Beijing-Feng special train to leave Beijing and return to Feng, preparing to retain its vitality and prepare for a comeback. It is a pity that when Zhang Zuolin was travelling on a special train to the intersection of Nanman Road and Jingfeng Road at Huanggutun Station in Shenyang, he was attacked by embedded explosives and was seriously injured. He died on the day he was rescued from Shenyang. Soon after 张学良 accepted the Feng sect, he returned to the Kuomintang government.
