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Battle site · China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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Sep–Nov 1924 — Zhili and Fengtian, the north’s two great cliques, fight the era’s biggest war at the pass where the Great Wall meets the sea — perhaps 450,000 men with artillery, aircraft and armored trains. It ends by betrayal, not battle: Feng Yuxiang’s midnight seizure of Beijing. War as business, armies as capital.
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — Warlords and May Fourth in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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