Analysis:

The Northern Expedition was divided into three battlefields: Hunan and Hubei were the main battlefields.

1. Ye Ting went north to Shaoguan, kicking off the Northern Expedition.

1926 In March, Tang Shengzhi, the former warlord of Hunan Province, expelled Zhao Hengti, who obeyed the direct warlord, acting as the governor of Hunan Province, and declared his support for the leadership of Cantonese. In April, Wu Jun attacked Changsha, and Tang Shengzhi was forced to retreat to Hengyang, asking Guangdong and Guangxi for help. In order to relieve the threat of direct warlords, Guangdong people decided to make Tang Shengzhi the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army and send revolutionary troops to the north to help. In May, the Ye Ting Independent Regiment, the fourth army of the National Revolutionary Army, first entered Hunan via Shaoguan, which started the Northern Expedition.

2. Decisive victory on the battlefield between the two lakes.

On June 4th, the Central Committee of * * * officially passed the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, and the next day, Chiang Kai-shek was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition Army. 1 year in July, the national * * * issued the declaration of the northern expedition. On July 9, the National Revolutionary Army took an oath in Guangzhou, and the Northern Expedition officially began.

At the beginning of the Northern Expedition War, the Northern Expedition Army * * had eight armies with about 65,438+10,000 people. Except for Li, the chief of staff, who led his troops to stay in Guangdong and Guangxi, all other ministries began the Northern Expedition. The operational plan of the Northern Expeditionary Army is based on the situation that the enemy is outnumbered and there are many contradictions among warlords, and adopts the strategic policy of "concentrating forces and dividing them one by one". According to the suggestion of the Soviet military adviser, the policy of "strike Wu first, then sun, then Zhang" was drawn up, and it was decided to March with the lake first, concentrate troops and destroy the direct warlord Wu. So at the beginning of the Northern Expedition, the battlefield in Hunan was the main direction.

At that time, the Northern Expeditionary Army took Ye Ting Independent Regiment as the pioneer and went straight into Hunan and Hubei. In July, the Northern Expeditionary Army conquered Changsha and occupied Yueyang in August, and then won the battles of Dingsi Bridge and Heshengqiao, thus defeating the main force of Wu. In September, Hankou and Hanyang were recovered. 65438+1October 10 invaded Wuchang, basically wiped out Wu's reactionary army and won a decisive victory on the battlefield between the two lakes.

3. Jiangxi battlefield also won.

After the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Wuhan, Sun Zhuli, who was entrenched in Jiangxi, attacked the revolutionary troops in Changsha and Wuhan in two ways. In order to relieve Sun's worries and extermination, the main battlefield of the Northern Expedition turned to Jiangxi. 165438+ 10, the northern expeditionary army conquered Jiujiang, occupied Nanchang, and finally annihilated Sun's 65438+ 10,000 elite troops. The Northern Expeditionary Army also won the battle of Jiangxi. Subsequently, the Northern Expeditionary Army marched eastward along the Yangtze River and captured Nanjing on March 24th. 1927.

4. Fujian and Zhejiang battlefields won without fighting.

The victory of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Jiangxi turned the enemy of Fujian and Zhejiang into a frightened bird. 1926 12. Fuzhou was captured by the northern expeditionary army of Donglu, and then the whole province of Fujian was occupied. /kloc-0 launched the Zhejiang campaign in February, 927, and/kloc-0 occupied Hangzhou in March, approaching Shanghai. At this time, the third armed uprising of Shanghai workers was successful, and the Northern Expeditionary Army was able to enter Shanghai smoothly. The Northern Expedition was a great victory.

Feng Yuxiang swore an oath to Wuyuan.

In the process of the Northern Expedition, with the help of * * * and others, Feng Yuxiang took the oath of office in Wuyuan, Suiyuan, on September 1926, and announced his participation in the national revolution. /kloc-at the end of 0/926, Buffon occupied Shaanxi and then attacked Henan with the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Six months later, the Northern Expeditionary Army disintegrated hundreds of thousands of counter-revolutionary armed forces such as Wu and Sun, occupied all or most of Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, pushed the revolution from the Pearl River basin to the Yangtze River basin, and greatly shook the rule of imperialism and its lackeys, the Northern Warlords, in China.