New Guangxi clique
historical warlord clique in China
The New Guangxi clique (Chinese: 新桂系; pinyin: Xīn Guìxì), led by Li Zongren, Huang Shaohong, and Bai Chongxi, was a warlord clique during the Republic of China. After the founding of the Republic, Guangxi served as the base for the Old Guangxi clique, one of the most powerful warlord cliques of China. In the early 1920s, the Guangdong–Guangxi War saw the pro-Kuomintang New Guangxi clique replace the Old clique.
Lu Rongting and the Yue-Gui Wars
In 1920, Chen Jiongming drove Lu Rongting and the Old Guangxi clique out of Guangdong in the First Yue-Gui War. In 1921, Chen pushed into Guangxi, starting the Second Yue-Gui War, forcing Lu to step down in July 1921. By August, Chen had occupied Nanning and the rest of Guangxi, and continued to do so until April 1922. Their occupation was largely nominal because armed bands of Guangxi loyalists began to gather under local commanders, calling themselves the Self-Government Army. Sun Yat-sen and Chen soon split over the continuation of the Northern Expedition. Chen, however, aspired merely to be the warlord of Guangdong and after the Zhili Clique in Beijing recognized his power in the south, he abandoned Sun. By May 1922, the Cantonese forces had evacuated Guangxi leaving a power vacuum.
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