China Warlord Era

File: Warlord China.png (171KB, 1200x992px) Image search: [Google]

171KB, 1200x992px

>>3142544
That map's not the warlord period though. Nominally it was 1916-1929

Also everyone was sort of pretty colorful.
>That Fatass Muslim Chinese general in the Republican Army, Ma Hongkui, who loved the fuck out of ice cream.
>Zhang Zuolin who headed the Fengtien Clique and was obsessed with restoring the Qing Dynasty,
>Zhang Zongchang of the Zhili Clique, the most colourful Chinese warlord. Alias "72 Cannon Zhang," "Dogmeat General," and "General 3 Don't Knows" because "He never knows how many soldiers he has, how much money he has, and how many mistresses he has." Had a private air force, master in the use of armoured trains, and a Praetorian Guard of White Russians.
>Feng Yuxiang. Basically a Protestant Redneck in a Chinese body- albeit a stellar disciplinarian- the "Christian General" who first fought for the Zhili, then for the Republican faction.
>General Qing En Liu. Less of a commander and more of a machine-obsessed eccentric, invented China's first Semi-Auto Rifle in 1916. Sadly the patented machine ordered from Britain to make the rifles sank due to WWI shenanigans, causing the general to become super-depressed.

>>3142630
>invented China's first Semi-Auto Rifle in 1916
>tfw no technocratic cyberpunk China

Oh wait

Did any European powers such as France,UK or the Soviet Union take advantage of a fractured China?
If so, why didn't they?

>>3142762
If not*

>>3142544
>HOI map

>>3142762
Too busy fighting in the great war which happened in the same time

>>3142762
Too busy with their own Europe crisis. They absolutely did try to take advantage of China before the 1900s tho.

>>3142762
France and UK supported and supplied a lot of warlords since they were part of their "spheres of influence"
While Russia for example tried to expand their influence over Tuva (which actually became a protectorate) and Mongolia.

File: Chinese Civil War Armies 1911-49-29.jpg (460KB, 1200x1617px) Image search: [Google]

460KB, 1200x1617px

>>3142544
There actually plenty of foreign mercenaries running around the place like Morris "Two Gun" Cohen, a Canadian Jewish Cowboy who was a fanboy of Sun Yat-sen for some reason and was Chiang Kai-Shek's bodyguard, and plenty of disenfranchized White Russians fleeing the civil war.

Their female counterparts were adventurous prostitutes who've heard that warlords pay ridiculous prices for white pussy.

I've been super interested in this period for a while, but can never find any info on this: Did any of the warlords have a navy? Were there any naval battles, and in general, how big of an impact did naval affairs play during the time?

I want to make a board game about this, but don't know whether or not to include Naval stuff.

>>3142630
You should have made color boxes on your map tho

>>3142762
I think France may have influenced the south of China but that could have been before Warlord era. Japan took advantage of and supported various warlords to increase their influence in places like Shadong and Inner Mongolia.