History of Warlords in the Republic of China: Fighting for the Deer

In 1912, the abdication edict in the Forbidden City shredded the afterglow of the Qing Dynasty, and a new chess game under the Beiyang Army quietly unfolded - Yuan Shikai watched the world with heavy troops, and Sun Yat-sen held firm with republican ideals. On the line, Zhang Zuolin was fighting in the northeast, Cai E was hiding his talents in the southwest, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Li Zongren, Yan Xishan... One by one, names fell heavily on the chessboard in troubled times. This is a period of time wrapped in gunpowder smoke: from the Beijing-Tianjin beacon fire of the Zhi-Wan war, the tug-of-war of Shanhaiguan in the two Zhi-Feng wars, to the blood-stained territory of millions of soldiers in the Central Plains war; from the shocking noise on the Huanggutun train, to the Dongfeng war The world of Beiyi changed; from the separatist fighting among local warlords to the awakening turning point of joining hands to fight against Japan after the Xi'an Incident, every battle rewrote the direction of the country, and every decision affected the fate of millions of people. This book takes 1912 to 1936 as the timeline and "year + events" as the context. It abandons the boring list of historical materials and uses novelistic narrative to connect 30 key chapters. You will see Yuan Shikai's ambition and vigilance in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Sun Yat-sen's unwillingness and perseverance in the Nanjing Presidential Palace, see Feng Yuxiang's struggle behind his "defection", and see Zhang Zuolin's toughness when protecting the soil - these warlords are not black and white symbols. Turning the pages of the book, you can see not only the power game of a group of warlords, but also the pain of a country from the collapse of its dynasty to modern times, and even more, the displacement and perseverance of ordinary people in troubled times.