First Zhili-Fengtian War

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First Zhili-Fengtian War
Part of The Warlord era of Republican China
Date 1922 Location North China Result Zhili Clique Victory
Belligerents
Zhili Clique	Fengtian clique
Commanders
Wu Peifu	Zhang Zuolin
Casualties and losses
Fengtian casulaties = 3,000 killed, 7,000 wounded

The First Zhili-Fengtian War (Chinese: 第一次直奉戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì Zhífèng Zhànzhēng) was a 1922 conflict in the Republic of China's Warlord Era between the Zhili and Fengtian cliques for control of Beijing.

The immediate cause was Fengtian's replacement of Premier Jin Yunpeng with Liang Shiyi without prior consent of the Zhili clique. Zhili responded with removing Liang, sparking the war. The Fengtian clique, led by warlord Zhang Zuolin was defeated at Shanhaiguan and was forced to retreated back to Manchuria, while the Zhili armies, led by Wu Peifu, took control of the central government in Beijing. For the next two years, Zhili ruled the Beiyang government alone until the 1924 Beijing coup.

[edit] See also

• Warlord Era
• Second Zhili-Fengtian War
• Zhang Zuolin

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