The Republic of China is divided into two periods, the first period is the period of the Beiyang government, and the second period is the period of the national government. The first position of the warlords of the Republic of China was sat by the three major warlords of the Beiyang system, the Northeast system, and the Huangpu system in turn, and this matter was divided into three stages.

Who was the biggest warlord during the Republican period? How strong is it?

The largest warlord during the Beiyang government period should be Yuan Shikai, the Beiyang Army founded by Yuan Shikai has become a powerful tool to rule China, the Beiyang Army has 300,000 or 400,000 troops, and is the most effective and advanced regular army at that time. The Beiyang warlords fought exclusively against the revolutionary party, and the two often fought fiercely.

After the death of Yuan Shikai, the Beiyang warlords were divided into the direct line and the Anhui line, the direct line was headed by Feng Guozhang and Cao Kun to occupy Zhili, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hubei and other places, and the Anhui line was headed by Duan Qirui to control the Beijing government and Shandong, Zhejiang, Shaanxi and other places. The Zhiwan War, the two Zhifeng Wars... The scale of the war became larger and larger, and the two sides invested hundreds of thousands of troops to start a decisive battle in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area.

Later, Chiang Kai-shek led the Northern Expeditionary Army to eliminate these old warlords, Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang, who were directly related to them, were eliminated successively, and Zhang Zuolin, who was in Feng's lineage, was killed by the Japanese Kwantung Army when he returned to Fengtian, and the era of the old warlords also ended.

Chiang Kai-shek established the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, and then Zhang Zuolin's son Marshal Zhang Xueliang announced the Northeast Banner and submitted to the Nanjing Nationalist Government, Chiang Kai-shek completed the formal unification, but although the old warlords went, the new warlords headed by Chiang Kai-shek began to benefit from the territory, and the territory started a civil war, among which the warlords of the Gui family of Liangguang Li Zongren and Bai Zhengxi, Yan Xishan of the Jin Dynasty, Feng Yuxiang of the Northwest and other warlords launched the largest Central Plains War with the warlords of Chiang Kai-shek's lineage, and the two sides invested millions of troops, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce, resulting in a large area of disaster areas in China, Ordinary people fled everywhere.

In different periods and different situations, the strength of the warlords is also changing, and the only thing that has not changed is the Dian army. The Dian Army is a warlord force that is easily overlooked, and as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Dian Army was established, and in these three phases, I think he has always played the second place, and it has never changed.

The Yunnan army takes the Yunnan Kunming Army Lecture Hall as a talent training base to send talents to the army, the scale of the Yunnan army is about 100,000 people, and the Beiyang Army was defeated during the Patriotic War, and the battle was brave during the Anti-Japanese War, and it was a powerful army. On the other hand, although the warlords in other provinces sound quite large, they are inferior to the Dian army in terms of professional military education such as military schools and the quality of their troops.