Anti-Kuomintang Coalition

The Central Plains War, also known as the Anti-Kuomintang Coalition, was a Chinese civil war fought in 1929 and 1930. It involved the Nationalist Kuomintang government in Nanjing, led by Chiang Kai-shek, and an anti-Chiang coalition of regional military commanders and warlords. These former allies, including Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, and Zhang Fakui, challenged the Nanjing government's legitimacy after a 1929 demilitarization conference. The conflict, the largest of the Warlord Era, took place across Henan, Shandong, Anhui, and other Central Plains areas, involving 300,000 Nanjing soldiers and 700,000 coalition soldiers.