Guominjun

The National Army (Guominjun) was a military faction formed when Feng Yuxiang betrayed Wu Peifu and launched the successful 1924 Beijing Coup. Thus willfully split from his former Zhili Clique, Feng assumed control of a National Army sympathetic to Sun Yat Sen's Kuomintang, with which organization it often acted in concert. However, due the great distance between Sun's position in Kwantung and the Guominjun's headquarters in Beijing, the two organizations were independent organs of authority.

Although aspiring to be a national force to be reckoned with, the Gumoninjun truly controlled only parts of northern China, namely Chahar, Henan, and Shaanxi. Its main municipality was Xi'an in Shaanxi province.

Despite being smaller and poorer than its neighbors, the region's troops were well trained and disciplined. They also received adequate military equipment, training and funding from the Soviet Union. Feng's income from the Soviets amounted to 11 million rubles per year, while 60 Soviet advisers were attached to his army.