War in Ningxia | |||||||
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Part of the Nanjing decade | |||||||
Cavalrymen of the Ma clique around 1933 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Shanxi clique Nationalist government of China | 41st Army (Sun Dianying's private army) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ma clique: Shanxi clique: Nationalists: Zhu Shaoliang | Sun Dianying | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Ma armies, including Muslim cavalry Shanxi Army National Revolutionary Army (NRA)
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Strength | |||||||
Unknown, tens of thousands[1] | 50,000[1]–60,000[2][3] |
The war in Ningxia of 1934, also known as Sun Dianying Campaign,[4] was a minor civil war for control over the Republic of China's province of Ningxia, fought between the warlord Sun Dianying and an alliance against him, consisting of the Ma clique, Governor Yan Xishan of Shanxi, and the Nationalist government of China. The conflict erupted as the unintended consequence of a plan by China's supreme leader, Chiang Kai-shek, to weaken the Ma clique, and resulted in the destruction of Sun Dianying's private army.