Guo Songling

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Guo Songling

Guo Songling (1883 – 24 December 1925) was a Chinese

China

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warlord and Manchuria

Manchuria

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n general who led a three month rebellion against Zhang Zuolin

Zhang Zuolin

Zhang Zu?l?n , nicknamed the "Old Marshal" , "Rain Marshal" ....
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Rising from obscure origins, Guo Songling enlisted in the service of Zhang Zuolin's Fengtian clique

Fengtian clique

The Fengtian Clique was one of several mutually hostile cliques or factions that split from the Beiyang Army in the Republic of China's warlord era....
army as a division commander in 1920.

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Guo Songling (1883 – 24 December 1925) was a Chinese

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
warlord and Manchuria

Manchuria

Zhang Zuolin

Zhang Zu?l?n , nicknamed the "Old Marshal" , "Rain Marshal" ....
.

Rising from obscure origins, Guo Songling enlisted in the service of Zhang Zuolin's Fengtian clique

Fengtian clique

The Fengtian Clique was one of several mutually hostile cliques or factions that split from the Beiyang Army in the Republic of China's warlord era....
army as a division commander in 1920. After nearly five years of service, Guo was gradually encouraged by Guominjun

Guominjun

The Guominjun , a.k.a National Army, KMC, or Northwest Army, refers to the military faction founded by Feng Yuxiang, Hu Jingyi and Sun Yue during China's Warlord era....
rival Feng Yuxiang

Feng Yuxiang

Feng Yuxiang was a warlord during history of the Republic of China.As the son of an officer in the Qing Dynasty Qing_Dynasty#Transition_and_modernization, Feng spent his youth immersed in the military life....
to rebel against Zhang in mid-1925. Marching his division north towards Zhang's headquarters at Shenyang on 22 November, Guo met early success in the early weeks of the offensive. However, when neither the expected popular support or assistance of the Guominjun, his rebellion began to stall and within a month his forces were eventually surrounded by the Army of Fengtian and annihilated as Guo was killed in the fighting on 24 December 1925.