The Communist troops were already moving out when their rearguard was attacked by Guomindang troops and defeated with heavy casualties. |
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According to conventional accounts, the city's radicalized population catapulted the Guomindang northward in 1926 on a political and military mission to reunify the nation. |
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The Guomindang had a policy of making a slow advance building trenches and blockhouses as they went to give the Guomindang troops there places of protection. |
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