The 1926 siege of Wuchang · five weeks into the siege
As printed: 210,000 IN GRAVE PERIL.
ContextWuchang is a walled city on the south bank of the Yangtse River, across from Hankow in central China. Since the summer the Cantonese armies of the Nationalist movement in the south have been marching north against the war lords who hold the rest of the country, among them Wu Pei-fu, Chang Tso-lin and Sun Chuan-fang, overlord of the eastern provinces.
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