Huguojun

Chinese military organization
Also known as: National Protection Army

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role in Chinese history

  • China
    In China: Yuan’s attempts to become emperor

    …the National Protection Army (Huguojun) and demanded that Yuan cancel his plan. When he would not, the Yunnan army in early January 1916 invaded Sichuan and subsequently Hunan and Guangdong, hoping to bring the southwestern and southern provinces into rebellion and to then induce the lower Yangtze provinces to…

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