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Feng was the dominant figure in the [[Beijing]] region in 1924, overthrowing the government and expelling the former emperor Pu Yi, who fled to the Japanese concession of [[Tianjin]]. Forced out of the capital the following year by [[Zhang Zuolin]], he retreated behind the Nankou pass to the north-west, where he established a base and lines of communication across [[Mongolia]] to the [[Soviet Union]]; he spent some months in Moscow in 1926, and returned to lend support to the [[Northern Expedition]] of the [[Guomindang]]. In 1928 he supported [[Chiang Kai-shek]] when the latter was in conflict with the Left-[[KMT]], and expelled the Soviet advisers he had brought back with him from Moscow. However, in 1929 he broke with Chiang, rebelling against him in association with [[Yan Xishan]]. The failure of this rebellion led to the eclipse of Feng as a major figure in Chinese politics, although he sought a role for his army in the fight against Japan. In 1948, while on a world tour, he died in a fire on a Soviet ship in the [[Black Sea]].   

Feng was the dominant figure in the [[Beijing]] region in 1924, overthrowing the government and expelling the former emperor Pu Yi, who fled to the Japanese concession of [[Tianjin]]. Forced out of the capital the following year by [[Zhang Zuolin]], he retreated behind the Nankou pass to the north-west, where he established a base and lines of communication across [[Mongolia]] to the [[Soviet Union]]; he spent some months in Moscow in 1926, and returned to lend support to the [[Northern Expedition]] of the [[Nationalist Party]]. In 1928 he supported [[Chiang Kai-shek]] when the latter was in conflict with the Left-[[KMT]], and expelled the Soviet advisers he had brought back with him from Moscow. However, in 1929 he broke with Chiang, rebelling against him in association with [[Yan Xishan]]. The failure of this rebellion led to the eclipse of Feng as a major figure in Chinese politics, although he sought a role for his army in the fight against Japan. In 1948, while on a world tour, he died in a fire on a Soviet ship in the [[Black Sea]].   

[[Category:Chinese Warlords]]

[[Category:Chinese Warlords]]