The War in China in Pictures

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from ebay seller "mixa11", pictures of the "Second Revolution" 1913:

The guns in the second photo seem to be Vickers 75mm mountain gun, a quite rare gun in China. Here's a photo of Vickers mountain guns in Imperial Chinese army service before the 1911 revolution(from a Chinese photo book of late Imperial Chinese army).
It is also good that the writings on the photo clearly stated the location.

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It is also good that the writings on the photo clearly stated the location.

..so this is your hometown almost 100 years ago...can you recognize anything? (...like the gate in the 3. picture)

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It is also good that the writings on the photo clearly stated the location.

..so this is your hometown almost 100 years ago...can you recognize anything? (...like the gate in the 3. picture)

Yes it is my hometown almost 100 years ago...

The location of the second picture, is Yu Hua Tai(雨花台), near the south gate of Nanking. It seems there were not as many trees on the hills as today.
I cannot recongnize the location of the first and third photo, as so many places looked the same. Some old houses similar to the one in the first photo can still be seen in rural areas. And, there are so many creeks in Nanking like the one in the third photo, and the small bridge with steel handrails is quite common even today.

The building in the third photo is not a gate, in fact I believe it was a "vegetable mall"(literal translation of "菜场", as they are called by the locals today), mainly selling vegetables, meat, fish, etc. You can see the shops were all closed apparently because of the fighting. I know a number of such "malls" but I'm not sure which one is this.

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more "Second Revolution" photos:

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珍贵的中国老照片：军阀时代 - Precious old photos: the warlord era!!!

From this website: http://eltonzeng.blog.hexun.com/77139968_d.html

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The picture above shows the Northern Expeditionary Army chief of staff, led by the Front commander Pai Chung-hsi (before the legislature) Crusader multiply armored vehicle by the Tangshan headquarters encamped against Luanzhou Northern Expedition, the last battle. (Google translator)

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Very nice photos! Accroding to the Chinese site, these precious photos are in the collection by Iseral collector.
It's a pity that few of them shows artillery or armored vehicles.

Maybe one of the rarest is this one, a notice signed by so many Fengtian-series warlords(from right to left: Li Jinglin, Zhang Zhongchang, Zhang Xueliang, Han Linchun and Chu Yupu) can't be seen every day

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The picture above shows the Northern Expeditionary Army chief of staff, led by the Front commander Pai Chung-hsi (before the legislature) Crusader multiply armored vehicle by the Tangshan headquarters encamped against Luanzhou Northern Expedition, the last battle. (Google translator)

Google translator is generally right this time... But I really don't know what would be tanslated as "Crusader multiply armored vehicle" :roll:

I have seen this photo before but still thank you for posting here, for this is a very rare and interesting armored vehicle. I have only seen two photos of this kind of armored vehicle(including this one), both taken in Tangshan. It is the earliest known armored draisine used by Chinese army, I assume that it was first used by the Chili-Shantun army and then captured by NRA and reused against its former owner.