| Battle of Eastern Henan | |||||||
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| Part of the Central Plains War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| National Revolutionary Army Central Army | anti-Chiang forces | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Gu Zhutong Shangguan Yunxiang Wang Jun | Sun Dianying | ||||||
The Battle of Eastern Henan was between the Central Army of Chiang Kai-shek and those of Sun Dianying, a Henan native and ally of Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan. Sun's forces attacked the Longhai railway line, a stronghold on the eastern provincial border of Henan. The railway linked the cities of Kaifeng, Zhengzhou and Luoyang.