Partof: | the Central Plains War |
Date: | August 14, 1930 |
Place: | Longhai, eastern Henan |
Result: | Central Army victory |
Combatant1: | National Revolutionary Army Central Army |
Combatant2: | anti-Chiang forces |
Commander1: | Gu Zhutong Shangguan Yunxiang Wang Jun |
Commander2: | 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.