Zhang Zuolin’s soldiers handling Japanese artillery during the Northern Expedition, 1927. The gun in first picture is a Type 38 10cm heavy gun while the second shows a Type 38 15cm howitzer.
Soldiers of Zhang Zuolin’s Anguojun warlord alliance pose for the camera with their Maxim and Hotchkiss/Japanese machine guns during the fighting against the Kuomintang, March 1927.