War in Ningxia (1934)

War in Ningxia
Part of the Nanjing decade
Cavalrymen of the Ma clique around 1933
Date January – April 1934 Location Ningxia, Republic of China Result Ma clique and allies victory 41st Army disbanded and remnants absorbed into Yan Xishan's Shanxi Army
Belligerents
Ma clique Ningxia forces Qinghai forces Gansu forces Shanxi clique Nationalist government of China	41st Army (Sun Dianying's private army)
Commanders and leaders
Ma clique: Ma Hongkui Ma Hongbin Ma Bufang Ma Zhongying Shanxi clique: Yan Xishan Nationalists: Zhu Shaoliang	Sun Dianying
Units involved
Ma armies, including Muslim cavalry Shanxi Army National Revolutionary Army (NRA) Suiyuan and Gansu forces Chinese Air Force	Unknown
Strength
Unknown, tens of thousands[1]	50,000[1]–60,000[2][3]

The war in Ningxia of 1934, also known as Sun Dianying Campaign,^[4] was a minor civil war for control over the Republic of China's province of Ningxia, fought between the warlord Sun Dianying and an alliance against him, consisting of the Ma clique, Governor Yan Xishan of Shanxi, and the Nationalist government of China. The conflict erupted as the unintended consequence of a plan by China's supreme leader, Chiang Kai-shek, to weaken the Ma clique, and resulted in the destruction of Sun Dianying's private army.