Mao's military made it to Changsha yet might not take it; by 15 September, he accepted defeat, with 1,000 survivors marching eastern to the Jinggang Mountains of Jiangxi. A squadron led by General Zhu De was gotten to take the city of Nanchang on 1 August 1927 in what became called the Nanchang uprising. 15 July 1927 the Wuhan government expelled all communists from the KMT. When Chiang progressively obtained the support of Western nations, ...