Editing Long March (section)

===Conflict with ethnic warlords===
Warlords often refused to help out the [[Kuomintang]] against the Communist Red Army, preferring to save their own forces.

300 "Khampa bandits" were enlisted into the Kuomintang's Consolatory Commission military in Sichuan, where they were part of the effort of the central government of China to penetrate and destabilize the local Han warlords such as [[Liu Wenhui]]. The Chinese government sought to exercise full control over frontier areas against the warlords. Liu had refused to do battle with the Red Army, to save his own military from destruction. The Consolatory Commission forces were used to battle the Communist Red Army, but were defeated when their religious leader was captured by Communist forces.<ref>{{cite book|access-date=2011-12-27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsLQdBUgyMUC&q=force+of+about+300+soldiers+was+organized+and+augmented+by+recruiting+local+Khampa+bandits+into+the+army&pg=PA52|title=Modern China's ethnic frontiers: a journey to the west|author1-link=Lin Hsiao-ting|author=Hsiao-ting Lin|year=2010|publisher=Taylor & Francis|edition=illustrated|volume=67 of Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia|page=52|quote=A force of about 300 soldiers was organized and augmented by recruiting local Khampa bandits into the army. The relationship between the Consolatory Commission and Liu Wenhui seriously deteriorated in early 1936, when the Norla Hutuktu|isbn=978-0-415-58264-3}}</ref>

Communist forces on the Long March clashed against Kham rebels in the [[1934 Khamba Rebellion]], who were fleeing from Tibetan government forces.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/TheKarmaofTibet.pdf|title=The Karma of Tibet|last1=Arpi|first1=Claude|pages=95–96|access-date=24 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204622/http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/TheKarmaofTibet.pdf|archive-date=September 23, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>