Blood Dragon

This Alternate History article is about a reborn, bloodied communist China after multiple revolutions and multiple warlord periods.

The article timeline begins immediately after the collapse of the Qing dynasty and at the forming of the Republic of China (1912-1949)

This Article uses a monthly based event system, months with no meaningful events are skipped, events OTL are rounded to the month they are in.

1919
Non OTL begins here:
 * March: Young officials, military officers, and students started a movement to overthrow the Qing dynasty and create a republic, in early march the Republic of China is formed.
 * April: the Republic of China is brief, for a while it possessed all of the former Qing empire, but with no organized, modern military, the fringe territories like Northern China, Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Tibet, all fall to warlords and regional governments, Mainland China now looks much like the Song dynasty from ancient China.
 * September: For 4 months a fragile peace in the Republic of China (ROC) has existed, but