By the spring of 1926 the adherence of the two progressive leaders of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, Li Tsung-jen and Pai Ch’ung-hsi, gave the Kuomintang the base and the strength it needed for the march north to national power. For the next twenty years Li and Pai were to be linked to Chiang in the peculiarly Chinese seesaw of enmity and alliance.
