北伐前数年,统一已经成为十分迫切的时代需求,国人面临统一模式的艰难抉择。一方面,武力统一因其缺陷而在舆论上饱受反对者的攻击;另一方面,反对武力统一的人士无法回避和平统一方案受武力的阻扰而难以推行等问题。第二次直奉战争后,武力统一的观念逆势而涨。支持者从历史经验和现实环境两方面论证武力统一的必要性,同时试图向国人说明,只要改变政策、调整手段,由军阀主导的武力统一前途依旧光明。但国人对军阀及其武力已经高度不信任,于是,有人提出要以新领袖取代旧军阀,以民众的武力取代军阀的武力,以“主义”来增强组织的号召力、凝聚力。这种关于武力统一须要彻底改弦易辙的观点,逐渐与国共两党国民革命的主张合流。 In the years before the Northern Expedition, reunification had become a very urgent demand of the times and people in China faced the difficult choice of unifying the model. On the one hand, the reunification of the armed forces has been subjected to attacks on the public opinion by opposition parties because of its defects; on the other hand, those who oppose the unification of the armed forces can not sidestep the issue of the peace unification plan being obstructed by the armed forces and being difficult to implement. After the Second Zhōng Fong War, the concept of the unification of armed forces rose against the trend. Proponents demonstrate the necessity of the unification of armed forces from both historical and realistic perspectives and at the same time try to explain to them that as long as they change their policies and adjust their means, the reunification of the armed forces led by the warlords will remain bright. However, people in China have been highly distrusted of warlords and their armed forces. Some people have therefore proposed that the old warlord be replaced by a new one and that the armed forces of the people should be replaced by the armed forces of the people and be strengthened by “” doctrine ". This view of the need to completely change the course of the unification of armed forces gradually merging with the proposal of the national revolution of both parties of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.