Edited sentence: As more Chinese looked to the KMT and Communist parties for leadership, they began to disparage and delegitimize the northern leaders by calling them junfa (warlords).At this time, the two parties were allied as in the First United Front and controlled an unrecoginized opposition government based in Guangzhou.The Second Zhili–Fengtian War of 1924 was more destructive than previous warlord turmoil and bankrupted the Beijing government