 Complete the following phrase:  In the spring of 1926, Hu Lanqi left home for Guangzhou to work for He Xiangning, Minister of Womens Affairs of the Kuomintang KMT government. The following year, she became a cadet of the Whampoa Military Academy in Wuhan and enlisted in the KMTs National Revolutionary Army, which was then waging the Northern Expedition against the warlords. She was one of a small number of women recruits, which included Xie Bingying and Zhao Yiman. After initial success, the KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek turned against the Communists, who had been until then allied with the KMT, and committed the 