When it was decided to launch a Northern Expedition to bring Central and North China under the Kuomintang government, Chiang was named Commander-in-chief in 1926.
三月十二日國父逝世，大元帥府改組為國民政府，黨軍改稱為國民革命軍，八月，蔣公受任東征總指揮，討伐陳炯明。