French operations in Artois , Champagne and Alsace from November–December 1914 , led General Joseph Joffre , Generalissimo ( Commander in Chief ) and head of Grand Quartier Général ( GQG ) , to continue the offensive in Champagne against the German southern rail supply route and to plan an offensive in Artois , against the lines supplying the German armies from the north .

Japanese forces located south of that line surrendered Surrendering to him and those to the north surrendered Surrendering to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek .

The First Front Army of the Chinese Soviet Republic , led by an inexperienced military commission , was on the brink of annihilation by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek 's troops in their stronghold in Jiangxi province .

The expedition was led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek , and was divided into two phases .