Shangdang Campaign

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Shangdang Campaign
Part of the Chinese Communist Revolution
Date 10 September 1945 –12 October 1945 Location Shanxi Province, Republic of China Result Communist victory
Belligerents
Nationalist government Shanxi clique	Chinese Communist Party
Commanders and leaders
Yan Xishan	Liu Bocheng Deng Xiaoping
Units involved
Republic of China Army	Eighth Route Army
Strength
~35,000	~80,000
Casualties and losses
35,000, most of them captured	4,708 killed

The Shangdang Campaign (simplified Chinese: 上党战役; traditional Chinese: 上黨戰役) was a series of battles fought between Eighth Route Army troops led by Liu Bocheng and Kuomintang troops led by Yan Xishan (aka Jin clique) in what is now Shanxi Province, China. The campaign lasted from 10 September 1945, through 12 October 1945. Like all other Chinese Communist victories in the clashes immediately after Imperial Japan's surrender in World War II, the outcome of this campaign altered the course of the peace negotiation held in Chongqing from 28 August 1945, through 11 October 1945, resulting in a more favourable outcome for Mao Zedong and the party.