Huaihai campaign

Huaihai campaign
Part of the Chinese Civil War

People's Liberation Army troops, supported by captured M5 Stuart light tanks, attacking the Nationalist lines
Date6 November 1948 – 10 January 1949
(2 months and 4 days)
Location
Result Communist victory
Territorial
changes
Communists occupy areas north of the Yangtze
Belligerents

Republic of China (1912–1949) Republic of China

Chinese Communist Party

Commanders and leaders
Strength
800,000[1] 1,100,000 combatants - 600,000 regulars, 500,000 reserve militia[2]
Casualties and losses
Total: 555,099[citation needed] of which 327,000 were either captured or went over to the Communists. Total: 134,000[citation needed]

The Huaihai campaign (Chinese: ; pinyin: Huáihǎi Zhànyì), or Battle of Hsupeng (traditional Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Xúbèng Huìzhàn), was one of the military conflicts in the late stage of the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The campaign started when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched a major offensive against the Kuomintang headquarters in Xuzhou on 6 November 1948, and ended on 10 January 1949 when the PLA reached the north of the Yangtze.

  1. ^ Chien, Jimmy (2015). Analyzing Two Key Points of the Huaihai Campaign Using Sun Tzu's Net Assessment (MA). University of Massachusetts Amhers. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  2. ^ Chien, Jimmy (2015). Analyzing Two Key Points of the Huaihai Campaign Using Sun Tzu's Net Assessment (MA). University of Massachusetts Amhers. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

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