Longhai Campaign
1946 campaign during Chinese Civil War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Longhai Campaign (陇海战役), also known as the Campaign along the Longhai (Lanzhou – Lianyungang) Railway (陇海路战役), was a campaign launched against the nationalists by the communists during Chinese Civil War in the post World War II era. The campaign was a coordinated offensive in support of the other two campaigns the Communists launched against the nationalists, namely, the Campaign of the North China Plain Pocket and the Central Jiangsu Campaign. Longhai Campaign resulted in the communist victory, achieving the Communists objective of relieving the pressure on their comrades in the other two campaigns this one supported, enabling those in the Campaign of the North China Plain Pocket to successfully escape from the nationalists and those in the Central Jiangsu Campaign to also score a huge victory over the nationalists.
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Longhai Campaign | |||||||
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Part of the Chinese Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Xue Yue Sun Liangcheng |
Liu Bocheng Deng Xiaoping | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
165,000 | 75,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
16,000 | unknown |