Word: changchun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mukden. That meant that there was no longer a land corridor into Manchuria for the Nationalists. Ninety-nine percent of the land area of Manchuria was in the hands of the Reds; 1% was in General Wei's. That 1% consisted principally of the cities of Mukden, Changchun, Kirin and Szepingkai-dwindling islands of resistance. What remained for the Communist armies under General Lin Piao was simply...
Shrinking Corridor. The Communists thought they might win the battle for Manchuria in the next six months. A midwinter Communist offensive had narrowed the government's already slender corridor; Mukden and Changchun lay under virtual siege. The railway south of Peiping was broken again; transport planes from Peiping last week began to evacuate government civilian employees from Mukden and Changchun. But Nationalist troops hung on grimly inside the Manchurian corridor. Said their commander in Mukden: "We must hold Manchuria...
...Territory. As winter set in, China's northeast (Manchuria) was more than nine-tenths gone already. The columns of Communist General Lin Piao were pulling back a few dozen li after a punishing six-week offensive there. The Communists had not attempted to storm cities like Mukden and Changchun. They had been satisfied with attrition and wreckage. Along 150 miles of Manchuria rail lines they had warped rails to uselessness over bonfires of railroad ties. They had carted away the Manchuria harvest, disrupted coal and electricity supplies. The winter of 1947-48 would be bitter in Mukden and Changchun...
...Manchuria outnumbered Nationalist forces clung to a few encircled cities, including Changchun and Mukden; Ying-pan, an approach to the strategic Fushun coal center, was besieged. The rest of Manchuria was in Communist hands. Nationalist losses had been heavy...
Government strategy seemed to be to let the Communist blows at the communications lines spend themselves, defend the main cities: Changchun, Szepingkai, Mukden-then sally out to restore the lines once more...