Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago, when wily Communist General Chen Yi seized the Honan capital city of Kaifeng, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to the battlefront to direct the recapture of the city (TIME, July 5). But as Nationalist columns closed in, Chen evacuated Kaifeng and plunged southward through government territory toward the swift Yangtze River...
...Doorstep. The Communists continued to slash at the arteries of China's economic life. Red General Chen Yi dashed from Shantung Province into the river valleys of neighboring Honan. Almost before Nationalists knew he was on the move, Chen's three columns converged on Honan's capital city of Kaifeng, garrisoned by a single government regiment...
...Jubilant Chen Yi exchanged congratulatory telegrams with his Communist brother-in-arms, one-eyed General Liu Po-cheng. The two Red leaders agreed to join forces and carve out a "liberated" Central China state like the "North China Liberated Area" set up six weeks...
...Wide Plains. At week's end, footslogging Nationalist reinforcements reached Kaifeng. They found the city neatly sacked. Chen Yi's men, loaded down with stores of gasoline, munitions and newly harvested winter wheat, had slipped away to the south...
Where was elusive Chen Yi headed? Weary Nationalists ticked off some of his possible alternatives. He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow. Or he might plunge toward Suchow, bastion of the Nanking-Shanghai defense area. Or he could drive down to Hankow. He might even decide to stand and fight...