Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million men surged around Suchow in the greatest battle in China's history. A Communist victory would open the way to Nanking and probably seal the fate of the reeling Nationalist regime. A government victory might buy enough time for Chiang's harried forces to recover from their recent string of shattering defeats-and for effective aid to arrive from the West...
...What Shall We Do?" In the main battle, east of Suchow, government troops were forced to retreat. A mechanized group under General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish...
Spurred by fiery Liu Pu-ting, the Legislative Yuan's most outspoken critic of the government, 120 Nanking professors drafted open letters to Chiang and Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung. "People throughout the country," the professors wrote, "are praying for an early return of peace ... It is time to save the country's last remaining breath . . . Peace negotiations should be resumed for the formation of a multi-party coalition government...
Generalissimo Chiang, the only power still holding the Nationalist government together, had no illusions about his chances in a Communist-dominated coalition. Last week he conferred in Nanking with his top generals: Fu Tso-yi, whom he gave a completely free hand in the north, Chang Chih-chung, from the far northwest, and Pai Chung-hsi, from Hankow in Central China...
...defend China's heart, the Gimo had disposed 400,000 troops in the flat, rich, water-laced plains around Suchow. At week's end, as his soldiers met the first shock of Chen Yi's armies, Chiang made one more effort to rally his people around him. At a Kuomintang meeting in Nanking, Chiang cried: "Our war against the Communist rebels is a national war, a continuation of the war of resistance against the Japanese . . . We must be ready for a struggle of eight years or more against the Communists . . . The government is determined to fight...