Word: hangchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armies of Communist General Chen Yi bore down across the flatlands of the Yangtze delta. In the second week of the South China offensive the Reds' pace had slowed down somewhat, but they triumphantly reported eight Nationalist armies crushed and trapped between the Yangtze and the coast. Hangchow, last coastal railroad gateway to the south, was deserted and lay open to the conquerors. Red armies also bore down on Shanghai...
...executed envelopment, Nationalist troops began to evacuate Nanking. Three days after the Red offensive had begun, they streamed out of the capital, weary and disorganized, along the dry brown roads leading through fields of green vegetables and yellow rape, southward and eastward toward the coastal cities of Shanghai and Hangchow and the rugged mountains of Fukien and Kiangsi...
...most important Communist move was a rapid eastward thrust toward the coast, to cut the Shanghai-Canton railroad and encircle Shanghai itself. Another Red force, farther north, was thrusting toward Hangchow, 121 miles from Shanghai. The capture of Shanghai itself seemed near. Its main defense was a pathetic wooden fence, 35 miles long, fashioned from 10-foot stakes (originally UNRRA lumber). In the Shanghai-Hangchow area, 350,000 Nationalist troops were being pressed in a pocket against...
...their center in the Yangtze buckled and crashed around them, Nationalist leaders put aside their differences. At Hangchow, retired President Chiang Kai-shek met in urgent conference with Acting President Li Tsung...
President Li had already picked his new Premier; precise, poker-faced General Ho Ying-chin, formerly Minister of National Defense and chief delegate to the U.N. Military Committee. In Hangchow to pass his 60th birthday, Ho first demurred that he was unworthy of the job, then wired Li his acceptance...