Word: huai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south, General Huang Wei's Twelfth Army Group continued to hold out within a five-mile area near Suhsien. Of its original force of 100,000, about 40% had been lost in two weeks. Two armies from the government's Huai River line pressed northward village by village in an effort to rescue Huang (see below). In five days they had made about 20 miles. At week's end they still...
...defend the Yangtze," an old Chinese proverb runs, "you must defend the Huai." While Nationalist attention was focused north of the Huai last week, two of Communist General Chen Yi's agile columns (about 30,000 men) slipped over the muddy stream, struck at the Nationalist rear. At points less than 60 miles from Nanking the raiders tore up several sections of the government's single-track rail line to the front. Temporarily, at least, all land communications were cut between the capital and its last effective defense force...
Ropes for Passengers. If the Suchow forces were able to link up with the encircled Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 50 miles to the south, they would be a serious threat to the rear of Communist General Chen Yi, commanding the Huai River attack. Chen Yi made a quick about-face. Leaving a small holding force behind on the Huai, he sent six columns (some 125,000 men) to cope with the threat from the north...
...hundred miles southeast of the Huai, Nanking was abuzz with rumors. Travelers reported trainload after trainload of Nationalist troops, ammunition and supplies moving back from the Huai to Nanking. The government's 20th Army, stationed in Hankow, to the west, was being moved not to the Huai-but to Nanking. The Chinese government began shipping out dependents of government officials southward to Canton and Formosa...
...Hero." Two hours later, as a belt of pink light appeared around the edge of an umbrella-like overcast, MacWilliams spotted his first landmark-the Huai River, a glint of grey on a black ground. On the plain below, the first signs of China's civil war appeared. The orange flashes of shell explosions pocked the grey blanket of half light. Just south of Suchow's loess hills, five villages arched in a semicircle burned brightly...