Word: ichang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reclaiming Lost Legions. The Chinese high command tried to weaken the Jap blow by staging a diversion far to the north, around Ichang on the Yangtze River. But Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that something more than a diversion was needed. Even as Hengyang was falling, he had put the finishing touches to a plan for Army reform which would doubtless meet opposition from vested military interests, a plan whose terms proclaimed that all was far from well in China's war-worn Army. Its chief points...
...Lien-chung's drive from the south had taken Kungan, the main Japanese forward base, recovered Nanhsien and Nanhsian on the northern shore of Tungting Lake and was forging on to the river. Chen Cheng had driven to the south bank within sight of Ichang, and eliminated the last Japanese ferry head...
...Confidence Born. The Chinese had defeated the largest single striking force the Japanese had put together since Burma in 1942. The Japanese were back almost to their starting point, had lost most of the rice bowl, had yielded control of the river from Ichang to Shasi to mine-laying squadrons of the Chinese Navy...
...Burma Road: 1) they devastated one of the fairest, richest corners of China, the Tungting Lake area of northern Hunan, which annually fed not only hundreds of thousands of troops but far-distanct provinces; 2) they cleared the riverway, brought gunboats and launches as far as Ichang to make of that spot a jumping-off base for a Chungking drive; 3 ) they struck a punishing blow at China's economic life...
...Japanese push was surging westward along the Yangtze River. Immediate objectives seemed to be: 1) clearing the river between Hankow and Ichang; 2) seizing control of the western outlet of the 120-mile stretch of Yangtze gorges through which Chinese supplies are fed to the central front...