Word: kaifeng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Nanking, the news brought a Honan delegation clamoring to the office of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. He told them: "Don't worry. Reinforcements are on the way. Kaifeng must be defended." That afternoon, the Reds breached Kaifeng's walls. The despairing Honan delegation camped for seven hours on Chiang's doorstep. They begged him to go in person to save the situation...
Next day, accompanied by Madame Chiang and with an air escort of fighters, the Gimo flew for a look at the Honan front. Over embattled Kaifeng, it was said, he talked by radio phone to the defenders...
...True Picture." He had told his audience what most of them wanted to believe and they applauded him thunderously. But not all. A Kaifeng delegate piped that the report was "incomplete and inadequate." Pandemonium erupted in the hall. A woman member from Honan sobbed: "Honan is almost entirely in Communist hands. We must have the true picture...
Hwaiyin (southeast of Kaifeng) also fell to Government forces, while Harbin was menaced by General Tu Li-ming's advancing troops, who were spoiling for a fight in Manchuria "before the snow flies." Along the border of Russian-occupied Korea, Government soldiers were preparing a drive on Antung, "funnel for delivery of foreign [i.e., Russian] supplies to the Communists...