Word: kalgan
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...Manchurian corridor were wiped out, Red armies would lunge southward against another Nationalist corridor, which runs along the railway westward from Tientsin through Peiping and Kalgan. For this purpose, the Communists were recruiting and training a powerful offensive army in Manchuria...
...protect the Nationalist hold on the Tientsin-Kalgan corridor, the Generalissimo last November dispatched one of his crack generals, Fu Tso-yi. While Fu prepared an offensive, Communist demolition squads struck swiftly and by night. They made 100 small breaks in the railroad. Fu chased them away and repaired the breaks; but he had lost valuable time...
...with his men. U.S. General Albert C. Wedemeyer had found those men the best-drilled soldiers in China. So, before that, had the Japanese whom General Fu harried for eight years. And so, last year, had the Chinese Communists; Fu's crack cavalry had caught them unprepared in Kalgan, had driven them out and reopened 500 miles of railroad west of Peiping. That area was still firmly in government hands, thanks...
Last September, when Government General Fu Tso-yi marched on Kalgan, Wang and his company of 40 men stood at Tsining, a mud-walled Suiyuan railway and mining town where one of the civil war's bloodiest encounters took place. After 23 of his company had died and he was forced to retreat, depression gripped Wang. He asked himself and his men: "Why do we Chinese fight against Chinese? Of what avail was this sacrifice at Tsining...
...hills. The commissar called on him regularly. But Wang's heart remained troubled. "I must think more," he said. "Fighting Japs I suffered much and gave my blood without regret. I could do so because my heart took part in the struggle. Now my heart forbids." When Kalgan fell, Wang's weary heart had not changed. As his unit prepared to retire into the mountains, he straggled behind and sent a message of surrender. A Government detachment picked Wang up, put his heart at ease...