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The great, bloody battle around Suchow had produced a familiar pattern. Fast-moving Communist columns had swirled about the city, wiped out upwards of a quarter of its Nationalist garrison in bitter fighting, then bypassed and isolated the remainder. Now the Communists were striking 100 miles farther south, toward the...
The Gimo picked up his military phone and got his Suchow commanders on the wire. His orders: leave the city at once, burn what supplies could not be taken along, seek out the Communist armies to the south and engage them. These were new, last-ditch tactics. It was kill...
One 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...
Those who could followed the government's lead. Nanking's exits were choked day & night by streams of carts and automobiles heading for open country. Chinese riverboat captains no longer even dared let down their gangplanks at Nanking. From a safe distance offshore, they threw ropes to as...
One pilot pointed toward four olive drab Chinese air force transports across the field. "Looks as if the Chinese air force has just about pulled out," he said. "What are we doing here?" "What are we usually doing?" snorted another pilot. A short, young Chinese chief mechanic broke in: "You...