Word: piao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Military power, embodied in China's Red army, has been Mao's special creation, his fierce pride & joy. The strategy and tactics of guerrilla war have absorbed a good deal of his scholarly study. His trusty Commander in Chief Chu Teh and his brilliant field generals Lin Piao, Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng have been the fighting brawn directed by his own bookwise brain...
...Communist China. The Peking regime has granted comradely recognition to the North Korean regime. Its propaganda cheers on the North Korean army. Last week Nationalist Chinese intelligence reported that Red China's Boss Mao Tse-tung, Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and No. 1 Field General Lin Piao were conferring in Mukden with Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...
...months after he had conquered the South China mainland, Red General Lin Piao was ready for the overwater jump to Hainan. Unlike Nationalist China's other island, Formosa, which lies 100 deep-water miles from the Red-held coast, Hainan has only a narrow channel (15 miles) separating it from the continental shore. Behind a thin shield of gunboats and planes, Nationalist General Hsueh Yueh had tried to pull together Hainan's army of 160,000, mostly remnants of the south China retreat...
...press claimed a victory after the first four days-6,000 Reds captured, up to 4,000 killed, the invasion assault blocked. In Hoihow, firecrackers popped jubilantly. Next day the celebration fizzled. The Communists had won again. On the sixth day after making their beachhead, the men of Lin Piao's Communist Fourth Field Army marched triumphantly into Hoihow. With what remained of his 160,000 defenders, Hsueh Yueh fell back hopelessly to Hainan's south coast...
...furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles to the northeast, in Formosa, invasion day for Nationalist China's last citadel seemed closer. As a victory fillip, the Peking radio reported that Russian newsreel cameramen were filming Lin Piao's conquest of Hainan...