Word: shihchiachuang
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General Wang had considerable supporting evidence. U.S. flyers who transported Nationalist troops from the interior to the coast (after V-J day) frequently discovered soldiers' wives and concubines disguised in army uniforms. Some Chinese even blamed the disaster of Shihchiachuang last year on the women. A Nationalist army, moving north from that strategic city, was so encumbered by carts bearing wives and household possessions that it blundered into a Communist ambush, was destroyed in a three-day fight. A week later, undermanned Shihchiachuang fell, the greatest single government loss...
...North China the Communists captured the strategic rail-junction city of Shihchiachuang, seizing its virtually irreplaceable stores of rolling stock, locomotives and military supplies...
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