Word: suchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most U.S. military observers had thought that the Reds would crush Chiang Kai-shek's forces at Suchow, and take his capital, Nanking, in a matter of days. When this did not happen last week, they could hardly believe...
Chiang held nothing back from the Suchow battle. He concentrated his armies east of the city, relying on the fall floods to defend the swampy plain to the north and northwest. He guessed right. The Reds concentrated their attack on the east, and Chiang's men were there to meet the assault of 400,000 Communist troops in one of the greatest battles of China's history...
...Chiang had won anything at Suchow, it was only a breather. The plight of the Nationalists was still desperate, both on the Suchow front and in the north. Chiang had, however, proved against expectations that there was still plenty of fight left in his army. Whether that spirit would be enough to save China from going Communist depended on how much help it got from...
...What Shall We Do?" In the main battle, east of Suchow, government troops were forced to retreat. A mechanized group under General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish...
...fear was widespread that if the Communists won the battle of Suchow, raging crowds would spread destruction through Nanking and Shanghai. To bolster morale for the time being, a giant "Victory Parade" was ordered in Nanking. U.S. military experts on the spot did not believe that the government would have a victory to celebrate...