Word: suchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East of Taiyuan, General Chen Yi, conqueror of Tsinan, finished mopping up Shantung province and formed for a southward drive on Suchow, main Nationalist stronghold across Shantung's southern border...
Where was elusive Chen Yi headed? Weary Nationalists ticked off some of his possible alternatives. He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow. Or he might plunge toward Suchow, bastion of the Nanking-Shanghai defense area. Or he could drive down to Hankow. He might even decide to stand and fight...
...this A was a strategic necessity. Through its two-way gate Nationalists could move to conquer and hold Northern China. Communists hoped to pour through it to conquer the Yangtze Valley. But if the A was the key to Peiping and the Yangtze, the keys to the A were Suchow and Kaifeng, where the Lunghai Railroad crossed the north-south lines. This was the meaning of last week's battles for Kaifeng...