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...south, General Huang Wei's Twelfth Army Group continued to hold out within a five-mile area near Suhsien. Of its original force of 100,000, about 40% had been lost in two weeks. Two armies from the government's Huai River line pressed northward village by village in an effort to rescue Huang (see below). In five days they had made about 20 miles. At week's end they still...
...Nationalist forces had just set up a forward headquarters. Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...
Ropes for Passengers. If the Suchow forces were able to link up with the encircled Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 50 miles to the south, they would be a serious threat to the rear of Communist General Chen Yi, commanding the Huai River attack. Chen Yi made a quick about-face. Leaving a small holding force behind on the Huai, he sent six columns (some 125,000 men) to cope with the threat from the north...
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