Word: szepingkai
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...against North Viet Nam, which he calls "an insurmountable obstacle to discussions," would have to be suspended as a precondition to the truce. For another, they noted that any such truce could become a trap. They recalled in particular how the Chinese Communists, routed in the battle of Szepingkai in 1946 and on the brink of losing all of Manchuria to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, pressured U.S. mediators into calling for a standstill, then used the precious time to regroup. The Chinese later exploited the Korean peace talks at Panmunjom, which dragged on for two years...
...news from Manchuria was almost as bad as the Shensi catastrophe. Kirin, a fat prize with its huge Hsiaofengmen hydroelectric plant (power source for Changchun and Mukden industries), fell to the Reds. Then, after an eleven-day onslaught, the Reds took Szepingkai. Only Mukden and Changchun held out. When they fell, 300,000 more Red soldiers could plunge south into the heart of China...
...meant that there was no longer a land corridor into Manchuria for the Nationalists. Ninety-nine percent of the land area of Manchuria was in the hands of the Reds; 1% was in General Wei's. That 1% consisted principally of the cities of Mukden, Changchun, Kirin and Szepingkai-dwindling islands of resistance. What remained for the Communist armies under General Lin Piao was simply...
Government strategy seemed to be to let the Communist blows at the communications lines spend themselves, defend the main cities: Changchun, Szepingkai, Mukden-then sally out to restore the lines once more...
...South Manchuria, except Dairen and Port Arthur which are occupied by the troops of the Soviet Union. But Communist troops hold all the rest of Manchuria, except a long finger-shaped salient from Mukden to Kirin. This salient follows what was once the major railroad of Manchuria, passing through Szepingkai and Changchun. It is a railroad no longer. Communists have destroyed every bridge north of a point 30 miles to the south of Szepingkai. Most of the ties have been burned, and many of the rails twisted by placing them across the blazing ties...