Word: szepingkai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Manchuria, the Government had 150,000 of its best regular troops, many of them trained and equipped by the U.S. for fighting Japs. They were strong enough to batter the Reds away from the rail lines at Szepingkai this month in a major engagement. But the Government was not getting much out of what it held of Manchuria. The big coal mines were shut down; the harvest could not be moved over transport lines broken by Communists...