Word: tsinan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces battered and blackmailed their way into Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, last week. The city's fall put the Communists astride a rail and road net to north & south, east & west. The "North China People's Government," recently proclaimed by the Reds, became a reality...
Handsome General Wang Yao-wu, governor of Shantung, had fought a losing battle for more than a year. His troops had struggled against dwindling supplies, semi-starvation, hordes of refugees and crumbling morale. Across the Yellow River, ten miles from Wang's Tsinan headquarters, wily Communist Commander Chen Yi, a strategist and a poet, had set up a "reception house," vigorously spread the word that all hungry Nationalist deserters would be welcome...
Persuasive Mail. Last summer. Chen Yi overran the railroad south of Tsinan. Isolated and besieged, Wang strengthened his defenses. He threw a four-ply line of pillboxes and barbed wire around the outskirts of the city, dug a ten-foot moat. After seeing that the ancient brick wall around the inner city was properly sandbagged, he flew down to Nanking. He asked for one more division-with which, he said, Tsinan could be held. While he pleaded, Chen Yi struck...
...line defending the capital's most vital points-the main airfield, the railroad station and the commercial district, all outside the old city wall. Suddenly, on the fourth day of battle, Wu turned traitor, led some 8,000 of his men over into the Communist lines. Tsinan's outer defenses collapsed...
...this week Chen had again proved his catlike ability to survive disasters. In a series of swift, well-timed drives, slashing behind the Nationalist lines, he had won back nearly all of Shantung. General Wang Yao-wu, the Nationalist provisional governor, was bottled up in his capital at Tsinan. Chen's surging armies threatened to burst out of the province and imperil the entire shaky Nationalist defense system in Central China...