Word: tsinan
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...swirled about the city, wiped out upwards of a quarter of its Nationalist garrison in bitter fighting, then bypassed and isolated the remainder. Now the Communists were striking 100 miles farther south, toward the mud-laden Huai River, last organized defense line before Nanking. Suchow might become another Tsinan or Mukden. If the Nationalists followed their former tactics, they would sit there waiting for death...
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...
...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...
...Communists swarmed over Tsinan's business district, where Wang's reserve munitions were stored. Their plainclothes grenade squads blasted the Gate of Perpetual Safety and smashed into the last Nationalist stronghold...
...When Old Friends Meet." The Nationalists had lost more than a city of 600,000. Before the fall of Tsinan, Communist tactics had been to stick to the countryside; now they were ready to accept responsibility for one of China's richest provinces...