Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...province to province. Chiang made the south too hot for the Communists, but in 1934, led by Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, they marched 6,000 miles from the farthest point in Fukien Province to the red loess hills of Shensi, and set up a Communist capital at Yenan...
Last year, after capturing the Red capi tal of Yenan, Hu must have felt that his job was done. He got married. But last March Hu had fresh cause to thump and howl : wily Communist General Peng Teh-huai had sprung an ambush at Ichuan, killed and captured 20,000 of Hu's best troops (TIME, March 22). Then Peng cut below Yenan, Stonewall Jackson fashion, and, in a forced march of 100 miles, launched his 60,000 troops into the broad South Shensi valleys. He was driving to ward the lush granary of Szechuan Prov ince - never...
General Hu had to abandon Yenan to save his northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...
...from the family. Last week, at 48, Peng Teh-huai, as the second ranking general of Communist China, was still going strong. He was basking in kudos from the Communist Central Committee for the "brilliant victory" he had scored over a Nationalist force at Ichuan, 60 miles southeast of Yenan...
...fortnight ago, at Yenan, Nationalist General Hu Tsung-nan decided to beat the Communists to the punch. Two army divisions, under Generals Liu Kan and Yen Ming, marched south. West of Ichuan they met the Red force. Six hours later the Nationalists had suffered 20,000 casualties. Only 2,000 soldiers escaped. Both General Liu and General Yen lay dead...