Word: yi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After twelve days of bitter fighting, both sides were in precarious positions. One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients. The Red generals Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng were trying to reinforce their badly mauled forces; the Communist supply lines from the north were long, and open to air attack in coverless terrain...
...left flank, to the north, were four Communist columns under Red General Chen Yi. Chiu's right flank to the south was menaced by another eight columns of Chen's troops. Ahead, Li and Chiu faced three strong Communist defense lines between them and the beleaguered General Huang. "This is the bitterest fighting I have ever experienced," said General Li. "I have orders from the Generalissimo to advance at any cost. Communists we have captured say they have been told to fight to the death to hold the line." In eight days Li had advanced ten miles...
Just before his visit to Suchow battlefield, TIME'S Robert Doyle had a look at North China. There Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi, with Reds north, east and south of him, was pulling back from advance positions, preparing for a last-ditch defense of Peiping and Tientsin. Doyle's report...
Suchow, junction point of the south-north rail line from Nanking and the east-west Lunghai line to the coast, is a drab, unlovely city, protected by a rim of well-fortified, rocky hills. By week's end Communist General Chen Yi's mobile columns had swung around Suchow, cut all rail lines and brought the main airfield under artillery bombardment. Officers of Nationalist "Bandit Suppression Headquarters" hastily flew south to set up quarters nearer Nanking...
...that Mukden has fallen (TIME, Nov. 8), Taiyuan has become the prime Communist objective in North China. Taiyuan, surrounded capital of Shansi Province, is the last island of resistance protecting the southern flank of Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. For three years Taiyuan's commander, oldtime warlord Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, has fought off increasingly heavy Communist attacks. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle flew in to visit the marshal. Doyle cabled...