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...less likely possibility is Fu Tso-yi, energetic and relatively successful commander in the northwest. Fu is not a member of the Whampoa group but would probably be more acceptable to it than would Li. Fu and Li are both members of the Tsa-Pai (mixed label) group...
Last week pursuing Nationalists found Chen Yi waiting for them on a battlefield of his own choosing. Chen's 100,000 Red troops were ranged along a 35-mile stretch of Honan basin land below the Lunghai railroad. The core of Chen's force was made up of veterans of his slashing campaigns in Shantung province. These tough regulars were fleshed out with elements from the army of one-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng, and local Red guerrilla bands...
Then the Red attack stalled. As they arrived, more & more Nationalist divisions were fed into the fight. Nationalist planes strafed and bombed the. encircling Communist lines. When repeated assaults failed, Chen Yi tried a last dodge. Loudspeakers in his trenches cried to the surrounded Fifth Army divisions: "Save yourselves needless sacrifice! Rise up and join the anti-Chiang united front...
...propaganda bullets were as ineffective as the lead ones. The Red position worsened. After nine days' fighting, Communist Chen Yi abandoned the field, slipped north to his old Shantung stamping ground, where he could return to harassing hit-run tactics...