Liberation War Records: Liberation of Changsha
by Lin Keke
About This Novel
In August 1949, Kuomintang Hunan Provincial Chairman Cheng Qian and First Corps Commander Chen Mingren led an uprising of 77,000 people. On August 5, the People's Liberation Army peacefully entered Changsha. This move will avoid the thousand-year-old war in the ancient city, preserve cultural heritage such as Yuelu Academy and Tianxin Pavilion, and accelerate the liberation of Hunan as a whole. The Changsha Uprising shattered Bai Chongxi's "Hunan-Kiangxi Defense Line" and caused the remaining enemies in central China to flee south to Guangxi and Guangxi. It laid the foundation for the Hengbao Battle to annihilate the main force of the Guangxi clique. Mao Zedong praised it as "producing a demonstration effect on the liberation of the southwest" and became a key turning point in the strategic pursuit phase of the Liberation War.
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