Liberation War Documentary: Liberation of Taiyuan
by Lin Keke
About This Novel
In October 1948, the North China Field Army launched the Taiyuan Campaign to attack the "Bunker City" that Yan Xishan had run for 38 years. Xu Xiangqian commanded an army of 200,000. After half a year of bloody battles, he cleared more than a hundred peripheral strongholds. The general offensive was launched on April 24, 1949. It took only 4 hours to break through the city and annihilate all 124,000 enemy defenders, ending Yan Xishan's rule in Shanxi. This battle was the most brutal urban assault in the Liberation War. The People's Liberation Army suffered 45,000 casualties. It destroyed the "model fortress" of the National Army, uprooted the last anti-communist bastion in North China, and laid the foundation for the liberation of the northwest battlefield.
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