Liberation War Records: Liberation of Guangzhou
by Lin Keke
About This Novel
In October 1949, the 15th Corps of the Fourth Field Army launched the Guangdong Campaign. After annihilating Bai Chongxi's main force in the Battle of Hengbao, Si Ye quickly advanced southward along the Guangdong-Han Railway and captured Guangzhou, the largest city in South China, at dusk on the 14th. The Yu Hanmou Group of the National Army fled to Hainan, leaving only a small force to blow up the Haizhu Bridge but failed. This battle cut off the Kuomintang's "Hunan-Guangdong defense line" and captured 714 artillery pieces and 67 ships, thus protecting the economic lifeline of the south. The liberation of Guangzhou marked the end of the Nationalist Government's rule on the mainland (Li Zongren fled to Chongqing on October 12) and opened the prelude to the liberation of Hainan and Southwest China.
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