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Battle of Jinan
Part of Chinese Civil War
DateSeptember 16–24, 1948
Location
Jinan, Republic of China
36°40′N 116°59′E / 36.667°N 116.983°E / 36.667; 116.983
Result PLA victory
Belligerents
Republic of China Army China People's Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders

Wang Yaowu commander of the 2nd pacification zone and governor of Shandong (POW)

Wu Huawen (defected)

China Chen Yi commander-in-chief, Eastern China Field Army
China Su Yu deputy commander and political commissar
China Xu Shiyou Shandong Corps commander
China Tan Zhenlin deputy political commissar of the Eastern China Field Army, chief political commissar of Shandong

China Wang Jianan deputy commander of the Shandong Corps
Strength
104,296[citation needed][third-party source needed] 140,000 (involved in attack)[citation needed][third-party source needed]
180,000 (support)[citation needed][third-party source needed]
Casualties and losses
22,423 dead[citation needed][third-party source needed] , 61,873 captured[citation needed][third-party source needed] , 20,000 defected[citation needed][third-party source needed] 26,000 (dead and wounded)[citation needed][third-party source needed]

The Battle of Jinan[1] was a critical engagement fought between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from September 16 to September 24, 1948, during the Chinese Civil War.[2] The communist Eastern China Field Army besieged and finally captured the city of Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province and a major urban center as well as a transportation hub in northeastern China that had a population of about 600,000 at the time of the battle.[3] The communist victory set the stage for the Huaihai Campaign.[4]

The defenders of Jinan had become isolated in the summer of 1948, when the communist Eastern China Field Army commanded by Chen Yi captured the railway line south of the city.[3] In charge of the city's defense was general Wang Yaowu, he commanded nine regular brigades, five security brigades, as well as special force units amounting to a total troop strength of about 100,000.[additional citation(s) needed]

The defenses of Jinan were organized into two lines: an outer ring around the outskirts of the city and inner line following the historical city wall.[3][third-party source needed] The outer ring was fortified by a four-ply line of pillboxes, barbed wire, and a newly dug 3-meter wide moat.[3][third-party source needed] The inner ring consisted of the ancient brick wall of the city that had been strengthened with sand bags.[3][third-party source needed] The most valuable strategic assets of the city, the main airfield, the railroad station, and the commercial district, were located to the west of the historical city center and outside of the inner ring.[3][third-party source needed] Hence, they were protected only by the outer ring of defenses.[who said this?]

The communist forces encircled the city in a pincer movement carried out by an eastern and a western group. The eastern group was composed of the 9th column, the Bohai column, and one division of the Bohai military region. The western group consistent of the 3rd column, the 10th column, the Liang Guang column, four regiments of the mid-south Shandong column, and one division from the Jiluyu (Hebei-Shandong-Henan) Military Region. The 13th column served as the preparation team for the entire attack.[additional citation(s) needed]

General Wu Huawen (Chinese: 吴化文; pinyin: Wú Huàwén) was in charge of the outer ring of defenses. General Wu defected to the communist side with about 8,000 of his troops[3][verification needed][4][verification needed] before the battle began.[5] His defection may have been prompted by letter sent to him by close relatives who had been captured by the Communists in the summer.[3][verification needed] Most of Wu's troops had fought on the Japanese side during the Second Sino-Japanese War and were integrated into Su Yu's forces immediately.[5] After the outer ring of defenses was lost due to Wu's defection, communist forces launched a bloody assault on the historical city center.[4][verification needed] The historical city wall was first breached at its southeastern corner around 2am on September 24. Another breach at the southwest corner also occurred before dawn. After the city wall was breached, the remaining Kuomintang garrison was quickly overrun and captured.[additional citation(s) needed]

General Wang Yaowu tried to escape in civilian clothes but was captured in Shouguang County. Pang Jingtang[who?](Chinese: 庞镜塘; pinyin: Páng Jìngtáng), the Kuomintang party chief in Shandong as well as 23 other high-ranking Kuomintang officials were also captured.[additional citation(s) needed]

Jinan was the first major urban center to be captured by the communists (the Siege of Changchun had begun on May 23 already, but the city was only captured on October 19, 1948). Zhou Enlai hence referred to the Battle of Jinan as the starting point for the "three great battles" (Chinese: 三大战役; pinyin: sān dà zhànyì), namely the Liaoshen Campaign (the first stage of which had already begun on September 12, 1948, i.e., a few days prior to the Battle of Jinan), the Huaihai Campaign, and the Pingjin Campaign[6] that established communist control over northern China.[additional citation(s) needed]

  1. ^ M.E. Sharpe (1989). "Chinese Sociology and Anthropology".
  2. ^ Odd Arne Westad (2003). Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. Stanford Univ. Press. ISBN 9780804744843.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Ohina: [sic] Province for a Poet". Time. October 4, 1948.
  4. ^ a b c Tony Jaques (2007), Dictionary of Battles and Sieges, Greenwood Press, Volume F-O, pg. 494
  5. ^ a b Odd Arne Westad (2003): Decisive encounters: the Chinese Civil War, Stanford University Press, pg. 40
  6. ^ The Quick Success of the Jinan Campaign, official web site of the Memorial for the Battle of Jinan (in Chinese) Archived May 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

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