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Battle of Nanpeng Archipelago
Part of the Cross-Strait conflict
Date September 20, 1952 – October 20, 1952 Location Nanpeng Archipelago, Nan'ao County, Eastern Guangdong province, China Result Communist victory
Belligerents
Republic of China	People's Republic of China
Commanders and leaders
Huang Songsheng †	Liu Cunzhi Zhang Wannian
Strength
More than 150 soldiers	Around 400 soldiers
Casualties and losses
106 killed and 40+ captured	89 killed and 300+ wounded

The Battle of Nanpeng Archipelago was fought between the Chinese nationalists and the communists over the islands of the Nanpeng Archipelago off the Cantonese coast. The Nanpeng Archipelago is a small island chain in Nan'ao County off the coast of Shantou, and is named after the largest island, Nanpeng island (Nánpēng Dǎo, 南澎岛), home to a fishing community of more than 400 people. The archipelago was deemed not important for most of the Chinese Civil War and the nationalists therefore did not deploy any troops on the island, and when Guangdong fell into the communist hands, the archipelago also fell. The communists believed the same thing the nationalists had believed and did not deploy any troops to the archipelago either after the nationalists withdrew, but small patrol teams of 2 to 3 were regularly sent to many of the islands.