October 5, 1948 – April 24, 1949 (6 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
Location
Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
Result
Communist victory
Belligerents
Flag of the National Revolutionary Army
Republic of China Army
PLA
People's Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Yan Xishan Sun Chu 孫楚 (POW) Wang Jingguo 王靖国 (POW)
Xu Xiangqian Peng Dehuai
Strength
135,000 at Taiyuan 10,000 at Datong
320,000
Casualties and losses
135,000 at Taiyuan 10,000 at Datong
45,000
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Campaigns of the Chinese Civil War
Outline of the Chinese Civil War
First Phase (1927–1937)
Autumn Harvest Uprising
Encirclement campaigns
Long March
Resumption of hostilities (1945–1949)
Operation Beleaguer
Northeast China
Liaoshen
Huaihai
Pingjin
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Hainan
Guningtou
Wanshan
Aftermath
Xinjiang
Kuomintang Islamic insurgency
China–Burma border
Cross-strait conflict
The Taiyuan campaign was a campaign of the Chinese Civil War fought between the nationalist and communist factions. The campaign was over the control of Taiyuan, the capital of the province of Shanxi, China. The campaign resulted in a communist victory.
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