Gongzhutun Campaign | |||||||
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Part of the Chinese Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
National Revolutionary Army |
People's Liberation Army |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Chen Cheng |
Lin Biao Luo Ronghuan |
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Strength | |||||||
100,000 | 120,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
20,000 | 10,000 |
Gongzhutun Campaign (公主屯战役) was a series of battles fought in the regions of Gongzhutun (公主屯, Princess Village) in Northeast China between the nationalists and the communists during the Chinese Civil War in the post-World War II era and resulted in communist victory. The campaign was part of the Winter Offensive of 1947 in Northeast China.
After witnessing the separate enemy offensives at regions including Northern Ticket (Beipiao, 北票), Black Mountain (Heshan, 黑山), Greater Tiger Mountain, (大虎山), Tai’an (台安) in late December, 1947, and learning that the communist 1st column and the 2nd column remained at Zhangwu in the second stage of the Winter Offensive of 1947 in Northeast China, Chen Cheng believed that the communist force was no longer concentrated together and thus he had an opportunity to launch a counterattack. The five nationalist armies deployed at Shenyang, Xinmin and Tieling were ordered to attack westward from Shenyang, hoping to relieve Faku (法库) by destroying the communist 1st column, 6th column, and the 10th column. The nationalist push begun on January 1, 1948, in three fronts:
Learning the news of the nationalists sending out reinforcement, and the 195th Division of the nationalist Newly Organized 5th Army was moving toward the Princess Village (Gongzhutun, 公主屯) region on January 2, 1948, the communists planned to concentrate a total of 7 columns to destroy the weakest nationalist southern front: