Huai Hai Campaign
| Huaihai Campaign | |||||||||
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| Part of the Chinese Civil War | |||||||||
 PLA troops, supported by M5 Stuart light tanks, engage ROC army lines |
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| 800,000 combatants | 660,000 regulars | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 550,000 | 136,524 | ||||||||
Huaihai Campaign (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) or Battle of Hsupeng (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: , also Battle of Xu-Beng) was a military action during 1948 and 1949 that was the decisive battle of the Chinese Civil War. It was one of the few conventional battles of the war. 550,000 troops of the Republic of China (led by Kuomintang) were surrounded in Xuzhou (Hsuchow) and destroyed by the communist People's Liberation Army (PLA). This campaign is one of the three campaigns that marked the end of Nationalist dominance in northern China, the other two campaigns being Liaoshen and Pingjin.
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