The Kuomintang army organized the Yangtze River defense with 700,000 troops in an attempt to prevent the PLA from crossing the river. After the three battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Ping Jin and other battles in the strategic decisive battle stage, most of the main forces of the Kuomintang army have been wiped out, and the People's Liberation Army has liberated the whole northeast, most of North China, a part of Northwest China and the vast area north of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the liberated areas have become one.

The total strength of the People's Liberation Army has grown to 4 million, with high morale, further improved equipment and more rich combat experience. It is fully confident of defeating the Kuomintang troops nationwide. The Central Military Commission decided to launch a million-strong army to cross the river and seize the political and economic center of the Kuomintang.

Extended information1949 February 1 1 day, the General Front Committee of the River Crossing Campaign was established in Zhang Caiyuan Village, Shangqiu, Henan Province. 1On March 23rd, 949, Commander Liu Bocheng successively drafted two teaching materials for crossing the river, namely, Research on Crossing the River and Tactical Guidance for Crossing the River before the Enemy, and then issued the Guidance Document for Tactical Precautions for Crossing the River, which stipulated ten important tactical principles for crossing the river and put forward specific and detailed requirements for the troops crossing the river. ?

1949 On April 20th, the Kuomintang government finally refused to sign the domestic peace agreement (final amendment). 2 1, Mao Zedong and Zhu De issued an order to March across the country.

1on the evening of April 20th, 949, and on April 20th, 2 1, the second and third field armies of the People's Liberation Army successively launched crossing the river in accordance with the orders of the Central Military Commission and the General Front Committee's "Implementation Outline of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Campaign".

With the support of artillery and engineers, they crossed the Yangtze River on the thousand-mile front from Hukou in the west to Jingjiang in the east, quickly broke through the defense of the Kuomintang army, occupied Guichi, Tongling, Wuhu, Changzhou, Jiangyin and Zhenjiang, and completely destroyed the Yangtze River defense line of the Kuomintang army.

On April 23rd, Nanjing was liberated by the Third Field Army and the Nanjing government collapsed. Then, armies from all walks of life went south, liberating Hangzhou on May 3 and Nanchang on May 22. On May 27th, 1949, the main force of Sanye captured Shanghai and Shanghai was liberated. During this period, the Fourth Field Army crossed the river south on May 14, liberated Hankou on May 16, and liberated Wuchang and Hanyang on May 17.

1June 2, 949, Chongming Island was liberated by the Third Field Army. At this point, the battle of crossing the river is over. The victory of the battle of crossing the river created favorable conditions for the People's Liberation Army to continue southward and liberate the southern provinces.

The battle of crossing the river, also known as the battle of Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, lasted 42 days. The People's Liberation Army used wooden sailboats as the main means of navigation, and broke through the Kuomintang army's Yangtze River defense line in one fell swoop, combining mobile warfare with urban warfare to encircle and annihilate its heavily armed groups.

In this campaign, the People's Liberation Army suffered more than 60,000 casualties, wiped out more than 430,000 Kuomintang troops 1 1 military headquarters and 46 divisions, and liberated Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan and other big cities as well as all of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, most of Zhejiang Province and parts of Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian and other provinces, which created important conditions for the later liberation of the whole of East China and the March to South China and Southwest China.

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