Chronicle of the First Field Army's Campaigns

Author: Xu Fulu
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: The smoke of the Anti-Japanese War had not yet subsided when a decisive battle that would determine the fate of China first emerged in the Northwest. Peng Dehuai volunteered, Mao Zedong embarked on a perilous journey, the "King of the Northwest" Hu Zongnan, a trusted relative of the Jiang family, went from glory to decline, and the final downfall of the Ma family's local power in the Northwest added to the region's brutality and mystery in the mid-20th century. This book begins with the Kuomintang-CCP negotiations in Chongqing and Hu Zongnan's offensive against the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, describing in an accurate and vivid literary manner the entire turbulent historical process as the People's Liberation Army's field armies moved from defending Yan'an, retreating south and returning north, achieving three victories in three battles, to the battles of Shajiaodian, Xifu, Libei, Xi'an, Fumei, Pingliang, and Lanzhou, until liberating Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai, and advancing into Xinjiang. It presents a magnificent scroll of poetry and history intertwined.