Chronicle of the First Field Army's Campaigns

Author: Xu Fulu
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: The smoke of the Anti-Japanese War had not yet cleared when a decisive battle that would determine the fate of China first emerged in the Northwest. Peng Dehuai volunteered for duty, Mao Zedong, due to the danger, replied with the nickname "King of the Northwest" for Hu Zongnan, a trusted relative of the Jiang family, who rose and fell, and the eventual downfall of Ma Jiajun, the local strongman in the Northwest, added to the cruelty and mystery of the mid-20th century Northwest. This book begins with the Kuomintang-CCP negotiations in Chongqing and Hu Zongnan's offensive against the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia agreement area, describing in an accurate and vivid literary manner the entire turbulent historical process as the People's Liberation Army's field army units defend Yan'an, move south and north, achieve three victories in a row, and engage in battles such as Shajiaodian, Xifu, Libei, Xi'an, Fumei, Pingliang, and Lanzhou, until liberating Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai, and advancing into Xinjiang, presenting a magnificent scroll of poetry and history intertwined. The book begins with the Kuomintang-CCP negotiations in Chongqing and Hu Zongnan's offensive against the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area, describing in an accurate and vivid literary manner the entire turbulent historical process as the People's Liberation Army's field army units defend Yan'an, move south and north, achieve three victories in a row, and engage in battles such as Shajiaodian, Xifu, Libei, Xi'an, and Fumei, until liberating Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai, and advancing into Xinjiang.