Liaoshen campaign

Liaoshen campaign
Part of the Chinese Civil War
Battle of Jinzhou
Date 12 September 1948 – 2 November 1948 (1 month and 3 weeks) Location Manchuria Result Communist victory Territorial changes Capture of Northeast China by the Communists
Belligerents
Republic of China Republic of China Army	Communist Party Northeast Field Army
Commanders and leaders
Wei Lihuang Fan Hanjie (POW) Zheng Dongguo  Du Yuming Liao Yaoxiang (POW) Lu Junquan (POW) Zhou Fucheng [zh] (POW) Hou Jingru	Lin Biao Luo Ronghuan Liu Yalou Xiao Jinguang Cheng Zihua
Strength
580,000[1]	700,000
Casualties and losses
~472,000 (including non-combat losses)[2]	69,000

The Liaoshen campaign (Chinese: 辽沈会战; pinyin: Liáoshěn huìzhàn), an abbreviation of Liaoning–Shenyang campaign after the province of Liaoning and its Yuan directly administered capital city Shenyang, was the first of the three major military campaigns (along with Huaihai campaign and Pingjin campaign) launched by the Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Kuomintang Nationalist government during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War. This engagement is also known to the Kuomintang as the Liaohsi campaign (Chinese: 遼西會戰; pinyin: Liáoxī huìzhàn), and took place between September and November 1948, lasting a total of 52 days. The campaign ended after the Nationalist forces suffered sweeping defeats across Manchuria, losing the major cities of Jinzhou, Changchun, and eventually Shenyang in the process, leading to the capture of the whole of Manchuria by the Communist forces. The victory of the campaign resulted in the Communists achieving a strategic numerical advantage over the Nationalists for the first time in its history.