✦ History

Part of Chinese Civil War

Pingjin Campaign

November 29, 1948 – January 31, 1949 · Beijing

Result Communist victory

PLA campaign in north China, 29 November 1948 to 31 January 1949; ended Nationalist dominance of the North China Plain with the fall of Beijing and Tianjin.

On the map Contemporaries

Nationalists

Communists

Other

Republic of China
Communist Party of China
Fu Zuoyi General, Commander in North China; negotiated the peaceful surrender of Beiping Chen Changjie military commander Guo Jingyun military commander
Lin Biao General, Commander of the Northeast Field Army Nie Rongzhen military commander Luo Ronghuan military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
600,000
Casualties
c. 520,000
Strength
1,000,000
Casualties
39,000

Units

Fourth Field Army 118th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)
79th Group Army

Related events 1 degree away • 2 degrees away

1949
 
Huaihai Campaign
 
Pingjin Campaign
 
Yangtze River Crossing campaign

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