✦ History

Part of Chinese Civil War

Taiyuan Campaign

October 5, 1948 – April 24, 1949 · Taiyuan Campaign

Result Communist victory

Communist armies besieged and took Taiyuan, Yan Xishan's capital in Shanxi.

On the map Contemporaries

Nationalists

Communists

Republic of China
Communist-controlled China
Yen Hsi-shan belligerent leader Wang Ching-kuo military commander Sun Chu military commander
Peng Dehuai military commander Xu Xiangqian military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
135,000
Casualties
135,000
Strength
320,000
Casualties
45,000