Guangxi campaign

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Guangxi campaign
Part of Chinese Civil War
DateOctober 31 – December 14, 1949
Location
Guangxi province
Result Communist victory
Territorial
changes
Guangxi captured by the PLA
Belligerents
People's Liberation Army Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Liberation Army Flag of the Republic of China Army.svg National Revolutionary Army
Commanders and leaders
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lin Biao Flag of the Republic of China.svg Bai Chongxi
Flag of the Republic of China.svg Zhang Gan
Strength
14th Army, 15th Army and 43rd Army of PLA IV Corps (part of the Fourth Field Army) and Second Field Army 7th Army, 48th Army and 126th Army of NRA III Corps and NRA XI Corps
Casualties and losses
60,000+

The Guangxi campaign was a campaign fought between the nationalists and the communists during the Chinese Civil War. It resulted in a victory for the communists and the capture of Guangxi province.

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Bobai campaign

After the nationalist offensive in the southern front had been defeated by the advance communist, Bai Chongxi ordered the nationalist III Corps and XI Corps to immediately retreat. The communist forces at the southern front consisted of units of the communist II Field Army and Fourth Field Army begun the pursuit on November 27, 1949. To boost morale, the nationalist commander-in-chief Zhang Gan (张淦) decided to be the last to retreat and his III Corps headquarters remained behind in the town of Bobai (博白), but this was detected by the attack communists in the afternoon of December 30, 1949. Two regiments of the communist 43rd Army was immediately dispatched to attack the town and reached the town by 8:00 PM on the same day. After breaching the defense of the town at the northern and eastern gates, the attacking communists managed to besiege the surviving nationalists at their corps headquarters located in the library building. After fierce street fights, the battle ended on 10:30 PM on December 30, 1949, with communist victory, and Zhang Gan (张淦), the nationalist commander-in-chief of the III Corps was captured alive with most of his staff. Meantime, the forces of the communist IV Corps from regions of Hua (化) county, and Zhangjiang (漳江) had badly mauled the 48th Army of the nationalist III Corps and then also approached the town of Bobai (博白).

While the communists were attacking the besieged the town of Bobai (博白), the nationalist commander-in-chief Zhang Gan (张淦) ordered the 7th Army, 48th Army and 126th Army of the III Corps to counterattack toward the town. In the early morning of December 1, 1949, the three nationalist armies had approached the town of Bobai (博白), but as the nationalists learned that their corps headquarters had been annihilated and their commander-in-chief was captured alive by the enemy, the nationalist morale collapsed. Taking the advantage of the situation, the communist 43rd Army, 14th Army and 15th Army immediately launched an offensive against the three nationalist armies, and by 3:00 pm, the campaign concluded with the most of nationalists killed or captured.

The communist victory of the Bobai campaign (博白战役) resulted in the near total annihilation of the nationalist III Corps, with the exception of a portion of nationalist 126th Army successfully retreating westward. The loss of the nationalist III Corps resulted in the further weakening of the nationalist defense in Guangxi while the communist victory of the Guangxi campaign was further guaranteed.

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