Major conflict1948

Liaoshen campaign

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Jinzhou · Changchun · Shenyang (Mukden) · Manchuria

Estimated casualties

539Ksingle estimate · no range published

Nationalist forces suffered over 470,000 casualties (killed, wounded, captured); PLA losses about 69,000. Combined ~539,000.

SOURCEWikipedia

First of the three decisive campaigns of the Chinese Civil War (September–November 1948), in which Lin Biao's Communist Northeast Field Army destroyed the Nationalist armies in Manchuria, capturing Jinzhou, Changchun, and Shenyang.

Belligerents2

People's Liberation Army (Communist)
National Revolutionary Army (Nationalist)

Sources

Wikipedia: Liaoshen campaign
Odd Arne Westad, Decisive Encounters
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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