- Campaign to Suppress Bandits in the Border Region of Hunan–Hubei–Sichuan
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict= Campaign to Suppress Bandits in the border region ofHuan -Hubei -Sichuan
partof=theChinese Civil War
place=Border region ofHunan -Hubei -Sichuan ,China
date=October 15 ,1950 -November 30 ,1950
result=Communist victory
combatant1=
combatant2=
commander1=
Qu Boping 瞿波平
Shi Xingzhou 师兴周
Cao Zhenya 曹振亚
commander2=
?
strength1= 10,000+
strength2= 13,000
casualties1= 10,000+
casualties2= 13,000|Campaign to Suppress Bandits in the border region of the
Hubei -Hunan -Sichuan (湘鄂川边剿匪) was a counter-guerrilla / counterinsurgency campaign the communists fought against theKuomintang guerrilla left behind after the nationalist government withdrew from mainland China. The campaign was actually fought after theChinese Civil War was declared over by the PRC in Beijing a year earlier, and took place in the border regions of the following three Chinese provinces:Hubei ,Hunan , andSichuan , and resulted incommunist victory. This campaign was part ofCampaign to Suppress Bandits in Central and Southern China .Order of battle Nationalists (over 10,000)
* Anticommunist Salvation Army of theHuan -Hubei -Sichuan Border Region commanded by Qu Boping (瞿波平)
*Military and Political Committee of theHunan -Hubei -Sichuan Border Region commanded by Shi Xingzhou (师兴周)
* Temporarily Organized 5th Division commanded by Cao Zhenya (曹振亚)Communists (18 battalions totaling more than 13,000)
*Two battalions of the 421st Regiment of the 141st Army
*2nd Battalion of the 422nd Regiment of the 141st Army
*Units of the 423rd Regiment of the 141st Army
*Units of the Independent Regiment of communistEnshi Military Sub-District.
*Units of the Laifeng (来凤) county battalion.Campaign
Communists decided to eradicate more than ten thousand nationalist guerrillas mostly consisted of bandits in the border region of
Huan -Hubei -Sichuan , in a vast area bordered by Laifeng (来凤) county inHubei in the north, Sangzhi (桑植) and Shuishun (水顺) in the east, Yongsui (永绥) county and Baojing (保靖) County inHunan in the south, and Youyang in the west. Communist westernHunan Military Sub-District formed the Northern Front Bandit Eradication Command, and made plans with other communist forces in adjacent regions under the direction of communistHunan Military District.On
October 15 ,1950 , communists attacked the nationalist stronghold in the Dragon (龙) Mountain in multiple directions. After more than twenty days of fighting, more than four thousand bandits were annihilated in the northern part of the Dragon (龙) Mountain by two battalions of the 421st Regiment of the communist 141st Division. In the meantime, communist troops of the communistEnshi Military Sub-District killed over nineteen hundred bandits of the nationalist Anticommunist Salvation Army ofHuan -Hubei -Sichuan Border Region in the Dragon (龙) Mountain. Another twelve hundred bandits also surrendered. The commander of the nationalist Anticommunist Salvation Army of theHuan -Hubei -Sichuan Border Region, Qu Boping (瞿波平), with only several bodyguards left was eventually forced to surrender to the communists on November, 1950 with the remaining survivors.To the southwest of the Dragon (龙) Mountain, the other band of bandits was also badly mauled by the attacking communists in the border region of
Sichuan –Hunan . As the nationalist survivors attempted to flee intoSichuan , they were beaten back by the communist forces of the communist Youyang Military Sub-District. The 2nd Battalions of the 422nd Regiment of the communist 141st Division launched a mop up operation with the help of other communist units and succeeded in killing more than nine hundred bandits. The nationalist commander of the bandit, Shi Xingzhou (师兴周), was eventually forced to surrender with the last survivors to the communists after holding out for more than twenty days.The remnant of the nationalist Temporarily Organized 5th Division fled to the north of Yongshun (永顺) County, where they were surrounded by units of the 421st Regiment and units of the 423rd Regiment of the communist 141st Division, and units of the Independent Regiment of communist
Enshi Military Sub-District. In the battle at Nine Dragons (九龙) Mountain, Cao Zhenya (曹振亚), the commander of the nationalist Temporarily Organized 5th Division was killed and the surviving fifteen hundred nationalist guerrillas were completely annihilated. The campaign concluded with communist victory and in addition to annihilating over ten thousand bandits, including more than a hundred and ten nationalist commanders, the communists also managed to capture over seven thousand guns.ee also
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