The three major battles refer to the three large-scale battles fought by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the strategic defense stage during the Liberation War. In chronological order, they are the Liaoshen Campaign, the Huaihai Campaign, and the Pingjin Campaign.
Liaoshen Campaign: Began on September 12, 1948 and ended on November 2 of the same year, lasting 52 days. This battle was a strategic offensive campaign carried out by the Chinese People's Liberation Army against the Kuomintang troops in the northeast region, and the Northeast People's Liberation Army mobilized the strength and determination of more than 700,000 people in the entire northeast region, and paid about 690,000 people, annihilated the Kuomintang Army's regular army 1 "suppression" headquarters, 1 command post, 4 corps headquarters, 11 military headquarters, 36 divisions (brigades), and 9 irregular army divisions (corps), a total of 45 divisions, more than 470,000 people. It was an important battle of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the strategic defense stage.
Strategic significance: This battle liberated the entire territory of Northeast China, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army officially gained an advantage in the number comparison with the Kuomintang army, and mastered a large number of ** equipment and materials, which greatly boosted the overall morale of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. At the same time, the northeast region has excellent geography, rich resources, and a relatively good industrial and agricultural foundation, which provides great material support for the follow-up war in which the Chinese People's Liberation Army continues to advance southward and eventually liberates the whole country.
Huaihai Campaign: From November 6, 1948 to January 10, the Chinese People's Liberation Army carried out a large-scale strategic offensive against the Kuomintang army in a vast area centered on Xuzhou, which was also the largest and largest number of troops in the history of Chinese warfare. The campaign lasted 66 days, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army fought 600,000 against the enemy 800,000, with about 13At the cost of 70,000 people, the Kuomintang Army wiped out 1 "suppression" forward headquarters, 5 corps, and 1 "appeasement" area of the Kuomintang Army, totaling 56 divisions and more than 550,000 people (including surrender and uprising reorganization), which was a brilliant classic battle in the history of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in which fewer won more.
Strategic significance: The KMT's elite divisions in the Central Plains and East China battlefields were almost completely lost, the vast areas north of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were liberated by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and Nanjing, the center of its rule, was under the direct threat of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the KMT's reactionary ruling clique was increasingly falling into disintegration. So far, the vast area north of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has been liberated, laying the foundation for the PLA to cross the river and liberate the whole of China.
Pingjin Campaign: From November 29, 1948 to January 31, 1949, in North China, the Northeast Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the troops of the North China Military Region kept the Kuomintang Fu Zuoyi clique in Beiping (Beijing), Tianjin, and Zhangjiakou areas, and fought a strategic decisive battle to annihilate each other. It was a strategic offensive campaign carried out by the Chinese People's Liberation Army against the Kuomintang army in North China, and it was also the last major battle in the northern battlefield during the Liberation War. The campaign lasted 64 days, and the People's Liberation Army **390,000 people, eliminating more than 520,000 people (including 250,000 reorganization) of a strategic group of the Kuomintang army, basically liberating the entire territory of North China.
Strategic significance: The victory of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in this battle was the result of a combination of military strikes and political struggles, which completely changed China's political pattern, and the ancient cultural capital of Beiping and the industrial and commercial city of Tianjin returned to the people. It laid an important foundation for the victory of the Liberation War. The conquest of Tianjin, the peaceful liberation of Beiping, and the peaceful reorganization of the Suiyuan Kuomintang garrison through the work of Fu Zuoyi and others after the liberation of Beiping, provided the People's Liberation Army with the solution of the remnants of the Kuomintang army"Tianjin way"、"Peking way"with"Suiyuan way"。It laid an important foundation for the complete victory of the Liberation War.
After these three large-scale battles, the Chinese People's Liberation Army basically wiped out the main force of the Kuomintang army, laid the foundation for the victory of the Chinese revolution throughout the country, and fully embodied the heroic and revolutionary spirit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.