Dabie Mountains Campaign

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The Dabie Mountains Campaign was a major Chinese Civil War offensive in 1947 in which Communist forces, led in part by Liu Bocheng, penetrated deep into Nationalist-held central China to establish a strategic base area.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese Civil War battle
military campaign
belligerent People's Liberation Army
surface form: Chinese Communist forces

Nationalist government forces
commander Deng Xiaoping
Liu Bocheng
conflict Chinese Civil War
countryInvolved Republic of China
location Dabie Mountains
border region of Hubei, Henan, and Anhui provinces
central China
militaryBranch Communist field armies
Nationalist regular army units
namedAfter Dabie Mountains
objective establish a strategic Communist base area in central China
penetrate deep into Nationalist-held central China
opponent Central Army of the Kuomintang
surface form: Kuomintang forces
participant National Revolutionary Army
People's Liberation Army
partOf Dabie Mountains Campaign self-linksurface differs
surface form: Chinese Communist military offensives of 1947
result Communist strategic success
establishment of a Communist base in the Dabie Mountains
significance created conditions for later Communist advances toward the Yangtze River
expanded Communist presence into central China
weakened Nationalist control of central China
startTime 1947
strategy deep penetration into enemy rear
mobile warfare behind enemy lines
theaterOfWar Central China Front
surface form: Central China theater
timePeriod late phase of the Chinese Civil War

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Liu Bocheng battle Dabie Mountains Campaign
Liu Bocheng battle Dabie Mountains Campaign
this entity surface form: Liu-Deng Army campaigns in Central Plains
Hunan Province historicalEvent Dabie Mountains Campaign
this entity surface form: Chinese Civil War campaigns
Dabie Mountains Campaign partOf Dabie Mountains Campaign self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Chinese Communist military offensives of 1947