My 30000 army successfully crossed the Yangtze River south
(April 22, 1949)
Xinhua News Agency Yangtze River Front Line 22nd 2:00 PM On the 21st, approximately 300000 people of the heroic People''s Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River. The battle of crossing the river began at midnight oh, between Anqing around the ke。 The reaary fa of the Kuomintang operated the Yangtze River defense line for three and a half months, but when faced with the People''s Liberation Army, which seemed to be devastated and dipidated, the army had no fighting spirit areated oer ahe Yangtze River is calm and the waves are calm, and our army''s ten thousand ships are set sail, taking the opposite bank. Ihan 24 hours, 300000 People''s Liberation Army has already broken through the enemy line, Occupying a vast area on the south coast, we are currently advang towards cities such as Fang, Tongling, Qingyang, or Lilugang。 The People''s Liberation Army is resolutely carrying out the orders of Chairman Mao and ander in Chief Zhu with its heroic fighting style。
The People''s Liberation Army''s Million Army Crosses the Yangtze River
(April 22, 1949)
Xinhua News Agency Yangtze River Front Line 22nd 22:00 telegram The million strong army of the People''s Liberation Army broke through the enemy line from over 1000 miles and crossed the Yangtze River, starting from Jiujiang in the west and ending in Jiangyin in the east, all of which are the crossing areas of the People''s Liberation Army. From the night of the 20th, the People''s Liberation Army Middle Road Army on the north bank of the Yangtze River first broke through the Anqing Lake Ring Lio live a prosperous life. In Tongling, Qingyang, Digang and Lugang areas, 300000 people have passed within 24 hours. Starting from 5pm on the 21st, our West Route Army began crossing the Yangtze River, located in the Anqiion of Jiujiang. This peion indicated that the 350000 People''s Liberation Army had already crossed more than two-thirds of the route, After crossing the road on the 23rd, the Ministry has occupied Guichi and should flow eastward to the vast south bank of the Supervisor of the ty ty of Depengze, which is expanding southward。 Like the enemy situatioered by the tral Army, the enemies fag our Western Army retreated oer another without fighting spirit, and the resistantered by our army was very weak。 On the one hand, this situation is due to the bravery and unstoppable fighting of the People''s Liberation Army, and oher hand, it is closely reted to the refusal of the reaary Kuomintang to sign a peace agreement。 The vast number of officers and soldiers of the Kuomintang unanimously hope for pead do not want to fight again. Hearing that Nanjing refused peace, they were very disced and blossomed. Tang Enbo went to the Yellow Lake on the 21st to supervise the war, which did not py any role. Tang Enbo believes that the Nanjing Jianghuai defense line is a very strong weakness, whily exists in the front line of Jiujiang, Nanjing。 Uedly, it was the day Tang Enbo arrived at the Yellow Lake that our army broke through the eastern defense line again. Our 350000 army on the East Road and the West Road unched a cross river battle on the same day, and all pnned pns have been achieved。 By the time of the peion, most of our eastern armies had crossed the south bank, and the remaining troops could cross this area by the 23rd. The resistance was retively tenacious, and it was difficult to defeat all the resistanemies in the fierce battle from the afternoon of the 21st to the afternoon of the 22nd. I had occupied the vast areas of Yangzhong Zhenjiang and Jianghuai ties, trolled the Jianghuai fortress, and blocked the Yangtze River. Our army had already cut off the railway line of the Wuxi se of Zhuzhenjiang in the night ahead。