Qualla: Battle of Jinzhou https://qualla.com/battle-of-jinzhou en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:39 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Jinzhou https://qualla.com/battle-of-jinzhou Battle of Jinzhou: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-jinzhou/ Mao Zedong's telegram was blunt: capture Jinzhou in one week. The city sat at the mouth of the Liaoxi Corridor, the narrow land route connecting Manchuria to the rest of China through Shanhai Pass. Whoever held Jinzhou controlled the gate. In October 1948, the People's Liberation Army threw 900 artillery pieces at that gate, and the Chinese Civil War pivoted on what happened next.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/q/1/battle-of-jinzhou-wp/wxq1-battle-of-jinzhou-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Jinzhou: The Key to the Corridor https://qualla.com/battle-of-jinzhou/ Jinzhou's strategic importance was geographical destiny. The city guards the point where the main route from central China passes through Shanhai Pass into the vast plains of Manchuria. For Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces, Jinzhou was the link that kept their armies in the n...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/q/1/battle-of-jinzhou-wp/wxq1-battle-of-jinzhou-clearing-the-approaches.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Jinzhou: Thirty-One Hours https://qualla.com/battle-of-jinzhou/ On October 14, 1948, the PLA unleashed its artillery. Nine hundred pieces -- the largest concentration of Communist firepower in the war to that point -- opened up on Jinzhou's defensive line. The barrage was overwhelming, a wall of explosives that shattered fortifications built ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/q/1/battle-of-jinzhou-wp/wxq1-battle-of-jinzhou-thirty-one-hours.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Jinzhou: The Door Slams Shut https://qualla.com/battle-of-jinzhou/ The fall of Jinzhou was the domino that toppled Manchuria. With the corridor closed, Nationalist forces in the northeast were cut off from retreat or resupply. The Liaoshen Campaign rolled forward to its conclusion: Changchun surrendered, Shenyang fell, and by November 1948, the ...

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