Battle of Guningtou

Battle of Kuningtou
Part of the Cross-Strait conflict

Today's Kinmen County, ROC (Taiwan) (red) off the coast of Mainland China (light grey), relative to the rest of Taiwan (dark gray, in inset). Greater Kinmen (Quemoy) is the largest red highlighted island.
DateOctober 25–27, 1949
Location
Today's Jinning Township, Greater Kinmen Island (Quemoy), Kinmen County, Fujian Province (Fukien), Republic of China
Result Nationalist victory
Belligerents
Taiwan Republic of China China People's Republic of China
Commanders and leaders
Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek
Taiwan Tang Enbo
Taiwan Hu Lien
Japan Hiroshi Nemoto		 China Mao Tse-tung
China Chen Yi
China Su Yu
China Ye Fei
Strength
Roughly 40,000 garrisoned troops mainly from the ROC 18th Army, 22nd Army, 12th Army (more reinforcements arrived after the battle however)
Air support from ROC Air Force
Maritime support from ROC Navy[1]		 19,000 infantry from PLA 29th Army Corps and the 244th, 246th, 251st, 253rd regiments from the PLA 28th Army Corps (Only 9,086 actually landed)
200 landing vessels (mostly confiscated fishing boats)
Mainland artillery support
Casualties and losses
1,267 killed
1,982 wounded[2]		 3,873 killed
5,175 captured[3]

The Battle of Kuningtou[4] or Battle of Guningtou (Chinese: 古寧頭之役; pinyin: Gǔníngtóu zhī yì; Wade–Giles: Ku3-ning2-t’ou2 chih1 i4), also known as the Battle of Kinmen (金門戰役; Jīnmén Zhànyì), was fought over Kinmen in the Taiwan Strait during the Chinese Civil War in 1949. The failure of the Communists to take the island left it in the hands of the Kuomintang (Nationalists) and crushed their chances of taking Taiwan to destroy the Nationalists completely in the war.[5][6][7]

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  2. ^ 老衲 (2002). "古寧頭之役的回顧". 四海一家軍事網. Archived from the original on June 8, 2004. Retrieved June 1, 2004. Chinese language only. See 戰果
  3. ^ 老衲 [2002]. See 戰果.
  4. ^ "Chiang Kai-shek (1st–5th terms)". Office of the President Republic of China (Taiwan). Retrieved September 29, 2019. 1949-10-26 Taiwan wins victory in Battle of Kuningtou against Chinese Communists in Kinmen.
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  6. ^ "金門古寧頭戰役(二)". YouTube (in Chinese). September 3, 2009. Archived from the original on October 3, 2023.
  7. ^ "金門古寧頭戰役(三)". YouTube (in Chinese). September 3, 2009. Archived from the original on October 3, 2023.