Campaign to Defend Siping

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Campaign to Defend Siping
Part of the Chinese Civil War
Chinese Communist machinegun position
Date 17 April – 19 May 1946 (1 month and 2 days) Location Siping, Jilin, China Result Stalemate; Nationalists take Siping but not Changchun
Belligerents
Republic of China	Chinese Communist Party
Commanders and leaders
Du Yuming Bai Chongxi Liao Yaoxiang Sun Liren Chiang Kai-shek	Lin Biao Mao Zedong
Strength
100,000	80,000
Casualties and losses
6,868	8,000

The Campaign to Defend Siping (Chinese: 四平保卫战) was a struggle between the Nationalists and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the control of Siping in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War. This campaign was characterized by the fact that the supreme commanders of both sides had overestimated their strength and set unrealistic goals, but in both cases, the frontline commanders on both sides averted the potential catastrophes by convincing their respective supreme commanders to change their original decisions.