| Siege of Changchun | |||||||||
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| Part of the Liaoshen Campaign of the Chinese Civil War, part of the Cold War | |||||||||
 Changchun after the siege | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Zheng Dongguo  |
Lin Biao Xiao Jinguang | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| ~100,000 | 100,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 15,000 | 16,078 | ||||||||
| ~150,000[1]–200,000[2] civilian deaths due to starvation | |||||||||
  Location within Jilin  Siege of Changchun (China) | |||||||||
| Siege of Changchun | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 長春圍困戰 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 长春围困战 | ||||||
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The siege of Changchun was a military blockade undertaken by the People's Liberation Army against Changchun between May and October 1948, the largest city in Manchuria at the time, and one of the headquarters of the Republic of China Army in Northeast China. It was one of the longest campaigns in the Liaoshen Campaign of the Chinese Civil War.[3][4]