page_title: Liaoshen campaign
section_title: Changchun
hierarchical_section_title: Liaoshen campaign / Communist advance (12 September – 20 October) / Changchun
caption_attribution_description: English: The city of en:Changchun after the end of the en:Siege of Changchun.
context_page_description: The Liaoshen campaign, an abbreviation of Liaoning–Shenyang campaign after the province of Liaoning and its Yuan directly-administered capital city Shenyang, was the first of the three major military campaigns launched by the Communist People's Liberation Army against the Kuomintang Nationalist government during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War. This engagement is also known to the Kuomintang as the Battle of Liaohsi, took place between September and November 1948 and lasted a total of 52 days. The campaign ended after the Nationalist forces suffered sweeping defeats across Manchuria, losing major cities of Jinzhou, Changchun and eventually Shenyang in the process, eventually leading to the capture of entire Manchuria by the Communist forces. The victory of the campaign resulted in the Communists achieving strategic numerical advantage over the Nationalists for the first time in its history.
context_section_description: Changchun had been encircled for more than five months prior to the campaign.  Already weakened by starvation since February 1948, civilians were fleeing Changchun in large numbers on daily basis by June 1948.  Many refugees were unable to pass through the Communist blockade, and unable to return as the Nationalist defenders blocks refugees from returning to the city.  The Nationalist garrison were unable to break out of the city despite of the order from Chiang.  Following the fall of Jinzhou, the Nationalist 60th Army stationed in the east side of the city defected to the Communist side on 17 October.  Following their defection, the Nationalist New 7th Army agreed to the terms of surrender on 19 October.  The remaining Nationalist forces in Changchun surrendered the city to the PLA on 23 October, and Nationalist commander Zheng Dongguo became a prisoner of war.
caption: Communist troops after the capture of Changchun.
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