Campaign to the North of Daqing River The Campaign to the North of Daqing River ( 大清河北战役 ) was a series of battles fought between the nationalists and the communists in Hebei , China during the Chinese Civil War in the post - World War II era . Prelude . In July 1947 , the nationalists in Northern China launched an offensive to eradicate communists in the local regions and stationed troops in the towns and cities of the newly conquered regions for garrison . The communists , in turn , attempted to retake the lost region by attempting to annihilate the nationalist force and dislodge the surviving nationalists from their new posts . Order of battle . Nationalist order of battle : Communist order of battle : The Campaign . On the night of September 2 , 1947 , the communist 3rd Column took the town of Xushui ( 徐水 ) , inflicting heavy casualties on the nationalist Independent 95th Brigade in the surprise attack , and forcing the defenders to abandon the town to regroup . After the initial success , the communists played the same trick again , this time targeting Laishui ( 涞水 ) . This time , the nationalist garrison of the 5th Division of the 94th Army became the victim and was forced to abandon the city after suffering heavy loss in a fierce battle that lasted from September 6 , 1947 thru September 8 , 1947 . The three divisions of the nationalist 94th Army , the 5th Division , the 43rd Division and the 121st Division each sent out a regiment to reinforce the defenders at Laishui ( 涞水 ) , while the 4th Division of the nationalist 13th Army and the 22nd Division of the nationalist 16th Army were mobilized for reinforcement by via railway transportation . Although the nationalist response of sending out reinforcement was swift , but the reinforcement was extremely slow in reaching their destination because major sections of the railway from Solid City ( Gu Cheng , 固城 ) to Baoding , the important transportation the nationalists depended on , was destroyed by the enemy units from the communist 5th and 9th sub - Military Regions . As a result , before the nationalists reaching their destination , the communist 3rd Column had plenty of time of transferring the great amount of supplies captured at Laishui ( 涞水 ) to other communist bases and then turning toward Liang ( 良 ) County , Fangshan , and Zhuo ( 涿 ) County to further strike and harass nationalist garrisons in these regions by the night of September 9 , 1947 . While the nationalist reinforcement was out , the communist 2nd Column and the 4th Column attempted to annihilate the isolated nationalist 94th Division . On September 10 , 1947 , the communist 2nd Column threatened a brigade and a regiment of the nationalist 109th Division at Ban Family ’ s Nest ( Ban Jia Wo , 板家窝 ) , after wiping out the nationalist battalion stationed at Wu Family ’ s Stage ( Wu Jia Tai , 吴家台 ) . The Independent 7th Brigade of the communist Central Hebei Military Region had taken most of the town of Ba ( 霸 ) County after badly mauling the nationalist local garrison consisted of a nationalist security regiment and a regiment of the nationalist 22nd Division , forcing the surviving defenders into the isolated region of Northern Pass ( Bei Guan , 北关 ) of the town . At Open Mouth Village ( Kai Ko Cun , 开口村 ) , units from the communist 10 sub - Military Region forced the defenders consisted of a regiment from the nationalist 94th Division to give up most of the area and withdrew into three large bunker complexes . However , communists failed to annihilate the nationalists forces at Jiu Hill ( Jiu Gang , 咎岗 ) consisted of a brigade and two regiments after the communist 4th Column was beaten back twice in their attacks on the besieged nationalists . On September 12 , 1947 , the 4th Division of the nationalist 13th Army , the 22nd Division of the 16th Army , the nationalist Independent 95th Brigade , and the nationalist 157th Brigade went out to reinforce their besieged comrades - in - arms , and learning the news , the communists withdrew and the campaigned ended in stalemate . Outcome . The result of this campaign was indecisive because neither side had achieved their original objective completely . For the communists , they had succeeded in forcing the nationalists to end their communist eradication offensive early and retreated back to the urban centers , they had failed to achieve their original goal of annihilating the nationalist 94th Division . For the nationalists , they were successful in avoiding annihilation and beaten back enemy attacks on urban centers , but their communist eradication campaign was forced to end early with vast newly conquered rural areas falling back into the enemy hands . The campaign therefore can be described as stalemate .