PLA Strategy
Su Yu, acting commander of the Eastern China Field army proposed an operational plan to the Communist war council. The plan was to attack the Nationalist 6th and 7th armies still stationed in Shandong province. The council quickly approved his plan and ordered the Central Plains field army under Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi (Commander of the Eastern China Field Army and liaison to the Central Plains Field Army) and Deng Xiaoping (Political Commissar of the Central Plains Field Army) to attack KMT forces in Henan and Anhui provinces in hopes of breaking the government stronghold there. The Huaihai campaign had begun.
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