On the morning of December 11, some of the bandit' Jat Group Army attacked the 90th Division of Gove Ermmuent {oops at Chungwts, near Yihuang. Wel prepared fo meet any emergency, the 90th Division de-fivered a' severe counter-attack which. ted. to Berce fighting and huh bloodshed. Te lasted until the Evening. Just, before the twilight, id the bandits became gradually weak and unable to hold their position, and badly defeated, they retreated' and dispersed under cover of the night. Later the body of Lo Ping-hui, the notorious leader and commande chief of the Communist Army, w identified among the 800 killed in the field.
On the same day, the bandits provisional governmental Ohikang-yn rural point near Loan—south-West of Yihuang and on the eastern bank of the Kan River—was captur-led by the Government's 98rd Division. Three officials and members of the bandit military commission were killed, Later it wag found that the chairman and about 10 members of the bandit government were among the several hundred Red. prisoners caught in the downfall of the city. Large quantities of propaganda, Conmmunist literature, "arms and munitions kept in store were sei The next day the Governm Sth, 6th and oth Divisions came into conflict with. the bandits be-Tonging to the ard and Sth Group Armies at Tungshan, a mountainous resort south of Lichuen on the border of Chekiang. After a Sight for a day and a night the, bandits, owing to poor communications and tack of supplies, were badly beaten and fled in great confusion and di order toward Taining. The Government troops followed in hot pursuit and occupied Tangshan and Hsuing-Jcheng without much bloodshed. More than 2,000 bandits were killed, Decisive Victory Ga December 13 the decisive victory was gained. The Government forces. succeeded in recovering the most important strategic point of Teechi on the -Kiangsi-Chekian border and drove away the bandit '7th Group Army which was defen ing the city. Tsechi affords easy access to the ban ted fu the mountains that separate Kiangsi, Chekiang and Fukien and also means the complete destruc tion of the Ist and the 7th Group Armies of the bandit forces, leaving but two armed groups the 3rd and the 5th which are too weak to with-slond the victorious march of the Government armies.
Ts order to make sure that their position will not be subjected to any surprise attacks, the Government' forees advanced further to-Ward the east and south from the cities just occupied and succeeded Fecovering another strategic poi Tehshungkuang, which is about miles south of Tungshan.
ring these days of fighting, the bandits sustained great losses, no Tess than 6,000_ being killed. The Government's eaéualties were state: to be within 590,
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