On (Lunar first month 27), March 7, 1948, the battle began Linfen. March

1948, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army, under the command of the deputy commander of the Xiangqian concentration of 5.3 million people, launched the Battle of Linfen. The battle lasted 18 days, a total of F-KMT army of 25,000 people, the liberation of the whole of southern Shanxi, so of Luliang and Taiyueh two liberated areas together into one. (TodayinHistory.cn)