Английская Википедия:Battle of Hainan Island
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The Battle of Hainan Island occurred in 1950, during the final phase of the Chinese Civil War. The People's Republic of China (PRC) conducted an amphibious assault on Hainan Island on 16 April, assisted by the Hainan communist movement which controlled much of the island's interior, while the Republic of China (ROC) controlled the coast; their forces were concentrated in the north near Haikou and were forced to retreat south after the landings. The communists secured Hainan's southern cities by the end of the month and declared victory on 1 May.
Background
Hainan communist movement
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established a branch on Hainan in 1926. Lines of communication between the branch and the CCP leadership were tenuous from the beginning, resulting in the Hainan communist movement developing independently and operating with minimal outside support. The Hainan communists were hard hit by the ROC's repression that followed the end of the First United Front. The Hainan communists were nearly destroyed due to the confined geography of the island; like their mainland counterparts, the few survivors abandoned the urban coast for the rural interior. In 1929, Wang Wenming, leader of the Hainan communists, named Feng Baiju as his successor.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
The communists and ROC created a Second United Front in response to Japanese aggression; formal arrangements for Hainan were only made in 1938 after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War.Шаблон:Sfn The Hainan communists were further isolated by the Japanese invasion of the island in 1939Шаблон:Sfn – they had little communication, and no radio contact, with the CCP leadership until the end of the war.Шаблон:Sfn Limited hostilities between the Hainan communists and ROC resumed in 1940.Шаблон:Sfn The Hainan communists formed a militia called the Hainan Independent Column (HIC).Шаблон:Sfn The ROC meanwhile alienated the indigenous Hlai people of the southern interior mountains by occupying Hlai territory and demanding materiel support.Шаблон:Sfn In July 1943, the Hlai – led by Wang Guoxing and Wang Yujin – attacked the ROC in the Baisha Uprising. The Hlai were crushed and suffered ROC reprisals.Шаблон:Sfn Wang Guoxing and Wang Yujin survived. On Wang Yujin's suggestion, the Hlai formed an alliance with the communists,Шаблон:Sfn who were based in the northern interior.Шаблон:Sfn The communists relied heavily on the Hlai for survival,Шаблон:Sfn and their main base shifted south to Wuzhishan in 1943–1944.Шаблон:Sfn
The civil war intensified after the end of the Second World War in 1945. On Hainan, the ROC left Hlai territory and reestablished themselves along the coast.Шаблон:Sfn The Hainan communists used access to Hlai territory to grow within the ROC blockade.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Maintaining communications with the mainland CCP remained difficult. CCP orders to abandon the island in 1946 were rejected by the Hainan communists,Шаблон:Sfn who spent the years following the Japanese withdrawal building popular support.Шаблон:Sfn
Communist preparations
By late 1949, the PRC was looking forward to finishing the war by capturing the islands constituting the ROC's remaining strongholds. These tasks were difficult as the ROC retained superior naval and air forces; the communist navy only began to form in the summer with the capture of ROC ships. The PRC was unprepared; the invasions of the islands of Kinmen in October and Dengbu in November failed.Шаблон:Sfn The invasion of Hainan was deferred.Шаблон:Sfn In January 1950, Mao Zedong approved the invasion while in the Soviet Union for a state visit; he likely sought a victory to impress his hosts.Шаблон:Sfn
The Fourth Field Army of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was tasked with the invasion. It was deployed to the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, across the Qiongzhou Strait from Hainan.Шаблон:Sfn The subordinate 15th Corps, led by General Deng Hua, would participate in the cross-strait invasion.Шаблон:Sfn The defeat at Kinmen led to greater preparations.Шаблон:Sfn
Planning for the invasion occurred in the winter of 1949–1950.Шаблон:Sfn Wang Guoxing and Ma Baishan travelled through ROC-held territory to communist-held Beijing in the fall of 1949; they were in the city for the proclamation of the People's Republic of China. The Hainan delegation conferred with the PRC's military leadership before returning south in the wake of the PRC's advance.Шаблон:Sfn They arrived in time to attend the final invasion planning meeting in February 1950 which was attended by both Hainanese and PLA officers. Ma relayed Feng's suggestion that the attack from the north be made of pincer movements rather than a frontal assault on – and battle of attrition for – Haikou.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
The Communist Southern Branch Party Bureau ordered the HIC to prepare and distribute currency in preparation for the PRC's invasion of Hainan. The currency would be issued to invading PLA troops to purchase supplies on Hainan; the wider distribution and usage would help tie the island to the PRC's economy. The HIC responded by issuing war bonds in the winter and spring of 1949–1950; this instigated a final suppression campaign by the ROC. Chen Jitang, the ROC governor of Hainan, also attempted to issue currency around the same time; this failed in part due to a lack of support from the ROC government.Шаблон:Sfn
The invasion was preceded by three months of trainingШаблон:Sfn with Soviet assistance.Шаблон:Sfn Training included swimming and the operation of sail and motor boats.Шаблон:Sfn
The invasion was postponed by a few weeks on Soviet advice, who believed the winds would then be more favourable for junks.Шаблон:Sfn On the other hand, the main landings in April and May were unable to take advantage of favourable winter winds.Шаблон:Sfn
Nationalist preparations
ROC forces included perhaps 200,000 regular troops and militiamen.Шаблон:Sfn Seymour Topping from The New York Times reported 140,000 troops, including 80,000 veterans.Шаблон:Sfn Many had been evacuated from the mainland and were demoralized and poorly supplied;Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn they were also accompanied by refugees.Шаблон:Sfn Most of the defenders were concentrated around Haikou.Шаблон:Sfn The ROC air force and navy were better equipped than the communists, with 25 warplanes and 50 military ships.Шаблон:Sfn
General Xue Yue was assigned to defend Hainan in late 1949.Шаблон:Sfn He launched a suppression campaign in early 1950; the Hainan communist were "devastated" in February but not eliminated.Шаблон:Sfn
The ROC government concentrated on defending Taiwan and denied most requests for reinforcement and materiel.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Invasion
Preliminary attacks
The ROC bombed communist bases on Hainan and the Leizhou Peninsula with impunity; the latter had practically no anti-aircraft defences.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
From late-February 1950, the PLA reinforced the HIC through small scale landings;Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn most evaded detection.Шаблон:Sfn The strength of landing units was masked by dispersal. Larger movements occurred on 10, 26 and 31 March using dozens of junks.Шаблон:Sfn
Main landings
The main communist amphibious assault started on the night of 16 April. The troops crossed in 318 junks divided into multiple waves.Шаблон:Sfn A number of transports were sunk by the ROC air force and navy. Most of the campaign's 4,000 communist casualties occurred during the initial crossing.Шаблон:Sfn The communist forces linked up quickly. The HIC prepared the beachheads and by the morning of 17 April over 100,000 PLA troops had landed.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Haikou in the north fell on 23 April.Шаблон:Sfn The ROC defence disintegrated from disunity of command and lack of supplies.Шаблон:Sfn The ROCs retreated southwards, pursued by the communists.Шаблон:Sfn The ROC evacuated commanders and nearly 70,000 troops and refugees.Шаблон:Sfn Sanya and Yulin in the south fell to the communists within seven days of Haikou, allowing the PRC to proclaim victory on 1 May.Шаблон:Sfn
Aftermath
The conquest was quickly overshadowed by the start of the Korean War and the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.Шаблон:Sfn
The CCP marginalized the Hainan communist movement in the following decade. The CCP was dissatisfied with the HIC's relative lack of ideological rigour and its perceived "localism"; the HIC survival strategy had been pragmatic and had included compromise with the Hlai. Local communists and the Hlai became notable obstacles to the PRC's land reform program.Шаблон:Sfn
The PRC's military histories emphasized the 15th Corps' actions. The assault across the strait was popularized into stories of a "people's flotilla" of wooden junks manned by volunteers and fishermen fighting metal ROC warships. The role of the HIC and the Hlai received much less attention.Шаблон:Sfn For the Hainan communist movement the battle was the culmination of the war they had fought against the ROC for 23 years with little outside support.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
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