- (bound form) hillock; mound; sentry post; policeman's beat; (bound form) job; post
- a whistle; sentry
- national
- to honor; to commend; to cite (in dispatches)
- pioneer; trailblazer
- to exert oneself
- outbreak of war; opening of hostilities
- (idiom) to let emotions affect one's decisions
- lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries; two parties cannot coexist
- important political leader; government dignitary
- see 大殺風景|大杀风景[da4 sha1 feng1 jing3]
- to jab; to poke; to stab; (coll.) to sprain; to blunt; to fuck (vulgar); to stand; to stand (sth) upright; stamp; seal
- to open (a conference); to inaugurate
- People's Liberation Army (PLA), the unified armed forces of the People's Republic of China
- Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
- War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
- decisive battle; to fight a decisive battle; to fight for supremacy in ...
- prologue
- to capture; to take; to overcome; to solve
- Shandong Province, capital Jinan 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4] (short name 魯|鲁[Lu3])
- Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war
- to start shooting or firing; to win an initial success; to succeed (of a plan)
- calamity
- successive years; over many years
- to bewail; to sigh mournfully; to lament
- to pace; to linger; to stay over; to spiral; to hover
- first session (of a conference etc)
- the curtain falls; lower the curtain; to come to an end (of a meeting)
- to be utterly defeated; to be routed
- step by step; little by little
- geographer
- Chiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988), son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石, Guomindang politician, president of ROC 1978-1988
- to scheme; to plot; conspiracy
- senior official
- contributor; benefactor
- (literary) handwritten instruction from a superior or elder
- to be on call; to be on standby