Atlas of Battles

commander, 7 engagements

Battles of Chen Yi

Battles of Chen Yi

Chinese military officer, People's Republic of China (1901-1972)

Chen Yi is recorded as a commander at 7 placed engagements in the atlas between 1946 and 1949: 4 battles and 3 campaigns, all in present-day China. Taken in date order, the sites lie 2,917 km apart end to end, 486 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Chinese Civil War (6), Three Major Campaigns (1).

Battle of Rugao–HuangqiaoNanma–Linqu CampaignBattle of Huaiyin–Huai'anBattle of JinanHuaihai CampaignBattle of GuningtouShanghai CampaignBattle of Huaiyin–Huai'anBattle of JinanHuaihai CampaignBattle of GuningtouShanghai CampaignSeoulTaipeiChengduGuangzhouWuhanChongqingXianNanjingGuiyangHangzhou1000 km30.574N, 119.226E
7 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1946: 2 engagements2 in 19461947: 1 engagements1948: 2 engagements2 in 19481949: 2 engagements2 in 194919461949
7 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Huaiyin–Huai'an, 1946Battle of Rugao–Huangqiao, 1946Nanma–Linqu Campaign, 1947Battle of Jinan, 1948Huaihai Campaign, 1948Battle of Guningtou, 1949Shanghai Campaign, 194919461949
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1946Battle of Huaiyin–Huai'anHuaiyin District, ChinaNationalist victory
1946Battle of Rugao–HuangqiaoJiangsu, China114 km SECommunist victory
1947Nanma–Linqu CampaignShandong, China405 km NNationalist victory
16 September 1948Battle of JinanJinan, People's Republic of China130 km WCommunist victory
1948Huaihai CampaignShandong, China130 km ECommunist victory
1949Battle of GuningtouKinmen County, People's Republic of China1,325 km SRepublic of China victory
1949Shanghai CampaignShanghai, People's Republic of China812 km NCommunist victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, ​《新华社》记者 齐观山, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.