Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Tai'erzhuang.
General Sun commanded the Second Army Group, which was so successful at Taierhchwang. General Tang conducted the defense of Nankou Pass, and ably supported General Sun on the right at Taierhchwang.
1940, Evans Fordyce Carlson, The Chinese Army: its Organization and Military Efficiency, New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, →OCLC, page 292 more examples
These five defects—piecemeal reinforcements, dispersion of his main forces, lack of strategic coordination, missing of opportunities, and frequent encirclements but little annihilation—characterised the incompetence of the Japanese command before the Taierhchwang campaign.
1954, Mao Tse-tung, “Possibilities of Exploiting the Enemy's Flaws”, in On the Protracted War, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 123Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
2014, Amanda Vaill, Hotel Florida, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 319–320
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