Seventy-six years ago today, on April 23, 1949 (March 26, 1949), the People's Liberation Army broke through the Qianli River to prevent Mao Zedong from writing poems and chasing poor bandits. At midnight, the People's Liberation Army's million-strong troops crossed the Yangtze River from the mouth of the lake northeast of Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province in the west to the 500-kilometer front in Jiangyin in Jiangsu Province in the east. On April 21, 1949, following the order issued by Mao Zedong and Zhu De to march across the country, the Central, Eastern and Western groups of the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River from the mouth of the lake in the west to the north bank of the Yangtze River, which was thousands of miles long in Jiangyin in the east. With the simplest wooden sailboats, they crossed the Yangtze River in an overwhelming manner, launching the battle to liberate Jiangnan, which was mainly controlled by By April 23, the People's Liberation Army had broken through the lines of defense set up by the Kuomintang army, and successively captured Jiangyin, Danyang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Zhenjiang, Nanjing, Wuhu and other cities. By April 27, the troops pursued the fleeing enemy, and successively liberated Shangrao, Jinhua, Wuhan, Shanghai and other cities, and annihilated more than 150,000 stubborn enemies. The Battle of Crossing the River ended successfully. On April 22, Mao Zedong strategized at the Villa of Shuangqing in Xiangshan and kept issuing instructions. On the afternoon of the 23rd, he was very happy when he saw the People's Daily published a report on the liberation of Nanjing. He returned to the office to send a congratulatory message to the army of Erye Liu Deng and wrote an immortal poem: The wind and rain in Zhongshan rose yellow, and a million heroes crossed the river. The tiger and the dragon plate are now victorious in the past, and the earth is turned upside down and generous. It is advisable to chase the poor bandits with courage, and not to be sold to learn from the overlord. If the sky is loving, the sky is old, and the right path in the world is vicissitudes of life. The Central Military Commission immediately took this poem to the front line, inspiring the soldiers to march in great strides to the southwest and northwest, towards a new journey to liberate the whole of China and achieve complete victory in the people's democratic revolution. The commandos rushed to the south bank of the Yangtze River. Mao Zedong was watching the report of the liberation of Nanjing. The People's Liberation Army entered the urban area of Nanjing. The citizens of Nanjing welcomed the People's Liberation Army into the city. The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army stationed in the Kuomintang "Central Party Department" and the presidential palace gazed at the calendar Soldiers who entered the "presidential palace" cleared Chiang Kai-shek's portrait out of the Kuomintang aircraft captured by the Chinese People's Liberation Army who occupied the Kuomintang presidential palace