On this day, 78 years ago, on February 23, 1947 (February 3, 1947, the Laiwu Campaign captured Li Xianzhou and wiped out seven brigades of the Chiang army. Captured Li Xianzhou On February 23, 1947, the East China Field Army wiped out seven brigades of Li Xianzhou's unit of Jiang's army in the Laiwu area. At the end of January, the Kuomintang dispatched 53 brigades of 310,000 troops to attack the Jiefang District of Shandong from the north and south lines in an attempt to attack the north and south. Chen Cheng, Chief of Staff of the Kuomintang Army, personally arrived in Xuzhou to take command. The East China Field Army used two columns to block Chiang Kai-shek's troops on the southern line near Linyi, creating the illusion that the main force was fighting a decisive battle with them; at the same time, it used seven columns of the main force to quickly advance northward in concealment. From February 20 to 23, the main force of the East China Field Army surrounded and wiped out all Chiang's troops heading south on the northern line in the Laiwu area, wiped out more than 60,000 people from its seven brigades, captured Li Xianzhou, deputy commander of the Kuomintang's Second Pacification District, recovered 13 cities, and connected the Bohai, Central Luzhong, and Jiaodong districts of Shandong Jiefang District. Li Xianzhou (1894 - 1988), a captured Kuomintang soldier and soldier during the Battle of Laiwu, was originally named Li Shouying, also known as Xianzhou. People from Changqing (now Qi River). In 1924, he entered the Whampoa Military Academy for the first period of study. He participated in the first and second Eastern Expedition. After 1928, he served successively as commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Kuomintang government army, commander of the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Division, deputy division commander and division commander of the 21st Division, lieutenant general commander of the 92nd Army, commander-in-chief of the 28th Group Army, and deputy commander of the Second Pacification District. On February 23, 1947, he was captured by the People's Liberation Army of China during the Battle of Laiwu, Shandong. He was released by pardon in 1960. Since then, he has served successively as a commissioner of the Secretariat of the Shandong Province CPPCC, a member and standing member of the Provincial CPPCC, a member and standing member of the Shandong Province Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, an adviser, member of the Supervisory Committee and standing member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, a director of the Whampoa Military Academy Alumni Association, an honorary president of the Nanjing Whampoa Military Academy Alumni Association, and a member of the fifth, sixth and seventh National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died in Jinan in October 1988.