On this day, 76 years ago, on April 24, 1949 (March 27, 1949), the People's Liberation Army broke through Taiyuan. The people of Taiyuan held a grand parade to celebrate the liberation. On April 24, 1949, the North China Field Army occupied Taiyuan. On April 24, 1949, the People's Liberation Army captured Taiyuan. The Taiyuan Command, with Xu Qianqian as the commander, commanded the 50,000 army and launched a general offensive across the board on the 20th. Peng Dehuai participated in the command of the Taiyuan Campaign. By the 22nd, all the outlying strongholds of Taiyuan were captured, and on the 24th, Taiyuan Chenghuan was captured. In just over 4 hours, more than 80,000 defenders were wiped out, and Sun Chu, deputy director of the Taiyuan Appeasement Office and commander of the 15th Corps, Wang Jingguo, commander of the Taiyuan Garrison and commander of the 10th Corps, Wen Huaiguang, deputy commander of the 10th Corps, and many other senior generals, as well as Japanese advisers Imamura, Iwata and other military and political dignitaries, and Zhao Gong, commander of the 61st Army, were killed. A total of more than 124,000 Kuomintang troops were wiped out, ending Yan Xishan's 38-year rule over Shanxi. On the same day, the Taiyuan Military Regulatory Commission of the Communist Party of China and the Municipal People's Government were officially established. Xu served as director of the Military Regulatory Commission, Luo Ruiqing, Lai Ruoyu, and Hu Yaobang served as deputy directors, and Pei Lisheng served as mayor. At dusk on the 23rd, PLA shells destroyed the roof of the auditorium on the fourth floor of the Taiyuan Command, and the Taiyuan city wall was breached at On the morning of the 24th, the CCP troops swarmed in from the east gate, and the People's Liberation Army quickly captured the Japanese army headquarters of the Yan Ministry. Only 1,000 of the 3,000 Japanese soldiers left in Taiyuan were left. The commander of the village Fang Ce committed suicide by taking poison, and the military doctor Tang Qianqian said: "The commander was carried to the hospital with a door board. His pupils did not reflect, his hands and feet were cold and he was helpless. It seems that he was mentally prepared for suicide." After Taiyuan was captured, more than 300 officers and soldiers of the Yan Army and gendarmerie committed mass suicide with pistols at the appeasement branch of the Shanxi government. On the 24th, dozens of people under Yan Xishan committed suicide. The CCP public security personnel immediately joined the informers who surrendered and identified the bodies at the suicide scene, and cleaned up 46 bodies successively. They are: the acting chairperson of the Shanxi Provincial Government and the director of the Taiyuan Special Police Constitutional Command Office, Liang Dunhou, the five girls of Yan Xishan, Yan Emily, the Shanxi police chief Shi Zecheng and his wife Shi Aiying who committed suicide at the Liuxiang police station, the director of the special police department of the Taiyuan Appeasement Office, Xu Duan and other 26 people, the director of the Taiyuan special police team Wang Jiuru who committed suicide at the Baling Bridge in Taiyuan, the director of the Taiyuan special police team Fan Yangde who committed suicide at the Taiyuan East Tiger Camp No. 2, and the director of the Taiyuan special police training team, Zhao Lianbi, who committed suicide in a bunker near the Ximen. Among the 46 people, several did not hold public office and were coerced or killed with the suicides for other reasons. On the morning of the 24th, troops of the 188th Division bravely boarded the head of Shouyimen in Taiyuan. Taiyuan Defense Commander Wang Jingguo (the second from the left) and other hundreds of thousands of prisoners passed through the streets of Taiyuan to the concentration area. People's Liberation Army soldiers rushed into the Kuomintang Shanxi Provincial Government