 Yanzhou campaign

The Yanzhou campaign (), also known as the campaign at the central section of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway (), was a series of battles fought between the nationalists and the communists for the control of the town Yanzhou (兖州), which is today under the administration of Jining, and the region to the north of the town in Shandong, China during the Chinese Civil War in the post World War II era, and resulted in communist victory.By the summer of 1948, military setbacks had forced the nationalist army in Shandong into the defensive.