Following the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping led the main force of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army to cross the Yellow River in southwest Shandong at dusk on June 30, 1947. The movement was the prelude to the strategic offensive by the People�s Liberation Army (PLA). Shown here are PLA troops crossing the Yellow River at night.