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At 05:00 hours on 31 July, Amethyst approached the PLA forts at Baoshan and Wusong, which had their searchlights sweeping the river. At 05:25 a planned meeting with the destroyer HMS Concord occurred, at which time Amethyst sent the signal "Have rejoined the fleet south of Wusong. No damage.
On 19 April 1949, the Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst sails up the Yangtze River on her way to Nanjing, the Chinese capital, to deliver supplies to the British Embassy. Suddenly, without warning, People's Liberation Army (PLA) shore batteries open fire and, after a heavy engagement, Amethyst lies grounded in the mud and badly damaged.
The Battle of Wusong (Woosung) (Chinese: 吳淞戰役) was fought between British and Chinese forces at the entrance of the Wusong River (present-day Huangpu River), Jiangsu province, China, on 16 June 1842, during the First Opium War.
Between 20 April and 21 April, 300,000 men from the PLA crossed from the north to the south banks of the Yangtze River. [6] Both the Second Fleet of the Republic of China Navy and the Nationalist fortress in Jiangyin soon switched sides to the Communists, allowing the PLA to penetrate through Nationalist defenses along the Yangtze. [7]
Wusong, formerly romanized as Woosung, [n 1] is a subdistrict of Baoshan in northern Shanghai. Prior to the city's expansion, it was a separate port town located 14 miles (23 km) down the Huangpu River from Shanghai's urban core.
There is article coverage of the "negotiations", that centered around the PLA demanding the British government conceding the Amethyst fired first, which would be a good reason for PLA retaliatory hostilities, and the British unwilling to agree to this. The ship returning fire was later supported by Commander Ye Fei admitting his troops fired first.
Wusong-Shanghai Garrison Units (Peace Preservation Corps) Centralized Chinese Air Force Units (includes former aviators of various warlord air forces and Chinese-American Volunteers) Zhoujiakou Airbase , Zhoukou , Henan – 4th Pursuit Group - Col. Gao Zhihang (21st, 22nd, 23rd Pursuit Squadrons).
DVD cover art. All Men Are Brothers (Chinese: 水滸傳) is a 2011 Chinese television series adapted from Shi Nai'an's 14th century novel Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.