In Southern Shanxi, along the "border" between communist control and nationalist control, the Kuomintang Commander-in-Chief of the 1st War Zone has sent the Reorganized 1st Division and the Reorganized 27th Division northward to link up with the nationalist force from Linfen and Jiexiu under the command of Yan Xishan, the nationalist commander-in-chief of the 2nd War Zone, hoping that the nationalists would dislodge the communists controlling the southern section of the Datong-Puzhou Railway. The communists under the command of Chen Geng and his political commissar Xie Fuzhi in turn, plan to annihilate the nationalists before they could link up with each other. The communist 4th Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region was tasked with this job with the help of units of the communist Taiyue Military Region.

All in all, it is a campaign with roughly 27,000 National Revolutionary Army (KMT) men versus 30,000 People's Liberation Army personnel. We are to destroy the nationalists before they can come together and post a greater threat to our control of the region.

((Effectively the same as this campaign except the communists have better guns than IRL.))