According to the battle plan formulated by Ding Zhennan, the final deadline to launch the offensive is 0:00 on December 15.
For this reason, in the late night of December 14, Fu Weimin issued an order for the battle to storm Jodhpur to commence.
This truly was a bitter battle.
Although firepower preparation had already lasted half a month prior, with large-scale shelling conducted for 4 days, using tens of thousands of large-caliber rockets, and countless artillery shells of various calibers, along with aerial bombardment lasting several days, destroying nearly 50,000 targets in total, equivalent to plowing the urban area with bombs, rockets, and shells, when the 17th Armored Division launched a ground attack and began advancing towards the urban area, they nonetheless encountered stubborn resistance from the Fan Army, facing trouble before entering the city.
From the beginning, this battle proved to be extremely difficult.
