During what the Chinese call the 5th campaign (May, 1950), the CPV suffered its largest loss: the 180th Division was totally destroyed.
Soldiers either desert or are abandoned by their officers during failed attempts to wage guerilla warfare without support from locals.
Finally, out of ammunition and food, some five thousand soldiers are captured, including the Division Commissar Pei Shan.
The division commander and other officers who escaped were subsequently investigated and demoted back in China.
[8] In September 1985, the army corps was disbanded: This article related to the military of China is a stub.