On May 14 the Fourth Field Army led by Lin Piao, Lo Jung-huan and other comrades forced the Yangtse on a front of more than one hundred kilometres in the Tuanfeng-Wuhsueh sector east of Wuhan.

• 林彪、罗荣桓等领导的第四野战军，于五月十四日，在武汉以东团风至武穴间一百余公里的地段上，强渡长江。