Chapter 92 Congratulations to the great victory of the Chinese People's Volunteers

(October 24, 1952) Comrades Peng, Deng, Yang, and Gan[1], as well as leading comrades at all levels of the Volunteer Army, also inform all central bureaus, sub-bureaus, major military regions, various departments of the Military Commission, and heads of military academies: Our Volunteer Army, in cooperation with the People's Army, started a tactical counterattack against the enemy forces on all fronts on September 18. Within a month, more than 30,000 enemy troops were annihilated and wounded, and a major victory was achieved. The Central Committee and the Military Commission express their gratitude to you and all Comrades commanders and combatants extend warm congratulations.In this type of combat, we concentrate our superior forces and firepower on several selected tactical points, take sudden actions, and strike all or most of the enemy troops in rows, companies or battalions; and then When the enemy launched a counterattack against our army, he inflicted a large number of casualties on the enemy in repeated battles; then, according to the situation, for the strongholds captured by us, those who can hold them will stick to them, and those who cannot hold them will abandon them and maintain their own initiative. , Prepare for the counterattack in the future.If this method of combat is continued, it will definitely be able to kill the enemy and force the enemy to adopt compromise measures to end the Korean War.Since our army fought in a strong position last July, the amount of losses inflicted on the enemy far exceeds the amount of losses inflicted on the enemy in various mobile warfare before July last year.The loss of our army has been greatly reduced. Among them, the loss of personnel, as far as the volunteer army alone is concerned, in the fifteen months since last July, compared with the previous eight months, the average monthly decrease has been more than two-thirds (previously 25,000 troops per month on average for the eight months, and 8,000 troops per month on average for the next 15 months).During the period beginning on September 18th, this method of warfare was more organized and more linear, so it deserves special attention.Now, on the second anniversary of the Volunteer Army going abroad to fight, I hope you will sum up your experience, improve your organization, improve your tactics and save ammunition, unite more closely with Korean comrades and Korean people, and achieve greater victories in future operations.

Central and Military Commission October 24, 1952 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Peng, referring to Peng Dehuai, who was then the commander and political commissar of the Chinese People's Volunteers.Deng, referring to Deng Hua, was acting commander and acting political commissar of the Chinese People's Volunteers at the time.Yang, refers to Yang Dezhi (1911-1994), a native of Nanyangqiao (now Zhuzhou County), Liling, Hunan, who was the second deputy commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers at that time.Gan, refers to Gan Siqi (1903-1964), a native of Ningxiang, Hunan, who was then the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Chinese People's Volunteers.