Chapter 26 Massively annihilate enemies in wide maneuvers

(March 14, 1948) Yang Luo Yang Geng[1], and reported to the Central Working Committee (referred to Peng Nie[2]), Jinsui Branch, Lin Luoliu[3]: Telegram [4] at 15 o'clock on the 10th.Only when you annihilate a large number of enemies in a wide maneuver and force the enemy to disperse their equipment, can you overcome the difficult problem that you encounter a large number of enemies that are not conducive to our army's annihilation.The scope of your maneuvers: first, the entire Ping-Sui line[5], including the entire province of Suiyuan[6]; second, the Beining line; third, the Pingcheng line; and fourth, the Ping-bao line.The current policy of the Ping-Sui line should be carried out until the enemy has concentrated in large numbers and our troops have no good battles to fight along this line.In the next move of the main force, we can go out of the Pingbao line to fight one or two battles, call back the enemy's main force, and then go out of the Pingsui line.Your plan to send two columns out of Suiyuan is very good. After the two columns have conquered the front line of Chaigoubao, they should not stay too long, but leave Suiyuan quickly, and take the whole territory of Suiyuan as their range of activities.The areas occupied by your army will be under your jurisdiction, and more cadres will be sent to establish political power and local armed forces.The Shanxi-Sui Branch took assistance targets.The main development direction of the Shanxi-Sui branch is the Yanjun[7] area on the Tongpu line and assisting the Northwest Bureau to advance to Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan.Your main force must establish a plan to fight in the Jirecha [8] border area and the eastern Hebei area, but the timing and the number of troops to be dispatched should be determined according to the situation.In addition, you must educate all commanders and fighters on the strategy and policy of working in the new area. I don’t know if you have done this during the rest and reorganization. If you have not or are insufficient, you should make up for it in combat.

Military Commission Twenty-four o'clock on the fourteenth Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Yang Luoyang refers to Yang Dezhi, Luo Ruiqing, and Yang Chengwu, who were respectively the commander, first political commissar and second political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army at that time.Geng, referring to Geng Biao, born in 1909 in Liling, Hunan, was the Chief of Staff of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army at that time. [2] Peng, referring to Peng Dehuai, who was then the commander and political commissar of the Northwest Field Army.Nie refers to Nie Rongzhen (1899-1992), a native of Jiangjin, Sichuan, who was then the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

[3] Lin Luoliu, referring to Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and Liu Yalou, who were respectively the commander, political commissar, deputy political commissar and chief of staff of the Northeast Field Army at that time. [4] Refers to the telegram sent by Yang Dezhi and Luo Ruiqing to the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China at 15:00 on March 10, 1948.The telegram said that one of the unresolved problems in combat is that we concentrate, the enemy also concentrates, and the troops pile up together, either it is impossible to fight, or it is not good.This time when our army left Pingsui, we consciously formed five columns into two fists in the battle guidance. If the main force of the enemy is against our first or sixth columns, we should concentrate on fighting with all our strength. Zhang Duan.If the enemy's main force goes out of Chanan and it is difficult to fight, our 1st and 6th columns will advance to Suiyuan, annihilate the isolated and scattered enemies, and cut off the western section of Pingsui.The enemy is dispersed in such a way that it is convenient for our army to defeat them one by one.

[5] Pingsui Line refers to the railway from Beiping (now Beijing) to Suiyuan (now part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) Baotou, which is now the Beijing-Baotou Line. [6] Suiyuan, that is, Suiyuan Province, was abolished in 1954. At that time, the jurisdiction was Ulanchabu League, Yikezhao League, the eastern part of Bayannur League, Hohhot City, Baotou City and other places in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. [7] Yan Jun refers to the troops under the jurisdiction of Yan Xishan, director of the Taiyuan Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [8] Re, referring to Rehe Province, was abolished in 1955. At that time, the jurisdiction was the northeast of Hebei Province, the southwest of Liaoning Province, and the southeast of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.Cha, referring to Chahar Province, was abolished in 1952. At that time, the jurisdiction was the northwestern part of Hebei Province and the Xilin Gol League of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.