Chapter 50 The mission of annihilating the enemy in the third year of the war[1]

(September 24 and 27, 1948) one Regarding the battle plan for the third year of the war (July this year to June next year), it is required that the entire Northeast Army and the Second and Third North China Corps work together to wipe out at least thirty-six divisions of the Wei and Fu armies and capture Beining, Pingsui[3], Pingcheng, and Pingbao four lines and all cities on the line except Ping, Tianjin, and Shencheng.It is planned to dispatch half of the existing main force to the Yangtze River Basin in the fourth year of the war, leaving half to attack Ping, Tianjin, and Shenyang.In order to meet the needs of sending troops to the south in the fourth year, you should prepare the first batch of 15,000 to 20,000 cadres who will work far away within the third year. All kinds of party, government, military, civilian, financial, cultural, educational, and journalistic workers are expected to be arranged at this cadre meeting and will be on standby to set off with the army next autumn.At that time, prepare a second batch of 15,000 to 20,000 cadres who will go abroad to work, so that you can manage new areas with a population of 50 to 10 million in the Yangtze River Basin and the South.

Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. two Yang Luogeng, Yang Lili[4], and Lin Luoliu[5], North China Bureau, Northeast Bureau: (1) In the third year of the war (from July this year to June next year), the entire army of our People's Liberation Army should be responsible for wiping out about 128 brigades of the enemy's regular army.Within this number, your North China Second and Third Corps should be responsible for annihilating 12 brigades of the enemy's regular army (an average of one brigade per month), including one brigade in northern China in July.Therefore, you must muster your forces and fight.For every important battle, you must go to the front line to command (in the past when you fought against Gubeikou, but this time you fought against Yongning, the front-line command was not effective. Therefore, you should go to the front to personally command every major battle), and you must use Zhengtai Road and Qingfengdian. In the style of large-scale annihilation battle[6] in Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang, etc., we must fight independently in a planned manner, and do not rely on the assistance of the main force in the Northeast.

(2) When the Central Committee decided on the combat tasks for this year, in addition to assigning you 12 brigades, the Northwest Pengzhang Zhao Corps[7] was assigned to wipe out 12 brigades (including the one and a half brigades already wiped out in August), They have fewer troops than you; assign Jinzhong Xu Zhou Corps[8] to wipe out 14 enemy brigades (including eight brigades in July) and capture Taiyuan, and their troops are no more than you; assign Liu Deng[9] ] Fourteen brigades, their total strength is larger than yours, but because the main force was weakened by the Dabie Mountains battle in the second year, they can only bear this number; Chen Su[10] was assigned to wipe out forty brigades, including the seventh in July. Including six brigades and three brigade uprisings that were wiped out in Jinan in September, they have a relatively large force and have a lot of tasks; Lin Luoliu assigned thirty-six brigades to wipe out the enemy. They have the largest force and should be able to shoulder the burden. this task.None of the above enemy annihilation missions includes the irregular army and special forces. In the third year, the total number of regular army, irregular army, and special forces wiped out by the whole army should exceed the number of 1.52 million enemy annihilations in the second year.

(3) The entire army of the People's Liberation Army must strive to wipe out about 500 brigades of the enemy's regular army (an average of about 100 brigades per year) and wipe out the enemy's regular army within about five years (calculated from July 1946). , irregular army and special forces about 7.5 million (an average of 1.5 million per year), built an army of about 5 million (now 2.8 million), fundamentally defeat the Kuomintang.This is the general task stipulated by the Politburo meeting[11] of the Central Committee, and based on the experience of the past two years, proceeding from the most prudent estimation, it is fully possible to realize it.This task can be announced to the party.

Military Commission Shen Gan Printed from originals kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] The first part of this article is an additional passage written by Mao Zedong on September 24, 1948 when he was reviewing the telegram drafted by Zhou Enlai that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China agreed to hold a meeting of senior cadres in the Northeast Bureau.The second part of this article is a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China on September 27, 1948.

[2] Wei and Fu refer to Wei Lihuang and Fu Zuoyi, who were respectively the commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Bandit Suppression" Headquarters of the Kuomintang Army and the North China "Bandit Suppression" Headquarters of the Kuomintang Army at that time. [3] Pingsui, that is, the Pingsui line, refers to the railway from Beiping (now Beijing) to Suiyuan (now part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) Baotou, today's Beijing Baotou line. [4] Yang Luogeng refers to Yang Dezhi, Luo Ruiqing, and Geng Biao, who were respectively the commander, political commissar, and chief of staff of the Second Corps of the North China Military Region at that time.Yang Lili refers to Yang Chengwu, Li Jingquan, and Li Tianhuan.Yang Chengwu and Li Jingquan were respectively the commander and political commissar of the Third Corps of the North China Military Region.Li Tianhuan (1912-1986), a native of Huang'an (now Hong'an), Hubei, was the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Third Corps of the North China Military Region at that time.

[5] Lin Luoliu refers to Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and Liu Yalou, who were respectively the commander, political commissar, and chief of staff of the Northeast Field Army at that time. [6] These were the following three battles conducted by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army in 1947: from April 9 to May 4, more than 35,000 Kuomintang troops were wiped out along the railway line from Zhengding, Hebei to Taiyuan, Shanxi; From November 11th to 22nd, more than 17,000 enemy troops were wiped out in Qingfengdian, Ding County, Hebei; from November 6th to 12th, Shijiazhuang was liberated, and more than 24,000 enemy soldiers were wiped out.These three battles completely connected the two liberated areas of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Hebei.

[7] Pengzhang Zhao Bingtuan refers to the Northwest Field Army with Peng Dehuai as commander and political commissar, and Zhang Zongxun and Zhao Shoushan as deputy commanders. [8] Xu Zhou Corps refers to the First Corps of the North China Military Region where Xu Qian was the former commander and political commissar, and Zhou Shidi was the deputy commander and political commissar. [9] Liu Deng refers to the Central Plains Field Army where Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping served as commander and political commissar respectively. [10] Chen Su refers to the East China Field Army where Chen Yi and Su Yu served as commander and political commissar and acting commander and political commissar respectively.

[11] Refers to the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held in Xibaipo, Jianping County (now Pingshan County), Hebei, from September 8 to 13, 1948.