Chapter 51 It is very necessary to hold the Huaihai Campaign

(September 25, 1948) Rao Su[1], and told Xu Tanwang, Liu Chenli[2]: We believe that it is very necessary to hold the Huaihai Campaign[3].There is no need for a major rest at present, and another rest will be carried out after the Huaihai Campaign.The Huaihai campaign can begin around October 10th.You should use the current half month to give the attacking troops a short rest, and then leave a column in the southwest of Shandong to play a diversionary role. Wu Huawen[4] should also move to the southwest of Shandong, and the rest should all go south to prepare for several operations: (a) ) It is estimated that the Qiu Corps [5] will return to the Shangdang [6] area soon, and the Huang Corps [7] will return to Xin'an Town and the Canal [8] station area. Your first battle should be to wipe out the Yellow Corps between Xin'an and the Canal line as the target. (2) Annihilate the enemies in the Lianghuai Gaobao[9] area, and fight for the second time. (3) To wipe out the enemies in the Haizhou, Lianyungang, and Guanyun areas is the third battle.Carrying out these three operations is a big battle.If you fight well, you can wipe out more than a dozen enemy brigades, you can open up the connection between Shandong and northern Jiangsu, and you can force the enemy to disperse a part of their troops to defend the Yangtze River, which will benefit your next battle on the Xuzhou and Pukou lines.Therefore, you should make full preparations for this campaign before Youhui [10], and hold a cadre meeting like the Qufu meeting [11] last month to unify the will to fight and adjust internal relations.

Military Commission nineteen o'clock on the twenty-fifth Printed from originals kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Rao Su refers to Rao Shushi and Su Yu, who were political commissars of the East China Military Region and acting commander and political commissar of the East China Field Army respectively. [2] King Xu Tan refers to Xu Shiyou, Tan Zhenlin, and Wang Jianan, who were respectively the commander, political commissar, and deputy commander of the Shandong Corps of the East China Field Army at that time.Liu Chen refers to Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi, who were respectively the commander and first deputy commander of the Central Plains Field Army at that time.Li, referring to Li Da, born in 1905, from Meixian County, Shaanxi Province, was the Chief of Staff of the Central Plains Field Army at that time.

[3] On September 24, 1948, Su Yu called the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and put forward the following suggestions on the next move of the East China Field Army: 1. The Huaihai Campaign was launched immediately.The campaign can be divided into two phases. In the first phase, the Northern Subei Corps (a column must be strengthened) captured the Huaihe River and Huaihe River, and took advantage of the victory to recover Baoying and Gaoyou. If the enemy does not help or is blocked, and instead passes through Pukou and the Yangtze River to aid from Yangzhou to the north, then we will carry out the second step of the campaign around the end of the Lianghuai campaign, and capture Haizhou and Lianyungang with three columns, ending the Huaihai campaign. , and then the whole army went to rest.2. Only carry out Haizhou operations, with the sole purpose of capturing Haizhou, Xinpu, Lianyungang and other places, and use the main force to control Xin'an Town, the north and south of Yunhe Station, and the Yizao Line, and rest in preparation for war.3. Go all out to the south for reinforcements and wipe out part of the enemy.4. The whole army will enter rest and reorganization.

[4] Wu Huawen (1904-1962), a native of Ye County, Shandong.He was the former commander of the 96th Army reorganized by the Kuomintang Army. On September 19, 1948, he led an uprising in the Battle of Jinan. [5] Qiu Corps refers to the Second Corps of the Kuomintang Army where Qiu Qingquan served as the acting commander. [6] Shangdang refers to Shangqiu in Henan and Dangshan in Anhui. [7] Huang Bingtuan refers to the 7th Brigade of the Kuomintang Army under the command of Huang Baitao. [8] Canal, the name of the town, in Pi County, Jiangsu. [9] Lianghuai Gaobao refers to Jiangsu Huaiyin, Huai'an, Gaoyou and Baoying.

[10] Youhui, that is, October 10th. [11] The Qufu meeting refers to the combat meeting held by the former committee of the East China Field Army in Qufu, Shandong Province in late August 1948, with the participation of leading cadres above the column.On the basis of unified understanding, the meeting formulated the combat plan for the Jinan campaign.