Chapter 61 The Northeast North China team is preparing to work together to seize the Pingjin area

(October 31, 1948) Lin Luoliu[1], and told Cheng Huang[2], Northeast Bureau, North China Bureau: The deployment of the telegram at 9:30 on the 30th [3] and the telegram at 11:00 on the 30th were all known, and the deployment was very good.Please note the following points: (1) Our Yang Luogeng Corps[4] has all moved from the Pingzhang Line to the Pingshi Line, and there are still one division of the enemy's Third Temporary Army, Temporary Fourth Army, and Temporary Fifth Army on the Pingzhang Line.Our Yang Chengwu Li Jingquan Corps [5] is preparing to capture Guisui [6] (starting around Xu Hui [7]), the enemy on the Zhangping Line may send reinforcements to Guisui with one army, and our Yang and Li Corps only have siege forces , no reinforcements.Our Pingbei and Chabei troops are actively responsible for conducting containment operations against the enemies along the Zhangbei, Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua, and Huailai lines. Advance towards the tail enemy in Suidong, Xinghe, Jining and other places, and seize the enemy.Therefore, it seems inappropriate for the 11th Cavalry Division and the 16th Cavalry Division of Chabei to advance to the vicinity of Peiping, but it is appropriate to take the command of Gui Zhan and Niu[10] to undertake the above tasks.

(2) After the 4th, 11th, Dusi, Duliu, Duqi, Duba and other divisions advance to the vicinity of Beiping, the Jinyu Line and Rehe [11] will be empty. After occupying Shenyang, please separate from the north. A few of the division were selected to go south first to deal with the enemies of Jinxi and Chengde, so as to prevent them from flooding the disabled people. (3) Except for the four verticals and the eleventh verticals that will go south immediately, the main force of the Northeast should rest for about a month after the battle on the Shenying line, and start dispatching in early or mid-December to attack the Pingjin area. In the second half of the third year of the war, that is, from January to June next year, we will cooperate with the North China forces to wipe out the main force of Fu Zuoyi[12], capture Pingjin and Beining, Pingsui[13], Pingcheng, and Pingbao lines, and complete the Northeast and North China battles. Unification, so that in the first quarter of the fourth year of the war, that is, next autumn, it is possible to dispatch the main force to the Yangtze River Basin, and to enable the Political Consultative Conference to be held in Peiping next summer.

(4) Strive to complete the Shenjin Railway and the Chengde Railway in Zhangwuyi County within a month, and organize the main roads in Jehol and Eastern Hebei to facilitate the transportation of troops and quickly transport grain and ammunition, otherwise it will not be possible to supply the army for combat.This deployment is expected to be made expeditiously. (5) The September meeting of the Central Committee[14] stipulated that in about five years, we should build an army of 5 million and annihilate 500 brigades of the enemy's regular army, basically defeating the Kuomintang. Because of the rapid development of the war, it may be completed a year earlier.You should be mentally prepared for this point, so as to speed up organizational preparations, and educate cadres with this spirit.

Military Commission Youshi Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] 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. [2] Cheng, referring to Cheng Zihua, was the commander of the Second Corps of the Northeast Field Army at that time.Huang, referring to Huang Zhiyong, born in 1914 in Chongyi, Jiangxi Province, was the Chief of Staff of the Second Corps of the Northeast Field Army at that time.On October 28, 1948, Cheng and Huang led the Four Columns, the Eleven Columns, the Rehe Independent Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth Divisions, and the Cavalry Division to form the Northeast Field Army's advance corps.

[3] Refers to the telegram sent by Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and Liu Yalou to Cheng Zihua, Huang Zhiyong, etc. at 9:30 on October 30, 1948, and reported to the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and the Northeast Bureau.The telegram stated: Our army has decided that the Fourth Column, the Eleventh Column, the Independence Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Divisions, the Rehe Cavalry Division, and the Chabei Cavalry Eleventh and Sixteenth Divisions will all advance to the suburbs of Beiping and be under the command of Cheng Huang.In the Northeast, we will do our best to wait for the battles on the Yingkou and Shenyang lines to be over, then we will replenish our troops a little bit, and then we will advance to Beiping and Tianjin to seize Pingjin.

[4] Yang Luogeng Corps refers to the Second Corps of the North China Military Region with Yang Dezhi as the commander, Luo Ruiqing as the political commissar, and Geng Biao as the chief of staff. [5] Refers to the Third Corps of the North China Military Region with Yang Chengwu as the commander and Li Jingquan as the political commissar. [6] Guisui, which is now Hohhot. [7] Xu Hui, that is, November 1st. [8] Cha, referring to Chahar Province, see note [8] on page 82 of this volume. [9] Sui refers to Suiyuan Province, see note [6] on page 82 of this volume. [10] Zhan, refers to Zhan Danan, born in 1914, from Jinzhai, Anhui, and served as the commander of the Jirecha Military Region at that time.Niu, referring to Niu Shucai (1908-1990), a native of Quyang, Hebei, was a political commissar of the Jirecha Military Region at that time.

[11] Rehe, that is, Rehe Province, see note [8] on page 82 of this volume. [12] Fu Zuoyi was then the commander-in-chief of the North China "Bandit Suppression" Headquarters of the Kuomintang Army. [13] 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. [14] Refers to the enlarged 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.