Chapter 69 The battle plan after the entry of the Northeast Army[1]

(November 26, 1948) Lin Luoliu also told Cheng Huang and Yang Luogeng[2]: (1) When your army enters the customs, the enemy's situation will definitely change.Deployment of operational plans must be decided in due course.Therefore, I hope that you will finish dealing with the rear affairs within a few days, and before the main force arrives in Jidong, you will drive past the troops and go to Jidong first.This point is very important. (2) Up to now, the enemies of Ping, Tianjin, Zhang, and Tang are still sticking to their plans and have no plans to retreat.But it's hard to tell what will happen in the next few weeks.

(4) Battle plan: a. Yang Chengwu has been ordered to encircle the Huailai and Zhangjiakou enemies, and Yang Luogeng has been ordered to advance from Quyang to Zhuoxian County and west of Laishui.B. The first battle of your main force should not be Tangshan, but Langfang and other places on the Pingjin line.There are two divisions of the Ninety-Fourth Army in this area, and it is estimated that their strength may be increased. You must first annihilate this enemy, and you must be prepared to annihilate the enemy who may be reinforced by Peiping.Because Fu and Chiang's main forces were in the area centered on Peiping, there were four divisions of the Thirteenth Army, three divisions of the Sixteenth Army, one division of the Ninety-fourth Army, three divisions of the Thirty-fifth Army, and three divisions of the Thirty-first Army. One division of the Army, three divisions of the Temporary Third Army, three divisions of the Temporary Fourth Army, one division of the Temporary Fifth Army, one division of the New Second Army, and four cavalry brigades were distributed along the lines of Zhuozhou, Beiping, Tongzhou, Miyun, and Zhangjiakou.You must be prepared to fight with one or most of these enemy reinforcements and annihilate them in order to achieve the task of cutting off the connection between Ping and Tianjin (a railway and a road).At the same time, the enemy in Tangshan (three divisions of the Eighty-seventh Army) should be surrounded with necessary forces so that they cannot escape.C. After the above-mentioned two missions of cutting off Pingjin and encircling Tangshan are accomplished, the second combat mission is not to attack Tangshan, but to annihilate the three divisions of the 62nd Army between Tianjin and Tangshan (Lutai and Chichengtan to the east of Tianjin) ) and a regiment of the 95th Division (Tanggu), if these enemies have not escaped.D. Annihilate the enemies of Tangshan.E. Capture Tianjin (the main force of the 92nd Army and the 95th Division).Self, annihilate the enemies around Peiping.Geng, capture Beiping.The above is the outline of the battle plan we have thought of, and it is for your consideration. After you arrive in eastern Jidong, you will make a decision based on the current situation and submit it to us for final approval.

(5) Tangshan is the coal source of Pingjin and Tianjin. If you go to encircle Tangshan before you cut off Pingjin and Tianjin, there is a danger of mobilizing the enemy from Peiping to fight in Tianjin and Tangshan or fleeing by sea or land.If you agree with this point, please tell Cheng Huang not to encircle Tangshan at present, but if there is definite news that Tangshan's enemies will retreat, they should encircle them quickly. (6) If Yang Chengwu surrounds the enemies of Zhang and Xuan[5], and the enemies of Huailai and Beiping send reinforcements to Zhang and Xuan, then Cheng Huang will go west from Jixian County and Yang Luogeng from the vicinity of Zhuoxian County, and quickly advance westward to cut off Ping and Zhang. Cooperate with Yang Chengwu to destroy the enemy.

Military Commission Eight o'clock on the twenty-sixth Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is an excerpt from a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China to Lin Biao, commander of the Northeast Field Army, Luo Ronghuan, political commissar, and Liu Yalou, chief of staff.There are six items in the original report, and the third item is omitted in this article. [2] Cheng Huang, referring to Cheng Zihua and Huang Zhiyong, who were respectively the commander and chief of staff of the Second Corps of the Northeast Field Army at that time.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 the time.

[3] Yang Chengwu, then commander of the Third Corps of the North China Military Region. [4] Fu, referring to Fu Zuoyi, who was then the commander-in-chief of the North China "bandit suppression" headquarters of the Kuomintang army.Chiang, refers to Chiang Kai-shek. [5] Xuan, refers to today's Xuanhua, Hebei.