Chapter 71 Broadcast speech to the Huangwei Corps of the Kuomintang Army[1]

(November 27, 1948) one Please pay attention to the generals, officers, and soldiers of the Huangwei Corps of the Kuomintang Army in the southwestern area of ​​Su County! The People's Liberation Army Headquarters speaks to you: The People's Liberation Army has now completely surrounded you.You can't get out, and your destiny has reached the last moment.Think for yourselves and for the people, you should disarm and surrender as soon as possible.Four of Feng Zhi'an's divisions had already revolted[2], ten of Huang Baitao's[3] divisions had been wiped out, and four more were wiped out.Li Yannian and Liu Ruming[4] in Bengbu have been blocked by our army and cannot assist you.Qiu Qingquan, Li Mi, and Sun Yuanliang[5] in Xuzhou are also blocked by our army and cannot assist you.Chiang Kai-shek and Liu Zhi[6] had absolutely no choice.Do you know that Huang Baitao's corps, which had been besieged in Nianzhuang, was waiting for reinforcements from Xuzhou a few days ago? Huang Baitao was eliminated.Your current situation is worse than that of Huang Baitao. You are farther away from Xuzhou. You have traveled too hard from Nanyang to Nanpingji near Suxian County. Can you continue to fight? Why don’t you hand over your guns earlier and kill fewer people? , stay alive and do some work for the Chinese people.You all know the leniency policy of the People's Liberation Army. Regardless of whether they are direct descendants of Chiang Kai-shek, as long as they lay down their weapons, they will be treated leniently. Regardless of whether they are officers or soldiers, they will not be killed or humiliated.Your Wang Yaowu, Fan Hanjie, Zheng Dongguo[7] and all other captured generals lived well with us.Many of them have been put back.There are many others that we are going to release home.You are all Chinese, so why fight for the Americans? The Chinese people oppose Chiang Kai-shek’s civil war, dictatorship, and betrayal of the country. Why do you have to sacrifice your life for Chiang Kai-shek and a few reactionaries? The time is urgent, and sacrifice is useless. You should lay down your arms immediately.The Nanjing government is on the verge of collapse. Generals, officers, and soldiers of the eleventh division of the Huangwei Corps, quickly turn your guns and fight to Nanjing with us!

two General Huang Wei, Commander of the 12th Corps of the Kuomintang Army in Nanping, Suxian County, the commanders of the four armies, the commanders of the eleventh divisions, the commanders of battalions, companies and platoons of each regiment, and all soldiers: Now General Liu Bocheng, Commander of the Central Plains Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and General Chen Yi, Commander of the East China Field Army, address you. General Huang Wei, commander of the 12th Corps of the Kuomintang, and officers and soldiers of the entire corps under General Huang! We and you are all Chinese.You and I are at war now.We surround you.You have such a large army, and you only occupy six or seven small villages within a dozen or so li. There is no food and no camping grounds. How can you last long? Yes, you have many planes and tanks. There are not even a single tank. The sky over Nanpingji belongs to you. You want to use these things as a cover to protrude to the southeast.But after two days of breaking through, did you break through our position? No, you won't be able to break through.What is the reason? Victory or defeat in war is determined not by weapons, but by people's hearts.Our soldiers want to fight, and your soldiers don't want to fight. Do you generals know? Let's put down our weapons.Those who put down their weapons will have a way out, and no one will be killed.Those who are willing to stay will serve as the People's Liberation Army, and those who do not want to stay will go home.This is true not only for soldiers, lower-level officials, and middle-level officials, but also for senior generals, and it is also true for Huang Wei.What's the point of fighting for the corrupt officials of the Kuomintang? You shed blood and sweat, and they get promoted and get rich.You die, they enjoy.Come to your senses quickly.Put down your arms, we are all family.The idea of ​​fighting a civil war, fighting the Communist Party, and killing the people was decided by Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang. It was not what most of you wanted, and most of you were forced to fight.That being the case, what else is there to fight? Quickly lay down your weapons! In the past few days, we have only set up encirclement positions and compressed you into a piece of tofu, and have not launched a general attack.If you do not surrender, we will launch a general attack.We hope that General Huang Wei will follow the example of General Zheng Dongguo in Changchun and order the surrender in order to protect the lives of soldiers and cadres.If General Huang Wei is willing to do this, he will immediately send representatives to negotiate with our representatives about the method of surrender.You promise to hand over your guns in an orderly manner and not destroy weapons and equipment. We guarantee the safety of all of you and the inviolability of your belongings.Where to go, make an immediate decision.I sincerely report this.

Liu Bocheng Chen Yi November 17 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] In the second stage of the Huaihai Campaign, the Huangwei Corps of the Kuomintang Army was surrounded by the People's Liberation Army in a narrow area southwest of Su County.Xinhua Radio Station in Northern Shaanxi broadcast five speeches in a row, urging the corps to surrender.The first article is a speech written by Mao Zedong in the name of the headquarters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.The second part of this article is a speech written by Mao Zedong in the names of Liu Bocheng, commander of the Central Plains Field Army, and Chen Yi, commander of the East China Field Army.

[2] Feng Zhi'an, former commander of the Third Appeasement District of the Kuomintang Army.On November 8, 1948, He Jifeng and Zhang Kexia (both underground members of the Communist Party of China), the deputy commanders of the Third Appeasement Zone, led a military headquarters, three divisions, and a regiment with a total of more than 20,000 people in Jiawang, northeast of Xuzhou. , Taierzhuang area uprising, Feng Zhian flew to Nanjing. [3] Huang Baitao, former commander of the Seventh Corps of the Kuomintang Army, was killed in a battle near Nianzhuang on November 22, 1948. [4] Refers to the Sixth Corps and Eighth Corps of the Kuomintang Army, where Li Yannian and Liu Ruming served as commanders respectively.

[5] Refers to the Second Corps, Thirteenth Corps and Sixteenth Corps of the Kuomintang Army with Qiu Qingquan, Li Mi, and Sun Yuanliang as commanders respectively. [6] Liu Zhi, was then the commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou "bandit suppression" headquarters of the Kuomintang army. [7] Wang Yaowu (1903-1968), a native of Tai'an, Shandong, was the commander of the Second Appeasement Area of ​​the Kuomintang Army. He was captured in the Battle of Jinan in September 1948.Fan Hanjie, former deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "bandit suppression" headquarters of the Kuomintang Army, was captured in the Battle of Jinzhou in October 1948.Zheng Dongguo (1903-1991), a native of Shimen, Hunan, former deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Bandit Suppression" headquarters of the Kuomintang Army and commander of the First Corps, October 19, 1948 He led his troops to lay down their weapons in Changchun.