Chapter 73 Prepare to cut off Pingjin, surround Tangshan, and annihilate the enemies of Lutai and Tanggu

(December 8, 1948) Lin Luoliu[1]: At 21:30 on the 7th, [2] was informed. (1) Zhangjiakou still has four enemy infantry divisions and two cavalry brigades surrounded by Yang Chengwu [3].The enemy fleeing east was the headquarters of the 35th Army and two divisions of the army. The enemy took more than 300 vehicles and could reach Peiping in two days if there were no obstacles.There are two enemy divisions in Xuanhua, one of which belongs to the 101st Army and intends to concentrate on Zhangjiakou, but was annihilated by our Yang Chengwu troops on Zhangxuan Road yesterday (7th); The army fled eastward.There are two divisions of the 104th Army in Huailai, and three divisions of the 16th Army in Nankou.Two divisions of the 35th Army and one division of the 104th Army blocked a brigade of Yang Luogeng[4] between Xuanhua and Huailai on the afternoon of the 6th. Then the enemy cannot run away, and my Yang Luogeng tribe can also wipe out the enemy alone.Otherwise, the enemy will join the Huailai enemy yesterday or today and flee to Peiping, and Cheng Huang[5] will have nothing to do when he arrives in Huailai.

(2) Your plan to attack the Sixteenth Army with the third and fifth columns is wrong in terms of the overall plan.Now Fu Zuoyi[6] has fourteen divisions and one cavalry division concentrated in Beiping, Zhuoxian, Tongxian, Shunyi, and Nankou areas (the five divisions in Xiahuayuan and Huailai are not counted). These enemies fled to Tianjin by occupying the line of Langfang and Xianghe in four columns and cutting off the connection between Pingyang and Tianjin.As long as this move is successful, the 14 enemy divisions in the Beiping area will not be able to escape.Your second task is to encircle the enemy's three divisions in Tangshan with one column and the Jidong local corps, so that this part of the enemy cannot escape.As long as the enemies in Beiping and Tangshan cannot escape, the enemies in Tientsin, Tanggu and Lutai (ten divisions) will have little chance of escaping alone.Your third task is to cut off the connection between Tianjin and Tanggu with one column, and attack Tanggu with three columns, the 95th Division, the 2 divisions of the 62nd Army (the other is in Tianjin) and the two divisions of the 62nd Army on the Lutai Line. The eighty-sixth army retreated from Qinhuangdao was the enemy of a total of six divisions in three divisions.As long as you have nine columns in your hands besides Cheng Huang, you can carry out the above three tasks at the same time.As long as you have six columns in your hands, you can carry out the two tasks of separating Ping and Tianjin and encircling Tangshan (separate Ping and Tianjin with four columns, and encircle Tangshan with two columns. It is said that two columns are required to encircle Tangshan. We don't have any troops to fight the enemies of Tanggu and Lutai, so we need two columns and the Jidong local corps to complete the task of encircling Tangshan).If the situation is urgent, and the enemy in Peiping has definite signs of retreating to Tianjin (there is no such sign yet), and your follow-up troops fail to catch up, and you only have four columns in hand, then you can only use it first to separate Ping and Tianjin. Make it impossible for the Beiping enemy to escape, waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops.

(3) Under the condition that Ping and Tianjin are not separated, if you use two columns in addition to Cheng Huang to attack the 16th Army in Nankou and wipe out the 16th Army, then the enemy in Peiping will be forced to flee to Beijing as soon as possible. The dangers of Tianjin and Tanggu. (4) The enemies of Ping and Tianjin are not in danger of fleeing to Xi'an, Zhengzhou, and Xuzhou, because we have the armies of Xu Zhou and Peng Zhang[7] to prevent them from going to Xi'an, and the armies of Liu Deng and Chen Su[8] can The battle to prevent them from attacking Zhengzhou and Xuzhou (we wiped out the thirty-four divisions of the four corps including Huang Wei, Qiu Qingquan, Li Mi, and Sun Yuanliang[9] can be resolved within ten days. a period of rest is required).

(5) The enemies of Ping and Tianjin are not in danger of fleeing to Suiyuan[10], because we have eight columns on Pingsui Road[11]. (6) The enemies of Ping and Tianjin are in some danger of fleeing to Qingdao, because we have no troops between Tianjin, Jinan and Qingdao.But this kind of danger is not great, because the enemy's journey from the south of Tientsin to Tsingtao is longer than our army's journey from the vicinity of Hsuchow to Tsingtao, and our troops can intercept it from Hsuchow to the Jiaoji line. (7) The main danger for the enemy to escape is the sea route, but one is that the ports of Jin and Tang are about to freeze, the other is that there are insufficient ships, and the third is that Fu Zuoyi has no such preparations at this time.His policy is still sticking to Ping, Tianjin and Tang.Zhang Yuan[12] had more than 20,000 enemies and was besieged (surrounded without fighting), which also made it difficult for Fu Zuoyi to abandon him and escape alone.

(8) Therefore, you should still wait for the follow-up troops to arrive, and prepare to implement the plan of cutting off Ping and Tianjin, encircling Tangshan, and annihilating Lu and Tang. (9) If I can surround the garden and embrace the enemy, that is the best situation. Military Commission seven o'clock on the eighth 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] Refers to the telegram sent by Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and Liu Yalou to the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China at 21:30 on December 7, 1948.The telegram said: In order to ensure the complete annihilation of Fu Zuoyi and the 16th Army in Nankou, the third and fifth columns of the leading troops are planned to pass through the vicinity of Pinggu and Shunyi immediately, and enter the vicinity of Nankou in five or six days to participate in the battle.At that time, if the battle between Beiping and Zhangjiakou is over, our first two columns will be transferred to the south of Beiping and Tongxian to prevent the enemy from fleeing south.When I arrive later, the actions of the various verticals will be decided according to the enemy's situation in Beiping.If the enemy continues to retreat to Tianjin, each of our first-arriving columns will advance to the southeast of Beiping to block the enemy.If it is determined at that time that the enemy is defending Beiping, then we will go to the troops to encircle Tangshan and cut off the connection between Peiping and Tianjin.

[3] Yang Chengwu, then commander of the Third Corps of the North China Military Region. [4] Refers to the Second Corps of the North China Military Region where Yang Dezhi, Luo Ruiqing, and Geng Biao served as commander, political commissar, and chief of staff respectively. [5] Refers to the Second Corps of the Northeast Field Army where Cheng Zihua and Huang Zhiyong were the commander and chief of staff respectively. [6] Fu Zuoyi, was then the commander-in-chief of the North China "bandit suppression" headquarters of the Kuomintang army. [7] Xu Zhoujun 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.Peng Zhangjun refers to the Northwest Field Army with Peng Dehuai as commander and political commissar and Zhang Zongxun as deputy commander.

[8] Liu Dengjun refers to the Central Plains Field Army with Liu Bocheng as the commander and Deng Xiaoping as the political commissar.Chen Sujun refers to the East China Field Army with Chen Yi as commander and political commissar and Su Yu as acting commander and political commissar. [9] Huang Wei, Qiu Qingquan, Li Mi, and Sun Yuanliang were respectively the commanders of the 12th, 2nd, 13th, and 16th Corps of the Kuomintang Army at that time. [10] Suiyuan, that is, Suiyuan Province.See note [6] on page 82 of this volume. [11] Pingsui Road refers to the railway from Beiping (now Beijing) to Suiyuan (now part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) Baotou, which is now the Beijing-Baotou Railway.

[12] Zhang Yuan, now Zhangjiakou City.