Chapter 103 Pursue and annihilate Bai Chongxi's troops by encircling and roundabout methods at a long distance[1]

(July 16 and 17, 1949) one Lin Dengxiao[2], and sued Liu Zhangli[3]: Telegram [4] at 20:00 on the 14th. (1) Guangdong has only 40,000 incomplete enemy troops, while we have a guerrilla force of more than 40,000. We only need two armies plus Zeng Sheng[5] and two small divisions to solve the Guangdong problem. Sending three armies plus the Zengsheng Ministry is completely sufficient, and there is no need to send more troops. (2) Judging the location where Bai Chongxi [6] is going to fight us, there are only three places in southern Hunan, Guangxi, and Yunnan, and Guangxi is the most likely place.But your first step should be to prepare to fight him in southern Hunan, that is, south of Hengzhou[7], your second step is to prepare to fight in Guangxi, and the third step is to fight in Yunnan.After the Bai tribe retreated to southern Hunan, there were only about 100,000 people. The two tribes of Song Xilian and Cheng Qian[8] retreated to western Hunan and western Hubei, and would not go to southern Hunan.

(3) As a method of fighting against the Baibu, no matter in Chaling, anywhere south of Hengzhou, in Quanzhou, Guilin, or other places, do not adopt short-distance encirclement and detour methods, but long-distance encirclement and detour methods. Only by using this method can we take the initiative, that is, completely ignore Baibu's temporary deployment, and far surpass him, occupy his rear, and force him to fight me in the end.[9]Because the white bandits have a small capital and are extremely clever, they will never fight me unless they have to.Therefore, you should be prepared to lure 100,000 white bandits to Guilin, Nanning, Liuzhou, etc. in Guangxi and annihilate them, and even prepare to chase them to Kunming and annihilate them.

(4) To wipe out the white bandits, we should specify the exact strength of our army. We propose eight armies, composed of three armies from Chen Geng's [10] department and five armies from the four fields.These eight armies must go deep into Guangxi and Yunnan to wipe out the white bandits, and should not be mixed with other forces.Chen Gengzhi's other army can participate in the battle in southern Hunan, but it will not enter Guangxi. It is going to go straight out of Guiyang from Chenzhou, with the goal of occupying Guizhou.Chen Gengzhi's three armies will go out of Kunming after completing the Guangxi campaign, with the goal of occupying and managing Yunnan. This point has been discussed with Comrade Deng Xiaoping and decided (Liu Deng[11] has a total of 500,000 people, except for the four armies led by Chen Geng. In addition, its main force will enter Sichuan via western Hunan, western Hubei, and northern Guizhou in September, arrive in November, and occupy the area around Chongqing in December. In addition, He Long[12] will lead about 100,000 people to enter Chengdu, and Liu and Deng , He and other comrades formed the Southwest Bureau to operate the four provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Kangxi[13]. The scope of your operations has been determined to be the six provinces of Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guangxi, but your fifty armies must prepare If you go to Yunnan, if the main force of the White Bandits retreats from Yunnan, you must also consider sending an additional force to Yunnan to help in the war).

(5) The four armies of Chen Geng arrived at Chenzhou. Please consider taking Suichuan, Shangyou, and Chongyi. I don’t know how many car roads there are in this area? If there is a suitable road, it seems to be better to go this way. . (6) The two armies dedicated to operating Jiangxi should not undertake other tasks.The two armies dedicated to operating Guangdong should advance via Jiangxi and Dayuling instead of going south of Hunan, because there are too many enemy troops in southern Hunan, and food will be difficult. (7) Prepare to go deep into Guangxi to find and annihilate the eight armies of the Guangxi clique (five armies in the four fields and three armies in Chen Geng). Guilin and Nanning, with a view to speedy.Otherwise, the five armies of the Four Fields would advance westward through Guangzhou and Zhaoqing, detour to the south of Guangxi, and the three armies of Chen Geng would advance southward through Quanzhou.Or use the three armies of Chen Geng to cooperate with the two armies of the Four Fields to manage Guangdong, a total of five armies, and go out of Guangzhou from Dayuling, but Chen Geng does not take the job in Guangzhou, and only passes through the south of Guangxi. Including the Fifty Army) from Quanzhou to Guilin.

(8) Zeng Sheng's Ministry should be dispatched immediately to go to Jiangxi and enter Guangdong. (9) Whether the above is appropriate, please consider giving your opinion. Military Commission Afternoon milling two Lin Dengxiao, and sued Liu Zhangli, Chen Raosu[14]: Noon milling telegram [15] Liangda, I would like to add a few points, please consider replying along with the noon milling telegram. (1) Based on the judgment that the white bandits have small capital, are extremely clever, and will never fight us unless they have to; based on the fact that the general task of the four fields is to manage the six provinces of central and southern China, and the task of the two fields is to manage the four provinces in the southwest, and Regarding the situation of food and roads for the march, we think that your ministries should deal with it as follows.

(2) Chen Geng's four armies stopped waiting in the Anfu area and stopped marching westward. After the 15th Corps arrived in Yuanzhou[16], one of the 15th Corps' corps was the vanguard and marched towards Ganzhou.This army determined its mission to occupy Ganzhou and manage more than ten counties in southern Jiangxi.The three armies of Chen Geng and the two armies of the 15th Corps were led by Chen Geng. They marched southward through Ganzhou, Nanxiong, and Shixing, and planned to occupy Guangzhou in three months. Zeng Sheng's column is in charge of running the whole province of Guangdong.Chen Geng led the three armies of the Fourth Corps to go deep into Guangxi to find and annihilate the Guangxi Clique. They marched from Guangzhou to the south of Guangxi via Zhaoqing, and cooperated with the Northern Route Army from Chenzhou and Yongzhou to seek and annihilate the Guangxi Clan in Guangxi.Then, Chen Geng led his three armies into Yunnan.Under this deployment, another army other than Chen Geng's Fourth Corps entered Hunan from the Anfu area, and was commanded by the Twelfth Corps.Zeng Sheng's two junior teachers should end their training early and follow Chen Geng's route or still take the Cantonese-Han route to Guangzhou.

(3) In addition to retaining an army in Henan, a heavy artillery unit in Hubei, an army in northern Jiangxi, and three armies in western Hunan, northern Hunan, and central Hunan, the main forces of the four fields will go deep into Guangxi to find ways to wipe out the white bandits. The Northern Route Army, using the Hunan-Guangxi Railway to advance southward, cooperated with Chen Geng to annihilate the Guangxi Clan in Guangxi. (4) The above-mentioned deployments were not deceived by the white bandits' temporary disguised formations (for example, in northern Jiangxi in the past, now in Chaling, and in the future in Chenzhou, Quanzhou, etc.), and adopted a completely active deployment to make the white bandits completely passive.No matter whether he is willing to fight with us or unwilling to fight with us, whether he withdraws near or far away, in short, he is passive while I am completely active. In the end, he was forced to stay with us in Guangxi. fight.It is estimated that the Guangxi faction is unwilling to give up Guangxi and flee to Yunnan easily, because Lu Han in Yunnan [17] refused their entry, and Yunnan still has our strong guerrilla forces. At least one part of the Guangxi faction will be left in Guangxi, while the other Flee into Yunnan, then I will use Chen Geng's three armies to match your Zeng Zesheng army[18], and we can wipe them out in Yunnan.By November, the six main armies of our second field had entered Guizhou and Sichuan, and it was impossible for him to escape to Guizhou and Sichuan.The main force of Hu Zongnan[19] in the northwest was annihilated by our army in Meixian and Fufeng areas in Wuwen[20], and only 70,000 of the remnants fled to Hanzhong.Our first field decided to send nine armies westward into Gan, Ning, and Qing to find and wipe out the horse bandits [21], and we plan to draw three armies out of northern Sichuan this winter or next spring, and cooperate with the second field to manage the southwest, so that the southwest bandits will be completely wiped out.What do you think, let me know.

Military Commission Wu Xiao Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] These are two telegrams drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China to the leaders of the Fourth Field Army and to the leaders of the Second and Third Field Armies on the issue of the operational policy of chasing and annihilating the Kuomintang Army's Bai Chongxi Department. [2] Lin Deng, referring to Lin Biao and Deng Zihui, who were respectively the commander of the Fourth Field Army and the Central China Military Region and the second political commissar at that time.Xiao, referring to Xiao Ke, born in 1908 in Jiahe, Hunan, was the first chief of staff of the Fourth Field Army at that time.

[3] Liu Zhangli refers to Liu Bocheng, Zhang Jichun, and Li Da, who were respectively the commander, deputy political commissar, director of the Political Department, and chief of staff of the Second Field Army at that time. [4] Refers to the telegram sent by Lin Biao, Deng Zihui, and Xiao Ke to the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China at 20:00 on July 14, 1949, regarding the combat plan against the enemy retreating south. [5] Zeng Sheng (1910-1995), born in Pingshan Town, Huiyang, Guangdong (now part of Shenzhen City).At that time, he was the commander of the Guangdong and Guangxi columns of the Fourth Field Army.

[6] Bai Chongxi, at that time was the chief of the Central China Military and Political Chief Office of the Kuomintang Army. [7] Hengzhou, namely Hengyang, Hunan. [8] Song Xilian, then director of the KMT Army Appeasement Office in the Sichuan-Hunan-Hubei Border Region.Cheng Qian (1882-1968), a native of Liling, Hunan, was the chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government of the Kuomintang and the director of the Changsha Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [9] With regard to the operational policy of annihilating the Bai Chongxi clique, Mao Zedong emphasized again in the telegram to Deng Xiaoping, Zhang Jichun, and Li Da and reported to Lin Biao, Deng Zihui, and Tan Zheng drafted by the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China on September 12, 1949: "In short, I took a big roundabout action against Bai Chongxi and the enemies in the southwest, inserted into the enemy's rear, completed the encirclement first, and then fought back."

[10] Chen Geng, then commander and political commissar of the Fourth Corps of the Second Field Army. [11] Refers to the Second Field Army with Liu Bocheng as the commander and Deng Xiaoping as the political commissar. [12] He Long, then commander of the Northwest Military Region. [13] Kang refers to Xikang Province, see note [4] on page 300 of this book. [14] Chen Raosu refers to Chen Yi, Rao Shushi, and Su Yu, who were respectively the commander, political commissar, and deputy commander of the Third Field Army and the East China Military Region at that time. [15] Noon milling electricity, that is, the first part of this article. [16] Yuanzhou, that is, Yichun, Jiangxi. [17] Lu Han (1895-1974), born in Zhaotong, Yunnan.At that time, he was the chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government of the Kuomintang and the director of the Yunnan Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [18] Zeng Zesheng Army refers to the 50th Army of the Fourth Field Army under the command of Zeng Zesheng. [19] Hu Zongnan, then director of the Xi'an Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [20] Noon text, that is, July 12th. [21] Ma, referring to Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui, who were acting chief and deputy chief of the Northwest Military and Political Chief Office of the Kuomintang Army at that time.