Chapter 106 Solving the Northwest Region with Political Way

(August 6, 1949) Comrade Dehuai[1] congratulates Xi[2]: (1) Now that the enemy forces in the northwest are retreating to Hanzhong, Lanchow, and Ningxia, our army must also divide into three routes to deal with the retreat.How do you plan to deploy it? In addition to using combat methods to solve the problem, you also need to use political methods to solve it. What do you think about this? We think that the Northwest region is very vast and the ethnic groups are very complicated, and there are very few prestigious Muslim cadres in our party. In order to achieve a thorough, healthy and rapid solution, political methods must be used as an aid to combat methods.Now our army has the upper hand, and the use of political methods will do more harm than good.The method is to use the Kuomintang people who are close to us to organize a military and political committee with our people as a temporary transitional agency.Such Kuomintang members are Zhang Zhizhong, Fu Zuoyi, and Deng Baoshan[3].

(2) Regarding the Suiyuan[4] and Ningxia issues, we are prepared to cooperate with Fu Zuoyi to resolve them.Because the Suiyuan reactionaries were extremely rampant due to the collusion between Yan Xishan[5] and the U.S. imperialists, Fu’s subordinate Dong Qiwu[6] and others were willing to join us, but they were not yet determined to punish the reactionaries and reform the troops. Fu Zuoyi had already begun to establish this A resolution, and suggested that the Suiyuan issue should be resolved as soon as possible instead of procrastinating.Therefore, we decided to organize the Suiyuan Military and Political Committee, with Fu as the chairman, our Gao Kelin as the vice-chairman, and more than ten members.The 50,000 men from the Fu Division and the 20,000 men from the Yao Zhe and Wang Ping[7] units of our army were combined into two armies, with Dong Qiwu and others from the Fu Division as the army commanders, and our people as the deputy army commanders.Implement the military and political system of the People's Liberation Army, eliminate the bad and keep the good, and gradually transform.The two Suiyuan provincial governments have been merged into one, with Fubu Dong Qiwu as the chairman, our Yang Zhilin as the vice-chairman, and the provincial government committee members are also properly equipped with people from both sides.This method is beneficial to both parties, and can achieve the goal of thorough transformation through a working process.Fu Zuoyi expressed his satisfaction with this method, and planned to send Fu to Suiyuan in a few days to solve the Suiyuan problem together with our people.

(3) Ma Hongkui[8] is Fu Zuoyi's brother. Ma sent Ma Rulong[9] and Ha Mou to Suiyuan to contact him, intending to ask for a peaceful settlement.Fu Zuoyi said that Ma was very willing to seek peace, but he was afraid that he would not get it.Please think about the Ningxia issue, whether it is possible to reorganize Ma Hongkui's department through Fu Zuoyi.We believe that after Ma Bufang's [10] settlement, Yang Dezhi's Corps [11] must be used to go deep into Ningxia, deal an annihilated blow to Ma Hongkui's troops, force the remnants to fall back, and then use political methods to solve the problem through Fu Zuoyi.

(4) Deng Baoshan and General Ma Bufang both know each other and are well-known in Gansu. He is a polished man and there are not many cadres. Please consider whether you can use Deng Baoshan and ask him to go to Lanzhou to organize the Gansu Qing Military and Political Committee and the Gansu Provincial Government together with our people. .Both organizations have Deng as the chairman, Zhao Shoushan and Wang Shitai as the vice-chairmen, and they are considered transitional organs.Ma Bufang must annihilate his main force, but he has Yushu and other places as his rear, so he can save the remnants.In order to finally resolve Qinghai, it is necessary to find some old people who have connections with Qinghai. If we use Deng Baoshan as Zhugan, it may open the way to find this old person and finally solve the Qinghai problem.In addition, the Panchen Lama [12] is now in Lanzhou. When you attack Lanzhou, please pay great attention to protecting and respecting the Panchen Lama and the Tibetans in Gansu and Qinghai, so as to prepare for the settlement of the Tibet issue.

(5) Tao Zhiyue [13] is wavering now, and has the intention to resolve Xinjiang peacefully. We believe that Zhang Zhizhong should be used to organize the Xinjiang Military and Political Committee, with Zhang Zhizhong as the chairman and our people (whether Wang Zhen [14] went to Xinjiang) as the vice chairman, In addition, one person from Yili [15] is the vice-chairman, who is regarded as a transitional organ. (6) How long the transitional institutions will exist will not be rigidly stipulated for the time being. The principle is to facilitate the settlement of the reactionary army and reactionary regime, and the settlement of land issues and ethnic issues.

(7) Hu Gongmian [16] has come to Xi'an, please pay attention to using him to clean up Hu Zongnan's [17] department.Now that Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren [18] have joined us in the Hunan uprising, they will definitely have an influence on the ministries of Jiang, Gui, and Hu [19] and give us the opportunity to divide the various ministries. (8) The entire Northwest may also consider organizing a military and political committee in the future, with Peng[20] as the leader and Zhang Zhizhong as the deputy. (9) Whether the above items are feasible or not, please consider and give your opinions.

Mao Zedong Midday Fish[21] This newspaper also distributed Central China Bureau, Hunan Provincial Party Committee, Liu Deng, Zhang Li[22], East China Bureau and Su Yu[23].Please pay attention to study this problem, and apply this method in Hunan and other places.Mao Youji. Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Dehuai, that is, Peng Dehuai, was the commander and political commissar of the First Field Army at that time. [2] He Xi refers to He Long and Xi Zhongxun, who were respectively the commander and political commissar of the Northwest Military Region at that time.

[3] Zhang Zhizhong, former chief of the Northwest Military and Political Chief Office of the Kuomintang Army.In April 1949, he served as the chief representative of the peace negotiation delegation of the Kuomintang government to Beiping to negotiate with the delegation of the Communist Party of China. in Peking.Fu Zuoyi and Deng Baoshan, former commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the North China "bandit suppression" headquarters of the Kuomintang Army respectively, led their troops to undergo peaceful reorganization in January 1949, and Peiping was liberated peacefully.

[4] Suiyuan, that is, Suiyuan Province, see note [6] on page 82 of this volume. [5] Yan Xishan, then President of the Executive Yuan of the Kuomintang government. [6] Dong Qiwu (1899-1989), a native of Hejin, Shanxi.He was the former chairman of the Suiyuan Provincial Government of the Kuomintang and the deputy chief of the Northwest Military and Political Chief Office of the Kuomintang Army.In June 1949, the Suiyuan Peace Agreement was signed with the North China People's Government, and on September 19, they revolted in Guisui (now Hohhot). [7] Yao Zhe (1906-1979), born in Shaoyang, Hunan, was the commander of the Suiyuan Military Region at that time.Wang Ping, born in 1907 in Yangxin, Hubei, was the commander of the Chahar Military Region at that time.

[8] Ma Hongkui was the deputy chief of the Northwest Military and Political Chief Office of the Kuomintang Army at that time. [9] Ma Rulong (1893?), from Hezhou, Ningxia (now Linxia).At that time, he was the deputy commander of the Ningxia Security Command of the Kuomintang Army. [10] Ma Bufang, at that time was the chief of the Northwest Military and Political Chief Office of the Kuomintang Army. [11] Yang Dezhi Corps refers to the 19th Corps of the First Field Army under the command of Yang Dezhi. [12] Panchen Lama, that is, Panchen Lama Erdeni Choji Gyaltsan (1938-1989), a native of Xunhua, Qinghai.One of the Tibetan religious leaders.

[13] Tao Zhiyue (1892-1988), a native of Ningxiang, Hunan.At that time, he was the deputy chief of the Northwest Military and Political Chief Office of the Kuomintang Army and the commander-in-chief of the Xinjiang Garrison Command.On September 25, 1949, he led an uprising in Dihua (now Urumqi). [14] Wang Zhen (1908-1993), born in Liuyang, Hunan.At that time, he was the commander and political commissar of the First Corps of the First Field Army. [15] Refers to the Ili, Tacheng, and Altay People's Autonomous Regions in northern Xinjiang. [16] Hu Gongmian (1887-1979), a native of Yongjia, Zhejiang.During the War of Liberation, he kept in touch with the CCP's underground party organization in Shanghai and engaged in secret military operations. [17] Hu Zongnan, then director of the Xi'an Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [18] Cheng Qian, former chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government of the Kuomintang and director of the Changsha Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army, announced an uprising in Changsha on August 4, 1949.Chen Mingren, former commander of the First Corps of the Kuomintang Army, announced an uprising with Cheng Qian in Changsha on August 4, 1949. [19] Jiang, Gui, and Hu refer to Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Guangxi faction, Bai Chongxi, the chief of the Central China Military and Political Office of the Kuomintang Army, and Hu Zongnan. [20] Peng, refers to Peng Dehuai. [21] "Wuyu" should be "Weiyu", that is, August 6th. [22] Liu, Deng, and Zhang Li refer to Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Zhang Jichun, and Li Da, who were respectively the commander, political commissar, deputy political commissar, director of the political department, and chief of staff of the Second Field Army at that time. [23] Su Yu, then served as the Third Field Army and Deputy Commander of the East China Military Region.