Chapter 13 The victory of the Battle of Pingsui [1] is of great significance

(October 16, 1945) Comrades from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Bureau and the Shanxi-Suiju Bureau also reported to the Northeast Bureau and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Bureau: The Pingsui campaign that is about to start is extremely important to our party's status in the north and to striving for national peace.Chiang Kai-shek ordered Fu Zuoyi[2] to gather more than 50,000 men on the lines of Guisui, Jining, and Datong. Once the troops transported by land, air, and sea were concentrated in Beiping, Tianjin, and Qinhuangdao, he would cooperate with Fu's troops to attack Zhangyuan[3]. And attack Shenyang and Chengde.However, Bikeqi, Guisui, Wuchuan, Jining, Fengzhen, Taolin[5], Liangcheng, Qingshuihe and other places in Suiyuan[4] were either our original liberated areas or were recovered by us not long ago. With the aid of the Japanese invaders, Fu's Ministry cooperated with the puppet army Wang Ying, Li Shouxin[6] and others to forcibly occupy it. It once occupied Xinghe and Shangyi, and approached Zhangyuan.Although Xinghe and Shangyi have been recovered by me, the rest of the country is still in the hands of the puppet, and is actively preparing to attack Zhang Yuan in an attempt to cut off our access to the northeast, north, and northwest.Therefore, the Ping-Sui campaign is a fight to regain the lost land and open the road of communication. There are sufficient reasons. I hope to boost morale, resolutely, thoroughly, cleanly and completely wipe out the stubborn anti-communist and anti-people puppet army, and complete your sacred mission.After the victory of the Pingsui Campaign, the main force should quickly prepare to transfer to the eastern Hebei and Pingxi regions to carry out serious new tasks.And with the necessary number of capable troops, go south from Datong to eliminate the rebellious forces of Yan[7] until they reach the vicinity of Taiyuan, and then consider the issue of seizing Taiyuan according to the situation.Because Yan Ni not only colluded with the Japanese invaders for a long time, but also aggressively attacked our Shangdang Liberated Area recently. Although he was severely hit by our Shangdang Campaign[8] and wiped out more than 30,000 of its main force, there are still more than 60,000 of its remnants. Yan Ni And frenzied, organized thousands of Japanese invaders to prepare to attack their compatriots. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary and justified to completely wipe out the remnants of Yan Ni as much as possible without hindering the rapid assistance to the Northeast.

central unitary Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] The Battle of Pingsui, also known as the Battle of Suiyuan.After Japan surrendered, Fu Zuoyi, commander of the 11th War Zone of the Kuomintang stationed in the west of Suiyuan, mobilized more than 60,000 puppet troops and the main force under his jurisdiction, and occupied Guisui (now Hohhot) surrounded by the Eighth Route Army and the liberated city. Wuchuan, Taolin, Fengzhen, Jining, Xinghe and other towns attempted to seize Zhangjiakou and control the railway from Beiping to Guisui.On October 18, 1945, troops from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jinsui Military Region launched an attack on the invading Kuomintang army. After liberating Liangcheng, Taolin, Jining and other places, they besieged Guisui and Baotou Weike. The battle ended in mid-December, and more than 12,000 Kuomintang troops were wiped out.

[2] Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974), a native of Linyi, Shanxi.At that time, he was the commander-in-chief of the 11th War Zone of the Kuomintang Army. [3] Zhangyuan, that is, Zhangjiakou City. [4] Suiyuan, that is, Suiyuan Province, see note [3] on page 17 of this volume. [5] Taolin, that is, Taolin County, was abolished in 1954, and its jurisdiction was placed under the Chahar Right-wing Back Banner and Chahar Right-wing Middle Banner of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. [6] Wang Ying (1894-1950), a native of Xingtai, Hebei, was originally the commander of the Puppet Suixi Coalition Army. Commander-in-Chief of the Eleventh Army Group.Li Shouxin (1892-1970), a native of Tumote Right Banner of Zhuosutu League in Inner Mongolia (now Baotou City), former commander-in-chief of the Puppet Mongolian Army, was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the Northeast People's Liberation Army after the Anti-Japanese War ended. Commander-in-Chief of the Self-Defense Forces.

[7] Yan refers to Yan Xishan (1883-1960), a native of Hebian Village (now Dingxiang), Wutai County, Shanxi.At that time, he was the commander-in-chief of the Second Theater of the Kuomintang Army. [8] In mid-August 1945, the Yan Xishan Department of the Kuomintang Army concentrated thirteen divisions and, with the cooperation of the Japanese and puppet troops, invaded Xiangyuan, Tunliu, Changzhi, Lucheng and other places in the Liberated Area in southeastern Shanxi.From September 10 to October 12, the soldiers and civilians in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Liberated Area launched a self-defense counterattack, annihilating 11 divisions and an advancing column of the Kuomintang army with more than 35,000 people, and captured the army commander Shi Zebo and many division commanders.Because the area centered on Changzhi in southeastern Shanxi belonged to Shangdang County in ancient times, this battle was called the Shangdang Battle.