Chapter 17 Create a battlefield in the Tongbai Mountain area

(October 22, 1945) Zheng and Li[1]: (1) You must prepare to be active in Henan and Hubei within at least six months. After the three divisions [2] join forces, concentrate a strong field army to win a few big victories, which can help the overall situation and change your own situation. (2) At present, it is most appropriate for your field army to join Wang Dai and Erwang [3] to seize the Tongbai Mountain area. Do not go to other areas too early, which will increase your difficulties and be detrimental to the overall situation.Southeast Henan (Dabie Mountains) and Northeastern Henan (New Yellow River[4]) in the east, Western Henan (Funiu Mountains) and Northwestern Hubei in the west can only be used as preparatory mobile areas in a few months, and should not be mentioned in the current plan. superior. (3) As long as the victories are won, there are financial solutions. After a few victories, occupying a large area (at least seven or eight counties) may not be able to solve the financial problem. The armies in the liberated areas have solved it in this way, and you can solve it yourself.At present, you should have a firm determination to create a battlefield in the Tongbai Mountain area (west of the railway, east of Nanyang, south of Yexian, north of Sui and Zao [5]), annihilate the stubborn army, and solve financial problems.This is your original plan, and I hope it will be implemented resolutely.

central Youyang Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Zheng, refers to Zheng Weisan (1902-1975), a native of Huang'an (now Hong'an), Hubei, who was acting secretary of the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Li, referring to Li Xiannian, who was then a member of the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and a division commander and political commissar of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army.

[2] The three departments refer to the troops of the Henan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, the main force of the 359th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army (that is, the Southward Detachment) and the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army. [3] Wang Dai refers to Wang Shusheng and Dai Jiying, who were respectively the commander and political commissar of the Henan Military Region at that time.The two kings refer to Wang Zhen and Wang Shoudao.Wang Zhen was then the commander of the Eighth Route Army's Southward Detachment.Wang Shoudao, born in 1906 in Liuyang, Hunan, was a political commissar of the Eighth Route Army's Southward Detachment.

[4] On June 9, 1938, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Kuomintang troops to blow up the levee of the Yellow River at Huayuankou, north of Zhengzhou, Henan, in an attempt to prevent the Japanese army from invading with the flood of the Yellow River. The Zhengyangguan area in Anhui flows into the Huaihe River.In 1940, the diverted Yellow River flowed into the Wohe River, Xifei River, Yellow River, Beifei River, and Huaihe River respectively.The channels that the Yellow River flows through after diversion are collectively called the New Yellow River.In 1947, the Huayuankou breach was repaired, and the Yellow River returned to its original course.

[5] Sui and Zao refer to Sui County (now Suizhou) and Zaoyang, Hubei.