Chapter 28 Take mobilizing the masses to create battlefields as an urgent strategic task in Northeast China[1]

(November 10, 1945) Zi Chou Xu Hui Zhi Yin Mao: (1) Xu Yudian [2] was received on a good day [3], and I am very relieved to have this result. (2) At present, we only have half a month to fight. Within half a month, Huang Yongsheng and Wen Niansheng[4] have two 5,000 yuan, and Liang Xingchu and Huang Kecheng[5] two 40,000 yuan will surely reach the Shenyang-Jinzhou line.It is hoped that our army in Shanhaiguan will persist for half a month, and there will be a solution.The Shandong sea-crossing troops must concentrate their main forces in Yingkou and Shenyang, and deploy them according to Lin Biao's [6] method.The KMT's artisans are not strong in battle. I, Liu Deng[7], have captured three full-fledged artisans. I hope to expand publicity to boost morale.

(3) Since there are not many rifles in Shenyang, one must be kept for equipment and then sent to the army. Can you send one bullet to Jehol[8]? (4) The three divisions of Li Zhengxian's [9] Sixteenth Army in Shijiazhuang have begun to move northward, and they may concentrate near Shanhaiguan within half a month. The Twelfth Army started from Annan [11] and is expected to arrive at Shanhaiguan by the end of this month. The enemy in front of you is only these three armies, about 80,000 people. The army goes deep alone, the geography and people are unfamiliar, and they are separated from the masses. The southerners are afraid of the cold, and there are many recruits. , many weaknesses.

(5) Pay great attention to the control of airports in Changchun and other places, and we must ensure that the airlift troops are wiped out. (6) Quickly mobilize the masses to create a battlefield, and publicize to the public that Chiang Kai-shek has no merit in regaining the Northeast, and that abandoning the Northeast is guilty, causing a wave of popular anti-Chiang.Send a large number of pro-democracy party cadres to Shenyang, Shanhaiguan, Shenyang, Yingkou, Andong [12] lines, and mobilize the people to create battlefields as an urgent strategic task at present, and pay close attention to them.

Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is a telegram from the CPC Central Committee to the Northeast Bureau. [2] Xuyu telegram refers to the telegram sent by the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Central Committee on November 6, 1945. [3] Good day, that is, nine days. [4] Huang Yongsheng (1910-1983), born in Xianning, Hubei, was the commander of the Second Brigade of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shandong-Sui Joint Defense Army.Wen Niansheng was then the commander of the third guerrilla detachment of the Eighth Route Army.

[5] Liang Xingchu (1913-1985), a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi, was the commander of the First Division of the Shandong Military Region at that time.Huang Kecheng (1902-1986), born in Yongxing, Hunan, was the commander and political commissar of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army at that time. [6] Lin Biao (1907-1971), born in Huanggang, Hubei (now Huangzhou City), was the commander-in-chief of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army at that time. [7] Liu Deng, referring to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who were respectively the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Hebei Military Region at that time.

[8] Rehe, that is, Rehe Province, see note [3] on page 10 of this volume. [9] Li Zhengxian (1904-1983), a native of Pan'an (now Dongyang), Zhejiang, was the commander of the 16th Army of the Kuomintang Army at that time. [10] Shi Jue (1908-1986), a native of Guilin, Guangxi, was the commander of the 13th Army of the Kuomintang Army at that time. [11] Annan, namely Vietnam. [12] Anton, now Dandong City.