Chapter 31 Annihilate the three armies of the Kuomintang in batches from the perspective of internal operations

(November 15, 1945) Lin and Peng[1]: Telegram at 19:00 on the 13th.The Thirteenth Army and the Fifty-second Army are concentrating in the Qinhuangdao and Funing areas. It is estimated that there will be another army in the follow-up, at least three armies will be concentrated, and then they will attack Shanhaiguan and the Suizhong line.The current Shanhaiguan operation is not a real battle.Our Huang and Liang [2] units have just arrived from a distance of 42,000. The officers and soldiers are tired and unfamiliar with the terrain. Now they have arrived at the entrance of Yiyuan and stationed in the camp. There will be no good battles to fight. Even if one part of the enemy is wiped out, it is only tactical Victory, but the strength of the army is exposed, and there is no rest, and it will be passive.In order to avoid such defects, use the main force cautiously, and seek to solve the problem in a decisive battle in the future, Li Yunchang and Yang Guofu[3] should be ordered to stick to the Shanhaiguan and Suizhong lines, fight steadily, exhaust and exhaust the enemy, and order Huang The two divisions of Liang and Liang opened from Lengkou and Jielingkou to the triangle area of ​​Jinzhou, Jinxi, and Xingcheng. They were on the inside line, resting the troops, recovering from fatigue, replenishing ammunition, familiarizing with the geography and people's conditions, creating battlefields, practicing night battles, and waiting for the enemy. After entering the Suizhong area or the Xingcheng area, we have already exhausted ourselves to a considerable extent, so I can concentrate the maximum force, including Huang Kecheng's 35,000 troops, Liang Xingchu's 7,000 troops, Yang Guofu's 7,000 troops, and Li Yunchang and Shake[4] in Panshan and Jinzhou. There are at least 20,000 troops in the area around Shanhaiguan (new troops can join the battle as auxiliary troops), a total of about 70,000 people. At the most favorable time and place, under the command of Lin Biao or Rong Huan[5], they will launch a counterattack and divide them into several groups. In battle, we can annihilate two or three divisions at a time, and finally annihilate all three corps, so that the problem can be solved strategically.Jidong has organized two field brigades, which can be transferred to the hidden mountains in the west of the line of Shanhaiguan, Suizhong, and Xingcheng to gather in the mountains. When the main force in the front is engaged in a decisive battle, they can cut off the enemy's rear from the side.In short, this policy is the most beneficial from the perspective of internal operations.Whether you agree or not, please consider calling back.

Mao Zedong Xu delete Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Lin and Peng refer to Lin Biao and Peng Zhen, who were respectively the commander-in-chief and the first political commissar of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army at that time. [2] Huang, referring to Huang Kecheng, who was then the commander and political commissar of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army.Liang refers to Liang Xingchu, who was the commander of the First Division of the Shandong Military Region at the time. [3] Li Yunchang, at that time served as the second deputy commander of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army and the deputy commander of the Jireliao Military Region.Yang Guofu was the commander of the Seventh Division of the Shandong Military Region at the time.

[4] Shaq, then Chief of Staff of Jizhong Military Region. [5] Ronghuan, that is, Luo Ronghuan, was the second political commissar of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army at that time.