Chapter 66 The strategic task of the Central Plains Army is to establish base areas behind enemy lines

(July 15, 1946) Central Plains Bureau: Hu Zongnan[1] was constantly blocked by strong troops, and it was difficult to pass northward, and it is the glorious strategic task of our Central Plains Army to contain a large number of enemy troops and establish base areas behind enemy lines. The five provinces of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Sichuan, and Shaanxi carried out mobile and flexible operations to destroy the Kuomintang's ruling institutions and contain a large number of Kuomintang troops to cooperate with our main forces in North and Central China.At present, in order to avoid fighting with the armies of Hu Zongnan and Liu Zhi[3], and to obtain rest time, you can go south to Bashan, further occupy Tongnanba[4] and the vast area of ​​Northeast Sichuan, and create a base; my king Liu[5] The column established a base area in western Hubei; Pi Xu[6] operated in western Anhui and its vicinity;In the future, you should also prepare to send one to the Southwest.In short, in order to completely destroy Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary plan to attack the Northeast, North China, Central China, and the Central Plains with heavy forces, and to develop the Liberated Areas to the Central Plains and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, our party must adopt the plan in the afternoon telegram and the deployment described in this telegram.How do you express your opinion.

central noon delete Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Hu Zongnan, then the commander-in-chief of the first theater of the Kuomintang army. [2] It should be the Wuyuan telegram, that is, the telegram sent by the CPC Central Committee to Zheng Weisan and Li Xiannian of the Central Plains Military Region on July 13, 1946.See page 155 of this volume. [3] Liu Zhi (1892-1971), a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi.At that time, he was the director of the Zhengzhou Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army.

[4] Tongnanba refers to Tongjiang, Nanjiang and Bazhong in Sichuan. [5] Wang, referring to Wang Shusheng, was the commander of the first column of the Central Plains Military Region at that time.Liu, refers to Liu Zijiu (1901-1988), a native of Guangrao, Shandong, who was then the deputy political commissar of the First Column of the Central Plains Military Region. [6] Pi, referring to Pi Dingjun (1914-1976), a native of Jinzhai, Anhui, was the commander of the first brigade of the first column of the Central Plains Military Region at that time.Xu, refers to Xu Zirong (1907-1969), a native of Queshan, Henan, who was then the political commissar of the First Brigade of the First Column of the Central Plains Military Region.

[7] Refers to the former Central Plains Liberated Area to the east and west of the Ping-Han Railway (now the Beijing-Wuhan section of the Beijing-Guangzhou Line).