Chapter 69 Establish bases for flexible operations in western Hubei, northern Hubei and southern Henan

(July 24, 1946) Wang Liu Zhang[1], and told Zheng Li Dai Wang[2]: (1) Celebrate your great victory in smashing one regiment and six companies of the enemy [3]. (2) Your task is to carry out mobile and flexible operations in the vast area north of the Yangtze River and west of the Xianghe River, annihilate the enemy one by one, mobilize the people, and establish base areas.This task must convince all commanders and fighters to carry it out resolutely.It is necessary to gradually change the thinking of returning to North China and reuniting with Zheng and Li, because the enemy will not allow you to do so due to numerous obstacles.As long as you are good at fighting, and you fight a few victorious battles like the 21st (concentrate superior forces, annihilate the enemy's battalions and regiments each time, and destroy them individually), as long as you can resolve the relationship between the army and the people, you will be able to establish base areas.

(3) The task of Min, Zhang, and Wu [4] is to establish a base area east of the Xianghe River and west of Pinghan, that is, the former Jianghan Military Region, to echo Zheng, Li, Wang, and you.This unit is now in the southwestern part of Henan, and the three enemy brigades are turning eastward from Zheng and Li Houwei to deal with this unit. Therefore, this unit should also turn back to the south to Xianghe and Pinghan, and use regiments as units to divide areas. scattered activities.The Ministry should also change its thinking of returning to the north and joining Zheng and Li in the west, because the enemy's situation does not allow it.The Ministry and you should not join together, because it is more beneficial to separate activities to echo each other than to concentrate in one place.Please forward this call to Min, Zhang and Wu.

(4) Ask Zheng and Li to instruct Huang Lin[5] to return to the Tongbai area in southern Henan to establish a base. (5) We must flexibly use the strategy of breaking the whole into parts and breaking them into wholes, and we must be good at deceiving the enemy, luring them to disperse, and defeating them one by one. (6) Our armies in central and northern China are currently aggressively counterattacking the enemy. After they win, the situation of our Central Plains army may also improve. Military Commission noon respect Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------

note [1] Wang and Liu refer to Wang Shusheng and Liu Zijiu, who were respectively the commander and deputy political commissar of the first column of the Central Plains Military Region at that time.Zhang Zhi Zhang Caiqian (1911-1994), a native of Macheng, Hubei, was the Chief of Staff of the First Column of the Central Plains Military Region at that time. [2] Zheng and Li refer to Zheng Weisan and Li Xiannian, who served as political commissar and commander of the Central Plains Military Region respectively at that time.Dai, refers to Dai Jiying, who was the political commissar of the first column of the Central Plains Military Region at that time, and acted with the Central Plains Military Region organs.Wang refers to Wang Zhen, who was the deputy commander and chief of staff of the Central Plains Military Region at the time.

[3] Refers to the defeat of the 553rd Regiment of the 185th Brigade and the 553rd Regiment of the 185th Brigade of the 66th Division of the Reorganized KMT Army by the First Column of the Central Plains Military Region on July 21, 1946 in Shihua Street, Gucheng County, Hubei Province. The battle of six companies in the 153rd Regiment of the 64th Brigade of the 15th Division. [4] Min refers to Min Xuesheng, born in 1914 in Huang'an, Hubei (now Hong'an Cong, who was then the commander of the third brigade of the First Column of the Central Plains Military Region. Zhang refers to Zhang Zhong (1912-198) 2) Born in Lu'an, Anhui, served as the deputy commander of the third brigade of the first column of the Central Plains Military Region at that time. Wu, referring to Wu Zhaotong, born in 1913, was born in Xinyang, Henan, and was then the deputy political commissar of the third brigade of the First Column of the Central Plains Military Region .

[5] Huang Lin (1913-1986), born in Liuyang, Hunan.At that time, he was the commander and political commissar of the Henan Military Region.