Chapter 73 Ministries in southern Shaanxi, western Henan, western Hubei should thoroughly decentralize and control vast areas

(August 23, 1946) Li, Dai, Wen, Ren[1]: Our Liu Deng[2] army won another battle. Weima[3] wiped out the entire enemy brigade and a regiment of another brigade south of Minquan. So far, Weihui[4] and Weima have wiped out two regular enemies There are five security regiments in the brigade, and there are more than four thousand puppet troops anyway.Liu Zhi[5] mobilized troops hastily to meet the battle. In addition to transferring seven brigades from southern Shaanxi and southwestern Henan, he also transferred two brigades of the 75th Division from western Hubei and central Hubei. Only 66 brigades remained in western Hubei. One of the eighth and fifth brigades of the division.Please tell Wang Liu and Luo Wen[6] to completely disperse, rely on the people, and resolutely create base areas.All guerrilla units on your side, such as Huang Lin and Min Xuesheng[7] who have failed to disperse the guerrillas, should be ordered to disperse quickly and thoroughly.In short, our ministries in southern Shaanxi, western Henan, and western Hubei take advantage of this opportunity, the more dispersed the troops, the better, and the wider the area under control, the better.Supplies and clothes can be solved by this method, fatigue and physical strength can be recovered by this method, and people's armed forces can be cultivated by this method (only when people's armed forces are cultivated can they be considered rooted).Hope to guide all ministries to resolutely implement it.Where is the third [8] and how is his body? Please tell me.

central twenty-three Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Li, referring to Li Xiannian, who was then the commander of the Central Plains Military Region.Dai refers to Dai Jiying, who was then the political commissar of the First Column of the Central Plains Military Region.Wen, referring to Wen Jianwu (1911-1951), a native of Jinzhai, Anhui, was the commander of the second column of the Central Plains Military Region at that time.Ren, refers to Ren Zhibin, born in 1915, from Jimo, Shandong, and served as political commissar of the Second Column of the Central Plains Military Region at that time.

[2] Liu Deng, referring to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who were the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army at that time. [3] Weima, that is, August 21st. [4] Not ashes, that is, August 10th. [5] Liu Zhi, then director of the Zhengzhou Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [6] Wang Liu, referring 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.Luo, refers to Luo Houfu (1909-1975), a native of Huang'an (now Hong'an), Hubei, who was then the commander of the Jianghan Military Region.Wen refers to Wen Minsheng, born in 1915 in Yuanqu, Shanxi Province, and served as a political commissar of the Jianghan Military Region at that time.Wang Shusheng, Liu Zijiu, Luo Houfu, Wen Minsheng and others were preparing to build the Northwest Hubei Military Region at that time.

[7] Huang Lin and Min Xuesheng were political commissars and commanders of the Fourth Military Division of the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi Military Region respectively. [8] Weisan, namely Zheng Weisan, was the acting secretary of the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and political commissar of the Central Plains Military Region at that time.