Chapter 77 Circular on the Combat Experience of Liu Deng[1] Army

(September 13, 1946) Zhang Luo [2], and sued Nie, He, Chen Song [3]. (1) How is the battle going? I really miss it. (2) This time Liu Deng's army of 50,000 troops attacked the enemy's third division with 9,000 brigades and two brigades. From the evening of the 3rd to the morning of the 6th, one brigade was dealt with, which caused panic on the enemy's entire front. When breaking out, I took half a day to solve the brigade.On the morning of the 7th, reinforcements from the two brigades of the 47th Division arrived, and I took another day to deal with the two brigades.In addition, one part each of the 41st Division and one part of the Seventy-fourth Brigade have been dealt with. [4] This experience tells us: First, we must concentrate our forces that are five or four times or at least three times superior to the enemy's. First, wipe out one or two regiments of the enemy to boost the morale of our army and cause the enemy to panic. Defeat the second and third parts of the enemy.Don't be greedy for too many things and disperse your forces.This point has been telegraphed many times. I wonder if you have implemented it? Second, we must prepare to fight for five to seven days to annihilate the enemy near Pingdiquan. Since we need to annihilate the enemy part by part, and the enemy is estimated to be tenacious, we must Prepare to spend more time dealing with this enemy.It is another matter if the enemy attempts to retreat westward.

Military Commission fifteen o'clock on the thirteenth Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Liu Deng refers to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who served as the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army at that time. [2] Zhang Luo, referring to Zhang Zongxun and Luo Ruiqing, who were respectively the commander and political commissar of the Datong Front Command. [3] Nie, referring to Nie Rongzhen, who was then the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.He, refers to He Long, who was the commander of the Jinsui Military Region at the time.Chen Song refers to Chen Yi and Song Shilun, who were the commander, political commissar and chief of staff of the Shandong Field Army at that time.

[4] In late August 1946, the Kuomintang army concentrated 14 reorganized divisions and 32 brigades with a total of more than 300,000 people. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army had just concluded the Battle of Longhai, the Kuomintang army was dispatched from Zhengzhou, Xuzhou and Xuzhou. They attacked the Liberated Areas in Southwest Shandong by split routes, attempting to clamp down on the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army in Dingtao and Caoxian areas.From September 3rd to 6th, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army annihilated the Third Division of the Kuomintang Army in batches in the Dayang Lake and Dahuangji areas west of Dingtao County, and captured the division commander Zhao Xitian.On the 7th, the Kuomintang army, which took advantage of the victory and chased and wiped out, reorganized the 47th Division and the 41st Division.This campaign was called the Battle of Dingtao, and more than 17,000 enemies were wiped out.