Chapter 81 Take the method of besieging the city and fighting for aid to wipe out the enemy's vital forces

(October 24, 1946) King Zhan Li[1] also told Cheng Li[2]: Your combat policy should focus on annihilating the enemy's vital forces, and then the enemy's strongholds will naturally be easily recovered for us.In order to implement this policy, the method of besieging the city and fighting for aid should be adopted.The purpose of besieging the city is not to win the city, but to fight for aid.Concentrate seven or eight times the enemy's strength (for example, concentrate four or five regiments to attack one or two battalions of the enemy's reinforcements), and every time you must make full preparations in advance, if you don't fight wastefully, you will surely win.When fighting, you must use encirclement and detour in order to wipe out.This point should be deeply educated to the cadres.

Military Commission You Jing Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Zhan refers to Zhan Caifang, who was the commander of the Eastern Jidong Military Region at the time.Li refers to Li Chuli, who was born in Yuanshi, Hebei in 1906, and was a political commissar of the Eastern Jidong Military Region at that time.Wang, refers to Wang Zhitao, born in 1906 in Cang County, Hebei Province, and served as chief of staff of the Eastern Jidong Military Region at that time. [2] Cheng Li, referring to Cheng Zihua and Li Yunchang, who were respectively the commander, political commissar and deputy commander of the Jireliao Military Region at that time.