Chapter 90 Pay attention to more annihilation and less defeat

(January 23, 1947) Wen and Wang[1]: You have concentrated your main force and won a battle, which is very comforting.As for the method of combat, please seriously pay attention to fighting more battles of annihilation and less battles of defeat.There are two conditions for fighting a war of annihilation: (1) Concentrate superior forces to encircle a part of the enemy's army, and only fight a part of the enemy in each battle, and must not fight several parts of the enemy at the same time; It is not possible to attack in a roundabout way with the main force.If you can implement the above two conditions and fight more battles of annihilation, the situation will improve.

Military Commission Zi Yang Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Wen, referring to Wen Jianwu, who was then the commander of the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Military Region.Wang, referring to Wang Feng, born in 1910 in Lantian, Shaanxi, was a political commissar of the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Military Region at that time.