Chapter 96 Hit the weak first, then the strong, you hit yours, I hit mine

(April 22, 1947) Nie Xiaoluo[1] also told Zhu Liu[2]: Ma Dian [3] learned.You have already gained the initiative. If the enemy comes to the south, you ignore him and concentrate on completing the Zhengtai campaign[4], so that the enemy will be completely passive. This is a very correct policy.After the completion of the Zhengtai campaign, one should not be confused by the enemy's actions at all, choose the weak part of the enemy to actively destroy it, and decide which part to attack at that time.This is the policy of attacking the weak first and then the strong, you attack yours and I attack mine (each fights its own), that is, the policy of completely active warfare.

Military Commission Mao Yang Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Nie Xiaoluo, referring to Nie Rongzhen, Xiao Ke, and Luo Ruiqing, who were respectively the commander and political commissar, deputy commander, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region at that time. [2] Zhu Liu refers to Zhu De and Liu Shaoqi. [3] Refers to the telegram sent by Nie Rongzhen, Xiao Ke, and Luo Ruiqing to the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China on February 21, 1947.The telegram said: The enemy's southern aid is most likely, and the main force of our Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region is still completing the second phase of the Zhengtai Campaign as scheduled.After a few days of rest after the completion of the campaign, if the enemy has not provided assistance from the south, they will continue to annihilate the third army according to the instructions of the central government;

[4] In April 1947, the second, third, and fourth columns of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army and the first part of the local armed forces went south from Anguo and Dingxian County to attack the Kuomintang army on Zhengtai Road.This battle began on April 9 and ended on May 4. A total of more than 35,000 enemies were wiped out, and the enemy in Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang was cut off. The Kuomintang army in Shijiazhuang was isolated.