Chapter 106 Destroy Hu Zongnan's Two Plans to Seize the Great Northwest

(July 4, 1947) Peng Xi[1]: With regard to the defeat of Hu Zongnan[2] and the capture of the Great Northwest, there are two options still worth considering: (1) Chen Xie[3] column will come to the border area as originally proposed, annihilate a considerable number of them from the inside line, and then go out to the outside line (Longnan), and The Frontier Region Group [4] directly cooperated to complete the task. (2) It is estimated that the population in the border area is sparse, and the food and various supplies are quite large; it is also estimated that the junction of the three provinces of Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi and the vast areas west of Ping-Han, north of the Han River, and south of the Wei River are empty; and it is estimated that if we use the Chen Zong in this area will inevitably attract one army (five to eight brigades) from the Hu Department to use in this area, and if one army from the Hu Department goes out to this area, the enemy strength in the border area will be greatly reduced, which will help the groups in the border area to wipe out the enemy It is also estimated that 120,000 people from Liu and Deng [5] have crossed the river and marched towards Longhai. If Chen Zong went to the Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi borders to open up new battlefields, it would also be helpful to Liu and Deng. Hu Zongnan's seizure of the Great Northwest has not changed.Please consider which of the above two cases is more appropriate.Chen Geng can go to Jundu on the seventh day (the troops are still on standby for training in Qu and Yi [6]), stop in Suide for one or two days, and arrive at Xiaohe on the 12th or 3rd.Can you two ask the troops to rest at the site for a period of time after the recovery of Yanchi, and then come to Xiaohe for a meeting by yourself?If you agree to hold a meeting, we plan to invite Comrade He Long[7] to also come to the meeting by telegram, and the time can be set on the thirteenth.

Mao Zedong Four o'clock in the afternoon Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Peng Xi, referring to Peng Dehuai and Xi Zhongxun, who were respectively the commander, political commissar and deputy political commissar of the Northwest Field Corps at that time. [2] Hu Zongnan, then director of the Xi'an Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [3] Chen Xie, referring to Chen Geng and Xie Fuzhi, who were respectively the commander and political commissar of the fourth column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army at that time.

[4] Refers to the Northwest Field Corps. [5] Liu Deng refers to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who were the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army at that time. [6] Qu and Yi refer to Quwo and Yicheng in Shanxi. [7] He Long, then commander of the joint defense forces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Jinsui and Suizhou.