Chapter 107 One-year combat summary and future plans

(July 10, 1947) Lin, Luo, Gao[1]: Strategic Approach: (1) In the first year of combat, the enemy's strategic offensive has been stopped in all areas except Shandong, and the offensive has been transferred to our army.Although the enemy still has offensive capabilities in northern Shaanxi, due to terrain and other conditions, it has become guerrilla and our army has been able to take the initiative to fight; the Northeast and Taihang have already launched offensives; Wutai [2] has also been able to take the initiative to fight after improving its leadership; The enemy in Shandong will concentrate on attacking us in Luzhong, and it is estimated that it will not last long. Our army will gradually turn to the offensive.

(2) In the first year, our army wiped out a total of 97.5 brigades of the enemy's regular army, 780,000 people, and 340,000 people of puppet troops, security forces and other miscellaneous units, for a total of 1.12 million enemies. . (3) The main force of the enemy army is still on the southern front [3], including the annihilated (most of them have been replenished, but the number is insufficient and the combat power is weak, and one part is being prepared to replenish), a total of 154 Among them, there are 88 brigades in Shandong (including northern Jiangsu), 26 brigades in Taihang, and 40 brigades in northwest (including southern Shanxi, Yulin, and Ningxia, excluding the west of Lanzhou).The enemy force on the northern line[4] is relatively weak, with a total of 64 brigades (including those who were annihilated), of which 24 brigades are in the Northeast (excluding Jidong and Cha[5] North), Wutai and Jinsui Forty brigades (Sun Lianzhong[6] fifteen brigades, Fu Zuoyi[7] ten brigades, Yan Xishan[8] fifteen brigades).There are thirty brigades of garrison troops in the enemy's rear, including eight brigades in Xinjiang and western Gansu, sixteen brigades in five provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, and six brigades in southeastern provinces and Taiwan.The 248 brigades of the enemy's regular army across the country had a total of more than 1.8 million soldiers in July last year. We wiped out 780,000 people in one year's battle, replenished 600,000, and fled 200,000. One and a half million people, and one million people will be added in the next year.In addition, there are one million special forces (artillery, industrial, military, sea, air), puppet troops, traffic police[9] and security forces (excluding those who were annihilated), and 1.8 million people in rear military agencies.After a year of fighting, the morale of the enemy army has declined, the sentiment of war weariness is high, and the hearts of the people are especially war-weary. Chiang's regime has been isolated among the people.

(4) In the second year of combat, we should strive to wipe out 100 regular brigades and a large number of miscellaneous units of the enemy, so that the enemy's numerical advantage will become a disadvantage, and we will become an advantage. (5) Our army has 27 first-class brigades in Shandong; 13 first-class brigades and 14 second-class brigades in Taihang (excluding Chen Geng[10]); came), Chen Geng had four brigades, Jinsui three brigades; Wutai had nine first-class brigades and four second-class brigades; the Northeast (including Chabei and Jidong) had 32 first-class and second-class brigades.Our army has a total of 112 brigades (the two artillery brigades in the Northeast and Shandong, and the four cavalry brigades in the Northeast and Jinsui), with 900,000 people.In addition, there are 600,000 local troops and 400,000 military agencies.

(6) Our military tasks in the second year: strive to occupy the north of the Yangtze River in the Shandong and Taihang districts, strive to occupy most of Gansu and Ningxia in the northwest, and strive to occupy Zhongchang, Beining[11], Pingcheng, Pingshi, Pingsui[12], most of the Tongpu roads and the cities on the roads except Ping, Tianjin, and Shenyang, isolate Ping, Tianjin, and Shenyang, and it would be better if Shenyang can be occupied.Among them, the most important thing is to occupy Pingsui Road, open up the connection between Northeast China and North China, so that our army in North China and Northwest China can get arms support.

(7) The tasks on the northern front mentioned above should be completed with our army in the Northeast as the main force, with Wutai and Jinsui as the assistants. (8) Our army in the Northeast is currently resting for one to two months, and will launch a new offensive in about August and September. It will take four to six months to occupy most of the Zhongchang and Beining roads, and take Changchun and Siping by chance. , Liaoyang, Jinzhou and other cities.If the above-mentioned tasks can be successfully completed, about next spring, a powerful Northeast Corps will cooperate with Wutai and Jinsui to attack Pingsui Road.When the war developed near Pingsui, our armies in Wutai and Jinsui were unified under the command of Lin Luo.

(9) Under the condition that the plan is successfully completed in the second year, in the third year, the two main forces of Shandong and Taihang can develop south of the Yangtze River; our armies in the Northeast and Wutai, except for the necessary forces to attack Ping, Tianjin, Shenyang and other places For the cities that have not been occupied for two years and are defending outside the local area, a considerable number of troops can join the northwest and the south of the Yangtze River to fight, and mainly join the northwest in order to capture the provinces in the northwest and the entire province of Sichuan and consolidate the rear.

(10) The military industry in the Northeast should do its best to support the customs.Within a year from now, you must use great efforts to build up a large-scale military industry. (11) Our army's operational policy remains the same as established in the past, first to fight and disperse isolated enemies, and then to concentrate powerful enemies; first to capture medium-sized cities and vast villages, and then to take large cities; the main goal is to annihilate the enemy's vital forces , do not take the preservation and capture of territory as the main goal. Seizure of territory is the result of wiping out the enemy's vital forces, and it often takes many repetitions to finally capture territory; All the enemy's weapons and most of the troops (9 out of 10 soldiers and a few junior officers) should be used to supplement ourselves, to cooperate with land reform and the development of production, and to support long-term wars; in future operations, the possibility of mobile warfare has been reduced, mainly to attack the enemy's positions , the artillery and sappers must be strengthened vigorously.

(12) The above is a one-year combat summary and future plans.What do you think, please tell me. Mao Zedong afternoon gray Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Lin, referring to Lin Biao, who was the commander-in-chief and political commissar of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army at that time.Luo Gao, referring to Luo Ronghuan and Gao Gang, both served as deputy political commissars of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army at that time. [2] Refers to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region. [3] The southern line, here refers to the battlefields in East China, Shanxi, Hebei, Luyu, and Northwest (including southern Shanxi, Yulin, and Ningxia, excluding the west of Lanzhou).

[4] The northern line, here refers to the battlefields of the Northeast, Jinchaji, and Jinsui. [5] Cha, referring to Chahar Province, see note [3] on page 10 of this volume. [6] Sun Lianzhong (1893-1990), a native of Xiong County, Hebei.At that time, he was the director of the Baoding Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [7] Fu Zuoyi, then director of the Kuomintang Army Zhangyuan (Zhangjiakou) Appeasement Office. [8] Yan Xishan, then director of the Taiyuan Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [9] Traffic police refers to the traffic police corps.See note [3] on page 170 of this volume.

[10] Chen Geng, then commander of the fourth column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army. [11] Zhongchang, that is, Zhongchang Road.See note [7] on page 243 of this volume.Beining, that is, Beining Road, refers to the railway from Beiping to Shenyang via Tianjin, which is the Beijing-Shenyang section of the Beijing-Harbin line. [12] Pingsui, that is, Pingsui Road, refers to the railway from Beiping to Suiyuan (now part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) Baotou, today's Beijing Baotou Line.