Chapter 110 military deployments to secure and expand the strategic initiative

(July 23, 1947) Liu Deng, Chen Sutan[1], East China Bureau: In the present situation, in order to secure and extend the initiative already begun, the following military deployments are recommended: (1) For the enemies at Yangshanji and Jining, if Liu Deng judges that he is sure to attack and annihilate them quickly, he will attack and annihilate them; In Longhai, we will not attack the east of the New Yellow River[2], nor will we attack the Ping Han Road. We are determined not to leave the rear. We will go straight out of the Dabie Mountains in half a month's journey, occupy dozens of counties centered on the Dabie Mountains, eliminate the militia groups, and mobilize the masses. Establish a base to attract the enemy to attack me and fight mobile warfare.We have ordered the Chen Geng[3] column, and commanded the Taihang Column, the Fifth Division[4], and the Thirty-eighth Army, a total of more than 70,000 men, to leave western Henan in late August to establish a base in the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi border area, attracting Hu Tsung-nan[5] and others. Fight sports.

(2) When Chen Shiju's troops [6] failed to go out of Si, Qu[7] and Ye Tao[8] and had to go out of Luxi, Qiu Qingquan and Wu Shaozhou[9] might leave Luxi quickly , and may concentrate actions, which is not conducive to annihilation.Therefore, Chen and Tang should use one part to contain Qiu and Wu, and the main force should act quickly to wipe out the scattered and weak enemies on the Longhai Line and the areas north of it, expand the battlefield in this area, and contain Qiu and Wu in this area, waiting for them to attack. When scattered, the camera wiped out one of them.Chen and Tang should not go out of the south of Longhai lightly, and only when necessary, part or most of them can be temporarily sent to Longhai, the New Yellow River, and the Huaihe River to maneuver.Afterwards, Chen Tang could travel to and from Longhai to move north and south, and some of them could return to southern Shandong to cooperate with the main force in combat.

(3) Ye Tao went out of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi to establish the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi bases.Its steps: the first step is to rest at the site for a whole day, quickly wipe out the enemies in Tai'an, Dawenkou, Feicheng, Pingyin, Dong'e, and Dongping, occupy the area, and spend one and a half to two months in the area. Rest, replenishment, deployment of cadres and political mobilization are completed in the area (or in Liaocheng); the second step is to go to the west of Anhui to establish a temporary base; the third step is to cross the river to the south of Anhui to establish a second temporary base; the fourth step , to the destination of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi.The Guangdong column [10] was accompanied by Ye Tao to go south, and please consider organizing the southeast branch, and Zihui, Dingcheng, and Zeng Shan [11] went to preside over it.

(4) Chen Sutan led the main force of Luzhong and commanded Chen Tang to undertake the entire interior combat mission after Liu Deng arrived in the Dabie Mountains.After the Chen Xie Group [12] arrived in the west of Henan, it was under the command of Liu Deng to fight. Central Military Commission noon yang Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Liu Deng refers to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who served as the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army at that time.Chen Sutan refers to Chen Yi, Su Yu, and Tan Zhenlin, who were respectively the commander, political commissar, deputy commander, and deputy political commissar of the East China Field Army at that time.

[2] New Yellow River, see note [4] on page 46 of this volume. [3] Chen Geng, then commander of the fourth column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army. [4] The Fifth Division refers to the Fifth Division of the former New Fourth Army, with Li Xiannian as its commander and political commissar. [5] Hu Zongnan, then director of the Xi'an Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army. [6] Refers to the third, eighth, and tenth columns of the East China Field Army, commanded by Chief of Staff Chen Shiju and Director of the Political Department Tang Liang. [7] Si and Qu refer to Sishui and Qufu in Shandong.

[8] Ye, referring to Ye Fei, was the commander of the first column of the East China Field Army at that time.Tao, referring to Tao Yong (1912-1967), a native of Huoqiu, Anhui, was the commander of the fourth column of the East China Field Army at that time. [9] Qiu Qingquan (1902-1949), a native of Yongjia, Zhejiang, was the commander of the Fifth Division of the Kuomintang Army Reorganization (formerly the Fifth Army).Wu Shaozhou was the commander of the 85th Division of the Kuomintang Army Reorganization at that time. [10] Guangdong column, at that time refers to the Guangdong-Guangdong column under the organization and command of the East China Field Army.

[11] Zihui, that is, Deng Zihui, was the deputy secretary of the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Dingcheng, that is, Zhang Dingcheng, was a member of the Standing Committee of the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Zeng Shan was then a member of the Standing Committee of the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. [12] The Chen-Xie Group, composed of the Fourth and Ninth Columns of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army, the 38th Army of the Northwest Democratic Alliance Army, and the 22nd Brigade of the Taiyue Military Region, July 27, 1947 The front committee of the group was formally established on the 1st, with Chen Geng as the secretary and Xie Fuzhi as the deputy secretary.