Chapter 118 Both annihilating and annihilating blows to the enemy must be paid attention to

(August 28, 1947) Liu Deng, Chen Su, Xu Tan (Zhuan Rao Li), Chen Xie[1], and sued Peng Xi, Zhu Liu (Zan Nie Xiao), Yang Luoyang, Lin Luo[2]: Under the present circumstances, both annihilating and annihilating blows to the enemy must be given equal attention.To annihilate the enemy means to completely wipe out the enemy's entire brigade and division without letting them slip through the net.To carry out this policy, we must concentrate three or four times as many troops as the enemy, use one to attack the enemy's front, use the other to surround the enemy's two flanks, and use the main force or an important part to detour the enemy's rear, that is to say, encircle the enemy on all sides. The enemy can only be effective.This is the basic policy of our army, and it is the correct policy that must be implemented under the conditions that the enemy forces are scattered and isolated and enemy reinforcements cannot arrive quickly.However, under the condition that the enemy's lines are advancing towards us and the lines are not far from each other, or that the lines are blocked in the direction of our army's advance and the lines are not far from each other, our army should adopt the policy of inflicting annihilating blows on the enemy.That is to say, don't encircle on all sides, just encircle on two or three sides, and use all our strength on the enemy's front and one or two wings, not aiming at the complete annihilation of the enemy's army, but annihilating one part of it and defeating the other. One is the goal.Doing so can reduce the casualties of our army, the annihilated part can replenish our army, and the defeated part can make a large number of them flee. The enemy can take in only a part of them, and it is difficult to restore combat effectiveness in a short period of time.Now Gu Zhutong [3] system still has thirty-two to thirty-five strategic field mobile brigades, which are scattered in Jiaodong, Southwest Shandong, West Anhui and Henan. If I can adopt the above two methods respectively according to the situation, in the If ten to fifteen mobile brigades are given annihilation and annihilation strikes in a short period of time, the situation can change rapidly.Hope to consider implementing it.

Military Commission not frugal 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 Su refers to Chen Yi and Su Yu, who were respectively the commander, political commissar and deputy commander of the East China Field Army at that time.Xu Tan refers to Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin, who were respectively the commander and political commissar of the Eastern Corps of the East China Field Army at that time.Rao Li refers to Rao Shushi and Li Yu, who were political commissar and deputy political commissar of the East China Military Region at that time.Chen Xie refers to Chen Geng and Xie Fuzhi, who were the former secretary and deputy secretary of the Chen Xie Group of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army at that time.

[2] Peng Xi refers to Peng Dehuai and Xi Zhongxun, who served as commander, political commissar and deputy political commissar of the Northwest Field Army at that time.Zhu Liu refers to Zhu De and Liu Shaoqi.Nie Xiao, referring to Nie Rongzhen and Xiao Ke, were respectively the commander, political commissar and deputy commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region at that time.Yang Luoyang refers to Yang Dezhi, Luo Ruiqing, and Yang Chengwu, who were respectively the commander, first political commissar and second political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army at that time.Lin Luo refers to Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan, who were the commander-in-chief, political commissar and deputy political commissar of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army at that time.

[3] Gu Zhutong was the commander-in-chief of the Army Command of the Kuomintang Army at that time.At the beginning of March 1947, he formed the Xuzhou Command of the Army General Command in Xuzhou, and unified command of the troops of the former Xuzhou and Zhengzhou Appeasement Offices.