Chapter 123 The Ministry of Chen Su[1] should fight only minor battles and not major ones within a month or two

(October 3, 1947) Chen Su, and sued Liu Deng[2]: Your military forces have already spread over a vast area, and now you should make sure that you will only fight small battles and not major battles within one to two months.Each vertical should delineate its territory, and several counties in each vertical should be engaged in annihilating small groups of enemy troops, militia groups, bandits, and Baojia in the territory, establishing political power, and carrying out land reform.Each county allocates a battalion (cadre) and a company of troops to establish the armed backbone of each county.The main force of each vertical will move back and forth within the territory under its own jurisdiction, including the destruction of railways.The range of your five columns not only covers the south of Longhai, the west of the Canal, the east of Ping-Han, and the north of the Huaihe River, but also can cross the Huaihe River in part and reach the east of the line of Shouxian, Hefei, and Chaoxian, and the area north of the Yangtze River. It is completely connected with Liu Deng area, central Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu.If one to two months is not enough time, it can be extended as appropriate, so that the main force of the enemy is placed in a useless place and exhausted, while we wiped out the enemy's minions in a short period of time, established our base area, and concentrated our forces to fight in the near future. lay the foundation.This kind of work may seem insignificant, but in fact it has great strategic significance.The problem of your winter clothes must also be solved according to Liu Deng's method, so that each vertical can use the method of borrowing money from merchants and folks with calico (in the future, the repayment will be a lot of money).Each person can make one cotton coat for the winter, so don't expect to be transported later, causing delays.

Military Commission Twenty-two o'clock on the third day Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Chen Su, referring 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. [2] Liu Deng, referring to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who were the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army at that time.