Chapter 78 Prepare for the inevitable civil war situation

(August 4, 1945) Zheng, Li, Chen [1]: Noon horse electricity has not been received.You were quite right in anticipating future problems. (1) It is estimated that the Japanese aggressors may fail tomorrow, and there is still one year for you to make preparations. You must prepare everything within this time to deal with the inevitable civil war situation, so as not to panic and suffer setbacks. (2) After the defeat of the Japanese invaders and the outbreak of the civil war, it will be difficult for you to fully maintain the existing plain areas. Now you should consider the issue of expanding your base areas in the Tongbai Mountains, Dabie Mountains, western Hubei, southern Hubei, eastern Hubei, and northern Xiangbei. This task is very important. It is difficult, but it must be carefully designed and pre-planned.You should have several base areas. Among them, Eastern Hubei, Southern Hubei, Western Hubei, and Xiangbei can be gradually developed from the current base areas. Dabie and Tongbai also have a considerable foundation now, and in the future you can concentrate your main force to seize part of them. Or most of them, as the main base, and other places as satellites.At present, it is very necessary to vigorously develop the forces in southern Henan and quickly integrate with Wang and Dai[2].Please consider whether it is possible to move the division headquarters and the district party committee to southern Henan.

(3) Strengthen mass work, strengthen the militia, strengthen military training, strengthen financial work and prepare cadres, these five items, I hope to summarize them based on my own experience at the enlarged meeting.Among these five items, there are several items that you are not very good at, and should be emphasized.The army not only has one task of fighting wars, but also two tasks of doing mass work and engaging in production for self-sufficiency.You must focus on solving this problem.The relationship between officers and soldiers and the relationship between soldiers and civilians in the army must also be well resolved in military training.It is not the lack of local cadres, but the lack of emphasis on the military's task of helping the local people do mass work. If this is emphasized, and the military's style of work is changed, there will be more local cadres.

(4) All self-reliance, not relying on any foreign aid, and preparing the spiritual and physical conditions to deal with the danger of future civil wars should be the starting point of your future work. central Unsupported Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Zheng, referring to Zheng Weisan, who was then Secretary of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Region Committee of the Communist Party of China and political commissar of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army.Li, referring to Li Xiannian, was then the division commander of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, the commander and political commissar of the Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Hunan and Jiangxi military regions.Chen, referring to Chen Shaomin, who was then Deputy Secretary of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Region Committee of the Communist Party of China.

[2] Wang, refers to Wang Shusheng Dai, refers to Dai Jiying, who served as the commander and political commissar of the Henan Military Region respectively at that time.