Chapter 11 The entire work in North China should take guerrilla warfare as the only direction

(September 25, 1937) Zhou [1] also transferred to Hu Fu, Shang Kun, and Zhu Rui [2] and told Zhu, Peng, and Ren [3]: A. The work in North China as a whole should take guerrilla warfare as the sole direction.All work, such as the pro-democracy movement, the United Front, etc., should revolve around guerrilla warfare.We are not responsible for the failure of the regular warfare in North China, but we must bear serious responsibility for the failure of the guerrilla warfare. B. In addition to the announcement of the deployment in Shanxi, the Party in Hebei should be directed to focus on guerrilla warfare. With the prestige of the Red Army in the War of Resistance, the Party in North China (including Shandong) should be mobilized to mobilize the masses and recruit scattered soldiers and scattered guns. form guerrillas.For this purpose, please decide whether Zhou should have another discussion with Feng Zhian, Huang Shaohong[4], etc.

C. For this purpose, emphasis should be placed on the distribution of senior cadres and the organization of party, government, and military collectives under independent leadership.We must imagine that after the enemy has occupied all of North China, we can persist in extensive and forceful guerrilla warfare.It is necessary to tell the whole party (to mobilize inside and outside the party) that there will be no other work in the future, and the only thing is guerrilla warfare.To this end, the Red Army should give all possible assistance.D. Please inform us of the deployment of the entire North China.

Mao Zedong twenty-fifth Printed from transcripts kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Zhou refers to Zhou Enlai. [2] Hu Fu, namely Liu Shaoqi.Shangkun, also known as Yang Shangkun, was born in 1907 in Tongnan, Sichuan. He was the deputy secretary of the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Zhu Rui (1905-1948), born in Suqian, Jiangsu, was Secretary of the Military Commission of the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.

[3] Zhu, refers to Zhu De.Peng, referring to Peng Dehuai, was the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army at the time.Ren refers to Ren Bishi, who was then the director of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army. [4] Feng Zhi'an (1896-1954), a native of Gucheng, Hebei, was the deputy commander-in-chief of the First Group Army of the Kuomintang Army and the commander of the Seventy-seventh Army at that time.Huang Shaohong (1895-1966), a native of Rong County, Guangxi, was the Minister of the First Department of the Military Commission of the Kuomintang Government at that time.