Chapter 58 Resolutely attack all attackers from behind the Anti-Japanese Front

(January 30, 1940) Zhu Pengyang, Liu Deng[1], and sued Zhu Xu and Chen Luo[2]: For any army in Hebei and Shanxi, whether it is the Central Army, Jinsui Army, or Shi Yousan [3], if it attacks the Eighth Route area, we should resolutely resist and completely eliminate it under the principle of self-defense and under reasonable and favorable conditions.We should call upon the entire Eighth Route Army and all the people of the two provinces to resolutely attack all those who attack from behind the Anti-Japanese Front. We should openly and widely publicize that "Those who attack from behind the Anti-Japanese Front are traitors", "Down with the traitors who attacked the Eighth Route Army", "Down with the attackers and die." The traitors of the army", "Down with the traitors who destroyed the anti-Japanese base areas".Only by causing an upsurge in the whole army and people to fight against the traitors and attack, and deal a thorough blow to the attackers, can the schemes of those conspirators and adventurers be stopped, can they be divided among themselves, can the vacillating army not dare to participate in the offensive, and can the army be carried out with its efforts. Cooperate effectively with the work of the United Front of China (this work must be stepped up very intensively).This policy also applies to Shandong, and I hope that Shandong will also resolutely do so.

Central Secretariat January 30 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Zhu, refers to Zhu De.Peng, referring to Peng Dehuai, was the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army at the time.Yang, referring to Yang Shangkun, then Secretary of the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Liu Deng refers to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who were respectively the commander and political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army at that time.

[2] Zhu Xu, referring to Zhu Rui and Xu Xiangqian, who were the political commissar and commander of the first column of the Eighth Route Army at that time.Chen Luo refers to Chen Guang and Luo Ronghuan, who were acting commander and political commissar of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at that time. [3] Shi Yousan (1891-1940), born in Changchun, Jilin.At that time, he was the commander of the 69th Army of the Kuomintang Army and the commander-in-chief of the Chahar guerrilla in the Hebei-Chahar Theater.