Chapter 51 Basic principles on strategic policy and operational command[1]

(December 23, 1935) A strategic policy Under the situation that Japanese imperialism has turned China into a colony, and under the current situation of the Chinese Red Army and other revolutionary armed forces, the Party's military strategy, that is, its strategic policy, should have the following items: (1) Under the general task of resisting the Japanese imperialist attack on China with a resolute national war, we must first determine the policy of "combining civil war with national war" in all political and military calls and practical actions.This is the "Anti-Japanese Allied Army", "The Red Army is the vanguard of the Chinese people's resistance to Japan", "all soldiers and troops who do not want to be subjugated slaves unite with the Red Army to fight Japan", "all compatriots from all over the country are armed to oppose Japanese imperialism's attack on China" , "Workers, peasants, businessmen, students and soldiers unite to defend China with armed forces", "Down with the traitors and traitors who helped Japanese imperialism fight against the Chinese", "Down with the traitor leader who helped Japan destroy China-Chiang Kai-shek", "Down with the traitors and traitors who invaded the anti-Japanese base areas", "Oppose the traitors and traitors to disrupt the anti-Japanese rear", "Consolidate the anti-Japanese rear", "Expand the anti-Japanese base areas", "The Red Army and the White Army unite to overthrow Japanese imperialism", "Confiscate the properties of traitors and traitors for anti-Japanese army funds", "Confiscate Japanese imperialism The properties in China are used as funds for the Anti-Japanese Army", "If you have money, you can give money, if you have strength, you can give guns, and if you have knowledge, you can give knowledge to overthrow Japanese imperialism", "Fight to the last drop of blood to overthrow Japanese imperialism", " Long Live the National Revolutionary War" and other slogans and actions.

(2) Correctly estimate the strength of the enemy and ourselves. The general policy of the Party in terms of military deployment in 1936 should be "a force ready to fight directly against Japan."Therefore, the main target of the main force of the Red Army in 1936 should still be the troops of the traitors and traitors. However, in the Japanese-occupied areas and autonomous regions[2], we should try our best to organize, expand and unite all the anti-Japanese armed forces—the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, The guerrillas and others are engaged in direct and vigorous guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army.At the same time, it should also be estimated that in the second half of 1936, it is possible and necessary for the First Front Army to engage in partial battles with the Japanese Army (Shansuicha[3] Front).

(3) Vigorously expand the Red Army. In 1936, the main force of the National Red Army should have 200,000 men, and the First Front Army should have 50,000. (4) In order to resolutely and forcefully carry out the policy stated in Items (1), (2) and (3) (combine civil war with national war, prepare combat forces against Japan, and expand the Red Army), the First Front Army will deploy its operations The foundation should be firmly placed on the two tasks of "opening up the Soviet Union" and "consolidating and expanding the existing Soviet areas", and taking "opening up the Soviet Union" as the central task, and closely linking "consolidating and expanding the existing Soviet areas" with it , The specific steps are to put the main direction of the Red Army's actions and the development of the Soviet area in Shanxi in the east and Suiyuan in the north.

(5) The Red Army (Second and Sixth Army Corps, Fourth Front Army) other than the First Front Army has a great strategic role in weakening and containing the Nanjing traitor army, and its actions should be properly directed. (6) Guerrilla warfare plays a great strategic role in the task of defeating Japanese imperialism and the traitors and traitors.Its guiding principles should be as follows: 1. All guerrillas appear in the form of national war (Japanese-occupied areas, autonomous regions and their nearby provinces are called the Chinese Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. Other areas—Central China and South China are called the Chinese Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army. In these places—Central China and South China Guerrilla Army When it grew stronger, it was called the Chinese Anti-Japanese People's Revolutionary Army).The agrarian revolution was carried out under the slogans and tactics of national warfare.

2. Develop guerrilla warfare in all provinces, but focus on the main provinces (Hebei, Shanxi, Rechasui, the three eastern provinces, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shaanxi and Gansu).In places where the original Soviet areas in the north and south of the river have been transformed into guerrilla areas, the situation of recovery has been rapidly improved to that of development. 3. The local party is the sole guide in guerrilla warfare in the White areas and the main guide in the Soviet areas. 4. Attract a large number of White Army soldiers and young students involved in the anti-Japanese wave to guerrilla warfare.

5. The guerrillas should have bases, but oppose conservatism (this is easy to damage the guerrillas). 6. The guerrillas are closely integrated with the local revolutionary masses. 7. Improve guerrilla tactics. 8. Turn the guerrillas into a regular revolutionary army. 9. The guerrillas are the creators of the soviet areas. 10. Make guerrilla warfare more planned. (7) To unite the revolutionary movement of the soldiers of the White Army with the anti-Japanese guerrillas of the Anti-Japanese Red Army under the banner of national war, paying attention to the following guiding principles:

1. Without the aid of soldiers (Chinese, and Japanese), the complete victory of the national war is impossible. 2. Soldiers' assistance is possible (subjugated slave situation, suffering from hunger and cold, no rest). 3. Put the movement on a broad mass base, liberate from closed-doorism, and combine open movement with secret work. (8) Elevate the struggles of the Mongolian and Hui ethnic groups (firstly Mongolia) against the Japanese and Chinese rulers to the level of armed struggle, and directly link their struggles with ours. (9) Carry out the strategy of "Anti-Japanese Allied Forces", organize the contradictions and ruptures among the enemy's camps to the national front, and combine our camp with the "third camp" to form a unified national camp.

(10) The combination of the Soviet Red Army and the Chinese Red Army on the basis of opposing the common enemy, Japanese imperialism, is first of all a combination of technical conditions.