Chapter 66 2. "The northern line captures three roads and four cities"

Facing the all-out civil war provoked by Chiang Kai-shek, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China determined the correct policy of smashing the attack of the Kuomintang army with a war of self-defense and restoring domestic peace. On July 20, 1946, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a clear statement within the party: "Only after Chiang Kai-shek's offensive is completely smashed in the self-defense war can China restore peace." ("Mao Zedong Selected Works" Volume 4) On the eve of the outbreak of the full-scale civil war, the analysis of the situation by the Central Committee of our party was relatively optimistic. The Kuomintang was extremely dissatisfied and brewed an anti-war movement; the provinces were severely famine; For a long time, after half a year, a peace may be negotiated.

Based on this optimistic estimate of the situation, from June 19 to 28, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission successively made plans for each strategic area to launch a large-scale self-defense counterattack against the Kuomintang ruled area immediately after the Kuomintang provoked a full-scale civil war. strategic deployment. Combat deployment on the northern line (referring to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Jin-Sui battlefields at that time): The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China instructed on the 19th: After the big fight, our main force in Jinchaji-Liaoning should deal with the main force of Jiang’s army in Rehe and Pingjin. Assisted He Long and Li Jingquan to deal with Fu Zuoyi and seized the Datong-Taiyuan section of the Tongpu Railway, and assisted Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, and Bo Yibo to seize the Zhengtai Line; Smash Fu Zuoyi's attack and seize the Datong-Taiyuan section of the Tongpu Railway, and assist Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, and Bo Yibo to capture the southwestern part of Shanxi and the Taiyuan-Puzhou section of the Tongpu Railway; the main force of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan should deal with Jiang's army in Henan The main force, the rest will be used to capture the Zhengtai Line, Tongpu South Line, and Southwest Shanxi, and finally cooperate with Northwest Shanxi and Northeast Shanxi to capture Taiyuan.

On the 28th, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made further deployments for the northern front, instructing the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region: "After the Kuomintang fights, your basic task is to defend the local area and seize the three routes and four cities (three routes, referring to Pinghan Road, Beiping to Shijiazhuang section, Zhengtai Road and Tongpu Road; four cities, referring to Baoding, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan and Datong)".When the Kuomintang army attacked Chengde, "take advantage of the enemy to advance northward, concentrate on the four columns of Yang (Dezhi), Yang (Chengwu), Guo (Tianmin), and Zhao (Erlu) and Jizhong and Jijin to hold the Ping-Han Campaign with all their strength." , occupied the entire Pinghan Road from Changxindian to Shimen (referring to Shijiazhuang), and occupied the two cities of Baoding and Shimen". "After the victory of the Ping-Han Dynasty, three columns of the main force, no less than 20 regiments and 40,000 troops, entered Jin Dynasty and acted as the main force to seize Shanxi. All the enemy strongholds outside Datong will merge the five districts of Jijin, Jinsui, Luliang, Taihang, and Taiyue into one, and then seize Taiyuan and Datong at will." this task".