Chapter 187 2. The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region was "broken to bits"

Faced with Chiang Kai-shek's clamor, Mao Zedong was full of confidence. On July 10, he proposed: "In the second year of combat, I should strive to wipe out 100 regular brigades and a large number of miscellaneous troops of the enemy, so that the enemy's numerical advantage will become a disadvantage, and I will become an advantage." ("Mao Zedong Military Collection "Volume 4) also stipulates that the basic task of our army's second year of operations is to carry out a nationwide counter-offensive, that is, to use the main force to attack the outer lines, lead the war to the Kuomintang areas, wipe out a large number of enemies on the outer lines, and completely destroy the Kuomintang's generals. The war continued to lead to the liberated areas, further destroying and consuming the manpower and material resources of the liberated areas, making it impossible for me to pursue a sustainable counter-revolutionary strategy.Part of the mission of our army in the second year of combat is to continue fighting on the inner line with a part of the main force and the vast number of local troops, annihilate the enemy on the inner line, and regain lost ground.

In order to complete the combat mission proposed by Mao Zedong, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping led the main force of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army to leap thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains, which opened the prelude to the transformation of the People's Liberation Army from strategic defense to strategic offensive. As far as the North China battlefield is concerned, in the past year, although the Jinchaji Liberated Area has achieved good results in annihilating more than 180,000 enemies and recovering more than 30 county towns.However, compared with other war zones, the Jinchaji liberated area has a big gap, which is mainly manifested in the fact that the battles are "a little bit broken", and there are fewer annihilation battles of entire divisions and brigades.

At the Xiaohe Conference on July 21, 1947, Zhou Enlai ranked the combat achievements of our army's liberated areas in the following order: East China, Shanxi, Hebei, Luyu, Northeast, Jinsui, Shanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei. There are many reasons for the poor record of Jinchaji.The main reason is what Nie Rongzhen pointed out. After the outbreak of the war, "some mistakes were made in military guidance, and the policy of mobile warfare of striding forward and retreating was not bold enough. At that time, there was a kind of conservatism, 'fear of losing ground'". "Under this kind of thinking, the initiative is insufficient, the main force is concentrated to actively attack the enemy, and a large number of enemies are wiped out. This kind of guiding ideology is not clear, so the idea of ​​​​mobile warfare cannot be well implemented. This makes our self-defense war, in this year. The victories in it are far from enough."

Therefore, after the Baobei Campaign ended in early July, the whole army concentrated in the Wuji, Shenxian, and Renqiu areas for a two-month training.The situation and task education was carried out, the principles of "whom to fight for" and "why to fight" were further clarified, and the confidence and courage to win against Chiang Kai-shek's civil war policy were established; The rear organization has enriched the company; on the basis of technical training such as shooting, assassination, bombing, and soil work, it has focused on training tactics and organizational command capabilities.