Chapter 318 17. Inventory

The Pingjin Campaign wiped out 1 corps headquarters, 1 garrison headquarters, 5 military headquarters, 25 divisions, and more than 270,000 enemy troops; peacefully reorganized 1 "bandit suppression" headquarters, 2 corps headquarters, and 8 army divisions. Ministry, 25 divisions, peacefully reorganized 250,000 people.The above two items add up to 1 "bandit suppression" headquarters, 1 garrison headquarters, 3 corps headquarters, 13 military headquarters, 50 divisions, and a total of more than 520,000 people.The PLA suffered more than 39,000 casualties.This huge victory has basically liberated North China except for a few data points such as Guisui, Taiyuan, and Xinxiang.This has great decisive significance for the national revolutionary situation, not only military, but also political.

The victory of the Battle of Pingjin liberated North China except for a few isolated strongholds such as Taiyuan, Xinxiang, and Anyang.The North China Liberated Area is connected with the Northeast, Northwest, East China, and Central Plains Liberated Areas to form a strong and consolidated rear area, creating extremely favorable conditions for the next step to march across the country. The liberation of "first-class cities" such as Beiping and Tianjin not only laid a solid material foundation for the development of the economy of the liberated areas to support the final victory of the liberation war, but also further expanded the political influence of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army. The conditions were prepared for the establishment of the capital in Beiping. On March 25, Mao Zedong and others led the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army from Xibaipo to Beiping, marking the end of the period of the Chinese revolution in which the countryside encircled the cities, and the new era of finally capturing the cities and letting the cities lead the countryside has begun.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out in the He Pingjin liberation telegram on February 2: "The great victory of the People's War of Liberation in North China, together with the great victories of the People's War of Liberation in Northeast China, East China, Central Plains, and Northwest China, as well as the victory of the People's Guerrilla War in the South, have laid the foundation for The national victory of the People's Liberation Struggle has laid a solid foundation for the victory of the People's Liberation Struggle. The Kuomintang reactionary government has fallen into a desperate situation of fragmentation, instability and collapse no matter in military, political or economic terms. It will be completely annihilated unless a true democratic peace is realized in accordance with the will of the people and the example of Peking.” (CCP Central Committee “He Pingjin Jiefang Dian”, People’s Daily, February 3, 1949)

The "Tianjin Way" and "Peking Way" that emerged during the Battle of Pingjin and the subsequent "Suiyuan Way" were important developments of the People's Liberation Army's principle of combining military strikes and political struggles against the Kuomintang army under the new situation, and became an important development of the People's Liberation Army. The basic method used by the People's Liberation Army to deal with the more than 1 million remaining troops of the Kuomintang Army in its triumphant march to liberate the whole of China.This has important strategic significance for further accelerating the victory process of the war of liberation.