Chapter 78 CCP leaders gather in Xiaohe Village

Xiaohe Village is a small village in Jingbian County, Northern Shaanxi. Two small rivers surround the village, hence the name.Although Xiaohe Village is not big, it is small and exquisite, surrounded by greenery, which is very rare in the Loess Plateau. However, Xiaohe Village was left in the annals of history not because of its beauty, but because of a far-reaching conference held here. On July 21, the leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China gathered in Xiaohe Village.In addition to Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Ren Bishi, Peng Dehuai, Chen Geng, Xi Zhongxun, He Long, Yang Shangkun, Wang Zhen, Zhang Jingwu, Ma Mingfang, Zhang Zongxun, etc. all came.

He Long came here dragging his sick body.Prior to this, He Long was exhausted from work and had another attack of cholecystitis, so he was admitted to the Jinsui Military Region Hospital. Once he received a telegram from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he knew that the meeting was important, so he came all the way regardless of his illness. General Chen Geng also came from the Yellow River.He was a caring person, and he also brought horses with him, four of which were loaded with fungus, mushrooms, shrimps, sugar, cigarettes, tea and other food, and one was loaded with radio equipment. Ren Bishi was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Lin Boqu came here with a cane.When he walked into Xiaohe Village, he almost turned into a rustic old man, his beard and eyebrows thickened, and he was all yellow, and even his glasses were covered with dust.After he shook hands with Mao, Zhou, and Ren, he did not forget his duties as the chairman of the Border Region, and saluted the others: "Generals, on behalf of the 1.6 million people in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, I salute you!" Although princes from all walks of life came, Xiaohe Village was too small, and it took a lot of effort to accommodate the guests, let alone a larger cave dwelling for the venue.In the end, it was Zhou Enlai who came up with the idea to set up a pergola outside as the meeting place, which was ventilated and bright.

With the consent of the villagers, the soldiers used saws and axes to cut willow poles and willow shoots by the river. The thick ones were used as pillars and the thin ones were used as rafters. They chose a flat place to build a pergola. A meeting was held in Xiaohe Village, Bianxian County, Beijing, to study and deploy strategic offensive issues. From July 21 to 23, an enlarged meeting of the Front Committee was held in the pergola of Xiaohe Village.At this point, a full year had passed since the outbreak of all-out civil war.During the year, the People's Liberation Army wiped out 97 and a half brigades of the Kuomintang's regular army, 780,000 people, and 340,000 puppet troops and security forces, a total of 1.2 million people.Although the Kuomintang army continued to replenish, the total force dropped from 4.3 million to 3.73 million, while that of the PLA rose from 1.2 million to 1.95 million. The ratio of troops between the two sides shrank from 1:35 to 1:19.The all-out offensive of the Kuomintang army has been smashed, and the key offensive has also failed badly.

In order to change the situation of the Chinese revolution and accelerate the process of the Chinese revolution, Mao Zedong advocated: "We can't wait for the enemy's attack to be completely smashed. We have surpassed the enemy in terms of numbers and equipment before launching a strategic counterattack. We must immediately switch to the offensive. Our main force should immediately go to the outside!" Zhou Enlai, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and Chief of General Staff, made a detailed analysis of the growth and decline of the Kuomintang and Communist forces one year after the start of the Liberation War, and explained how to switch from inside to outside.He vividly compared that Chiang Kai-shek's military forces focused on the two wings of Shandong and northern Shaanxi, and only a small number of troops defended the natural barrier of the Yellow River in the middle.In a sense, the Yellow River is Chiang Kai-shek's "outer trench", the Longhai Railway is his "barbed wire fence", and the Yangtze River is his "inner trench". Trench to go.Liu Deng went straight to the Dabie Mountains and stabbed Chiang Kai-shek in the chest!Chen Xie's corps crossed the Yellow River south, advanced into the west of Henan, and chopped him down again!Chen Su's army entered the southwest of Shandong, advanced into the east of Henan, and stabbed him again!Strategically, these three-way armies formed a "pin" formation, with each other's horns, working together to attack on the Central Plains from the Yangtze River in the south, the Yellow River in the north, the Han River in the west, and the Yellow Sea in the east!attack!

The generals are excited, which means ending the long-term defensive position of the people's army in the war, opening a new prelude to the battle, and rushing to the Jiang area with free hands and feet, attacking the enemy! In this way, the strategic transformation of the Communist Party was completed in the small place of Xiaohe Village.Mao Zedong made another decisive move on the big chessboard of the national battlefield.