The Process of Winning the Pinghan
Campaign1
(November 2, 1945)
III, IV [CPC Delegation in Chongqing]:
	 1.	 We received your two telegrams of yesterday and today. The enemy has a
whole bag of tricks, and we must increase our vigilance.
	 2.	 Two divisions under the command of Gao Shuxun have arisen in revolt2 to
extremely great effect. The entire Thirtieth and Fortieth armies retreated
and were surrounded and attacked by us in the narrow area east of Ci
county and north of Zhanghe. After two days and two nights of fierce
fighting, the headquarters of the Fortieth Army, the entire 106th Division,
and another regiment were annihilated, the division commander was captured, the artillery battalion and two other regiments of the Thirtieth Army
(armed with American weapons) were wiped out, and all the others were
scattered. We are just now in the process of annihilating what remains; the
fighting will be over either tonight or tomorrow morning. Upon hearing
that Gao Shuxun has rebelled and all units are in danger, Hu Zongnan3 has
ordered that the Sixteenth Army stop moving southward to provide reinforcements. The central forces in places such as Zhengzhou and Xinxiang
remain motionless, watching their comrades being annihilated and without
coming to their rescue. Following our victory in this campaign, the so called “bandit suppression” troops will be greatly shaken, and we plan to
publicize this.

	 3.	 While annihilating He Wending’s4 Twenty-sixth Division, we obtained many
diaries and other anti-Communist documents. We order Liu Bocheng and
Deng Xiaoping5 to examine these documents and to openly publish many of
them to refute the slanderous propaganda by the Guomindang.
I, II [The Central Committee]

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Notes

1.  Mao Zedong drafted this telegram on behalf of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and sent it to the Party’s representatives in Chongqing.

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Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 3, p. 115, where it is reproduced from Mao’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives. It also
appears in Mao Zedong junshi wenxuan. Neibuben, pp. 380–81.

2.  See the document entitled “November Operational Preparations,” November 1,
1945, in this volume.

3.  Hu Zongnan was commander of the Guomindang’s First War Zone.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-67

4.  He Wending was commander of the Guomindang’s Twenty-sixth Division and Sixtyseventh Army.

5.  Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping were commander and political commissar, respectively, of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan (Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu) Military Region.