Attend to Other Work While Arranging for
the Eastern Rehe Campaign
 (May 10, 1946)
To the Hebei-Rehe-Liaoning local bureau, and for the information of Nie
[Rongzhen] and Liu [Lantao], Lin [Biao] and Peng [Zhen]:1
	 1.	 While making deployments for and carrying out the Eastern Rehe Campaign,2
do not forget about suppressing the bandits in western Rehe and do not forget
about mass work in central, western, and northern Rehe and in eastern Hebei
to fight the traitors and to settle accounts with them, and to lower rents and
reduce interest on loans, as well as to emphasize leadership over production.
	 2.	 After victory in the Eastern Rehe Campaign, prepare the column of Huang
[Yongsheng], Zhu [Dixin], and Wen [Niansheng]3 to advance into western
Liaoning for battle (you will still be in command), positioning them in the
area north of the Jinzhou-Shenyang railway. They will be responsible for
destroying the Jinzhou-Shenyang railway and for mobilizing the masses in
that area. Please consider when this column can move to western Liaoning
and what preparatory work is needed and inform us by telegram.
	 3.	 Zhan Caifang’s4 column should expand the scope of its railway destruction
to the Xingcheng and Jinzhou lines, while also paying attention to mass work
in this area and organizing local guerrilla units.
The Central Committee

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Notes

Our source for this telegram is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 3, pp. 210–11, where it is
reproduced from Mao’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.

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1.  Mao Zedong drafted this telegram on behalf of the Central Committee. Nie Rongzhen was commander and political commissar and Liu Lantao was deputy political commissar, respectively, of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. Lin Biao and Peng Zhen
were commander-in-chief and first political commissar, respectively, of the Northeast
Democratic Allied Army.

2.  The Eastern Rehe Campaign, also known as the Rehe Campaign, was carried out
in May 1946 in Chaoyang and Pingyuan by troops of the Hebei-Rehe-Liaoning Military
Region aiming to destroy traffic lines.

3.  Huang was commander, Zhu was political commissar, and Wen was deputy commander of the Rehe-Liaoning Column of the Hebei-Rehe-Liaoning Military Region.

4.  Zhan Caifang was commander of the Eastern Hebei Military Region.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-139