Continuously Carry out Political Offensives
against the Units of Du Yuming, Qiu
Qingquan, and Li Mi
(December 16, 1948, 12:00 A.M.)
To Su Yu; and for the information of Liu [Bocheng], Chen [Yi], and Deng
[Xiaoping]:1
	 1.	 Huang Wei’s2 forces have been wiped out, and Li Yannian’s3 entire army has
retreated to defend the southern shore of the Huai River.
	 2.	 All our units encircling Du Yuming’s4 army may rest and readjust for about
ten days. They should assemble all the forces of the East China Field Army
and then launch an attack.
	 3.	 Continuously carry out political offensives against the units of Du [Yuming],
Qiu [Qingquan], and Li [Mi].5 In addition to what is done by the troops,
please draft scripts for spoken broadcasts; they should be broadcast once
every three to five days. You should modify their content according to the
specific situation on the battlefield. Telegraph the scripts to us and then
broadcast them following revision.
 The Military Commission

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Notes

Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 5, pp. 410–11, where it is
reproduced from Mao’s handwritten original preserved in the Central Archives.

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1.  Mao Zedong drafted this telegram on behalf of the Central Military Commission. Su
Yu was the acting commander and acting political commissar of the East China Field Army.
Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, and Deng Xiaoping were commander, first deputy commander, and
political commissar, respectively, of the Central Plains Field Army.

2.  Huang Wei was formerly commander of the Guomindang army’s Twelfth Army
Group. During the second phase of the Huai-hai Campaign, this corps was wiped out and
Huang was captured by a unit under the Central Plains Field Army and the East China Field
Army near Shuangduiji, south of Suixi, Anhui, on December 15, 1948.

3.  Li Yannian was commander of the Guomindang army’s Sixth Army Group.

4.  Du Yuming was deputy commander-in-chief of the Guomindang army’s Xuzhou
“Bandit Suppression” Headquarters and director of its Advance Headquarters.

5.  Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi were the commanders of the Guomindang army’s Second
and Thirteenth army groups, respectively.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719436-216