1948165438+1at the beginning of October, the battle of Jinan and the battle of Liaoshen ended successfully, and the number of field troops of our army completely overwhelmed Chiang Kai-shek for the first time, forming an advantage of 3140,000 over 2.9 million. It is a foregone conclusion that the Northeast Field Army will enter the customs. Hua Ye and Nakano have no worries (they were worried that the enemy in North China would go south to reinforce them), and the conditions for a strategic decisive battle are becoming more and more mature. 1October 8th, 165438+, after all-night talks with Zhang zhen's chief of staff, Su Yu sent Xibaipo the famous "Chen Qidian" in military history. The word "Kai" stands for 8, and the word "Chen" stands for the telegram sent from 7: 00 to 9: 00 that morning, namely 1 1.8. The significance of this telegram lies in that Su Yu first proposed that after Huang annihilated 1.2 million people, Hua Ye's main force would not go south to the Huaihe River for the time being, but seek a decisive battle with Jiang Xuzhou's heavily armed group to the west, thus placing Jiang's main force north of the Yangtze River. The telegram predicted that "there will be no major battles south of the Yangtze River in the future" and "serious battles will only be fought in South China".

Xibaipo's reply was quick and concise: "Su Zhang told East China Bureau and Central China Bureau: Qi Chen telegraphed that we should try our best to annihilate the main enemy forces near Xuzhou, so as not to flee south, and East China, North China and Central China should make every effort to ensure the supply of our troops"! This means that this great man also sublimated the idea of Huaihai Campaign to the height of "Great Huaihai" in the strategic decisive battle, and wanted to destroy 700,000 enemy troops assembled between Xu and Bian.