1986 died at the age of 94.
In the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he assisted Zhou Enlai and Zhu De to command and won the fourth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression". During the Red Army's Long March, he supported Mao Zedong's correct proposition and personally commanded battles such as crossing Wujiang River, outwitting Zunyi, seizing Jinsha River and crossing Dadu River. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, he served as the division commander of the Eighth Route Army129th Division, and together with Deng Xiaoping, the political commissar, ambushed the Japanese army at Changshengkou, Shentouling and Xiangtangpu in the east section of Zheng Tai Road, winning three out of three wars and killing thousands of people. In April, the siege of No.9 Road, Changle Village, Wuxiang was crushed, and the counties of Lianke Changzhi and other counties 18 were established, and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan anti-Japanese base area was established. In the great counter-offensive behind enemy lines, he commanded troops to annihilate more than 50,000 Japanese and puppet troops, recover 59 county towns, and consolidate and develop the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan liberated areas. During the National War of Liberation, he commanded Shangdang Campaign and wiped out the Kuomintang Army 13 Division in one fell swoop. Later, he moved eastward, organized and launched the Pinghan campaign, wiped out two Kuomintang troops, and fought for the 1 Kuomintang army uprising on the battlefield. /kloc-in the winter of 0/946, he commanded the battles of Longhai, Dingtao, Juye, Juancheng and hua county. 1June, 947, he and Deng Xiaoping led120,000 troops to break through the natural barrier of the Yellow River in one fell swoop, annihilated 9 brigades of the Kuomintang army in the southwest Shandong campaign, and broke Chiang Kai-shek's key attack on Shandong with the cooperation of the East China Field Army. Since then, he led his division to leap into Dabie Mountain, cooperated closely with Chen Su and Chen Su, and fought for the Central Plains, which opened the prelude to the strategic counterattack in the War of Liberation. /kloc-in the winter of 0/948, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi and others commanded the Huaihai Campaign and annihilated more than 550,000 Kuomintang troops. After the battle of crossing the river, he marched into the southwest and made meritorious deeds repeatedly until the whole southwest was liberated.
Liu Bocheng is a famous military theorist, and he has incisive and original exposition on China's guerrilla warfare, mobile warfare and headquarters work. His "command art and operational strategy are important components of Mao Zedong's military thought" and are treasures in the treasure house of Marxist military theory. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's period, he tried to master the changes of military and civilian strategic thoughts in Taihang Mountain area and improve the troops' understanding of the strategic position of guerrilla warfare. He initiated the people's war form of "guerrilla group", put forward the operational policy of "the enemy retreats and we advance", scientifically expounded the dialectical relationship between tour and attack, and established the important idea of "combining guerrilla warfare with mobile warfare and adjusting the weight of guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare in a timely manner". During the War of Liberation, he solved a series of important problems, such as concentrating troops to form a field corps, battlefield preparation, logistics support, siege operations, campaign command and tactical guidance, and made the troops quickly change from scattered guerrilla warfare against Japan to concentrated large-scale mobile civil war, which was the essence of Liu Bocheng's operational strategy. He believes that the essence of maneuver is to destroy the enemy. Only by dealing with the relationship between the enemy and ourselves dialectically and seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages can we achieve the goal of maneuvering to wipe out the enemy. He pointed out: "In guerrilla warfare,' swimming' means maneuvering,' fighting' means annihilating the enemy,' swimming' means covering up one's weaknesses and looking for the enemy's weaknesses, and' fighting' means developing one's strengths and putting aside the enemy's strengths." Mobile warfare is also a "large-scale mobile annihilation war, a medium-scale mobile annihilation war; Small maneuver, small annihilation. " He also pointed out that striding forward and retreating are the main forms of maneuver, and we should strive for the freedom of maneuver against the enemy, and advocate acting according to the overall intention of the superiors and using the contradiction between the enemy's mobile forces and the scattered garrison forces to break the enemy. And mobile operations under various specific conditions. His systematic research and scientific demonstration of mobile warfare have enabled the strategy and tactics of the people's war to be used, enriched and developed in many ways.
On the tactics of using troops, he also advocated stopping using troops and innovating tactics. It is also an ambush, or an ambush for its rescuer, or an ambush for its retreat, or a temptation, or a persecution. It's all pocket tactics. Sometimes they use "three gaps and one gap, leaving one side open, leaving an empty space to live", and sometimes they use "a seamless division" to "tighten the enemy in a narrow range and starve people". They also use encirclement to help, fake offensive, which really helps; There is a real encirclement, and there is a real fight. It is necessary to attack the city and fight for help. He flexibly applied and developed the traditional guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare tactics of the People's Army, and summed up new tactics such as sparrow tactics, wasp tactics, wolf tactics and great detour and encirclement. Such as "helping the enemy", "drawing the sword", "delaying tactics", "Tigerheart", "drawing the salary from the bottom of the pot", "attacking one point, absorbing what it has helped, gnawing at the other side, breaking through one by one", "leaving one side open, leaving an open hand, and secretly setting up pockets" and "attacking the enemy is inevitable and inexhaustible"
Liu Bocheng is an outstanding proletarian revolutionary and strategist in China, and the founder and leader of China People's Liberation Army. Deng Xiaoping once commented: "Liu Bocheng's command art and military theory are rare at home and abroad."