After the surrender of Japan, the Kuomintang reactionaries play ed peace talks tricks on one hand and launched attacks against the liberated areas on the other. Deng Xiaoping called on troops in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Area to launch counterattacks in order to protect fruits of the revolution. The photo shows Deng Xiaoping, who was then the secretary of the Central Bureau of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Area and political commissar of the field army.