To begin with , we may say that the anti - japanese war is at once a war of attrition and a war of annihilation （九八）我们首先可以说，抗日战争是消耗战，同时又是歼灭战。
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Militarily , in the first month we shall not seek to fight large - scale battles , but to occupy cities and towns , eliminate bandits and diehards , and win some small battles ( for instance , annihilating one or two enemy regiments at a time ) （五）在军事上，我们在最初一个月内，不求打大仗，而是占领城镇，肃清土顽，争取打些小胜仗（一两个团一次的歼灭战） 。
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Because the enemy is still exploiting his strength and retains strategic superiority and strategic initiative , and therefore , unless we fight campaigns and battles of annihilation , we cannot effectively and speedily reduce his strength and break his superiority and initiative 敌之强的因素尚在发挥，战略上的优势和主动依然存在，没有战役和战斗的歼灭战，就不能有效地迅速地减杀其强的因素，破坏其优势和主动。
