How Can The PRC Win The Chinese Civil War Faster/More Decisively

Look, I know they already crushed the KMT pretty hard, but is there anything Mao could have done to make even more of a curbstomp?

Any bad decisions he made? Any way to take better advantage of KMT weaknesses? Any different tactics that would have worked better? Etc.
 
Look, I know they already crushed the KMT pretty hard, but is there anything Mao could have done to make even more of a curbstomp?

Any bad decisions he made? Any way to take better advantage of KMT weaknesses? Any different tactics that would have worked better? Etc.

OTL is CCP/PRC wank already.

To answer your question, perhaps an even more deceive Soviet victory of WWII.
 
As far as I know, CCP strategy for gaining control of the homeland worked like a charm. They narrowly escaped destruction by the Nationalists multiple times, allowed the Nationalists to exhaust themselves fighting the Japanese, and then survived some more in the civil war to allow the rot of corruption to take hold in the KMT and then swept the out. The only thing that could cement their victory faster is if the US heeded Stillwell's opinions of Chiang and his clique as corrupt hicks and let him die, but that would require the CCP to appear as an independent force free of Soviet influence, something that's not quite conceivable until Yugoslavia split from Soviet-dominated sphere in 1950.
 
Communist edge in the Civil War in part came from the geographic proximity their guerilla bases had with the Japanese occupied territories during Japanese Invasion, which allowed them to take over Japanese stock weapons, recover occupied towns and villages, absorb surrendered collaborators, even some Japanese prisoners near the Resistance War's end. Their existence owed largely to their ability to survive Japanese counter-insurgency campaigns, but also to their ruthlessness in destroying and absorbing Nationalist guerillas in the same regions.

From such perspective, if you want the CCP to win the upcoming Civil War faster, you could

A) save a few communist units from their OTL annihilation by the IJA, the first and foremost of them was the Northeastern Anti-Japanese United Army.
and
B) give the CCP guerrilla more time and chances in their Post-WWII take-overs. For instance, there were even communist cells operating in Pudong, which was then just countryside but is today the most prosperous part of Shanghai. If by any chance, they could take Shanghai, it could offset the KMT-CCP balance by a great margin.

Neither A nor B was easy, and actually taking Shanghai was improbable, but they were not impossible. Given the level of American mistrust of Chiang, any delay such mistrust caused in airlifting Nationalist troops to the occupied territories might give the Communists more time in taking over these occupied towns, when the Japanese has lost their will to keep on occupying.

The impacts of an accelerated Civil War, won this way by the CCP, could be mixed.

A shortened Kuomintang reign could mean that no one paves the way for a Communist "Liberation". The Nationalist officials had less chance to indulge in themselves in a corrupt take-over they did OTL on assets in the occupied territories, and to created a spree of hyperinflation (which made the introduction of Renminbi looked like a salvation). This would reduce the populations' level of tolerance to communist methods and excesses. And as if Chiang did not establish in Shanghai a wartime industrial management system during the Civil War, Mao would have no such system at his own disposal when he nationalized those same industries.

More surviving faction within the communist party could also dilute Mao's own power within it. A surviving Manchurian faction of the CCP could mean that Mao never became the paramount leader he was IOTL, a surviving Shanghainese faction could potentially make the CCP closer to its urban and elitist self as it was in the 1920s.
 
As far as I know, CCP strategy for gaining control of the homeland worked like a charm. They narrowly escaped destruction by the Nationalists multiple times, allowed the Nationalists to exhaust themselves fighting the Japanese, and then survived some more in the civil war to allow the rot of corruption to take hold in the KMT and then swept the out. The only thing that could cement their victory faster is if the US heeded Stillwell's opinions of Chiang and his clique as corrupt hicks and let him die, but that would require the CCP to appear as an independent force free of Soviet influence, something that's not quite conceivable until Yugoslavia split from Soviet-dominated sphere in 1950.

How can I forgot this one? Had Stilwell's coup idea was adapted, it would had the same result as OTL death of Ngô Đình Diệm (i.e. get rid of a bad proxies, then realize that he's the best candidate you ever had).
 
Another possible POD is made the Kyūjō incident coup d'état successful, Japan fought till bitter end, then the Red Army would overrun most of the Japanese Occupied China north of Yangtze River, which gave CCP even more advantageous position and captured Japanese weapons.
 
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