Order to Carry Out Decentralized
Fund-raising Activities After Smashing
the First "Encirclement and Suppression"

Order No. V4

(Headquarters at Xiaobu, 8:00 A.M., January 16, 1931)

1. Both Mao [Bingwen]'s division and Xu [Kexiang]'s division of the
enemy's Sixth Route Army have retreated to the vicinity of Nanfeng City. The
remnants of both Tan Daoyuan's division and Lu Xiaochen's division,¹ which had
been stationed in Fuzhou, are preparing to move within the next few days (probably toward Le'an). Both Cai's division and Dai's division² of the Nineteenth
Route Army have moved to take up positions along the line of Xingguo, Yinfu,
and Jiangkou. The Gong division of the Ninth Route Army³ has retreated to the
Ji'an-Taihe line.⁴ Luo Lin's division⁵ is now moving toward Yongfeng, and Zhu
Yaohua's brigade has retreated to Jishui.⁶ All the aforementioned enemy troops
seem now to be forming a bow-shaped line of defense against us along the line of
Nanfeng, Le'an, Yongfeng, Jishui, Taihe, and Xingguo.

Most of the forces of Hu Zuyu's brigade have remained in Yiyang without
moving. Zhao's regiment is moving toward Fuzhou via the Jiujiang-Nanchang
railroad. Han's division and Sun's brigade are in Xiajiang, and Liu's brigade is
in the area around the Jiujiang-Nanchang railroad and Gaoan.⁷

One brigade of Wang Jinyu's forces already arrived at Pingxiang on the 11th.
Several brigades of Rebel Liu Heding arrived at Jiangle and Taining on the 10th,
and one brigade followed and arrived at Shunchang on the 11th. The troops of
Rebel Zhang Zimin have arrived at Jianning.
2. The First Front Army has decided to continue actively to raise money
within the next few days and to build up an adequate supply of provisions, so as
to be ready to wipe out the enemy's forces according to the original plan.
3. Except for one division assigned to stay in Dongshao to help the local
people in their work, most forces of the Third Army Group should immediately
press on toward the enemy troops in the town of Nanfeng in order to screen the
fund-raising activities of our Fourth and Twelfth armies. If the enemy troops
retreat, we should send troops into Nanfeng so as to expand our fund-raising
areas. Liaison must be established with our Fourth Army troops in the areas
around Guangchang and Huangpi.8 By the 31st of this month, 30,000 yuan in big
foreign dollars9 should be raised.
4. The Fourth and Twelfth armies should carry out as many separate fundraising activities as possible in the original areas. They should raise 100,000
yuan (40,000 in addition to the originally assigned target of 60,000) by the 31st.
Communication should be established during the period of fund-raising.
5. The troops of the Third Army originally sent to Liangcun should remain in Liangcun to work, and all matters should be reported promptly to
Headquarters.
The Third Army should send the Eighth Division to the area around Shima
to work in Nankeng, Beikeng, Zhongcun, and Tengtian (and to establish
communication with the independent battalion in Le'an). It should subsequently advance toward Le'an and Yongfeng (carefully investigating the
enemy's situation in Le'an and Yongfeng). The Eighth Division should raise
10,000 yuan by the 31st, and should promptly report all matters to Headquarters. The rest of the Third Army troops should remain where they are and
intensify training.
6. The Thirty-fifth Division should make efforts to cooperate with the masses
in harassing and intimidating the enemy in Xingguo.
7. The Red Guards in all areas should make every effort to launch attacks on
the White areas so as to create a situation of overall advance.
8. Along with the Revolutionary Military Commission, General Headquarters
remains in Xiaobu.

Supplementary notes:
a. After any army unit has moved, a detailed report must be made to Headquarters as to the time of the move and the location reached.
b. Each unit must make at least one report per day to Headquarters.
c. During the fund-raising period, raising funds is the primary goal, but some
attention must still be devoted to internal training.

It is so ordered.

Commander-in-Chief
Political Commissar
Zhu De
Mao Zedong

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Notes

Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 201–03.

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1. Lu Xiaochen commanded the Nationalist army's New Thirteenth Division.

2. The references are to Cai Tingkai's Sixtieth and Dai Ji's Sixty-first divisions.

3. The reference is to the Twenty-eighth Division of the Guomindang Ninth Route
Army, commanded by Gong Bingfan

4. The preceding sentence is missing from the version of this order in Mao Zedong ji.
Bujuan, Vol. 3, pp. 209–10.

5. The Nationalist army's Seventy-seventh Division.

6. This brigade is not listed in Communist-compiled Nationalist army orders of battle
for troops directly participating in the First Encirclement Campaign, nor does it appear in
the official Nationalist account of these campaigns, Jiaofei zhanshi (History of the Bandit-
Suppression Wars) (Taibei: Ministry of National Defense, 1967), Vol. 1 (hereafter Bandit
Suppression).

7. This and the following paragraph refer to a variety of Nationalist units operating
well away from the area of active combat in the encirclement campaign; none were
directly involved.

8. The Junshi wenji version of this text says "Pitou" instead of "Huangpi," but the
latter is more plausible in geographical context.

9. The Chinese term is dayang, literally "big foreign-style currency." It was used to
refer either to actual silver dollars, or to one-yuan notes. Both of these were more valuable
than coins or paper money in smaller denominations nominally for the same amount. For
a more detailed discussion see above, the paragraph on monetary units in the "Note on
Sources and Conventions."