Order to Oppose the Third
"Encirclement and Suppression"
July 1931
The enemy has launched a massive offensive against our basic soviet area. We
must defeat this enemy by all possible means. We should use all of our resolution, tenacity, and perseverance to defeat this enemy. If we do so, we shall
certainly defeat this enemy in the end. Final victory is OURS. Long live the heroic
and dauntless Red Army!
Mao Zedong
Our source for this order is Mao Zedong ji, Bujuan, Vol. 3, p. 299, where it is reproduced
from a documentary collection published in China in 1979.