(September 18, 1931, 11:00 P.M., at General Headquarters
in Liuduyou)¹

1. In this battle at Fangshiling, our Front Army wiped out Han Deqin's entire
force.² Moreover, the enemy units of Jiang [Guangnai], Cai [Tingkai], Zhao
[Guantao], and Zhou [Hunyuan] are withdrawing from the soviet areas one after
the other. After the Third Campaign has achieved a complete victory, our
Workers' and Peasants' Red Army should deal with the tasks of consolidation
and replacing losses and continuing to move forward.
2. This Front Army has decided that the first step will be to move to the
Longgangtou area. We have now laid down the following plan for moving forward and resting during these three days:

September September September
Date
Unit
Destination
Notes
General
Headquarters
Shuitou-zhuang
Rest at former
location
Rest at
former
location
and directly
attached unit

(continued)

Our source for this text is Jiangxi dangshi ziliao, Vol. 19, p. 116.
Date
Unit
September
September September
Destination
Third Army
Group
Beikeng,
Longtankou,
Shanggai,
Niantan
Changxin
Third Army
Fengbian, Guantian
Baishi
Rest at
former
location
Rest at
former
Notes
The Seventh
Army will still be
under the
command of the
Third Army Group
Fourth Army
Longgangtou, Rest at former
Yangcun
location
location
Rest at
former
location
The Thirty-fifth
Army and the
Thirty-fifth
Division will still
be under the
command of the
Fourth Army
Minus the Second
Company
Fourth
Independent
Division
Changgang Shuitouzhuang Rest
3. The Third and Fourth independent divisions are responsible for pursuing
rebels such as Zhao Guantao and Zhou Hunyuan, and Xiao Ke³ will be the
commander. A few days later, the Fourth Independent Division will leave the
Second Company of the Tenth Regiment behind, putting it under the command
of the Fifth Independent Division, which will continue its work in Yong[feng],
Ji['an], and Tai[he]. The balance [of the division] will be led back to the
Huangpi area by Division Commander Long to work there.
4. Movements after the 23rd will be the subject of another order.
It is so ordered.

Commander-in-Chief
Political Commissar
Zhu De
Mao Zedong

--- Notes

1. A village in Ji'an xian near Donggu.

2. The battle at Fangshiling, 15 li south of Donggu in Ji'an xian, was one of the last
engagements in the Third Encirclement Campaign. Not only was most of Han Deqin's
Fifty-second Division destroyed, but Han Deqin himself was captured (though he was not
recognized and later escaped).


3. Xiao Ke (1908– ), a native of Hunan, joined the Party in 1926, fought on the
Jinggangshan, and held various posts in the Fourth Army before being made commander
of the Fifth Independent Division of the First Front Army.