Telegram to Zhu De and Wang Jiaxiang[1]

(June 5, 1932)

All armies of the Eastern Route Army must complete reorganization within the three days from the 6th to the 8th and be prepared to move out on the 9th. A military conference will be held at 2:00 p.m. on the 8th at the General Headquarters in Guanzhuang. The army commanders, army political commissars, corps commanders-in-chief, corps general political commissars, and corps chiefs of staff shall all attend the conference.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram from Mao Zedong and Ye Jianying, Chief of the General Staff of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, to Zhu De and Wang Jiaxiang concerning the reorganization deadline for the various armies and the convening of a military conference.