Dispositions Regarding the Operations
of the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment
(October 19, 1935, 7:00P.M.)

Commander Peng [Dehuai]:

1. The First Column arrived at Wuqizhen today and encamped in the area
fifteen li to the front and to the rear of it. Tomorrow (the 20th) it will rest here
for one day in a stance of preparing for combat, build fortifications against the
approaching enemy, keep a lookout for it, and send out some troops to make
guerrilla attacks along the enemy's approach route.
2. Tomorrow, the Second and Third Columns should get closer to Wuqizhen,
and camp in the area about twenty li south of it.
3. Wuqizhen already marks the border of the Soviet Areas. There is a Red
régime to the east of it, and it is said that there are Red troops in Bao'an City, but
in Jinfoping, between Wuqizhen and Jintangzhen, the landlords have more than a
hundred men defending the fort. It is planned to send troops to wipe them out.
4. It is requested that Peng come to Wuqizhen tomorrow to discuss strategic
plans for the operation. The Second and Third Columns are to be placed under
the command of Ye and Deng.1

Mao

We have translated this telegram from Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 378-79.
1. Ye is Ye Jianying (1897-1986), a native of Guangdong, then commander of the
Red Army Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment's Third Column. After the arrival of the Red Army
in North Shaanxi, he became chief of staff. Deng is Deng Fa (1906-1946), a native of
Guangdong, then political commissar of the same unit. After several years as a labor
organizer, and a period in the Soviet Union, Deng had become chief of the Political
Security Bureau of the Chinese Soviet Republic during the Jiangxi period, and continued
to exercise these functions.