Deployment to Destroy the Two Divisions of
Dong Yingbin and Shen Ke¹
(November 23, 1935, 7:00 A.M., at Kuangping)
Peng [Dehuai]:
1. With the aim of finishing off the two divisions of Dong and Shen, and
taking the strategic key point of Heishuisi, it has been decided to take steps to
encircle Heishuisi. It is anticipated that this task can be carried out within two
weeks.


2. The First Regiment has already been given orders, together with the
Seventeenth Platoon, to replenish food supplies in the morning and set out in the
afternoon, advancing to the area of Xiaoyouzi and Renjiadian, and at dawn
tomorrow to seize an opportunity to launch a surprise attack and take
Longyiwan, and begin by building solid blockhouses at key points nearby.
Within five days they are to complete one major blockhouse and three subsidiary
ones.


3. Please have Xu and Cheng² send one regiment of the Twenty-fifth Army,
which should first of all dispatch one battalion to the Mengjiayoufang area. At
the appropriate moment, this battalion should take Wangjiajiao by surprise attack, build blockhouses and ramparts nearby, cut off the enemy's food supply,
stop his reinforcements, and establish liaison with the First Regiment. The other
two battalions are to await further orders before setting out.
Mao


Dispositions Regarding the Actions of the First
and Fifteenth Army Groups
(November 23, 1935, 8:00 A.M.)
Peng [Dehuai] and Zhou [Enlai]:


1. In the context of the basic orientation of surrounding Heishuisi and finishing off Dong Yingbin completely, we have decided that the First Army Group, as
the main force, should advance as far as the area of Hanjiahe, Gan'goumen, and
Wangjiazhuang. [Nie] Rongzhen will lead the First and Thirteenth Regiments
and the reconnaissance company and advance to Longyiwan, Wangjiajiao, and
the area to the north. They should all arrive at their destinations this afternoon.


2. The Fifteenth Army Group should employ one unit to surround Zhiluozhen
and make sure that this enemy is wiped out, but its main force should set out at
1:00 A.M. tomorrow (the 24th). They should leave the present location secretly
and move to the area of Xiawafang, Mengjiayoufang, Shuimoshang,
Mengpingsi, Yueliangshan, Ershilipai, and Maqusigou, cooperate with the First
and Thirteenth Regiments in seizing the territory about thirty to forty li long
between Heishuisi and Taibaizhen, and prepare to strike at the enemy reinforcements from the west.
Mao



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Our source for this document is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 388-89, where it is
reproduced from a copy in the Central Archives.



1. Dong and Shen were commanders of the 111th Division and the 106th Division,
respectively, of the Second Route's Seventh Column (Fifty-seventh Army) under the
Guomindang army's Northwest "Bandit Suppression" General Headquarters.



2. Xu Haidong and Cheng Zihua, who were, respectively, commander and political
commissar of the Red Army First Front Army's Fifteenth Army Group.


Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 390-91, where it is
reproduced from a copy in the Central Archives.