Telegram to Ye Jianying and Others[1]

(February 8, 1936)

All units intensify training and prepare for action on the 12th and 13th. Request the Front Committee to come to the front first, paying attention to concealment, traveling via Yanshui City[2], Shuangmiaohe, Chuankouzhen to Yuanjiagou (local cadres and the guard company will henceforth accompany Jianying).

[1] This is the main content of a telegram sent by Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai at 21:00 on February 8, 1936, to Ye Jianying, Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen, Xu Haidong, Cheng Zihua, and forwarded to Luo Fu (Zhang Wentian), Zhou Enlai, and Zuo Quan.

[2] Yanshui City refers to the county seat of Yanchuan County.