The Situation as Regards the Battle in
Guanshang Village, and Our Dispositions for
Continuing to Destroy the Enemy
(February 28, 1936, 1:00 A.M.)
To Xu [Haidong] and Cheng [Zihua], and for them to inform Lin [Biao] and Nie
[Rongzhen]:
1. According to the report of Lin and Nie, the Fourth Regiment of the independent Second Brigade has been completely wiped out by us, their brigade
headquarters and Third Regiment are being pursued by us, and the situation is
now in the process of resolution.
2. Two enemy regiments from Zhongyang, or some say three regiments,
advanced to a place 30 li from Guanshang at 3:00 P.M. yesterday (the 27th), and
are being resisted by one unit of our First Army Group. The main forces of the
First Army Group will move toward the village of Guanshang today (the 28th).
3. After receiving this telegram, Xu and Cheng are to lead the Fifteenth
Army Group's Seventy-fifth Division, Eighty-first Division, and one battalion of
its Seventy-eighth Division to set out from Shuitou and advance toward
Guanshang (Guanshang is 60 li straight north of Shuitou and 50 li straight south
of Zhongyang), and attack the enemy there from south to north.
4. The First Army Group will, in turn, attack from north to south.
5. If it is found that there are still enemy reinforcements from Zhongyang, the
First Army Group is to send a small unit to stop them.
6. The First Army Group and the Fifteenth Army Group are under the unified
command of Lin and Nie.
7. Lin and Nie on the one hand and Xu and Cheng on the other are each to
send people to the vicinity of Guanshang to make contact with each other. Xu
and Cheng are to order a cavalry company to keep Shuitou in our hands.
Peng [Dehuai] Mao [Zedong]