Deployment to Wipe Out the Enemy in Duijiuyu
(March 6, 1936, 8:30 P.M.)
Lin [Biao] and Nie [Rongzhen]:
1. Under [Xu] Haidong's leadership, the Fifteenth Army Group's Seventyfifth Division is to set out at dawn tomorrow, and the vanguard can reach
Damaijiao by 12:00 noon.


2. If the enemy in Duijiuyu does not move tomorrow, the First Army Group
will stay where it is, the Fifteenth Army Group will camp at Damaijiao, and the
attack on Duijiuyu will begin the day after tomorrow (the 8th).


3. If the enemy in Duijiuyu does not move toward Damaijiao tomorrow but
advances instead toward where the First Army Group is located, then the First
Army Group is to withdraw 20 li back and encamp, and the Fifteenth Army
Group will encamp at Damaijiao. The attack will be on the 8th.


4. If the enemy advances tomorrow to the area between Duijiuyu and
Damaijiao and stops to encamp there, then the First Army Group stays where it
is and the Fifteenth Army Group encamps at Damaijiao. The attack will be on
the 8th.


5. If the enemy advances toward Damaijiao tomorrow, then the First Army
Group should wait until the entire enemy force has passed and then attack the
enemy from behind his right flank. The Fifteenth Army Group meets [the
enemy] head on with one unit, and its main forces attack from the enemy's right
flank and wipe him out.


6. Given the four situations mentioned above, only when the enemy makes an
attack toward Damaijiao should our army engage in battle with him; in all other
cases the fighting will be on the day after tomorrow.


7. The Second Division is still pinning down Sun Chu north of Guanshang.
One battalion of the Fifteenth Army Group is pinning down the Liang Brigade 1
south of Shikou.


8. We will set out from Shuitou at 7:00 A.M. tomorrow with the Seventyeighth and Eighty-first divisions, and can reach Damaijiao at 2:00 P.M.


Peng [Dehuai] Mao [Zedong]


Our source for this telegram is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 483-84, where it is
reproduced from a copy in the Central Archives.

--- Notes

1. The reference is to the 203rd Brigade of the Sixty-ninth Division under the First
Column of the Guomindang army's Taiyuan Pacification Office, commanded by Liang
Jiantang.