To Yan Hongyan and Cai Shufan[1]

(May 26, 1936)

Chiang and Yan are sending thirty regiments into Shaanxi, and there is news that the enemy in Shanxi will cross the river by the end of this month. The main force of the Red 30th Army should position itself south of the Songjiachuan line to delay the advance of the Kuomintang Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.

[1] This is the main content of the telegram from Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to Yan Hongyan, commander of the Red 30th Army of the First Front Army of the Red Army, and Cai Shufan, political commissar.