To Peng Dehuai[1]

(June 28, 1936)

The Kuomintang’s Northeastern Army lacks salt. Please order the troops at Yanchi and Dingbian to transport five thousand jin to Wuqi Town.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram from Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to Peng Dehuai, Commander of the First Front Army of the Red Army and Commander and Political Commissar of the Western Field Army.