Telegram to Peng Dehuai[1]

(July 20, 1936)

He Zhuguo is concentrating five divisions to attack us. How should our army deploy? If we are to fight a decisive battle with him, it will be advantageous only if we concentrate the maximum strength.

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