Operational Dispositions After Concentrating
to the North of the Wei River
(October 6, 1936, 5:00 P.M.)
Zhu [De] and Zhang [Guotao], Xu [Xiangqian] and Chen [Changhao],
He [Long], Ren [Bishi], Guan [Xiangying], and Liu [Bocheng]:
1. We are in complete agreement with the deployments for the Fourth Front
Army as set out in the telegram of the 5th, as well as the Second Front Army's
transfer from west of Tianshui to Tongwei.
2. After our three front armies have concentrated north of the Wei River, the
three armies under Hu [Zongnan], Mao [Bingwen], and Wang [Jun], and the
Northeastern Army must all make new deployments, which will require a considerable amount of time. Afterward it is planned that the main forces of the
Fourth Front Army should continue to remain in the Tongwei, Maying,
Longxichuan, Huining, and Jieshi area and that one army should seize the proper
opportunity to attack and take Jingyuan and arrange to cross the river to the
Zhongwei stretch from north of Jingyuan. It is planned that the Second Front
Army should move from Tongwei to the area between Tongwei, Jingning,
Longde, and Zhuanglang, and that after passing on to the Fourth Front Army the
security tasks of Huining and Jieshi, the First and Second divisions of the First
Front Army should move to the area north of the Long[de]-Jing[ning] road and
south of Guyuan, forcing the armies of Hu, Wang, Mao, He [Zhuguo], and Wang
[Yizhe] to begin to build fortifications and fortresses before advancing. Thus we
can use the time to rest our troops and begin to carry out our new tasks by the
time November comes around.
Mao [Zedong]
Zhou [Enlai]

--- Notes

We have translated this telegram from Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 621-22,
where it is reproduced from a copy in the Central Archives.
We have translated this telegram from Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 623-24,
where it is reproduced from a copy in the Central Archives.