Concentrate All Our Strength to Wipe Out
the Hungry and Exhausted Enemy
(November 3, 1936)
To all commanders:
Guan Linzheng has made such statements as: During the past few days I have
been leading my division in pursuing and suppressing night and day; it has been
very difficult to raise supplies in the areas we have passed through; the officers
and soldiers are unable to eat even one meal a day; we have now already lost the
zone from Jingyuan to Dalachi, and we still do not have enough food to eat, and
so on. According to observations of conditions, this is not a problem of Guan's
division alone; all units of the pursuing enemy have similar difficulties, and at
the moment the enemy's exhaustion has reached its peak. It would be good to
use this special circumstance to encourage the morale of our men, concentrate all
our strength to wipe out the enemy, and strive for victory in the entire campaign.
Mao [Zedong]
Zhou [Enlai]