Operations of the Forces Crossing the River
(November 3, 1936, 10:00 P.M.)
Zhu [De] and Zhang [Guotao], Xu [Xiangqian] and Chen [Changhao]:
The main forces of the units under your command are advancing westward to
take the line from Yongdeng to Gulang, but you should leave one unit behind,
equipped with transmitter, to defend Yitiaoshan and Wufosi, so as to facilitate
communications as well as operations in the rear.
Mao [Zedong] Zhou [Enlai]
1. Xu Deheng (1890-1990) was a native of Jiujiang, Jiangxi. He took part in the 1911
Revolution and the May Fourth Movement, and became a professor at Beijing University
in 1931. Together with Professors Mao Xulun, Yang Xiufeng, Zhang Shenfu, and others,
he was a founder of the "Beiping Cultural Association for National Salvation."
2. Xu Deheng and his wife, Lao Junzhan, had managed to send to Mao and his forces
in northern Shaanxi more than thirty pairs of cloth shoes, twelve pocket watches, and
more than a dozen hams.
We have translated this telegram from Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 1, p. 643.

reproduced from a manuscript copy.
We have translated this letter from Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, pp. 84-85, where it is