Methods for Attacking the Enemy[1]

(November 14, 1936)

Peng:

As for methods of attacking the enemy, if an ambush on both flanks is inconvenient, an ambush on one flank may be used. When the enemy advances from the front, engage them and annihilate them. Please decide based on the situation.

Mao

14th, between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.

[1] This is a telegram from Mao Zedong to Peng Dehuai, who was then the commander-in-chief and political commissar of the Red Army’s front forces and commander of the First Front Army.