Telegram to Peng Dehuai[1]

(November 14, 1936)

After Zhu and Zhang arrive in Bao’an, the front-line troops will all be placed under your command, so you can proceed with a free hand.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram to Peng Dehuai, Commander-in-Chief and Political Commissar of the Front Enemy Forces of the Red Army and Commander of the First Front Army.