To Peng Dehuai, Ren Bishi, and Deng Xiaoping[1]

(July 11, 1937)

Negotiations have been conducted with Chiang Kai-shek. The Red Army is to be redeployed to Hebei to engage in combat. As a first step, it is planned that the 27th Army, 28th Army, and 32nd Army will each be reorganized into regiments, and together with a cavalry regiment, they will form a small division to be dispatched first. The main force will be sent after its reorganization is complete. The Red Army University will add courses on resisting Japan and is also preparing to be dispatched.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram from Mao Zedong and Zhu De to Peng Dehuai, Ren Bishi, and Deng Xiaoping.