To Ye Jianying, Peng Dehuai, and Ren Bishi[1]

(August 4, 1937)

The incident in which the Red Army troops in the Fujian-Guangdong border region were disarmed by a plot of the Kuomintang army[2] is an extremely serious lesson, and all units of the Red Army should take it as a profound warning.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram from Mao Zedong and Luo Fu (Zhang Wentian) to Ye Jianying, Peng Dehuai, and Ren Bishi.

[2] He Ming, the leader of the guerrilla forces in the Fujian-Guangdong border region, lost vigilance against the Kuomintang’s plot to use the opportunity of negotiations for reorganization to eliminate the Red Army. As a result, on July 16, a force of nearly one thousand men was surrounded and disarmed by the 157th Division of the Kuomintang army.