(1) The Yan'an Military Commission has publicly announced the leadership personnel of the New Fourth Army, published a talk criticizing Chongqing, and has issued on your behalf a circular telegram on assuming office and a declaration denouncing the pro-Japanese faction. Have you received them all? It is hoped that you will distribute them widely.

(2) After the Wannan Incident and Jiang Jieshi's declaration on January 17 that the New Fourth Army was in rebellion, we should have a policy change toward the big landlord and big bourgeois class represented by Jiang Jieshi, that is, to change from the policy of one part striking, one part winning over, to a policy of completely isolating him, and to expose his reactionary conspiracies as much as possible both inside and outside the Party. However, as long as Jiang has not declared a complete rupture (declaring the Eighth Route Army and the Communist Party of China to be in rebellion), we will temporarily not raise the slogan of opposing Jiang, but will use the two characters for "the authorities" or other methods of indirect reference to replace Jiang Jieshi's name. But there will be no change in implementing the three-thirds system and all the policies described in the Central Committee's directive of November 15, and no change in the principles of the united front.

(3) Regarding the scattered forces from Wannan, Zhang and Deng should find ways to send people across the river to provide guidance. At present, apart from those who have crossed the river, a portion should still be gathered to resist Japan in the Wuhu area, so as to facilitate future development to the south.

(4) Guerrilla warfare should be arranged for immediately in the western Anhui, eastern Hubei, and Henan areas. In the Tongcheng, Shucheng, and Qianshan area of western Anhui, Zhang and Deng are responsible for strengthening the power of the guerrilla columns, so that they can soon advance toward the Dabie Mountains. In the Xishui and Huangmei area of eastern Hubei, and in the area of western Henan currently under enemy attack (the enemy has already occupied Biyang), Li Xiannian is responsible for making arrangements. Xuefeng should prepare two crack guerrilla detachments to be sent to operate in western Henan at an opportune moment. In the southern Jiangsu area, it is hoped that Hu and Chen will quickly gather the eastward-moving forces from Wannan to operate temporarily in southern Jiangsu, in preparation for emerging from the Tianmu Mountains in the future.