to emphasize the many years of friendship between the Eighth Route Army and
the Fifth Route Army, and that we should not let the instigation of others make us
hostile toward each other, which would only create an opportunity for Chiang to
attack the Eighth Route Army and the Fifth Route Army. With regard to Tang Enbo
and his subordinates, it is also necessary to adopt a friendly attitude to win them
over, thereby promoting their disintegration from within.
4. According to various sorts of experiences, slogans such as "Carry on the
Resistance War to the end, unite until the very end," "Faced with a strong enemy,
Chinese shall not fight Chinese, and Chinese armies shall not fight Chinese armies,"
"All Chinese fellow countrymen and friendly Chinese armies, unite to resist Japan
and save the nation," and "Oppose civil war, oppose Chinese people killing each
other" are still powerful weapons to disintegrate the anti-Communist troops and to
win over the sympathy of friendly armies toward us. If friction battles erupt, it is
hoped that these slogans will be written out and posted everywhere around the
campsites of our troops and within the encampments of the friendly armies. It is
important in particular to find ways to mobilize the popular masses and sympathetic elements to write out and post such slogans everywhere along all the routes
taken by those such as Tang Enbo's and Li Pinxian's troops. When Tang's and Li's
troops are approaching the environs of our areas, large-scale celebrations should
be organized, and even after battle operations have begun, there can be no slackening in shouting at the front slogans about uniting to resist Japan and in the work of
partial negotiation and compromise. At the same time, these sorts of slogans must
not be used wantonly on the troops of Chinese traitors and diehard armies. Based
on past experience, the abuse of such slogans has the opposite effect of raising the
level of annoyance and unity among the anti-Communist forces.
5. Chen Yi has rich and valuable experience in united front work with regard to
the two Li's and Chen Taiyun. It is hoped that everyone will study it carefully,
develop it, and apply it extensively so that every unit will achieve the greatest
results in the work of winning over the friendly armies. Many military units did a
woefully inadequate job in this respect in the past.

Mao [Zedong] Zhu [De] Wang [Jiaxiang]