To Feng Baiju[1]

(November 23, 1940)

The diehard troops may launch attacks against you. You should step up military and political preparations to smash their attacks. The method is to concentrate the main forces when they attack, strike one part of them, and destroy them one by one.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram sent by Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Wang Jiaxiang to Feng Baiju. Feng Baiju was then the commander and political commissar of the Independent General Unit of the Masses' Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Corps.