Mao Zedong and Zhu De to Ye Ting and
Xiang Ying Concerning the Immediate Move of
the New Fourth Army in Southern Anhui to
Southern Jiangsu

(January 3, 1941)

It is absolutely correct that all your troops are to move resolutely to southern Jiangsu
and that they should set out immediately.

Our source for this document is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 6, p. 245, where it is reproduced from Wannan shibian.