1. All of Chiang Kaishek's talk about virtue and morality is a pack of lies and
should under no circumstances be trusted.
2. The Central Committee has decided to launch an overall political counterattack and, militarily, to muster all necessary forces to smash their attack.
3. Propositions for compromise and concessions put forth by middle elements
such as Sun and Feng are harmful.¹ Only a fierce, resolute, and all-around counterattack can defeat Chiang Kaishek's provocations and attacks. We must not fear
splits and launch a fierce counterattack. We must immediately put an end to the
moderate attitude we adopted in our telegram of the 9th.
4. Gu Zhutong declared: "All administrative offices, news agencies, rear offices, warehouses, and repair shops, as well as all illegal organizations established
by the New Fourth Army all over are to be shut down, their arms confiscated, and
their personnel detained," and so on, and ordered Shangguan Yunxiang to execute
this directive. Shangguan has been very resolute this time about annihilating Ye
[Ting] and Xiang [Ying].
5. Between 1 and 3 P.M. on the 13th, Shangguan Yunxiang said: "More than
7,000 of the bandits on Lujiao mountain, Dongliu mountain, Fenglixi, and around
Licun were killed or captured by us on the 13th. The more than a thousand remaining bandits are still struggling where they were. One o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th has been set as the deadline by which they are to be wiped out
completely."

Our source for this text is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 6, p. 283, where it is reproduced
from Wannan shibian.
1. The references are to Sun Fo and Feng Yuxiang.