Telegram to Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi, and Others[1]

(February 2, 1941)

Both Peng Xuefeng’s unit and Huang Kecheng’s unit must use the designation of the New Fourth Army. Liu and Chen should promptly reorganize the six units in southern Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu, eastern Anhui, central Hubei, northern Huai, and Kecheng’s unit into six divisions, and immediately telegraph the list of division commanders and political commissars so that the Military Commission can promptly issue the appointment orders and broadcast them nationwide.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram from Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Wang Jiaxiang to Liu Shaoqi and Chen Yi, with information also sent to Peng Xuefeng and Huang Kecheng.