Reply to Peng Dehuai, Zuo Quan, and Luo Ruiqing[1]

(June 23, 1941)

Agree to Chen Geng and Bo Yibo[2] unifying the command of the Taiyue forces, and agree to organizing the Taiyue Column.

[1] This is the main content of the reply telegram from Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Wang Jiaxiang, Ye Jianying, and Tan Zheng to Peng Dehuai, Zuo Quan, and Luo Ruiqing.

[2] Chen Geng and Bo Yibo subsequently served respectively as commander and political commissar of the Eighth Route Army's Taiyue Column and concurrently of the Taiyue Military Region.