Reply to Zhou Enlai’s Telegram[1]

(May 7, 1942)

We are preparing in all respects, militarily and financially, to deal a painful blow to those who dare to attack. A Joint Defense Forces Command has already been formed to coordinate the military affairs of both northwestern Shanxi and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram in reply to Zhou Enlai.

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