The Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border
Region Base Area Must Be Established
(May 4, 1945)
Wang Zhen, [Wang] Shoudao, and for transmittal to Zheng [Weisan] and Li
[Xiannian]:1
1. Since the diehard enemy is attacking you with six divisions, you may adopt
a strategy of mobile warfare, implementing it after you have given it mature
thought. A mobile method could be to move the main force to Xiushui and
Tonggu, or it could be for Wang Zhen to lead a group of crack troops south. All
of this should be considered and decided by yourselves according to conditions.
2. The Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border Region base areas must be set up, serving
as the pivot between the north and the south. The Central Committee will inform
you in another telegram regarding the question of the composition of the regional
Party committee.
3. The Seventh Party Congress will be over before May 25. A few days after it
ends, the 3,100 members of the Ninth Brigade and the 2,100 members of Wen’s
brigade2 will be able to move to Hunan from Yan’an.
4. Did you receive the broadcast of the documents of the Seventh Congress?
Mao Zedong
Notes
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 2, pp. 795–96, where it is reproduced from the
manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.

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1. Telegram to Wang Zhen and Wang Shoudao, who were at this time the commander-in-chief and the
commissar of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Military District, respectively. For Zheng and Li, see above, note to
the text of October 14, 1944.

2. Wen Niansheng was a commander in the 343rd Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. See Mao’s reference
to Wen’s brigade in Vol. VI, p. 145, text of November 8, 1939.