Resolutely Create Base Areas and Prepare to Deal with Civil War[1]

(August 11, 1945)

With the Soviet Union’s entry into the war, Japan’s surrender, and civil war imminent, your task remains to swiftly reach the Hunan-Guangdong border and link up with the Guangdong forces, resolutely create base areas, and prepare to deal with civil war.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Wang Zhen, commander of the First Guerrilla Detachment (Southward Detachment) of the Eighth Route Army, and Wang Shoudao, its political commissar.