To the Rehe Sub-Bureau and Others[1]

(October 30, 1945)

The next two months of this year are the critical period that will decide victory or defeat. It is hoped that the entire Party and the entire army in Rehe will be mobilized for intense work, striving with everything for the general objective of smashing Chiang Kai-shek’s offensive against Rehe.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Rehe Sub-Bureau, with a copy to Peng Zhen.