Telegram to Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Bo
Yibo, Zhang Jichun, and Li Da1
 (November 2, 1945, 10 P.M.)
	 1.	 Congratulations on your great victory.
	 2.	 Please publicize via Xinhua News Agency about how the Guomindang
troops launched the offensive, the number of personnel, the burning and the
killing, how the army and the people in our areas had to resort to self-defense
and launch a counteroffensive, the number of enemy troops we wiped out
and captured, the behind-the-scenes descriptions by the captured officers of
the civil war aimed at suppressing the Communists, the stories told by the
captured soldiers about how they were forced to attack, and the content of
the reactionary documents. You should not, however, directly mention the
name of Chiang Kaishek (unless the reactionary documents explicitly use his
name).
	 3.	 You may also publicize the course of the Shangdang Campaign.
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenxuan. Neibuben, p. 381.
1.  Liu Bocheng was commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military
Region, Deng Xiaoping was political commissar, Bo Yibo was first deputy political commissar, Zhang Jichun was second deputy political commissar and chair of the Political
Section, and Li Da was chief-of-staff.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-66