Attack the Beiping-Shenyang Railway
and Conduct Guerrilla Warfare North of
Shenyang
 (April 16, 1946)
To Li [Fuchun] and Huang [Kecheng], and for the information of Lin [Biao]:1
We received your telegram of the 15th.2 The occupation of Faku has great
importance for supporting the battles around Siping and Changchun. You are
expected to organize a superior force of crack troops (around 1,000 men, for
example) with an ample amount of explosives and equipment to go south from
Faku and attack the Beiping-Shenyang railway and also to conduct guerrilla warfare and develop mass work north of Shenyang.
The Military Commission
The source of our text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 3, p. 168, where it is reproduced
from Mao’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.

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1.  Mao Zedong drafted this telegram on behalf of the Central Military Commission.
Li Fuchun was political commissar and Huang Kecheng was commander of the Western Manchuria Military Region of the Northeast Democratic Allied Army. Lin Biao was
commander-in-chief of the Northeast Democratic Allied Army.
2.  The telegram from Li Fuchun and Huang Kecheng reported on the People’s Liberation Army’s takeover of Faku.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-112