Prepare to Capture Ningwu and Other Cities
(June 20, 1946)
To He [Long] and Li [Jingquan]:1
	 1.	 We are pleased to hear of your seizure of Shuo county and Xuangangzhen.2
	 2.	 We hope you will make ample preparations before attacking and seizing
Ningwu, and then capture it in one stroke.
	 3.	 Wait until after occupying Ningwu, and then consider attacking and seizing
Guo county,3 Dai county, Fanzhi, Shanyin, Daiyue,4 and other places one by
one.
	 4.	 Fighting for these cities will temper and toughen a contingent of troops that
is skilled in attacking cities.
	 5.	 Do not alarm or move against Fu Zuoyi5 or Datong, Kouquan,6 or Huairen.
The Military Commission

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Notes

Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 3, pp. 279–80, where it is
reproduced from Mao’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.

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1.  Mao Zedong wrote this telegram on behalf of the Central Military Commission.
He Long was commander and Li Jingquan was political commissar, respectively, of the
Shanxi-Suiyuan Military Region.

2.  Xuangang township is in northwestern Yuanping county in Shanxi Province.

3.  Guo county was abolished in 1958, with part of it incorporated into Ningwu county
and the other part merged with Dai county to form Shanxi’s Yuanping county.

4.  Shanyin city is in southern Shanyin county. Daiyue township is under the jurisdiction of Shanyin county in Shanxi.

5.  Fu Zuoyi was commander of the Twelfth War Zone of the Guomindang army.

6.  Kouquan township is located southwest of Datong city, Shanxi Province.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-176