Telegram to Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying[1]

(June 29, 1946)

Twenty-one divisions of the Kuomintang are attacking our Central Plains Military Region. Our troops are breaking through the encirclement to seek survival. The justification lies entirely with our side; the Kuomintang has no justification whatsoever. It must absolutely not be considered that our army’s breakthrough is wrong.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying.