To Huang Lin and Zhang Shuiquan[1]

(July 29, 1946)

For the time being, you shall conduct guerrilla operations right in the area of Luonan, Shangnan, and Lushi, and must not advance westward any further.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Huang Lin and Zhang Shuiquan. Huang Lin was then serving as commander and concurrently political commissar of the Henan Military Region. Zhang Shuiquan was then serving as deputy commander of the Henan Military Region.