Telegram to Zhang Zongxun and Luo Ruiqing[1]

(September 4, 1946)

Fu Zuoyi deployed an attack on Jining on September 1. It is hoped that the garrison at Fengzhen will be ordered to fight with composure and, when the diehards come to attack, to counterattack at the opportune moment and annihilate them. The front-line command at Datong should then move its main force northward to seek first to annihilate Fu Zuoyi’s relief troops, leaving the Third Column and other units to continue besieging Datong.

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[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee to Zhang Zongxun and Luo Ruiqing at the Datong front.