Dispatch Local Troops to Harass the Brigade
Attacking Shan County
(September 5, 1946)
To Liu [Bocheng] and Deng [Xiaoping]:1
Based on its action of dispatching a regiment southward to clean up the
Yinggeji area, the brigade from the Fifth Division that is occupying Xiayi seems
for the time being to have no intention of attacking northward. The regiment of
the Eleventh Division (under the Eighteenth Brigade) occupying Dangshan also
seems to be staying put for the time being. Only the brigade (the Eleventh Brigade)
of this division that is occupying Feng county appears to be likely to attack Shan
county. We hope you will dispatch local troops to make some disturbances.
The Military Commission
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 3, p. 465, where it is reproduced from Mao’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives .
1.  Mao Zedong drafted this telegram on behalf of the Central Military Commission.
Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping were commander and political commissar, respectively,
of the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu (Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan) Field Army.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-224