To Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping[1]

(September 6, 1946)

Liu, Deng:

Hope you will seize the opportunity to occupy Kaocheng. Inside the city there is one engineer battalion, one tank unit, and one motor transport unit.

Military Commission

September 6

[1] This is a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China to Liu Bocheng, commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army, and Deng Xiaoping, its political commissar.