Telegram to Chen Yi and Others
[1]
(September 23, 1946)
The Shandong Field Army and the East China Field Army are to concentrate their operations, and their two command headquarters should be merged into one. It is proposed that Chen Yi serve as commander and concurrently political commissar, Su Yu as deputy commander, and Tan Zhenlin as deputy political commissar. If you agree, please immediately promulgate (internally) and implement.

[1] This is the main content of the telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Chen Yi and others.