To Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping[1]

(October 3, 1946)

Have you launched the campaign of annihilation against Qiu and Hu?[2] Annihilating this enemy is precisely timely at present.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping.

[2] Qiu refers to Qiu Qingquan, then Commander of the 5th Army of the Kuomintang forces. Hu refers to Hu Lian, then Commander of the Reorganized 11th Division of the Kuomintang forces.