Telegram to Nie Rongzhen and Liu Lantao[1]

(October 10, 1946)

The task of attacking Zhangjiakou has already been assigned by Chiang to Fu Zuoyi. You must strictly guard against Fu’s forces launching an assault on Zhangyuan within the next few days. You must, within the next few days, make arrangements to consolidate the defense of Zhangyuan.

[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 Nie Rongzhen and Liu Lantao.