To Xiao Hua[1]

(November 2, 1946)

(1) Celebrate your great victory in annihilating one enemy division, and hope that commendations will be issued to the officers and soldiers of merit; (2) After this victorious battle, the situation in southern Manchuria has begun to improve, and it is hoped that the main forces will be concentrated to strive for new victories of annihilation.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Xiao Hua.