To Chen Geng and Xie Fuzhi[1]

(November 24, 1946)

Be sure to capture and occupy the five counties of Xi County, Pu County, Xiangning, Ji County, and Daning within a few days with the speed of a sudden thunderclap, and prepare to annihilate in the Pu County and Xiangning area the troops of the Reorganized 1st Division that may advance to attack us.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee to Chen Geng and Xie Fuzhi, concerning Hu Zongnan’s order for the Reorganized 1st Division to cross eastward from Yumenkou in Shaanxi back to southwestern Shanxi.