Directive Telegram to the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army[1]

(November 2, 1946)

Use the method of destroying the enemy forces one by one to annihilate the greater part of the two army groups under Liu Ruming and Sun Zhen, thereby isolating Wang Jingjiu’s army group, and then annihilate that enemy force so as to turn the tide of the war.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s directive telegram to the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army.