Added passage while revising the telegram from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Central China Bureau agreeing to the merger of the Central China and Shandong areas
(December 22, 1946)

The more the enemy attacks northward, the more exposed their rear will become, which will be increasingly favorable for sustaining guerrilla warfare. The dispatch of troops and cadres to resume work in Huainan and Huaibei must be carried out immediately.