To Liu Bocheng, Zhang Jichun, and Li Da[1]

(January 28, 1947)

Very gratified by the capture of Cao and Shan. Hope you will seize the moment before Qiu’s army arrives to attack and occupy a section of the railway, thereby drawing out the 75th Division from Shangqiu for reinforcement and annihilating it.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee to Liu Bocheng, Zhang Jichun, and Li Da of the North Group on the Longhai Railway of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army, concerning the issue of continuing to develop the campaign on the Henan-Anhui border.