Telegram to Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, and Others[1]

(July 27, 1947)

Immediately order the two units of Zhang Caiqian and Li Renlin,[2] which have arrived in the Henan-Anhui-Jiangsu border area, to intensify their training and consolidation and ensure that it is completed before August 25, at which time they shall follow Liu and Deng southward to restore the work in Hubei-Henan-Anhui.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee addressed to Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Zheng Weisan, and Li Xiannian.

[2] This refers to the 1st and 4th Detachments under the Central Plains Guerrilla Column, with Zhang Caiqian serving as commander and concurrently political commissar and Li Renlin as deputy commander and concurrently deputy political commissar. These two units arrived in the Henan-Anhui-Jiangsu Liberated Area in June 1947 and, after training and consolidation, were reorganized into the Central Plains Independent Brigade.