To Peng Dehuai and Others[1]

(September 17, 1947)

It is proposed that Wang Shitai’s unit be organized as the Fourth Column, with two brigades under its command, to participate in field army operations, so as to regularize this unit.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Peng Dehuai, He Long, and Xi Zhongxun.