Telegram to Deng Xiaoping and Li Da[1]

(February 20, 1948)

Your telegram of the 19th has been received. We agree with your proposal that your four columns temporarily leave the Dabie Mountains in order to concentrate forces for combat.

[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 Deng Xiaoping and Li Da.