To Chen Shiju and Tang Liang[1]

(March 15, 1948)

Chen and Tang:

Your telegram of the 14th (xu hour) received. (1) Congratulations on your enormous victory in annihilating the 206th Division and capturing Luoyang. (2) If you can use two units to pin down the 11th Division, and if the three regiments at the head of the 47th Army advance today to the area between Yanshi and Luoyang, facilitating an attack by thousands of your forces, and you still have strength to spare, consider concentrating your main force to annihilate the three regiments of the 47th Army.

Military Commission

15th (wu hour)

[1] This telegram to Chen Shiju and Tang Liang on the capture of Luoyang was drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China.