To Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping[1]

(May 11, 1948)

Please immediately order Chen and Tang to lead the 3rd and 8th Columns to advance rapidly eastward, proceed directly to the vicinity of the Bian-Xu Line, place themselves under the command of Su Yu, and coordinate efforts to attack and annihilate the 5th Army.

[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 Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping.