To Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, and Others[1]

(June 30, 1948)

Now is an excellent opportunity to fight a battle of annihilation. Su, Chen, and Tang are encircling and annihilating five brigades of the District Corps in the Suixian area. Wu Shaozhou will certainly advance northward at double speed. If you concentrate all your forces to encircle and annihilate this enemy on the move, you may win a great victory.

[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, addressed to Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, and Chen Yi, with copies to Su Yu, Chen Shiju, and Tang Liang.