Telegram to Yang Chengwu and Li Tianhuan[1]

(August 25, 1948)

Our main forces in the Northeast can set out by the end of this month or early September, and can open fire at various cities along the Beiping–Liaoning Railway around September 6. Upon receiving this telegram, you should immediately begin to set out and advance toward Suiyuan according to the original plan.

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[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee to Yang Chengwu and Li Tianhuan. Li Tianhuan was then serving as deputy political commissar and concurrently director of the Political Department of the Third Corps of the North China Military Region.