Do Not Send the 1st Army Group of the North China Army to Zhangjiakou[1]

(December 17, 1948)

Xu, Zhou, Chen, Hu:

Other units have already been dispatched to Zhangjiakou; your forces need not go.

The Military Commission

17th, 0100 hours

[1] This is a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee, addressed to Xu Xiangqian, Deputy Commander of the North China Military Region and concurrently Commander and Political Commissar of the 1st Army Group; Zhou Shidi, Deputy Commander and concurrently Deputy Political Commissar; Chen Manyuan, Chief of Staff; and Hu Yaobang, Director of the Political Department.