Since the Huai-Hai campaign has wiped out the main force of the Kuomintang army on the southern front, this has laid a solid foundation for you to cross the Yangtze River, advance southward, capture the Kuomintang bandit lair of Nanjing, and liberate the provinces south of the Yangtze.
[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the commanders and all comrades of the East China and Central Plains Field Armies.