Twelve Armies Must Be Concentrated for Mobile Operations
(August 27, 1950)
Comrade Dehuai[1]:
To cope with the current situation, it is now necessary to concentrate twelve armies for mobile operations (four armies have already been concentrated), but a final decision on this matter can be made at the end of September. You will be invited to Beijing for face-to-face discussions then.
Mao Zedong
August 27
[1] Dehuai, i.e., Peng Dehuai, then Vice Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission, Commander and Political Commissar of the First Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and Commander of the Northwest Military Region.