The Ninth Army Corps Must Speedily Prepare to Move
(October 23, 1950)

Chen, Zhang[1]:

(1) Please instruct Comrade Song Shilun[2] to come to Beijing immediately. (2) The Song[3] Army Corps must speedily conduct political mobilization and military training, and prepare to first send one army to the Northeast.

Mao Zedong
October 23

[1] Chen and Zhang refer to Chen Yi and Zhang Zhen, who were then respectively serving as Commander and Chief of Staff of the East China Military Region.
[2] Song Shilun was then serving as Commander and concurrently Political Commissar of the Ninth Army Corps.
[3] Song refers to Song Shilun.