After the Portsmouth negotiations, due to the elongation of the front of the People's Army, the need for troops increased, so the Jinzhou logistics headquarters was abolished, and all logistics materials were shipped from Lushun, and at the same time, due to the victory of the second anti-encirclement and suppression in the Hehu base area, East China judged that it was impossible for the Qing court to send troops to the northeast, so it transferred all troops from Jinzhou, leaving only two local garrison regiments formed in Jinzhou to garrison.

Due to the elongation of the KPA's front in the northeastern region and the shortage of troops, local garrison regiments have been set up in some localities, local personnel have been recruited to join the army, trained, and maintained local ranks, and when necessary, they will also take part in the battle to capture bandits, so as to free the KPA as much as possible from the heavy task of local law and order. However, compared with the People's Army, the local garrison regiment has much less fire support troops, a regiment has only one machine gun company, one 60 mortar company and one 80 mortar company, there is no artillery unit directly under it, the strength is only more than 2,300 people, and the commanders are all naturalized officers.

Jinzhou Prefecture has jurisdiction over two prefectures, two halls, and three counties, namely Jinzhou, Yizhou, Jinxi Hall, Panshan Hall, Guangning County, Xingcheng County, and Suizhong County. At the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it became a strategic place for the two sides to fight, and the famous Battle of Daling River, the Battle of Ningyuan, and the Battle of Songjin all took place in this place. However, due to the fact that Jinzhou was occupied by the People's Army at an early date, the local garrison regiment was also established at the earliest, and it has been more than 10 months since it was established, and it has a certain military quality, and the People's Army has ruled Jinzhou for nearly two years, and all the surrounding bandit forces have been eliminated, and local order has been completely restored. There is also no need to deploy heavy troops in Jinzhou. Two local garrison regiments are also basically sufficient.

But just 3 days ago, a group of bandits, numbering about 2,000 people, emerged from there and broke through Fuxin County. In this era, Fuxin County did not belong to the jurisdiction of Jinzhou Prefecture, but Jinzhou was one of the only roads leading to Inner Mongolia, so after the People's Army occupied Jinzhou Prefecture, Fuxin County was also taken down.

The Jinzhou local garrison regiment immediately sent two battalions of about 1,200 troops to the rescue, which is also the largest mobile force that the Jinzhou area can send, and met the bandits near Quang Ninh County, and the two sides started a battle.

At the beginning, the People's Army did not take the bandits in its eyes, although the army had not experienced actual combat, but the commander Huang Wei was a veteran of the People's Army, participated in the entire Far East War, and also fought in Shandong and Northeast China.

As soon as the battle began, Huang Dawei was surprised, because the bandits were very well assembled, at least everyone was equipped with guns, and there were 1 or 2 artillery pieces, so they could even fight with the People's Army.

However, after all, the KPA has undergone formal training, and although the tactics are not proficient, there are rules and regulations, but although the bandits have many guns, they are still scattered and fighting separately, and there are no tactics at all, and the KPA also has 1 mortar platoon, equipped with 6 60 mortars. Although there were a few artillery pieces in the bandit army, their use of artillery was quite amateur, so the KPA gradually stabilized its position and made full use of the mortar firepower, and began to gain the upper hand.

Although the process is a little more difficult, but if it continues like this, the People's Army will inevitably win the battle, but at this moment, from the flank of the People's Army, a cavalry army, the number of 5, 600 people, this is a change that the People's Army did not expect, although the People's Army also arranged protective forces on its own flank, but the other side is all cavalry, the speed is too fast, and this People's Army also lacks actual combat experience, so it was finally broken through the flank defense line by this cavalry, resulting in an overall rout. As a result, the KPA lost 211 casualties, 347 wounded, and 358 combat casualties, which was almost one-third of the danger line.

After the defeat, the People's Army could only retreat to Jinzhou to garrison, and this bandit took advantage of the victory to attack, and successively conquered Guangning County and Xingcheng County, causing turmoil in the entire Jinzhou Prefecture. Therefore, the People's Army of Jinzhou Prefecture could only strictly defend other places on the one hand, and on the other hand, issue an emergency to Shenyang and ask for help and support.

After receiving the emergency, the Northeast Theater Command in Shenyang was also very shocked, but it did not expect that something had happened in Jinzhou Mansion, and the situation was still very serious. Although in the previous stage, the People's Army launched a customs closing operation, and most of its troops were concentrated in the Heilongjiang region, and there were not many troops in Liaoning Province, but it was still possible to send one or two regiments to support Jinzhou Prefecture, but now not only Jinzhou Prefecture was attacked in Liaoning, but also Siping, Zhangwu, Kangping, Shuangliao and other places were all attacked by bandits. Although due to the tight garrison of the People's Army in various places, the bandits from all walks of life were defeated by the People's Army, and there were no losses, only Jinzhou Mansion had an accident. However, in this way, the theater command does not dare to easily transfer troops from other regions, and it will take at least 8-10 days to transfer troops from the Heilongjiang region, which is obviously too late.

Therefore, the headquarters finally decided to transfer Zhang Zuolin's troops stationed in Xinmin Mansion to support Jinzhou Mansion, at least stabilize the situation in Jinzhou Mansion and not deteriorate again, and then slowly organize troops to support Jinzhou Mansion.

In the previous stage, Zhang Zuolin's department performed quite well in the anti-bandit operation, and was also able to respect the military discipline of the people's army, so it was recognized by the theater, so before Qin Zheng left Shenyang, he had made a decision to let Zhang Zuolin's department be stationed in Xinmin Mansion to rest and reorganize, and at the same time, Zhang Zuolin's department was given an official number, the 17th Reserve Regiment of the Second Army, and Zhang Zuolin was appointed as the regiment commander. Zhang Zuoxiang was the deputy commander of the regiment and Sun Liechen was the chief of staff of the regiment; Tang Yulin was the battalion commander and Wang Liyou was the deputy commander of the 1st Battalion; Ding Xichun was the battalion commander and Zhang Haipeng was the deputy commander of the 2nd Battalion; Wu Jun was promoted to the battalion commander and Zhang Jinghui was the deputy battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion; and the 17th Reserve Regiment was also allowed to form a cavalry battalion, but there were only two cavalry companies, which were actually half a battalion, with Ji Jinchun as the cavalry battalion commander and Kan Chaoxi as the deputy battalion commander. In addition, there is only one machine gun company and one mortar company, with a total strength of about 2,700 people.

Although Zhang Zuolin's department claims to have more than 3,000 people, before taking refuge in East China, there were only 7 or 800 real combatable troops, because Zhang Zuolin only had so many rifles in his hands, and he took refuge in East China** After that, they were supplemented by the People's Army, of course, the rifles given to them were Russian-made Mosin Nagant 1894 rifles captured on the battlefield, but this also expanded the number of combatants of Zhang Zuolin's department to about 1,500 people, and there were enough bullets, which is also one of the reasons why Zhang Zuolin's department was able to perform well in the fight against bandits, but Zhang Zuolin's department has not yet been awarded a number, rank, and position, so it cannot be regarded as a formal People's Army unit.

Now Zhang Zuolin's unit has been officially awarded a number and military position, so this can be regarded as a formal People's Army unit, of course, the People's Army will also send military and political personnel to Zhang Zuolin's troops, and instructors to company-level troops; instructors to battalion-level troops, and political commissars to regimental headquarters.

At this time, Zhang Zuolin had just completed the establishment of personnel and the establishment of the Xinmin Mansion, after all, it was necessary to expand from 1,500 to 2,700 people at once, and it was not possible to complete it in a short period of time, because it was a machine gun company and a mortar company, and it was also necessary to be able to read and write, because machine guns and mortars must be able to understand the operation manual, size, and some maintenance techniques.

However, Zhang Zuolin's troops still have a certain combat effectiveness and have relatively rich experience in collecting bandits, and Xinmin Mansion is not far from Jinzhou Mansion, less than 200 kilometers, if you march in a hurry, you can reach it in 3 or 4 days, so it is the most suitable choice to transfer Zhang Zuolin's troops to Jinzhou Mansion at this time.

In addition, because the time of the Jinzhou incident is too short, so there is not much known about the bandits who attacked Jinzhou Mansion, and the only thing that can be determined now is that the leader of this bandit is called Du Lisan, and the cavalry that participated in the battle is the Mongolian cavalry, but it is unknown whether it is Du Lisan's subordinates or companions.

After reading the report, Qin Zheng also fell into deep thought, Xiao Jianjun said: "Du Lisan, I have heard of this person in the past, it seems that he has a good relationship with Zhang Zuolin, it seems that he is still a sworn brother, and he sent Zhang Zuolin to deal with Du Lisan, is this appropriate?"

Qin Zheng shook his head and said: "Those are the content of the commentary, Du Lisan and Zhang Zuolin don't have a deep friendship, of course, the two know each other for sure, Bi Jing and Bi Jing are both bandits, so it is impossible to have no friendship, but they are both plastic friendships." And in the old time and space, after Zhang Zuolin was recruited by the Qing court, he used Zhao'an as a bait to trap and kill Du Lisan. ”

Wang Yunpeng said: "So let Zhang Zuolin deal with Du Lisan, if you do it right, it is better to let Zhang Zuolin deceive Du Lisan." ”

Qin Zheng shook his head again, and said: "I can't say that, Bi Jing's era is different, and the general situation is different, even if Zhang Zuolin is asked to deceive Du Lisan, Du Lisan may not be fooled, Bi Jing, we have never taken the initiative to recruit bandits, whether it is Zhang Zuolin or Feng Linge, they all take the initiative to defect to us, and we don't accept all those who come to defect, Zhang Zuolin, Although Feng Linge was born in the green forest, they are not pure bandits, they do not occupy the mountains as kings, but exist in the form of local insurance teams, which is equivalent to a militia group, so they are actually half-officials and half-bandits, although they have also done some robberies and robberies without capital, but they have also done a lot of things to maintain local order, protect the territory and the people, and have some good reputation among the people. On the contrary, those pure bandits came to defect, and we rejected them, and Du Lisan is a pure bandit, we can't accept Du Lisan, let alone take the initiative to recruit An, Du Lisan will not believe us, if he really wants to be recruited, this time he will not do so desperately, and don't forget that there are Mongolian cavalry to help him. Mongol power was under Russian control. ”

Wang Yunpeng said: "So Russia supports Du Lisan?"

At this time, Xia Bohai said: "I know some of Du Lisan's situation, it seems that Du Lisan has always been against Russia, and because he is an enemy of Russia, he has earned the nickname of 'beating foreigners', 7 During the Russo-Japanese War, Du Lisan stood on the side of Japan and fought against Russia, how could he get involved with Russia?"