exterminated the bandits of the Yanhai Mountain Department, so that Zhang Zuolin gained a lot, just collected more than 120 bandits, and there were also a lot of food and materials. At this time, Zhang Zuolin's department had already accepted nearly 500 new bandit members, so Zhang Zuolin did not plan to attack again in the near future, but first reorganized and trained the newly accepted bandit members.

After fighting side by side with this company of the People's Army for more than two months, Zhang Zuolin also learned something, because it is the training method of the People's Army, which makes Zhang Zuolin quite interested, and also promotes it in his own team, but after all, the original team is Zhang Zuolin's old team, and it can't be completely overturned, but can only be gradually improved, and now it's just time to practice with this batch of newly accepted members.

However, at this time, Zhang Zuolin received an order from the People's Army, asking him to immediately lead at least 2,000 troops to Shenyang to participate in the work of guarding the railway line.

It turned out that the East China government decided to launch the Manchuria Campaign first to completely defeat the Russian army, so it immediately began to prepare for the work, at this time the Eastern Railway has been repaired and can be opened to traffic, which will play an important role in this battle. However, the protection of railways is also a priority.

Since Britain and France announced the formation of a joint expeditionary force, Japan and Russia have also entered combat readiness, and at the same time, in order to sabotage the preparation and logistics supply of the People's Army, Japanese and Russian spies have also launched more than a dozen attacks on the People's Army, which is a railway, and has become an important target for Japanese and Russian spies, and has launched several attacks on the railway in a month, but the people are well guarded, and the Japanese and Russian spies can carry ** It was limited, so it did not cause major damage to the railway, and only once the railway line was interrupted, but after the emergency repair of the railway engineering corps, it was only interrupted for 5 hours before it was resumed.

However, now the 2nd and 3rd armies of the People's Army have assembled and rushed to Harbin to prepare for war against Russia, although some troops have been transferred from the 5th Army stationed on the Yalu River, it is not enough to make up for the vacancy after the withdrawal of the 2nd and 3rd armies, so the future railway protection will be a big problem.

However, at this time, Qingdao had already made a resolution to set up a wartime management committee in the northeast region, which was responsible for the overall management of military and political affairs in the northeast during the war, with Qin Zheng as the chairman and full responsibility.

Although this is only a temporary institution, due to its excessive power, it can only be managed by Xia, Qin, Xiao, Wang, Xu Wugiants are appointed, and Xia Bohai is the leader of the East China government, Xiao Jianjun is in charge of the military, and Wang Yunpeng is in charge of government affairs, which must not be moved, so only Qin Zheng and Xu Jichao can choose one person, but the Northeast Wartime Management Committee is fully responsible for managing the military and political affairs of the Northeast, and Xu Jichao does not understand military affairs, so naturally only Qin Zheng is the only suitable person, and Qin Zheng's position, the speaker of the Senate can be let go, and the deputy speaker will take over for the time being.

And Qin Zheng did not refuse, accepted the appointment, and proposed that the newly appointed Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces should also serve as vice chairmen. Because the work in the Northeast is inseparable from the cooperation and support of these three provinces, it is of course possible to carry out better work by letting the leaders of the three provinces concurrently serve as vice chairmen.

The Executive Yuan quickly approved Qin Zheng's proposal, and at the same time appointed Wang Sheng and Zeng Dong as the three provinces of Liao, Ji and Hei. These three people originally served as mayors of Jinan, Yantai, and Qingdao, and now they can be regarded as a step in promotion. Originally, when considering the three candidates, there was an opinion that they should be selected from the various ministries and commissions under the nine ministries and commissions of the Executive Yuan, and that they could even be directly appointed by the members, because the position of the three northeastern provinces is very important, and they have both economic and geopolitical interests, so they must be appointed by competent candidates.

However, after discussion, this opinion was finally abandoned, because there are no personnel with corresponding experience in the entire East China government, and the current members and ministers of the Executive Yuan lack experience in local governance, and it is best to select from the mayors of several large cities, in any case, they have experience in managing local areas. In addition, these three people are not very old, no more than 40 years old, which can be regarded as the experience of young cadres. Although the average age of the members of the Executive Yuan is only in their early 50s, as a political officer, this age can be described as very young, but it is also necessary to consider the successor.

Qin Zheng set up the Northeast Wartime Management Committee in Shenyang, and after taking office, Qin Zheng was very keen to find that after the resumption of the war, the garrison was insufficient, so Qin Zheng decided to tap the potential from the military strength in the Northeast.

In just a few months, two more local forces in the north, Feng Linge and Ma Longtan, have negotiated with the People's Army, and like Zhang Zuolin, they will serve as the People's Army's external military force.

Feng Linge and Ma Longtan are both influential figures in the modern Northeast region in the old time and space, and at this time, the qualifications, prestige, and power of these two people are still above Zhang Zuolin.

Feng Linge, also known as Feng Delin, a native of Haicheng, Liaoning, is 9 years older than Zhang Zuolin, and in his early years, he also wandered in the green forest, and was quite fair and brave. In order to protect the tranquility of the common people, some local squires jointly asked the government to apply for the appeasement of the Lulin Hawkers, set up the Fufu Bureau on both sides of the Liaohe South Road, and publicly recommended Feng Linge to be elected as the head of the general regiment. At that time, Zhang Zuolin had just returned from the Qing army, and his life was relatively poor, and he once served under Feng Linge's subordinates. After the Gengzi National Revolution, Feng Linge set up an insurance team in Gaojiatuozi in Liaoyang, claiming to protect the territory and the people, which was quite popular with the people, and the team grew to hundreds of people, with a huge momentum, and controlled the areas on both sides of the Liao River, at this time Zhang Zuolin's career had just begun to start. During the Russo-Japanese War, Feng Linge fell to Japan and fought against Russia, and in the Battle of Shoushan in Liaoyang, Feng Linge's troops contributed greatly, and after the war, Japan rewarded him with the Order of the Treasure Star.

However, as the People's Army entered the customs to participate in the war, the Japanese army was defeated and withdrew from the territory of Liaodong, Feng Linge also realized that he needed to find a backer again, but he did not know much about the People's Army, so he did not dare to act rashly, and at this time it was rumored that Zhang Zuolin had defected to the People's Army, so Feng Linge did not dare to wait any longer, and also sent people to contact the People's Army and took refuge under the banner of the People's Army.

Unlike Zhang Zuolin and Feng Linge, who were both born in the green forest, Ma Longtan was the standard general, and his father Ma Qifeng was named General Zhenwei in 1867 and was awarded the hereditary Cloud Cavalry Captain. During the Gengzi National Revolution, Ma Longtan was recruited with his fellow villagers to participate in the construction of the Yingkou Railway outside the Guan, Tsarist Russia invaded the Northeast, Ma Longtan was elected as the leader by the workers, recruited hundreds of people to join the army, was organized into a cover army, because of the protection of the Shenyang Imperial Mausoleum and cultural relics and sacrificial vessels, the Qing Dynasty emperor specially rewarded Ma Longtan with four products of Hualing, was appointed as the Liaoyang Inspector, Tonghua Inspector, guarding Liaoyang, Fuxian, Haicheng, Gaiping Land, so as to embark on the official career.

Because Ma Longtan's background is good, and widely traveled, and is extremely righteous, sparse wealth, help the poor, relieve difficulties and solve disputes for the neighbors, in case of drought years, they will open a warehouse to help the people, so it is highly respected by the township, and highly respected, 9 years older than Feng Linge, 18 years older than Zhang Zuolin, in the old time and space, Ma Longtan, Wu Junsheng, Sun Liechen, Zhang Jinghui, Feng Linge, Tang Yulin, Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuoxiang and other 8 people in 1907 swore as brothers, Ma Longtan is the oldest first, Feng and Zhang both have great respect for it in their lives.

After all, Ma Longtan was born on the right path, and he also had a large number of relatives and friends in the Guannei, so he was no stranger to the affairs of the People's Army and the East China Government, so as early as as the People's Army entered the customs to participate in the war, he was paying attention to the movements of the People's Army and looking for ways to contact the People's Army. On the one hand, he was quite impressed by the People's Army's feat of taking the initiative to fight and defeating the Japanese and Russian troops, but on the other hand, he was quite resistant to the East China government's act of openly raising the banner of independence and making enemies of the Qing court.

Although Ma Longtan has a good understanding of the overall situation, and knows that the Qing court will be difficult to return to, and it is difficult to return to heaven, on the contrary, the East China government is an emerging force, full of vigor and vitality, and there is a great possibility of replacing it, and the style of action is also quite like the spirit of opening up the dynasty and building a foundation, this general trend is probably irreversible. But Ma Longtan Bi Jing is behind the gate, and his loyalty is quite heavy, and he can't let go of his feelings for a while. So he contacted the People's Army on the one hand, and also gave the People's Army a certain amount of support, but he did not take the initiative to come forward, and remained close and distant. Of course, Ma Longtan also has a bit of self-holding identity in his heart, and the idea of waiting for the price to sell, it is best that the People's Army can take the initiative to come to the door to invite him, and he can borrow the ladder to go down the wall. Bi Jing Ma Longtan is only 50 years old, and he still has some ambition to make a contribution.

However, Ma Longtan did not wait for the People's Army to come to the door, but knew the news that Feng Linge and Zhang Zuolin had defected to the People's Army, and now that the East China Government had basically taken root in the northeast region, Ma Longtan was also a little unbreathable, so he took the initiative to take refuge in the People's Army.

The People's Army treats Feng Linge and Ma Longtan equally, first accepting them and then observing and testing, and does not treat them differently because of their prestige and power, because in the eyes of the People's Army, Zhang Zuolin, Feng Linge, and Ma Longtan are all the same people.

However, the successive defections of Feng Linge and Ma Longtan also greatly boosted the prestige of the People's Army in the northeast region, so Wu Junsheng, Du Lisan and other forces also sent people to contact the People's Army to discuss the affairs of taking refuge.

Zhang Zuolin was the earliest to join the People's Army, and now it has been almost 3 months, and his performance in these months is very satisfactory, not only in the suppression of bandits is very active, but also in accordance with the requirements of the People's Army to carry out some transformation of their own team, although there is also the opportunity to expand their own power, and Japan is also to completely cut off contact, but this is not a big problem, so Qin Zheng believes that the level of trust in Zhang Zuolin can be improved by one level, so he decided to recruit Zhang Zuolin's troops to assist the People's Army to guard the railway line.