Northeast China is a well-known area in China's history where banditry activities are rampant, and because of the use and arming of Chinese and foreign reactionaries, banditry in Northeast China has never been extinct from the beginning of this century to the mid-40s. After the surrender of Japanese imperialism, the Japanese puppet reactionary rule collapsed, the new regime had not yet been established or consolidated, and the society was chaotic, creating a suitable soil for bandits. A large number of guns and ammunition abandoned by the Japanese puppets during their surrender were scattered in society, providing the bandits with the necessary armament. For a time, the bandits in the northeast region had a wide range of activities, a large number of people, and a great harm, which was rare in history. What "flowers and butterflies", "flying on the grass", "occupying the sky", "rolling mines", "mountain carvings", most of them gather hundreds of bandits. Most of the bandits came from the remnants of the Japanese puppet forces, feudal landlords and bullies, habitual bandits, and ruffians and hooligans, and the bandit leaders were all speculators who held bandit plots and careerists who wanted to be power-hungry. During the puppet Manchu period, they were either defeated or incorporated into the puppet Manchurian "****". The Japanese invaders fell, and they took the opportunity to pull up gangs to dominate each side. In particular, in order to expand its power, the Kuomintang extensively recruited and exploited bandits in the northeast, and soon a chaotic situation was formed in which the bandits borrowed the strength of the bandits, and the bandits took advantage of the strength of the troops to collude with each other. Taking advantage of the mentality of some habitual bandits to be promoted to official positions and making a fortune, the Kuomintang wantonly sealed officials and increased their committees, and took advantage of them, turning them into the main counterrevolutionary force of the Kuomintang.

When the Kuomintang troops, with the support of the United States, launched a large-scale offensive in the northeast, these bandits, under the direct or indirect control of the Kuomintang reactionaries, launched riots in our rear, seized cities and land, attacked our rear forces, massacred our local cadres, destroyed our local political power, and sabotaged communications. Spread rumors and make trouble, and deceive people's hearts. It has caused great unrest in society. The bandits in the northeast have become a special unit of the Kuomintang reactionaries and a problem for our party and our army in the northeast.

According to the statistics in April 1947, the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China "Report on the Work of Suppressing Bandits in Northeast China". In December 1945, there were about 100,000 bandits in the entire northeast. "More than two-thirds of the county seat in North Manchurian is in the hands of recalcitrant bandits." There are some counties in the Hejiang area, and the entire village is controlled by bandits. At that time, bandits in the northeast roamed the vast area, entrenched in more than half of the county towns and the vast number of rural cottages in the northeast, forming a serious situation in which bandits were everywhere.

The bandits in the northeast have considerable strength and occupy and hold a considerable amount of territory. After Japan's surrender, a lot of weapons and ammunition were scattered throughout the Northeast, so the bandits were relatively well armed and held the "letters of appointment" of the Kuomintang, and some of them also carried the "flag of the Kuomintang with coarse cloth and three hearts." It "received" a considerable number of urban and rural areas and regions in Northeast China, and took advantage of the blind "orthodox" concepts that existed among the masses during the period of Northeast Liberation. Therefore, in terms of personnel, they can obtain a certain amount of replenishment from the area of their activities, and they can also obtain a certain amount of financial support, and they have considerable energy to compete with our army.

Some people think that the Anti-Japanese Allied Army is the same as the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, but in fact it is not. The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army are under the direct leadership of our party, and they must be unconditionally obeyed when ordered. The anti-Japanese coalition is different, and the reason why the anti-Japanese coalition is called the "coalition army" is that it is a combination of several organizations. The armed forces under the direct leadership of our party are the core of the coalition army, and the relationship with other bearded dreadlocks is a joint anti-Japanese relationship, and our party does not interfere in the internal management of the dreadlocks, and those dreadlocks also differ due to the different qualities of the "big bosses." Some of them were resolute in resisting Japan, and if the leaders of our party handled their relations well with them, they gradually gave up the practice of sticking to them. Accept the transformation of our party and integrate into the ranks under the direct leadership of our party. Some of them maintained a joint combat relationship with our party. Once there is a conflict, they pull up the team and leave, and some of them surrender to the Japanese when the conditions are bad.

However, after several reorganizations by Meng Qingshan, the factors of instability within the anti-Japanese coalition army have been successfully and peacefully resolved by Meng Qingshan. The arrival of Meng Qingshan cut off the rampant situation of bandits in North Manchuria, and what Meng Qingshan never expected was that the Japanese army would actually use the strategy of resisting the United Nations to cause resistance to the United Nations to cause considerable losses to the base area.

I thought that the sudden change of commander of the Kwantung Army made Meng Qingshan and others, who had been worried that the Japanese army was holding an encirclement and suppression while the Japanese Union was weak, greatly relieved, and the Japanese troops in the Shangjiang area suddenly withdrew back, which also made Meng Qingshan judge that the Japanese were not ready to fight with the Anti-United Nations, so that the Anti-Japanese League could spend the Spring Festival of 1941 peacefully, and in the next few months, the Japanese army suddenly changed its offensive tactics, but turned from offensive to defensive, and tried its best to strengthen its fascist rule in the urban and rural areas. In the towns, they frantically slaughtered their suspects and patriots, destroyed the underground organizations of the Anti-Japanese Union, and tightly controlled the activities of the people; In the rural areas, they have stepped up the policy of "group tribes", forcibly relocated scattered peasant households to the "tribes" under their control, and implemented the system of protecting the armor and the law of joint sitting. In the base areas, they have carried out the inhumane "three-light policy" of burning, killing, and robbing all the people, created no-man's land, cut off the ties between the anti-United Nations forces and the masses, cut off the supply sources of the anti-United Nations forces, and tightened economic blockade and political inducements.

After Meng Qingshan got the news, he knew that this was a new opponent who followed his strategy, but he was very courageous, and actually spent a lot of manpower and material resources to implement an iron blockade of the North Manchurian base area, and built a turret or pillbox every short distance, using wooden stakes cut on the mountain in the middle, and the wooden fence built in less than two months from magnolia to Qinggang for hundreds of miles.

Just as Meng Qingshan was preparing to break the Japanese army's blockade strategy, the base area, which had been calm, suddenly became anxious on all sides, and telegrams came to Meng Qingshan's desk, and each time he looked at it, the forehead lines on Meng Qingshan's head became deeper.

"Did something happen to the commander? Call us in such a hurry? Chief of Staff Liu Yalou asked.

"Yes! Whatever worries you like this, you're about to become a little old man. Zhou Baozhong said on the side.

"Lao Zhou, Lao Liu, this is an urgent telegram from various bases, you can take a look."

Liu Yalou said in shock after reading the telegram in his hand: "Where did these people come from, when did there be so many bandits in our base area, this is too exaggerated!" ”

Zhou Baozhong nodded when he heard this: "It's normal for bandits to appear, these bandits are habitual bandits for several generations in the mountains, hidden under the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese pseudo-heavy soldiers, and now it is normal to start to come out again, but there should not be so many bandit arms in the North Manchurian region, North Manchuria, which is already sparsely populated, except for the important town of the Japanese army before, it is almost deserted outside, and most of the bandits on the original mountains have been absorbed by us, where did these people come from, and how can the mountains where these bandits appear are the areas where we originally operated." ”

"Commander, did you say that the small units of the Japanese puppet army that were broken up by us in Longjiang Province, or the backbone elements of the Concord Association and the puppet Manchu military police and special personnel were afraid that they would be liquidated by us and go up the mountain to become bandits under unfavorable war conditions. As well as the puppet Manchu gendarmes and forest policemen who were scattered by us, these people had blood debts on their hands, and they were very afraid of us, so they went up to the mountains and became bandits. Liu Yalou asked.

"Lao Liu's judgment is very right, after the defeat of the Kwantung Army, these people are worried about being liquidated by us, and most of them go up the mountain as bandits, but what makes me wonder is how can there be so many bandits in the base area, there are bandits in Tangyuan and Suibin, I know that it must be the sudden retreat of the Japanese army, those traitors who have helped the Japanese before, I am afraid that we will judge them and go up the mountain to become bandits, I am not surprised that there are bandits in Daxinganling, it must be the old White Russia who took refuge in the Japanese, but how can a large number of bandits appear in Sun Wu, Wuyun, and Foshan, This is our rear, after more than a year of construction and development, there is no bandit at all, could it be that the group of puppet Manchurian police prisoners sneaked away? ”

"Lao Zhou, Lao Liu, don't guess either, I think in a while I will know why so many bandits suddenly appeared in our base area, and these bandits are actually proficient in guerrilla tactics and have caused a lot of casualties to our newly formed troops." Meng Qingshan said.

"Why doesn't the commander say it now, but for a while?"

"Before I got these telegrams, Minister Li just came here and said that a small force was coming to us, and I had sent Wang Xiaoming to lead the team to deal with them, and then I returned to the war room, and I found a strange phenomenon in these telegrams, these bandit arms did not come out one by one, but very regular, first our periphery, then the interior, the rear, and then linked to the abnormal behavior of the Japanese fleet sent by Comrade Wang Wennian before, I suspect that this time these bandits are behind the Japanese ghosts, Otherwise, I don't think of where the bandits learned our army's guerrilla warfare, and secondly, these bandits are not small in number, and if they pass through our base areas, why they are not discovered, unless they all come by sea, you must know that the Japanese look down on our strategy very much, and they are the only ones who can use our fighting methods very skillfully. ”

"Commander, you're talking about those traitors." Zhou Baozhong asked excitedly.

Looking at the excited Zhou Baozhong, Meng Qingshan understood very well that there were many reasons why the Anti-Japanese Federation went from glory to failure, but one of the biggest factors was that this group of scum in the Anti-Japanese Federation, after they defected to the Japanese, they ruthlessly betrayed their comrades, betrayed their comrades-in-arms who carried guns and killed the enemy together, and turned the volunteers from 300,000 in the glorious period to less than a few thousand. Meng Qingshan walked over and patted Zhou Baozhong on the shoulder and said fiercely: "Old Zhou, don't get excited, these are just my judgments, all the mysteries will be solved after Ming comes back, if it is really that group of traitors, I will let them know the fate of the traitors." ”

"Yes, Commissar, don't worry, how can those traitors resist our army."

"Lao Meng, Lao Liu, I'm ashamed! I am ashamed of the central government, I didn't lead a good team, and let so many scum appear in the troops. ”

"Lao Zhou doesn't blame you, if you want to blame them, they have to blame themselves, their position is not firm, you can rest assured that I will give an explanation to the sacrificed comrades." Meng Qingshan comforted. (To be continued.) )