The bandits from Yan Haishan tribe were wiped out, which led to Zhang Zuolin's harvest. There were more than 120 bandits who had been trapped, and there were also a lot of food and food. At this time, Zhang Zuolin's tribe had already collected nearly 500 new bandit members, so Zhang Zuolin did not intend to attack again in the near future, but reorganized and trained the newly collected bandit members first.

After fighting side by side with this one of the People's Army for more than two months, Zhang Zuolin also learned something. Because of the training methods of the People's Army, Zhang Zuolin was quite interested and promoted in his own team. However, the team was Zhang Zuolin's old team after all, and he could not completely push it back and start over. He could only improve gradually. Now he is just using this group of newly stored members to practice his skills.

However, at this moment, Zhang Zuolin received an order from the People's Army, requiring him to immediately lead at least 2,000 troops to Chenyang and participate in the work of guarding the railway.

It turned out that the East China government decided to launch the Manzhouli Battle first and completely defeat the Russian army, so it immediately started the preparation work. At this time, the Central and Eastern Railway had been fully restored and could be opened to traffic, which would play an important role in this battle. However, the railway protection work was also included in the focus.

Since Britain and France announced the formation of a joint expeditionary force, Japan and Russia have also entered combat readiness. At the same time, in order to undermine the preparations and logistics supply of the People's Army, spies from Japan and Russia have also launched dozens of attacks on the People's Army. From the railway, they have become an important target of spies from Japan and Russia. They have launched several attacks on the railway within a month. However, the people's strict defense and the limited number of Japanese and Russian spies can carry, so they did not cause major damage to the railway. Only once did the railway line be interrupted, but after emergency repairs by the railway engineers, it was only interrupted for 5 hours and then resumed.

However, the 2nd and 3rd armies of the People's Army are now gathered to Harbin to prepare for combat against Russia. Although some of the troops were transferred from the 5th army stationed by the Yalu River, it is not enough to make up for the vacancies after the 2nd and 3rd armies evacuated. Therefore, future railway protection will be a big problem.

However, at this time, Qingdao had made a resolution to establish a Northeast Wartime Management Committee in the Northeast region, which was responsible for comprehensively managing military and political affairs in the Northeast during the war, with Qin Zheng as chairman and full responsibility.

Although this is only a temporary agency, due to excessive power, only the five giants Xia, Qin, Xiao, Wang and Xu can only be appointed. Xia Bohai is the top leader of the East China government. Xiao Jianjun is in charge of military affairs and Wang Yunpeng is in charge of government affairs. Therefore, only Qin Zheng and Xu Jichao choose one. However, the Northeast Wartime Management Committee is fully responsible for managing military affairs in the Northeast. Xu Jichao does not understand military affairs, so naturally only Qin Zheng is the only suitable candidate. Qin Zheng's position can be released, and the deputy speaker is temporarily taken over by Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng did not refuse and accepted the appointment. At the same time, he proposed that the new Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces all serve as vice chairman. Because the work in the Northeast cannot be separated from the cooperation and support of these three provinces, letting the three provinces serve as vice chairman can of course work better.

The Executive Yuan quickly approved Qin Zheng's proposal and appointed Wang Sheng and Zeng Dong as the three provinces of Liao, Ji and Hei. These three people were originally the mayors of Jinan, Yantai and Qingdao, and are now a step forward. This is the first time that the East China government has officially established a position of **. When considering the candidates for three **, there was an opinion that it would be chosen from the various ministries and commissions of the Executive Yuan, and that members could be directly appointed, because the location of the three northeastern provinces is very important, which has both economic and geopolitical interests, and must be elected by a decent person.

However, after discussion, the opinion was finally abandoned because the entire East China government now has no personnel with corresponding experience, and the members and ministers of the Executive Yuan now lack experience in local governance. It is best to select from the mayors of several major cities. No matter what, they have experience in management. In addition, these three people are not old, no more than 40 years old, which is also considered a training for young cadres. Although the average age of the Executive Yuan members is only in their early 50s, as political personnel, this age can be described as very young, but it is also necessary to consider the successor. The growth of the central officials of Bijing is incomplete, and the next step should be gradually cultivated.

Qin Zheng set up the Northeast Wartime Management Committee in Shenyang. After taking office, Qin Zheng was very sensitive to the fact that after the war restarted, the garrison troops were insufficient, so Qin Zheng decided to tap potential from the military forces in the Northeast.

After Zhang Zuolin defected to the People's Army, it also brought about a huge continuity effect. In just a few months, two local forces in the Northeast, Feng Linge and Ma Longtan, had negotiated with the People's Army one after another. Like Zhang Zuolin, they were the external military force of the People's Army.

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

Feng Linge, also known as Feng Delin, is from Haicheng, Liaoning. He is 9 years older than Zhang Zuolin. He also ventured in the green forest in his early years. He is quite fair and brave. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Northeast region fell into turmoil. In order to protect the peace of the people, some local gentry jointly asked the government for advice and applied for the recruitment of the Green Forest Heroes, established the Liaohe South Road Cross-Strait Recruitment Bureau, and publicly recommended Feng Linge to be elected as the chief of the general regiment. At that time, Zhang Zuolin had just returned from the Qing army and lived a relatively poor life. He once served as a subordinate of Feng Linge. After the Gengzi Reform, Feng Linge pulled up the insurance team in Gaojiatuozi, Liaoyang.

It claimed to protect the country and safeguard the people, and the team grew to hundreds of people, with a huge momentum, and controlled the two sides of the Liao River. At this time, Zhang Zuolin's career had just begun. During the Russo-Japanese War, Feng Linge fell to Japan and fought against Russia. In the Battle of Shoushan, Liaoyang, Feng Linge's troops made great efforts. After the war, Japan specially rewarded him with the Baoxing Medal.

However, as the People's Army entered the pass and participated in the war, the Japanese army was defeated and withdrew from Liaodong, Feng Linge also realized that he needed to find a backer again, but he did not know the People's Army, so he did not dare to act rashly. At this time, Zhang Zuolin had defected to the People's Army, so Feng Linge did not dare to wait any longer, and sent people to contact the People's Army and defected to the People's Army. At this time, he helped the People's Army and wiped out three bandit forces.

Unlike Zhang Zuolin and Feng Linge, both of them were from Green Forests. Ma Longtan was a standard general. His father Ma Qifeng was named General Zhenwei in 1867 and was named the Hereditary Yunqiwei. During the Gengzi Rebellion, Ma Longtan was recruited to participate in the construction of Yingkou Railway outside the Pass. Tsarist Russia invaded the Northeast. Ma Longtan was elected as the leader by his colleagues, recruited hundreds of people to join the army and was organized into the Gai Army. Because of his contribution to protecting the imperial tombs of Shenyang and cultural relics and sacrificial artifacts, the Qing emperor specially rewarded Ma Longtan with the fourth-rank flower feather. He was appointed as the general inspector of Liaoyang, Tonghua, guarding Liaoyang, Fuxian, Haicheng, and Gai equally, thus embarking on the career of officialdom.

Because Ma Longtan has a good background and is widely acquainted, is very righteous, distracted from wealth, helps the poor, and resolves troubles and disputes for neighbors. When there is a drought, he opens warehouses to provide relief to the people. Therefore, he is highly respected by the villagers and is highly respected. He is 9 years older than Feng Linge and 18 years older than Zhang Zuolin. In the old time and space, eight others, including Ma Longtan, Wu Junsheng, Sun Liechen, Zhang Jinghui, Feng Linge, Tang Yulin, Zhang Zuolin, and Zhang Zuoling became sworn brothers in 1907. Ma Longtan was the oldest, and Feng and Zhang respected him very much throughout their lives.

After all, Ma Longtan was born in a formal way and had a large number of relatives and friends in the pass, so he was not unfamiliar with the People's Army and the East China Government. So as soon as the People's Army entered the pass and participated in the war, he was paying attention to the trends of the People's Army and looking for ways to contact the People's Army. However, Ma Longtan was quite complicated about the attitude of the People's Army. On the one hand, he was very respectful of 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 openly raising the flag to be independent and was quite resistant to the Qing court's move.

Although Ma Longtan has a good understanding of the overall situation and knows that the Qing court is difficult to return and it is difficult to have the power to turn the world back. On the contrary, the East China government is an emerging force, full of vitality, and has the possibility of replacing it. Moreover, its style of conduct is quite irreversible. However, Ma Longtan is a descendant of the general, and he has a strong sense of loyalty to the emperor and cannot let go of his feelings for a while. So he contacted the People's Army and also gave the People's Army certain support, but he did not take the initiative to stand close and stay close. Of course, Ma Longtan also has a bit of self-control and ambition to wait for the price. It is best that the People's Army can take the initiative to invite him, and he can also take the ladder to get down the wall. Bi Jin Ma Longtan is only 50 years old and has some ambition to make achievements.

But Ma Longtan did not wait for the People's Army to come to visit. Instead, he learned about Feng Linge and Zhang Zuolin's surrender to the People's Army. Moreover, the East China government has basically taken root in the Northeast region, so Ma Longtan is a little unable to hold back, so he took the initiative to surrender to the People's Army.

The People's Army treats Feng Linge and Ma Longtan as one person, accepting first and then observing and testing, and does not treat differently based on reputation and power, because in the eyes of the People's Army, Zhang Zuolin, Feng Linge and Ma Longtan are all the same people. They come to surrender, so they naturally accept it, but they have to follow my rules. If they don't surrender, the People's Army will never take the initiative to invite them out of the mountain. Anyway, there are a lot of them, and there are not many, so don't really treat yourself as Zhuge Liang.

However, Feng Linge and Ma Longtan's successive surrender also greatly boosted the reputation of the People's Army in the Northeast region. Therefore, Wu Junsheng and Du Lisan and other forces also sent people to contact the People's Army and negotiate the surrender.
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