On January 12, 1946, on the eve of the armistice agreement between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, ** ordered the Third Division of the New Fourth Army to launch an attack on the bandits entrenched in Tongliao when the Soviet troops were withdrawing.
After a fierce battle, the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army successfully captured the city of Tongliao. Despite the small size of Tongliao City, the food in the city was enough to feed 20,000 troops for a whole year.
Therefore, Huang Kecheng, commander and political commissar of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, decided to set up a Ximan base here. The establishment of the Ximan Base Area is a concrete practice of the CPC's decision to "get out of the way and occupy both sides," and it is also one of the important achievements of this decision.
When he first arrived in the Northeast, Huang Kecheng reported to ** that the situation in the Northeast is "seven nos", that is, "no party, no masses, no political power, no food, no funds, no medicine, no clothes, shoes and socks." ”
At this point, the actual situation is worse than Wong's report. The United States used ** to transport the Kuomintang troops to the Northeast, and they were equipped with advanced American **, all the way north, and the Northeast People's Autonomous Army could only temporarily retreat.
At the same time, the Soviet Union signed the "Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance" with the Kuomintang authorities out of its own interests, and did not support the open development of the CCP and the Eighth Route Army in the northeast, and the situation in the northeast fell into an extremely difficult situation.
* In a long telegram, he reviewed the weaknesses of our army in the northeast and suggested that a long-term plan be made for the struggle in the northeast. He put forward the strategy of "forbearance, waiting, and ruthlessness". "Forbearance" is a strategy to confuse the enemy, to endure the temporary loss of large cities and communication arteries, and to endure all kinds of difficulties faced by the troops.
"Wait" is to wait for the enemy's front to be lengthened, the main forces to disperse, carry the burden on their backs, expose their weaknesses, and wait for the time to come in our favor. "Ruthless" is to look for opportunities in the process of "forbearance" and "waiting", and finally give the enemy a fatal blow.
In view of the severe unfavorable situation in Northeast China, the CPC and the Northeast Bureau decided to carry out land reform in Northeast China, launch a struggle against bandits, establish a revolutionary democratic regime, and establish a solid base area in Northeast China.
Since ancient times, the Northeast region has been divided into four regions: North Manchuria, South Manchuria, East Manchuria, and West Manchuria. Located south of Shenyang and the Liaodong Peninsula, the South Manchurian region has a large population and large cities, developed economy and convenient transportation, and is an area where the Kuomintang occupies an advantage.
However, our army in the northeast put up desperate resistance in the South Manchurian region and firmly suppressed the main force of the Kuomintang on the south bank of the Songhua River. The Northern, Eastern, and Western Manchurian regions were relatively safe, with the exception of a small number of bandits and remnants of the puppet Manchurians, and the regular Kuomintang troops were everywhere.
This provides a favorable opportunity for our army in the northeast to achieve large-scale development in the rear. According to the decision of ***, "get out of the way and occupy the two compartments", the Northeast Bureau decided to focus on the creation of base areas in the North Manchurian, East Manchurian and Western Manchurian regions.
Located in the west and north of Heilongjiang, the north of Liaoning, the west of Jilin and the east of Inner Mongolia, the Ximan region has vast land and abundant products, including large grain-producing counties, important forest areas and high-quality Mongolian war horse resources.
It was once the birthplace of the West Manchurian Branch of the Communist Party of China and the West Manchurian Military Region of the Northeast Democratic Alliance, where General Huang Kecheng served as deputy secretary of the West Manchurian Branch and deputy political commissar of the West Manchurian Military Region, and was appointed commander of the West Manchurian Military Region after Lu Zhengcao was transferred.
After Huang Kecheng took office, he adopted the instructions put forward by Huang Kecheng to "take the regiment as a unit, disperse to the vast number of villages to fight bandits, and do mass work," and mainly did three things: establishing a revolutionary political power, launching a struggle to suppress bandits, and carrying out land reform.
By mobilizing the masses and establishing and perfecting grass-roots party organizations, the West Manchurian Sub-Bureau of the CPC has successively established political power organs in Nenjiang, Heilongjiang, Liaoji, and Xing'an provinces, and has set up local military district organizations in Liaoning, Liaobei, and Taodong, with a population of more than 7.7 million in the base areas.
Under the leadership of General Huang Kecheng, the Ximan base area launched a comprehensive anti-bandit operation, and in 1946 alone, 825 battles were fought, thousands of bandits, puppet soldiers and recalcitrant soldiers were killed, and a large amount of arms and materials were seized.
At the same time, various localities have also carried out a campaign to liquidate the enemy's and counterfeit assets, mobilized the masses to destroy the enemy's and counterfeit assets, improved the livelihood of the masses, and laid a solid foundation for the base areas and the financial foundation of the army.
General Huang Kecheng then led the agrarian reform movement, and by October 1946, 70 percent of the rural areas had completed the agrarian reform, and 1.5 million peasants had been allocated their own land.
This reform turned the long-suffering peasants of Northeast China into a complete turnaround, and they developed a large number of party members in the land reform and established a large number of party branches in the countryside. This not only dispelled the orthodoxy of the majority of the masses towards the Kuomintang, but also allowed the people's orthodoxy to penetrate deep into the hearts of the people, and completely uprooted the "feudal roots," "spy roots," and "beard roots."