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970: 812:'s secondary objective was achieved here, any positive gains obtained by the nationalists were negated by the politic fallout. The reason was that this success of achieving the secondary objective came at a huge cost in nationalists’ loss of popular support in this region formerly dominated by the Japanese, because the local population had already blamed nationalists for losing the regions to the Japanese invaders, while reassigning these former Japanese puppet regime forces as the nationalist forces to fight the communists, the only Chinese force left in the regions, only further alienated the local populace and strengthened the popular resentment to 155: 192: 1018: 961: 170: 200: 1005: 25: 986: 910: 941: 923: 900: 890: 952: 755:
launched its attack on the village at night, breaching the defense. After fierce street battle, the defenders fled and the village fell into communist hands. The communists inflicted over 2,000 casualties on the defenders, including capturing the nationalist commander Hu Zepu (èƒĄæłœæ™ź) alive, and they
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refused to surrender. However, the defenders consisted of a division that was able to successfully fend off the initial communist attacks by relying on their strong fortifications. The communists changed their tactic and the 34th Regiment of the 12th Brigade of the 4th Division of the communist
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camp for the same reason they defected to the Japanese invaders. Obviously, it was difficult for Chiang to immediately get rid of these warlords for good as soon as they surrendered to Chiang and rejoined
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were victorious in such conflicts, however, the result would still benefit to Chiang and China because the power of these warlords would be reduced as their military forces were smashed by the
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were only interested in keeping their own power and defected to the Japanese side when Japanese invaders offered to let them keep their power in exchange for their collaborations. After
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bases in the rural regions where better life was provided to the general populace in comparison to that of Japanese occupied regions, the general Chinese populace agreed that the
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already earned considerable popular support by being the only Chinese force left in the region fighting the Japanese invaders and their puppet regime after the
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to gain more territories by holding on to what was under their control until Chiang completed the deployment of his own troops to take over.
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regime simply had neither the sufficient troops nor enough transportation assets to deploy his troops into the Japanese-occupied regions of
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who refused to surrender to the enemy and fought the enemy until the eventual victory. Therefore, in the impending demilitarization after
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to further expand their territories by accepting the Japanese surrender and thus would consequently control the Japanese occupied regions,
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and kept their fighting capabilities to “maintain order” in the Japanese occupied regions, fighting off the
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troops. As a result, most members of the Japanese puppet regimes and their military forces rejoined the
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in this region was indeed reduced as their military forces were smashed by the communists, so that the
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would be able to hold on to the regions long enough for Chiang to deploy his own troops by holding off
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and their troops were well aware that due to the collaboration with the Japanese invaders during the
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together proved to be a fatal mistake. Although the result of the campaign turned out exactly like
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to accept the invaders’ surrender in the region and takeover the regions occupied by the invaders.
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and his followers had hoped that these former Japanese puppet regime's warlords who rejoined the
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would be weakened by the fights and Chiang's own troops would have easier time to take control.
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In October 1945, the communists decided to take Time Village (Shicun, 时村) of Xiu (ćźż) County in
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also captured over 1,000 firearms. The attacking communists suffered over 200 casualties.
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and their troops could legitimize themselves and thus retain their power by fighting the
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in name only and mostly maintained their independent and semi-independent status. These
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ordered the Japanese and their turncoat Chinese puppet regime not to surrender to the
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Like other similar clashes immediately after the end of World War II between the
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Like other similar clashes immediately after the end of World War II between the
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ranks, and these former Japanese puppet regime's warlords could still help the
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as necessary, until the final arrivals and completion of the deployment of the
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turned Japanese puppet regime force who rejoined the nationalists after
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together, which proved to be an extremely fatal mistake for him and his
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and his subordinates had predicted, and consequently the power of the
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was a savior for them because by carrying out such orders, these
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for so long was thus reduced for this particular region, and
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would be reduced or even completely eliminated as a result.
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In accordance with his strategy to simultaneously solve the
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by force after the local defenders consisted of former
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who had already dominated most of the rural regions in
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for so long and the problem of the extermination of
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for so long and the problem of the extermination of
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