"On January 8, 1946, Liu Handong (\u5218\u701A\u4E1C), the commander of the nationalist 107th Division arrived at city with over a hundred associates to discuss the city's transfer from the Red Army to the Chinese administration. The Red Army still occupied the city at the time. Subsequently, on January 10, the nationalists created the Liaobei (\u8FBD\u5317) Province, with Liu Handong (\u5218\u701A\u4E1C) named the chairman of the province, and nationalist provincial governmental member Li Chongguo (\u674E\u5145\u56FD) named the mayor of city."@en . "3000"^^ . . . "the Chinese Civil War"@en . "Decisive Communist victory"@en . . "Battle of Siping"@en . . . "22"^^ . . "Chinese Red Army"@en . . "National Revolutionary Army"@en . "6000"^^ . . . "235"^^ . . "3000"^^ . "60"^^ . "On January 8, 1946, Liu Handong (\u5218\u701A\u4E1C), the commander of the nationalist 107th Division arrived at city with over a hundred associates to discuss the city's transfer from the Red Army to the Chinese administration. The Red Army still occupied the city at the time. Subsequently, on January 10, the nationalists created the Liaobei (\u8FBD\u5317) Province, with Liu Handong (\u5218\u701A\u4E1C) named the chairman of the province, and nationalist provincial governmental member Li Chongguo (\u674E\u5145\u56FD) named the mayor of city. The Nationalists had neither sufficient troops nor enough transportation assets to deploy its troops into the previously Japanese-occupied region of China, and they could not spare enough forces to hold the city long enough for reinforcements to arrive. The Nationalists at Siping recruited bandits in the region including members from the Good Under the Heaven (\u5929\u4E0B\u597D) and Flying Over the Grass (\u8349\u4E0A\u98DE) gangs to secure the local garrison. Enlisting the gangs angered the local populace, which already blamed the Nationalists for losing the region to the Japanese invaders. As a result, the Nationalists lost popular support in the region, a problem exacerbated by the fact that the hired bandits had fought the Nationalists both prior to and during the war and had cooperated with the Japanese invaders. The Nationalists recruited forces from the former Japanese puppet regime, such as the Iron Stone Units (Tie Shi Bu Dui, \u94C1\u77F3\u90E8\u961F), to be part of the local garrison, which only increased the hatred from the local populace, which had suffered under the Japanese puppet regime."@en . "Battle of Siping"@en . "PLA troops bombard Nationalist positions with artillery"@en . . "--03-15"^^ . "city, Jilin, China"@en . .