 Chiang Kai-shek was furious that the city had fallen and sent out a force to retake the city.By March 21, 1946, the Nationalists had taken nearby Liaoyang, and by March 22, the Nationalists took Fushun and Tieling.On March 22, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Xiong Shihui (熊式辉), the chief Nationalist administrator in Northeast China and Zheng Dongguo (郑洞国), the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist force in Northeast China, to launch a counteroffensive targeting Siping from the provincial capital of Shenyang.