 Communists strengthened their political pressure and most bandits were forced to surrender.In the period of fifty – days, over 28,000 bandits were annihilated, including over 22,000 surrendered and defected to the communists.The second stage of the campaign begun on November 18, 1950 and a total of ten communist battalions concentrated their efforts in the Fanjing (梵净) Mountain region where surviving bandits had fled to.