 In 1945 Sun Lianzhong was made commander-in-chief 11th War Area and was to take command of the Tianjin, Beiping, Baoding, and Shijiazhuang area and take the surrender of the Japanese troops there.However the KMT forces had conflicts with the Communist forces and the Chinese Civil War broke out in full force again.After two years he resigned his posts in North China and moved to the capital and then in 1949 to Taiwan.