External terminal when debugging in WSL

Hello,
Firstly I would like to say thank you for this awesome text editor and the C/C++ extension :)

I tried debugging C/C++ program in Windows Subsystem for Linux. The debugging session works fine but the only problem is that VS Code won't open an external terminal so I could not get stdout and stdin from a terminal during the debugging session.

So I have two questions:

1. How can I open an external terminal for WSL debugging?
2. Even there is not external terminal, how to get output from stdout and input to stdin during the debugging session?

Here is my launch.json, as you can see I set "externalConsole": true but an external terminal won't appear:

        {
            "name": "maze_solver",
            "type": "cppdbg",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "maze_solver",
            "args": [],
            "stopAtEntry": false,
            "cwd": "./",
            "environment": [],
            "externalConsole": true,
            "pipeTransport": {
                "debuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb",
                "pipeProgram": "C:\\Windows\\sysnative\\bash.exe",
                "pipeArgs": ["-c"],
                "pipeCwd": "${workspaceFolder}/simulation/maze_solver"
            },
            "setupCommands": [
                {
                    "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
                    "text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
                    "ignoreFailures": true
                }
            ],
            "sourceFileMap": {
                "/mnt/d": "d:\\"
            },
            "logging": { "engineLogging": true }
        }

Thank you very much!

Start with the launch.json configuration, especially externalConsole and pipeTransport, and reproduce the C/C++ debugging session under WSL. Trace how the extension handles external terminals and standard input/output for this setup. Done means WSL debugging opens a usable external terminal or clearly supports stdin and stdout through the documented alternative.