Despite this, the overall situation in eastern Hebei became more and more tense as the devil approached, and the atmosphere became more and more weird. Finally, at one o'clock in the morning of the 17th, with the full support of Han Yunhua, under the active planning and leadership of the [***] Central Committee, the Northern Bureau, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the Eastern Hebei People's Armed Resistance Riot (also known as the uprising) finally kicked off.

On July 12, Deng Hua led the main force of the four columns to meet the enemy of the Banyuan Division from Huairou County to reinforce the first part of the four seas in Shayu, and fought fiercely for 3 hours, destroying more than 300 enemies. However, due to the suddenness of the incident, not only was the army defenseless, but our army also responded to the battle in a hurry, and although it was lucky to win, the casualties of the troops were very heavy. During the battle, Li Zhongqi, chief of staff of the Fourth Column, was seriously wounded, and Zheng Liangwu, secretary of the general branch of the 31st Brigade, died. In the early morning of the next day, more than 1,400 people from the Yutian puppet army rushed to reinforcements and helped the battle with three planes. The four columns fought fiercely with the enemy for a long time, annihilated more than 200 enemies, and took the initiative to retreat. On July 14, Li Yunchang led the third and fourth corps to take the initiative to attack Zunhua before the arrival of Han Yunhua's troops, and fought fiercely with the Zunhua defenders for 7 and a half hours and finally conquered Zunhua City.

At this time, the leaders of the Northern Bureau, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region unanimously held that after active planning by various parties and more than a year of preparation, the situation before the uprising was very good, the people's enthusiasm for the War of Resistance was very high, and the conditions for the uprising were ripe. At this time, in order to increase the influence of the uprising and the scale of the uprising, and also to unite other anti-Japanese forces in the eastern Hebei region, the special committee of the Hebei Rebian successively contacted Gao Zhiyuan, a well-known regimental training leader in the eastern Hebei region, Hong Linge, Yang Shisan, and others. And after obtaining the consent of the representatives sent by Han Yunhua, the units of these people were reorganized and the troops of the Eighth Route Army, the guerrillas, the militia escort unit, and Gao Zhiyuan and others were unified into six corps, each corps has three battalion-level brigades, each brigade has three company-level squadrons, and each squadron has four platoon-level squadrons. and elected Gao Zhiyuan (later defected) as the commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and Li Yunchang and Hong Linge as deputy commanders. Because Han Yunhua knew that Gao Zhiyuan was a shrewd opportunist and not a full revolutionary, Han Yunhua elected Hong Linge and the commander of the first road, and Yang Shisan, director of the Political Department, who had jurisdiction over the first and second corps. Li Yunchang is also the commander of the Second Road, and Wang Ruiqing (Hu Xikui), director of the Political Department, has jurisdiction over the third, fourth, and fifth corps. As for Gao Zhiyuan, Han Yunhua only gave him the title of commander of the Third Route Army, but in fact, this Third Route Army only had a general corps of the Sixth Corps and a general corps with less than 1,000 members.

In the early morning of July 17, Li Runmin, Gao Peizhi, Zhao Yuqing, Zhang Heming, Zhang Zhenyu and other comrades from Luan County launched an uprising in Gangbei Village. Overnight, more than 300 backbone members of the secret development were gathered to form the Fifth Corps of the Anti-Japanese Federation. Li Runmin served as the chief captain, Gao Peizhi served as the political director, and Zhang Heming served as the deputy chief of staff and chief of staff, and there were three brigades. That night, Zhou Weixin, the police chief of the puppet eastern Hebei anti-Hebei government, sent by the autonomous political axe to lead more than 100 people to revolt, and merged with the Changli rebel army led by Yu Zhenzhong to form the Ninth Corps, and then combined with the rebel army in the Tieju Village and Shanglin area, which quickly grew to more than 1,200 people.

At the same time, Wu Yongjiang of Qian'an County also complied with Li Dingguo's invitation and launched a major uprising in Qian'an, and more than 800 puppet security teams in Qian'an City attacked the rebel army. Wu Yongjiang set up an ambush in Zhaodianzi and completely defeated the invading enemy, captured more than 200 people under Zhang Yongnian, the head of his security regiment, and captured 2 heavy machine guns, 6 light machine guns, and more than 600 rifles. Three successive major uprisings in one night all achieved very brilliant results, the first battle was victorious, the army and the people were extremely excited, the enemy's puppet rule was shaken, and soon set off a boom in joining the army.

Subsequently, Comrade Gao Xiaoan led more than 1,000 people to carry out a resistance uprising in Zengjiawan, and it was also successful, and the department was quickly expanded into a reading brigade with 1,600 people. Immediately afterwards, Comrade Wu Shaozhou led a cadre of backbone soldiers to hold an uprising army in Sigezhuang, and on the 22nd he made peace with the Gao Xiao'an Department, and the two agreed to attack Leting County on the 27th. At the same time, Yan Dakai, Li Jufeng, Yang Zhenhua, Yue Zepu, Tian Zixiu, Zhang Qiyu and other comrades also revolted in Leting and Changli counties, and the salt police along the coast of Leting also carried out an uprising under the persuasion of the underground party comrades, and laid down the Tangjiahe stronghold guarded by the puppet political axe, and the troops quickly expanded to more than 5,000 people. What made Li Yunchang and the others most stunned was that the two cavalry brigades transferred from Han Yunhua's department, after obtaining Li Yunchang's consent, actually connected the big sleeper, Liansan, Qiqiaozhuang, and so on, which are a devil's stronghold and the county seat of Qinglong County, in one day.

In addition, Li Yuxi in Luan County set up a reading brigade, and after the uprising of fishermen Shi Zhanshan and Wang Jing'an in Leting, it also grew to more than 1,700 people, and was organized into the first and second reading brigades (later expanded into the second and third special service regiments), and there was also a reading force corps established by Cao Zhifu in the south of Luan County. In total, by the beginning of August, there were about 30,000 anti-Japanese coalition troops organized by our party in the Nanchang, Luan, and Le areas with the Fifth Corps as the main force.

Under the leadership of Gao Xiaoan and others, from the early morning of the 17th to the 22nd, a total of 27 regions broke out in the uprising. The scope of the uprising spread throughout the eastern Hebei region, involving more than 2 million people in enemy-occupied areas.

The situation in eastern Hebei suddenly became out of control, now Yin Rugeng and Shouyi in the temple were in a hurry, the important surnames of eastern Hebei are self-evident, if eastern Hebei is occupied by the Eighth Route Army, then the two of them will not be able to lose their official positions and avoid disasters. Terauchi Shouyi and Yin Rugeng both knew that if Jidong was not protected, then not only would the two of them be deprived of the rights in their hands, but even it would be difficult to keep the head of Xiang Shang.

After the Jidong Incident, Yin Rugeng hurriedly took a plane back to Qinhuangdao from Beiping, mobilized the puppet army of the only two armies in his hand, and launched an attack on the rebel armies of Leting and Changli. At the same time, the Zhudao Wing of the Army stationed in Qinhuangdao urgently went south to quell the rebellion, and the Pingtian Wing stationed at Shanhaiguan was ordered to enter the customs and garrison Qinhuangdao.

Although the number of the rebel army was large, and the speed of the development of the army was not to be said, most of these people were peasants and small industrialists, and they had almost no military training when they joined the army, so the combat effectiveness of the army composed of such a group of people can be imagined. It's okay to fight the puppet policemen and local bullies and squires who oppress them in peacetime, but when it comes to fighting the regular army, these people are still far from being able to fight them, even if they are against the puppet army with almost zero combat effectiveness. If the puppet army does not enter the stream and their combat effectiveness is zero, then the combat effectiveness of the rebel army is negative, because such a group of people is not or cannot be called an army at all. Since it was not an army, how could it fight with the regular army, so for a time the rebel army in the coastal area was defeated and retreated by the puppet army.

However, the good fortune of the army did not last for a few days, and on July 19, Deng Hua and Song Shilun led four columns into Qian'an County, and fought all the way to the east. At this time, the two cavalry brigades under Han Yunhua's command also appeared in the coastal areas of eastern Hebei, and also launched a sneak attack on Qinhuangdao, although they fell short in the end and failed to succeed.

However, the appearance of the cavalry brigade greatly deterred the puppet army and the big and small Han forces behind it to annihilate the Yuekou, and the attack of the Yue army was not as rampant as the previous two days.

General Terauchi Shouichi is now going crazy, how can the originally good situation suddenly turn for the worse, and now even Jidong, which has been operating for five years in the Great Empire, has been seriously threatened, and this threat is fatal. The Great Emperor said that the empire had invested in eastern Hebei and that General Terauchi knew better than anyone that even he himself had two cargo terminals and a small coal mine in Qinhuangdao. And the investment of the entire empire in eastern Hebei is no less than that of Manchukuo, if these enterprises are sabotaged by the Chinese army, even if the political axe and the military department do not investigate his dereliction of duty, but those chaebol groups in the country will not let him go.

(To be continued)