Li Yunchang's life is very legendary, formerly known as Li Fangqi, Li Yunchang was born in 1908 in a peasant family in Papayakou Village, Leting County, Hebei Province. In 1923, Li Yunchang entered Leting Middle School and knew that there was such a pioneer as Li Dazhao in his hometown, and he longed for himself to follow the path of Mr. Li Dazhao and to go to the Soviet Union, the first socialist country. Li Yunchang actively participated in the student movement and joined the Socialist Youth League in 1924. In the autumn of 1925, Li Yunchang was selected by the **Leting County Party Committee to study in the Soviet Union. However, after finding Li Dazhao in Beijing, he learned that the ship to the Soviet Union had sailed. In October 1925, on the recommendation of Comrade Li Dazhao, he entered the fourth phase of the Huangpu Military Academy in Guangzhou. In November of the same year, 17-year-old Li Yunchang was converted to a party member by the general party branch of the Huangpu Military Academy, and began his magnificent and bloody life

At the end of September 1926, Li Yunchang graduated from Huangpu ahead of schedule, and the party organization sent him to lead the cadre training team composed of other ** party members in the fourth phase to engage in peasant arming in rural Guangdong, and he was appointed as the temporary leader. Before engaging in the work of the peasant movement, Li Yunchang first went to the Guangdong Peasant Movement Training Institute to participate in a three-month study. Here, Li Yunchang got to know *** and listened to *** lecture on "Analysis of Various Classes in Chinese Society" and "Peasant Association Constitution" and other courses. After completing his studies at the workshop, Li Yunchang was sent to work in the Chaomei Hailufeng Office of the Guangdong Provincial Peasant Association, headed by Peng Pai, as the director of the Peasant Army Department, and began to organize the peasant army in the Chaoshan area, when Li Yunchang was only 18 years old.

In 1927, 19-year-old Li Yunchang and others gathered more than 10,000 armed peasants and staged a riot in Puning, Guangdong. After the victory of annihilating about one regiment of the enemy in the Puning Rebellion, under the advance of the enemy's army, the troops withdrew from Guangdong to the Hunan and Jiangxi borders, and this peasant armed force was organized into two regiments, called the Huichaomei Peasants' and Workers' Salvation Party Army, and Li Yunchang served as the party representative of the second regiment.

In the winter of 1927, under the brutal suppression of the anti-coup d'état, the special party organization of Leting County was completely paralyzed. Li Yunchang, who returned to his hometown, first connected with the party organization in the village, and then began to restore the party organization, and got in touch with the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee. In February 1928, Li Yunchang led the establishment of the **Leting County Party Committee, and served as the secretary of the county party committee, Song Kuang I served as a propaganda member, Xu Yunbu and others served as members of the county party committee, and initially restored the county's party organization.

During this period, Li Yunchang organized and led many strikes of shoe workers and anti-hegemony struggles of farmers. He actively implemented the spirit of the "Sixth National Congress", vigorously organized peasant associations, and mobilized peasants to carry out struggles against rent, donations, and hegemony, and achieved considerable results and expanded the party's influence among the masses. In October 1928, Li Yunchang went to Luan County to set up the ** Luanle Central County Party Committee, and Li Yunchang served as the secretary of the county party committee, and managed the underground party work in Luan County and Leting County as a whole, focusing on the party's organizational construction. Since then, thanks to Li Yunchang's hard work, the party organizations in eastern Hebei, which had been paralyzed for a time, have recovered and developed to a considerable extent, laying an organizational foundation for the party to carry out its work and lead the people's struggle.

In January 1929, Li Yunchang was transferred to the ** Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee and served as the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. In the summer of that year, the **Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee and the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee were seriously damaged due to traitors' betrayal. At the critical moment, Li Yunchang acted as the secretary general of the provincial party committee for more than a month, promptly reported to the ** Central Committee, and cooperated with the party Central Committee to quickly rebuild the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee and resume work. In August, he was arrested by the enemy during a "flying rally" flyer distribution mission and sentenced to one year and one month in prison. In September 1930, he was rescued from prison by the organization, and under the arrangement of the party organization, he served as a special commissioner of the All-China Special Road Federation of Trade Unions, and successively worked in the South Plant of Tangshan Railway and the Manchuria Office of the General Railway (Shenyang). In the spring of 1935, the organization appointed Li Yunchang as the special commissioner of the Jingdong Special Committee and established the Jingdong Special Committee. During this period, in order to cover his identity, he began to use the name "Li Yunchang". In April 1936, Li Yunchang was appointed secretary of the ** Jingdong Special Committee. In July, Li Yunchang helped Tangshan to establish the Tangshan Working Committee, and under the leadership of the eastern Hebei Party organization, the school faculty and staff association, the peasant unison association, the anti-imperialist league, the anti-Japanese national salvation group of ten, the labor union and other organizations were established to actively carry out ** activities. In April 1937, Li Yunchang received a notice from the Northern Bureau and went to Yan'an to attend the meeting of representatives of the white area held by the ** Central Committee. After he arrived in Yan'an in early May, he first attended the National Congress of China's National Congress, and then participated in the White Zone Work Conference convened by the Central Committee. During the meeting, Li Yunchang systematically reported to the central authorities the basic situation in the eastern Hebei region and the current struggle of the people in eastern Hebei against the Japanese invaders and traitors, and published an article entitled "The People of Eastern Hebei under the Rule of Japanese Invaders and Traitors" in the "Liberation" weekly sponsored by the Central Committee under the name of "Lu Ming." ,

During his stay in Yan'an, Zhou Enlai met with Li Yunchang alone, affirmed and encouraged his work in eastern Hebei, and asked him to make a work report for the chairman. After listening to Li Yunchang's report, he expressed satisfaction with Jidong's work and encouraged him to continue to work hard after he returned. Before leaving Yan'an, the secretary of the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee talked to Li Yunchang alone, conveyed the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, and appointed Li Yunchang as secretary of the Hebei Provincial CPC Committee, demanding that preparations for guerrilla warfare be made and an armed struggle against Japan should be carried out. The central authorities also specially selected two regiment-level Red Army cadres, Li Runmin and Kong Qingtong, to return to eastern Hebei to carry out their work with Li Yunchang.

The anti-Japanese rebellion of the people in eastern Hebei was something that Li Yunchang and others had planned for a long time, but unfortunately due to the sudden rise of Han Yunhua's ministry and the even more sudden appearance in eastern Hebei, the plan was forced to change. However, since many people now know about the riot, Li Yunchang, Deng Hua, Song Shilun and others are afraid of attracting the attention of the devils, so they hope to communicate with Han Yunhua, and it is best to get his support.

After Li Yunchang arrived in Longhua, due to the urgency of the war, Han Yunhua kept everything simple, and did not set up a banquet to entertain Li Yunchang and others, but just let the field kitchen make a large pot of braised pork and a basket of white-flour steamed buns to eat.

After the meal, the two didn't talk much and went straight to the topic. After Li Yunchang explained his intentions, he hoped to get the support of Han Yunhua, a young general. Han Yunhua thought about it and decided to transfer the two cavalry brigades that were temporarily useless and had good mobility to the command of Li Yunchang, and promised to attract the main force of the Japanese army to the outlying areas of Chengde in about half a month.

Han Yunhua's promise was a big surprise to Li Yunchang, Li Yunchang is also an expert in leading troops to fight, he can see that Han Yunhua's department is still far inferior to the devil in terms of total strength, but Han Yunhua can not hesitate to draw two cavalry brigades under his command, this kind of courage and mind are really admirable. This time alone, Han Yunhua won Li Yunchang's friendship, in Li Yunchang's words: "Such a person is worthy of fellowship"

It's not that Han Yunhua doesn't know that the strength of the devil is above him, but now for him, the cavalry brigade is good at long-distance running, and the most taboo is to let the cavalry attack and defend the city. The next battle is destined to be a life-and-death positional defensive battle, and the Inner Mongolia Military Region is destined to be the side that is forced to defend, so the cavalry brigade is temporarily useless for Han Yunhua. And eastern Hebei has always been a battleground for soldiers. It is located on the Great Wall in the north, the Bohai Sea in the south, and the Jinglu in the west, and is the throat road leading to North China in the northeast. Not only is there abundant products to finance military supplies, but also deep mountains and dense forests for detours. It is an ideal battlefield that can be attacked and defended.

After the Japanese army invaded and occupied the three northeastern provinces, in order to annex the whole of China, it first seized eastern Hebei. As early as the beginning of 1933, they raised troops to capture the mouths of the Great Wall. The patriotic officers and soldiers of the Kuomintang stationed in the vicinity of Xifengkou, Lengkou, and Gubeikou fought back with the support of the people of eastern Hebei, but failed because the Kuomintang government did not provide assistance. On May 31, 1933, the Kuomintang government, in spite of the opposition of the people of the whole country, went so far as to sign the infamous "Tanggu Agreement" with the Japanese invading army, which designated eastern Hebei as a demilitarized zone. Then, in 1935, the Kuomintang government made another "He-Mei Agreement" and surrendered eastern Hebei to the Japanese army. The traitor Yin Rugeng organized the "Autonomous Government of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communists". Since then, eastern Hebei has completely fallen into a military springboard and military station base for Japan's invasion of China. The 6 million people of eastern Hebei became slaves under the iron heel of the Japanese army, living a miserable life in the dark. The opportunity is in front of him now, how can Han Yunhua, who has always taken advantage of it, easily let it go, isn't it just two cavalry brigades, and if it is rowed out, it will be rowed out, and it is not that he will not come back, so the war in eastern Hebei has made new waves.