On May 5, Han Yunhua and others finally arrived near Hanjia Mountain in Changli County, eastern Hebei. Han Yunhua and Qian Zhuang flew better and met at Biluo Bay in the east of Lichang County, because that place was relatively remote, and the devil's patrol team would not usually go anywhere. Moreover, there are very few devil defenders in Changli County, there is only one devil in the garrison team plus a puppet infantry battalion, even if it is discovered by the devil, it is easy to retreat.

The reason why he received the goods in Changli County, Han Yunhua also had another meaning, because he knew that although Changli County was small, it was a very suitable place to be a base. Changli County is located on the eastern edge of Hebei Province and borders the Bohai Sea in the east. The total area is 1684 square kilometers. The total population is 250,000 (1937). It has jurisdiction over 11 towns and 5 townships. The county government axe is stationed in Changli Town, which is 49 kilometers away from Qinhuangdao city and 438 kilometers away from Shijiazhuang. It is very close to Fu (Ning), Le (Ting), Lu (Long) and other places, and is also close to the sea, which is a freight transit station urgently needed by the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

What Han Yunhua liked the most was the mountainous geographical environment in Changli County, which was very suitable for the guerrilla activities of the Eighth Route Army. In the territory of Changli County, there are more than a dozen large and small peaks such as West Wufeng Mountain, Hanjia Mountain, Tiger Mountain, Mantou Mountain, etc., and the Luan River, Yinma River, Qilihai and other water systems also pass through here, plus the people here are used to being oppressed by the devil and puppet army, and they really need a force to call the shots for them.

The handover of the goods was smooth, and there were no unpleasant things like patrols of devils. Seeing that he was about to return to the military region, Han Yunhua pondered that it was time to start handling the affairs of this guerrilla detachment.

In fact, Han Yunhua also knew that it was not that there were no troops of the Eighth Route Army in the eastern Hebei region, nor that the Eighth Route Army in this area was weak, but that there were a large number of Eighth Route Army troops in this area, and the number was quite large. But Han Yunhua, who is familiar with history, knows that the end of this huge Eighth Route Army force is very tragic.

On July 7, 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident was launched, China entered a full-scale war of resistance. Because eastern Hebei is located at the throat of Northeast China and North China, it is of great strategic significance, and the oppression of the Han Dynasty is particularly cruel. In order to crack down on the arrogance of the Yue Kou, the central authorities decided to hold a large-scale anti-Japanese armed uprising in eastern Hebei.

In order to cooperate with the uprising in eastern Hebei, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, in accordance with the instructions of the Party Central Committee and the Northern Bureau, merged the Song Shilun detachment and the Deng Hua detachment to form the fourth column of the Eighth Route Army and advanced to Pingxi. In June 1938, the Jirebian Special Committee was presided over by Li Yunchang and held a military meeting in Tianjiawanzi, Fengrun County. At the meeting, the name of the insurrectionary force was set as the "Third Military Region of the North China Anti-Japanese Allied Army," which consisted of six corps. In order to unite the anti-Japanese forces, Li Yunchang elected Gao Zhiyuan, the leader of the Luanxian People's League, as the commander-in-chief of the anti-Japanese coalition forces, himself as the deputy commander-in-chief and commander of the second route, Hong Linge as the deputy commander-in-chief and commander of the first route, Yang Shisan as the political director of the first route, and Hu Xikui as the political director of the second route. The date set for the riot was July 16, 1938. Soon, however, the enemy became aware of the plan and began to search for firearms. The situation was urgent, and Li Yunchang convened a meeting of the special committee overnight and decided to hold the riot 10 days earlier.

On July 6, 1938, the Great Rebellion of the People's Armed Resistance in Eastern Hebei officially kicked off! The vigorous anti-Japanese uprising in eastern Hebei lasted until the end of August, with more than 200,000 people participating in the entire eastern Hebei region from south to north and from east to west, of which 100,000 were organized as backbones. With the cooperation of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army, it successively conquered nine county seats, including Pinggu, Qian'an, Jixian, Yutian, Xinglong, Changping, Lulong, Leting, and Baodi, overthrew the puppet regime, sent nine county magistrates to resist Yue, and established a regime of resistance. At the same time, this uprising also cooperated with the struggle on the frontal battlefield, and at the critical moment of the Battle of Wuhan, it greatly restrained the plan of the southern invasion of Yuekou, forcing him to urgently transfer several brigades and regiments to return from the south to support.

In less than two months, the Great Rebellion in Eastern Hebei organized a fully armed anti-Japanese army of more than 100,000 people, fought many victories, and soon established a command structure with our party as the core, which was a great victory. However, at this time, the leading comrades of the Fourth Column received information that the enemy had swept eastern Hebei on a large scale, and their assessment of the situation was too serious. In order to preserve strength and avoid the enemy's edge, it was decided to pull the main force and the rebel team to Pingxi for training. In late September, when the Central Committee, the Northern Bureau, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region failed to dissuade them many times, in late September, the main force of the Fourth Column and the Jixian Anti-Union Forces began to move westward. The three guerrilla detachments with more than 100 people each of Chen Qun (deputy brigade leader), Bao Sen (secretary of the general branch), and Shan Degui (battalion commander) were left to hold on to eastern Hebei. In early October, Deng Hua and the Hebei Provincial Party Committee held a meeting of Jiujianfang (a mountain village in Fengrun County) attended by the leaders of various parts of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and decided to withdraw westward. About 50,000 anti-Japanese troops and local cadres in eastern Hebei marched to Pingxi through Zunhua, Jixian, Pinggu, and Miyun Mountains. At that time, the troops lacked cadres and were not trained, and the peasant contingent that had just been established was far away from their hometowns, and they were attacked and intercepted by the enemy along the way, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, and the phenomenon of large-scale flight took place.

It was very inappropriate for the 40,000 or 50,000 guerrillas in eastern Hebei to withdraw westward together, and the plan was not very thorough; the most important thing was that the troops were not well consolidated, and the discipline was not strict, so they could not march long distances. Gao Zhiyuan's about 10,000 troops walked in front under the cover of the Eighth Route Army, and after crossing the Chaobai River, they were blocked by the Yue Army and dispersed in batches, leaving only more than 1,000 people to reach Pingxi. A total of more than 10,000 people from Hong Linge and Chen Yuhuan walked in the middle, marched to the area of Mashen Bridge in Jixian County, and were blocked by the enemy, Hong and Chen unfortunately died, and most of the troops were scattered, and 6,000 people fled overnight. So far, nearly 90 percent of the tens of thousands of troops in the anti-Japanese uprising in eastern Hebei have been lost, and the anti-Japanese forces in eastern Hebei have suffered a serious blow.

Since you are familiar with this history, you must not allow the tragedy and defeat to repeat itself. Han Yunhua knew that there were still nearly two months to go before the great rebellion in eastern Hebei, and as long as he made good use of this precious time, then the war situation in eastern Hebei would definitely not be as erosive as in history.

Originally, Han Yunhua didn't remember much about this period of history, but when he stepped into the land of eastern Hebei, that familiar history and that painful lesson suddenly came to his heart.

Han Yunhua stopped the car in a hidden valley and gathered the 156 special combat members of the Flying Dragon Special Operations Squadron.

Looking at the more than 100 sturdy iron-blooded men in front of him, Han Yunhua couldn't help but feel emotional, thinking about how difficult the road he had traveled from a small lieutenant colonel officer of the republic to a commander of a military region with tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands, it was not an exaggeration to say that every step was paved with the blood and tears of the soldiers. From the beginning of his tenure as acting commander of the new regiment alone, there are now more than 5,600 soldiers who have died in the archives of the military region, more than 1,300 soldiers who have been seriously injured, disabled, and unable to work, and countless more who have been slightly injured.

And the special operations brigade is the elite that he has personally trained, the sharpest saber in his hand, and the special forces who can turn the tide in times of crisis, and only he knows how much effort Han Yunhua has put into these more than 600 people.

Han Yunhua cleared his throat and said, "Comrades, now I will give you a special task. When we returned to the military region, your Feilong Special Operations Squadron stayed in the eastern Hebei region, and more specifically, in Changli County to organize the local people to carry out the anti-Japanese struggle. I don't care what to do, but within two months you will prepare for me an elite army of at least 3,000 men. When the time comes, I will personally command you in battle. ”

Li Dingguo said: "Commander, we promise to complete the task. But we're a little worried about your safety! ”

"! Don't forget who taught you that little bit of ability, the little devils want to hit me Han Yunhua's attention, then they still lack a good pair of teeth. You can rest assured of my safety, we will return to the military region in five days at most, and we will send you a telegram to report that you are safe. Remember that you are a seed, the fire of resistance sown by our Inner Mongolia Military Region in the land of eastern Hebei, and you cannot be so easily destroyed by the little devils. A spark can start a prairie fire. When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, remember. Then Han Yunhua said: "In order to cooperate with your combat mission, I will leave you some weapons and equipment." But the number will certainly not be too much, about the equipment of an infantry battalion. In the future, you can only rely on your own weapons, equipment and personnel, and my advice to you is to try to pull a ready-made team, like any puppet army bandits, or even the guerrillas of our Eighth Route Army, as long as you can pull it, don't be afraid of clashes with friendly troops, tell them that I Han Yunhua asked you to do this. ”

After explaining the task, Han Yunhua led the remaining three special operations squadrons to the direction of the military region. But as soon as he walked out of Lulong County, Han Yunhua found that something was wrong. Along the way, the investigation of the puppet army is obviously much stricter than when it came. Yesterday morning alone, I encountered four patrols of devils and two large roadblocks.

Seeing this situation, Han Yunhua didn't dare to let the convoy continue to move forward. He ordered the troops to immediately divert into the mountains, and at the same time sent a small force to investigate the specific cause of the sudden increase in patrol strength of the devils, and he did not want to capsize in the gutter. After experiencing so many winds and waves, even the North China Front Army and the Mongolian Corps felt that if the characters were lost in the small place of Lulong, the face of the Eighth Route Army would be lost. After all, in terms of Han Yunhua's current status, he is not inferior to any lieutenant general and division commander in the Kuomintang political axe, nor is he inferior to the status of any division commander in the army.