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, the people's armed anti-Japanese riot (also known as the uprising) in eastern Hebei finally kicked off 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.

On July 12, Deng Hua led the main force of the fourth column to meet the enemy of the Banyuan Division reinforcing the first section of the four seas from Huairou County in Shayu, and fought fiercely for 3 hours, destroying more than 300 enemies. However, due to the suddenness of this battle, not only the Japanese army was defenseless, but our army also responded to the battle in a hurry, although it was lucky to win, but 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 Japanese puppet troops in Yutian rushed to reinforce and helped the battle with 3 aircraft. The Fourth Column fought fiercely with the enemy for half a day, 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 and scale of the uprising, and also to unite other anti-Japanese forces in the eastern Hebei region, the special committee of the Hebei Rebian Special Committee 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. And the six corps formed by Gan Gang were also divided into three armies, because Han Yunhua knew that Gao Zhiyuan was a shrewd opportunist and not a full leader, so Han Yunhua elected Hong Linge and the commander of the first road, and Yang Shisan, director of the Political Department, to govern the first and second two 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-Japanese autonomous government, led 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 an anti-Japanese uprising in Zengjiawan, and it was also successful, and the department was quickly expanded into an independent brigade of 1,600 people. Immediately after that, Comrade Wu Shaozhou led a cadre of backbone soldiers to hold an uprising army in Sigezhuang, and made peace with Gao Xiao'an on the 22nd, 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 heavily guarded by the puppet government, 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 set up an independent brigade in Luan County, and after the uprising of fishermen Shi Zhanshan and Wang Jing'an in Leting, the fishermen on the Bohai Sea, it also grew to more than 1,700 people, and was organized into the first and second independent brigades (later expanded into the second and third regiments of special agents), and in the southern part of Luan County, there was also an independent corps established by Cao Zhifu. 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 anti-Japanese uprisings. 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, and now Yin Rugeng and Shouyi in the temple were in a hurry, the importance of eastern Hebei is 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 Japanese Takeshima Wing stationed in Qinhuangdao urgently went south to quell the rebellion, and the Pingtian Wing stationed in 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 by the Japanese puppet army.

However, the good fortune of the Japanese army did not last for a few days, on July 19, Deng Hua and Song Shilun led the 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 with excellent mobility also appeared in the coastal areas of eastern Hebei, and also launched a sneak attack on Qinhuangdao, although in the end they fell short and failed to succeed.

However, the appearance of the cavalry brigade greatly deterred the Japanese puppet army and the traitors and Japanese criminals behind them, and the Japanese army's attack 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 operated by the Japanese Empire for five years, has been seriously threatened, and this threat is fatal. The Japanese Empire had invested more than anyone else in the eastern Hebei region, and even he himself had two cargo terminals in Qinhuangdao and a small coal mine. And the investment of the entire Japanese Empire in eastern Hebei was no less than that of Manchukuo, and if these enterprises were sabotaged by the Chinese army, even if the Japanese government and military department did not investigate his dereliction of duty, those chaebol groups in Japan would not let him go.