As early as the 22nd year of the Republic of China, Qianxi County was occupied by the Japanese army, and at that time it was under the control of the Autonomous Government of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communist. The troops of the local Nationalist Government were all withdrawn to the Great Wall, and not even a few small troops remained.

However, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist Government began to pay attention to the land of eastern Hebei again, and the Nationalist Government successively sent two battalions of troops to eastern Hebei to form guerrilla units. It is a pity that these two battalions are really not material for guerrilla warfare, and under the joint strangulation of the Japanese puppet army, these two battalions quickly became a rout, and 16 officers, including Lieutenant Colonel Liu Weimin, became prisoners either killed in battle, and there were only more than 100 people left in less than three months after the whole 1,000-strong troops arrived in eastern Hebei.

However, it was these more than 100 people who gained a firm foothold in Qianxi County, and also raised a large army. The arrival of Li Dingguo and others made this small guerrilla unit under the jurisdiction of the Nationalist Government very unhappy, and before Li Dingguo and others had settled down, they received an invitation letter from Wang Zhenhua, commander of the "Anti-Japanese Advance Guerrilla Corps in Eastern Hebei," who invited Li Dingguo to his headquarters as a guest to discuss the great cause of resisting Japan in eastern Hebei.

Li Dingguo did not know anything about Wang Zhenhua, let alone trust him, and at that moment Li Dingguo sent a combat squad to conduct an urgent investigation of this "anti-Japanese advance guerrilla corps in eastern Hebei."

After several days of secret investigation, Li Dingguo and others finally learned the origin of this "anti-Japanese advance guerrilla corps in eastern Hebei."

The predecessor of this "anti-Japanese advance guerrilla corps in eastern Hebei" was a gang of bandits operating in the eastern Hebei region, who specialized in raiding homes and robbing houses for a living. Later, after the merger of this bandit unit and the Kuomintang army, the current "Eastern Hebei Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps" was formed, and the original bandit commander Wu Yongjiang became the commander of the current Eastern Hebei Guerrilla Corps.

However, although this Wu Yongjiang also fights devils, his main livelihood is to rob homes and houses, and rob past business travelers. Although Wu Yongjiang is still very well-behaved and never harasses the people of Qianxi County, the people of Qianxi County are still very uninterested in this Commander Wu. What is the reason, it is completely this Wu Yongjiang who slips away every time he gets into trouble, and there is nothing they can do about these bandits and rogues in the devil puppet army, so they vent their anger on the people of Qianxi County, and for this reason, more than ten villages in Qianxi were slaughtered by devils.

In any case, he, Wu Yongjiang, is still an anti-Japanese army, and Li Dingguo cannot treat them as the same as devils. Although in Li Dingguo's eyes, this Wu Yongjiang, like his "Eastern Hebei Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps", is an out-and-out black sheep. However, in order to maintain the anti-Japanese national united front and unite all the forces that can be united, Li Dingguo really has no choice but to take this Wu Yongjiang.

However, since people have come to the door, he Li Dingguo is not good at being a turtle with a shrunken head, so Li Dingguo decided to meet this Commander Wu for a while. Moreover, Li Dingguo knew that Wu Yongjiang now had more than 2,000 men and horses in his hands, and there were more than 1,500 war horses in short supply in the eastern Hebei region alone, and the weapons and equipment of the troops were even better. The weapons and equipment of the two integrated battalions of the Kuomintang and the one regiment brought in order to expand the troops all fell into the hands of Wu Yongjiang, and it can be said that Wu Yongjiang now controls the largest anti-Japanese force in eastern Hebei except for the ** Deng Hua detachment. If this unit can be won over, then the situation in eastern Hebei will be easy to handle, and the Inner Mongolia Military Region will also open up the situation in eastern Hebei.

However, the situation in eastern Hebei is very complicated at present, the enemy, our forces, and the stubborn forces are intertwined, the Japanese puppet army occupies big cities, counties, townships and towns, the Eighth Route Army is spread over every mountain village and small village in eastern Hebei, and the Kuomintang guerrilla troops occupy the large and small mountains in eastern Hebei like bandits, and they have the posture of occupying the mountains as kings.

In the eastern Hebei region, there are several Eighth Route Army led by ** alone, and the first of all, the most powerful should belong to the Deng Hua detachment sent to the eastern Hebei region to prepare to lead the people's armed uprising in eastern Hebei. The second is the original guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in eastern Hebei, which were originally local guerrillas in large numbers and were very familiar with the terrain of eastern Hebei, but they were limited to the problem of weapons and equipment, and their combat effectiveness was not strong. In terms of combat effectiveness, the Feilong Special Operations Squadron is undoubtedly the most powerful of the Eighth Route Army, but it is a pity that the number of the Feilong Special Operations Squadron is too small, and the entire unit adds up to only more than 150 people, and basically does not play any role in large-scale positional offensive and defensive battles. ,

In February 1938, in accordance with the instructions of the Party Central Committee and the First Army, Nie Rongzhen, commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, transferred a part of the troops from the First Army Division, which had more backbone and stronger combat effectiveness of the Red Army, and Deng Hua was responsible for forming the Deng Hua Detachment, which decided to march into eastern Hebei. On 20 February, Deng Hua led his troops to set out from Laiyuan and gradually opened up anti-Japanese guerrilla areas such as Pingxi, Fangshan, Zhuoxian, Laishui, Liangxiang (now Fangshan), Changping, and Wanping (now Fengtai District, Beijing), and established anti-Japanese regimes in some counties in Pingxi, organized local armed forces, and expanded the troops to establish advance bases for advancing into eastern Hebei. In May 1938, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army transferred the Song Shilun detachment operating in the northwest of Shanxi to Pingxi, and merged it with the Deng Hua detachment to form the 4th column of the Eighth Route Army. At one point, the troops advanced to the outskirts of Beiping at that time, which greatly boosted the prestige of the Eighth Route Army.

Li Dingguo and Wu Yongjiang agreed to meet in Xinzhuangzi Village, a small village only 20 kilometers from Qianxi County. The two sides agreed that each side would lead a maximum of twenty people, and Li Dingguo didn't care about this, just with the rabble under Wu Yongjiang, even if the Feilong Special Warfare Squadron went, they couldn't find it. I believe that even if Li Dingguo only leads a combat team of thirteen people, Wu Yongjiang will not be able to keep Li Dingguo.

In May, eastern Hebei was already hot, and the temperature was much higher than that of the Inner Mongolia Plateau, which made the special combat personnel who had been living in Inner Mongolia a little uncomfortable, but the long-term extreme training allowed the special combat personnel to quickly adapt to this climate contrast.

Wu Yongjiang was originally a captain and company commander of the Kuomintang Northwest Army, but was later forced to escape from the Northwest Army because he offended his commander. Later, Wu Yongjiang led more than a dozen brothers who escaped from the Northwest Army to fall into the grass in the Chahar region and became horse bandits.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Yongjiang's Chahar was soon occupied by the Japanese Chahar Corps, and his gang encountered a cavalry wing of the devil on a march, and finally his hard-earned family business was wiped out by the devil overnight, and a big horse gang of more than 1,000 people finally left Wu Yongjiang with more than 50 brothers to escape, and his wife, son and nearly 1,000 brothers all became ghosts under the ghost's knife.

At this point, Wu Yongjiang swore that he would not stand against the little devils, and later Wu Yongjiang took the surviving brothers to fight in the eastern Hebei region, and raised a force of more than 2,000 people in the eastern Hebei region. In January 1938, Wu Yongjiang pulled a small group of about 100 Kuomintang troops into his ranks, and at this time he changed the nature of the troops, turning them into the Jidong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps of the National ** Army, and appointed himself as the commander of the major general.

Of course, his commander as a major general has yet to be confirmed by the Nationalist Government, but the troops in his hands are actually more than 2,000 people.

Li Dingguo led two combat groups to the small temple in Xinzhuangzi Village on the afternoon of 25 May to wait for Wu Yongjiang's arrival. In secret, Li Dingguo secretly lurked two more battle groups in case something unexpected happened.

Naturally, Wu Yongjiang was more than ten minutes later than the scheduled time, and Li Dingguo knew that this was Wu Yongjiang, the head snake, who was testing whether he, the commander of the Eighth Route Army, was a dragon crossing the river. After thinking about this, Li Dingguo was even less anxious, he asked the guards to go into the village and ask the people for a pot of hot water, and put some withered yellow leaves in his marching kettle, and drank it as tea.

Li Dingguo drank tea, looked at the scenery of Xinzhuangzi Village, leisurely, and couldn't see his anxious expression at all.