January 1: Zhao Jimei leads two regiments of the Eighth Route Army to annihilate more than 1,000 people in the Kuomintang army's Prince Kui department in Han. Upon hearing the news, Ma Fengle and Hu Luo's first subordinates withdrew from the revolutionary base area in the northwest of Cao County.
7th: The Independent Regiment and the Kaocheng County Brigade set up an ambush at Liulige (now part of Louzhuang), annihilating 155 Japanese puppet troops.
In early January: After the Luxian Prefectural Committee promulgated the "Interim Regulations on Rent Reduction and Interest Reduction" and the "Regulations on Preferential Treatment of The Families of Anti-Japanese Soldiers" issued by the central government in the base areas, the Caoxian County Party Committee and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government carried out pilot work on the implementation of these two regulations.
January 14: The Independent Regiment of the Southwest Lu Prefectural Committee and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government of Cao County held a joint military and political meeting at Li Lou (now part of Changle Ji Town) in northwest cao to discuss the coordination of local work and army work, but was suddenly surrounded by more than 1,700 Japanese puppet troops. At a distance of about 1 kilometer from Li Lou, the enemy slammed into Li Lou with machine gun cannons, and our army resisted the stronghold. In the afternoon, the enemy fired gas bombs, and our independent regiment and the county government broke through outside the east gate. In this breakthrough battle, I suffered more than 30 cadres and soldiers. After the Japanese army entered the village, it bloodily slaughtered more than 70 innocent civilians, set fire to more than 100 houses, snatched more than 3,000 catties of grain, and 100 heads of livestock and poultry (only).
Early February: In accordance with the instructions of the central authorities on strengthening the work of enemy workers, the Lu southwest prefectural committee set up an enemy work department, and the Caoxian county party committee set up an enemy work station.
In February, the Puyang Special Office set up the Lu Southwest Office in the northwest of Cao County, with Liu Qibin, the county magistrate of the Cao County Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, as the director of the office, and until may of this year, the Lu Southwest Special Office was established and the office was abolished.
February: The Lu Southwest Prefectural Committee decided that Cao Fei would be the secretary of the Cao County (Southeast) County Party Committee, Han Shujing would be the director of the organization, Dong Shicai would be the director of propaganda, and Fan Zicheng would be the secretary of the military minister Li Jimin. The focus of the activity is in the area of Zhongdi Circle in the tenth district of Cao County.
March 3: The New Third Brigade of our 2nd Column besieged hundreds of enemy troops departing from Ludao (now Weiwan Town) in Lulaozhuang, northwest of Cao County, and after 1 hour of fierce fighting, killed and wounded more than 80 enemy soldiers, and our regimental commander Yu Keqin was wounded.
March: The Lu Southwest Prefectural Committee founded the New Democracy Daily, with Wang Ruiting as the editor-in-chief. The newspaper ceased publication in April 1943.
Chun: Sun Shengzhai served as the commander of the security brigade of the Kuomintang Luxi Bureau. Sun Liangcheng, director of the Kuomintang Luxi Bureau, led the bureau's office to hanchang in the southeast of Cao County, and on the grounds that yang Muqing, the head of the Kuomintang county of Cao County, was ineffective in handling his affairs, he dismissed him and sent his staff officer Guo Nianji as the county chief, and two months later appointed Gao Tianshun as the county chief, stationed in Zhao Miao Village near Huoshentai (now An Cai Lou Town) in the southeast of Cao County. Sun Liangcheng took a fancy to Sun Shengzhai, who had been the secretary of the Kuomintang Cao County Government for three consecutive terms, made him the commander of the security brigade of the Luxi Bureau, helped him to gather local forces to expand his own armament, and sent Gao Tianshun and Li Heting as deputy brigade commanders, and the brigade headquarters was set up in Vulcan Tai. Sun Sexzhai was based on the teams of various districts and districts, and widely recruited local landlords, scattered guns, soldiers and hooligans, and quickly pulled up the team. The brigade has a total of more than 2,500 officers and men and more than 1,300 guns.
On May 1, the Lu Southwest Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China presided over a meeting of 10,000 people attended by the party, government, army, and people from all walks of life in Yizhuang (present-day Hanji Town), and officially announced the establishment of the Lu Southwest Commissioner's Office and the Lu Southwest Military Subdistrict (known as the JiluYu Third Special Office and the Third Military Subdistrict). Liu Qibin was appointed commissioner, Li Mingting was appointed chief of the civil affairs section, Wang Ziping was appointed chief of the finance section, Lin Jinghua was appointed chief of the education section, Zhang Haihan was appointed chief of the grain and straw section, and Liu Mengqin was appointed acting director of the public security sub-bureau. The military sub-district was commanded by Zhang Yaohan, Zhang Yingkui as political commissar, and Cao Zhizhen as director of the political department. The special office has jurisdiction over Cao County, Dingtao, Heze, Kaocheng, Dongyuan and other counties.
Cao Zhizhen introduced
May: The anti-Japanese democratic government in Cao County adjusts the leading members. Because most of the leading members of the anti-Japanese democratic government in Cao County served in the Lu Southwest Special Office, the county party committee filled in the vacancies and adjustments of the members of the government. Wang Shijun served as county magistrate, Li Rongcun as secretary, Liu Xiusheng as chief of the civil affairs section, Yuan Hao as chief of the finance section, Wan Ziyu as the chief of the education section, Zheng Meichen as the chief of the armed forces section, Wang Xingyuan as the chief of the judicial section, and Nie Zhi'an as the deputy chief of the county basic cadre brigade.
Introduction of Li RongCun
June: With the approval of the prefectural party committee, Fan Zicheng, military director of the county party committee, used his connections to infiltrate the Sun Sex Zhai Department of the Security Brigade of the Kuomintang Luxi Bureau and served as the commander of the third regiment (Fan Zicheng led the regiment in September 1943 and was incorporated into the troops of the Southwest Lu Military Sub-district).
July: The 20th Regiment of the Jiluyu Military Region and the local troops in southwest Lu expanded their base areas. After the hebei-Luyu military region was reorganized, the main forces cooperated with the localities and advanced to the border areas in a planned manner to expand the anti-Japanese base areas. The 20th Regiment and the local armed forces of southwest Lu eliminated one part of the puppet army in front of and behind Wang Shanzhuang in the combined forces of Heze and Dongming, and launched a counterattack against Zhang Zhigang, the governor of the Kuomintang Heze County and head of the security regiment, forcing Zhang Toe to retreat to the northwest of Heze and open up the area around Wubagang. The troops then advanced southward, and in early August removed the dulou pseudo-stronghold between Cao County and Kaocheng, and opened up areas around Baimao, Dazhai, and Zhang Jun's tomb (present-day Kaocheng Town, Lankao County).
August: Underground liaison station established. In the summer of 1938, the Caoxian County Party Committee took the Dehengquan Hotel in Zhongdi Circle (now part of Shaozhuang Town) as the party's underground liaison station, and later the Lunan Prefecture Committee specially sent traffic personnel, so the Dehengquan Hotel became an underground liaison station for the prefectural and county party committees, and Ren Xiaocun, secretary of the tenth district party committee of Caoxian County, was responsible. This liaison station is an underground hub for communication and liaison between Cao Northwest and Cao Dongnan, Southwest Lu, and Huxi, a transportation station for escorting comrades from local and county leaders to guide their work in various places, and an intelligence station for collecting and transmitting the movements of enemies, friends, and us. This liaison station also stipulates the contact code and joint method, such as the secret code of Dai Xiaodong, the secretary of the prefectural party committee, is "101", the secret code of Wang Jianmin, the director of the organization, is "102", and the code name of the liaison station itself is "Cao Shi", that is, the tenth district of Cao County.
August: Cao County, Heze, Changyuan and Kaocheng set up offices in Dongming, called the four counties joint office, and Wang Tao served as the director of the joint office, responsible for handling the work of the junction between the four counties and Dongming.
September: The anti-Japanese democratic government of Cao County implemented the "Administrative Program of the Government of the Jin-Hebei-Hebei Luyu Border Region" in the base areas, and promoted various work. The main contents of the "Administrative Program" are: defend the border areas and persist in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in North China; Strengthen and expand the armed forces, democratically elect governments at all levels, and resolutely suppress traitors who are dead set on their hearts; Preferential treatment of enemy and pseudo-officers and soldiers and prisoners, and strengthening the economic construction of the base areas; Practicing free trade to regulate the interests of both labor and management; Rent reduction and interest rate reduction are implemented, and a unified progressive tax on agriculture is levied.
November 21: More than 100 Japanese troops, 5 cars, 4 guns and 2 heavy machine guns, went to the Baimaoji area to sweep, and the anti-Japanese democratic government organs of Cao County, which were living in Wang Jurenzhuang near Baimaoji, were scattered and transferred to the surrounding villages.
Map of CaoXian Gazetteer in December 1999
Winter: Mobilize the masses to break through roads and dig ditches. In order to better persist in guerrilla warfare in the plains, the Caoxian County CPC Committee and the anti-Japanese democratic government mobilized the masses in the base areas to carry out road-breaking activities, transformed the terrain, and dug all the major roads between villages into trenches more than 2 meters deep and more than 3 meters wide, which not only prevented the invasion of the Japanese puppet army, but also greatly facilitated the activities of our soldiers and civilians. A few villages have also dug tunnels and conducted tunnel warfare. This move played a major role in the struggle against the enemy.
Schematic diagram of the Authentic Liguan during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
References: "Cao County Chronicle", "A Concise History of the Cpc Cao County", "Cao County Gazetteer", etc.