On August 31, 1946, the Second Column of the Jin-Hebei Luyu Field Army let Kong Qingde's Fourth Brigade (more than 5,000 people) stay in southern Hebei to monitor the enemy in Anyang, and commander Chen Zaidao, chief of staff Fan Chaoli, and director of the Political Department Zhong Hanhua led the Fifth Brigade (more than 4,480 people), the Sixth Brigade (more than 4,250 people), and the Dusi Brigade (2,980 men) to carry out operations against the Kuomintang troops attacking Dingtao and Cao County in Shandong Province in accordance with the orders of Liu Bocheng, commander of the Jinji Luyu Field Army.
After arriving at the designated position, Commander Chen Zaidao ordered the Dusi Brigade to fortify in Dongmingliuli to block the enemy, and on September 1, under the command of Brigade Commander Sun Rendao and Political Commissar Yang Shugen, with the strength of more than 2,000 troops in three small regiments, in Dongmingliuli, a fierce battle broke out with the 104th Brigade of the Entire Forty-first Division of the Nationalist Army, and successfully blocked the 104th Brigade of the Entire Forty-first Division of the Nationalist Army.
On September 3, Liu Zhi, director of the Zhengzhou "Appeasement" Office, who had won the opportunity to lure the enemy deeper, ordered the Nationalist army to change its offensive strategy: the entire third division attacked Heze alone, and the entire 417th division attacked Dingtao alone. However, Liu Zhi's purpose was to think that Heze, the headquarters of the Jiluyu Field Army, was empty, and let Zhao Xitian, the head of the central army, attack alone, thinking that he could get great merit and thus replace Sun Zhen's position that he did not trust.
However, Liu Zhi's decision was exactly in line with the wishes of the headquarters of the Dingtao Campaign, and the various mazes put forward by our army were to make Liu Zhi make such a decision, and sure enough, on the afternoon of September 3, the 3rd Brigade of the Reorganized 3rd Division was lured to Rhubarb Ji, the division headquarters entered the Tianye Temple, the 20th Brigade entered Dayang Lake, and the reorganized 47th Division entered Sanqiudian and south of Changluji. The second column, the third column, the sixth column, and the seventh column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army quickly closed in, and at 23:30, the general offensive began.
Chen Zaidao's second column was tasked with commanding the Fifth Brigade of Lei Shaokang and Kou Qingyan, and the Sixth Brigade of Wang Tianxiang and Liu Huaqing in besieging the Third Brigade of the Entire Third Division of Rhubarb Ji and Jiadi Wang. Lei Shaokang's Fifth Brigade had the heaviest task, they were going to attack the Third Brigade of the Nationalist Third Division in the dark. The commander of the Third Brigade was He Zhuben, who graduated from the sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy and the fourteenth term of the Army University. He participated in the Battle of Changde and fought bravely and was seriously wounded. In the defense of Hengyang, the nationalist army was completely destroyed, but He Zhuben led more than 300 officers and men to successfully break through when Hengyang fell. Therefore, before Lei Shaokang set out, Fan Chaoli, chief of staff of the Second Column, specifically told him that he should not underestimate He Zhuben, but he was an anti-Japanese hero who fought with the elite and bloody Japanese army in Hengyang, and the war was fierce and fierce. In the end, after the Battle of Dingtao, the reorganized Third Division was completely annihilated by the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, and He Zhuben escaped with 500 people.