After Han Fuyu was shot, Shen Honglie, then mayor of Qingdao, was appointed chairman of Shandong Shan Province, as well as commander of shandong security and deputy commander of the Lusu Theater. At that time, the Eighth Route Army's eastward anti-Japanese advance column, under the leadership of commander Xiao Hua, had already advanced into the Jilu Plain, and while attacking the Japanese and puppet armies, it also created the Jilubian anti-Japanese base area. The Eighth Route Army advanced into Shandong to fight, pinned down a large number of Japanese troops, and greatly reduced the pressure of the Shandong Nationalist Army in the frontal battlefield.
However, Shen Honglie turned a blind eye to this, repeatedly accused our army, and instructed his subordinate Qin Qirong to first create the "Taihe Massacre" and kill more than a hundred officers of our Eighth Route Army. Our army then launched a counterattack to wipe out the Qin forces. Since then, although Shen Honglie has relented somewhat, he still has difficulties for our army everywhere. In order to solve this situation, Xiao Hua, who was then the commander of the Luxi Military Region, decided to take advantage of Shen Honglie's visit to Huimin County to inspect the anti-Japanese defense and persuade him to unite against Japan.
At the end of November 1939, Xiao Hua came to Huimin with Liu Youzhi, the head of the reconnaissance section, and a squad of soldiers to visit Shen Honglie, who was watching a play in his temporary mansion accompanied by Xue Ruhua, deputy commissioner of the Kuomintang Lubei, and a group of militia leaders. Hearing his subordinates report that Xiao Hua had visited, Shen Honglie was surprised at first, but quickly calmed down. He has been in the official arena for a long time, very slippery, in order to show his enthusiasm, he personally took people out to greet him.
Shen Honglie had never seen Xiao Hua before, and he believed that since Xiao Hua was the commander of the Eighth Route Army Military Region, he must be more than 30 years old. After walking out of the gate, he saw that Liu Youzhi, the head of the investigation section, was very powerful, and he was about 30 years old, and he thought that he was Xiao Hua. In order to show his enthusiasm and not wait for others to introduce him, Shen Honglie walked forward as quickly as he saw liu Youzhi's hand and said, "Commander Xiao is really full of brilliance, please go inside!" Liu Youzhi hurriedly said: "Chairman Shen is mistaken, I am Liu Youzhi, the head of the reconnaissance section!" At this time, Xiao Hua came over and said to Shen Honglie, "I ventured to visit Chairman Shen and ask Haihan." Shen Honglie saw that Xiao Hua was very young, so he smiled awkwardly and said, "Commander Xiao is really young and promising, and his eyes are clumsy!" If no one introduces you, my brother thinks you're a guard. ”
Although Shen Honglie was very polite in his mouth, he was very stubborn in the subsequent negotiations. When Xiao Hua proposed to unite against Japan, Shen Honglie said dismissively: "Commander Xiao, your army has been hiding in the rear, when will you be able to go to the front line and fight the Japanese army head-on?" "Yes, hiding behind the devil's ass and shouting, net occupying some places where the enemy has thrown, this is also considered anti-Japanese?" Xue Ruhua, deputy commissioner of the Kuomintang Lubei, also followed behind to help. Xiao Hua suppressed his anger and said, "When we mobilize the masses here and establish a base area, we have controlled the enemy's rear, dragged the enemy's hind legs, and limited the enemy's strength and speed of advancing head-on. In the future, the Japanese will inevitably return to North China in an attempt to consolidate their occupied areas, so this is the front. At that time, we will all be united, and the Japanese will not be able to run amok. Can we say that what we are doing now is not anti-Japanese? ”
Shen Honglie was poor in his words, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer, so he said angrily: "I understand the reason, and Shen Mou understands even more that you should withdraw from Shandong as soon as possible, otherwise you will seize my territory!" In the end, Shen Honglie arbitrarily refused Xiao Hua's request to unite against Japan, and then he instructed his subordinates Qin Qirong and Wang Shangzhi to create a number of friction incidents, our army was forced to counterattack, Qin Qirong was killed by our army, and Wang Shangzhi fled to Pingdu to surrender to the Japanese Kou as a shameful traitor. Shen Honglie's perverse actions aroused strong dissatisfaction among the vast number of soldiers and civilians in Shandong, and he was eventually transferred from Shandong by chiang kai-shek in 1941 and died of illness in Taiwan in 1969.