In the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was a super-large-scale uprising, the entire uprising was attended by nearly 200,000 people, and finally 100,000 troops were established, which were later dispersed into the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army, which greatly enhanced the strength of the War of Resistance. So, what is this uprising? And who is leading it?
It is said that as early as after the defeat of the Great Wall War of Resistance, Jidong was reduced to the pocket of the Japanese army, which is a rich land, where there are six million people, as a strategic place connecting northeast China and north China, the Japanese army seized Jidong, and used this as a "springboard" to go straight into north China. The Japanese army also established a puppet government in jidong, the "Jidong Defense Communist Autonomous Government", since then, it has become a military station base for the Japanese army, continuously "transfusing" blood for the Japanese army, and the six million people in jidong have also begun a life of suffering.
After the "July 7 Incident," as the Japanese army launched an all-out war of aggression against China, the Chinese Communists decided to develop armed forces behind enemy lines in eastern Hebei and establish an anti-Japanese base area in Jirebian. In September 1937, the "North China People's Armed Autonomous Association" was established, Li Chuli, Dong Yuhua, Zhang Zhixiang and a large number of other cadres came to the fore, and soon after the Establishment of the Jirebian Special Committee, Li Yunchang served as the secretary of the Special Committee, fully responsible for the uprising work in Jidong, and since then the Jidong War of Resistance has entered a new period.
At that time, in order to smoothly carry out the uprising, the CCP mainly carried out three tasks:
The first is the "blood transfusion" of backbone cadres. The CPC Hebei Province sent Lin Tie, military minister, to Tianjin to secretly open a military training class, trained the backbone cadres for several months of riots, and then secretly sent them to the eastern Hebei front.
The second is the liaison work of the uprising. At that time, there were dozens of large and small anti-Japanese armed forces in eastern Hebei, the largest of which were Gao Zhiyuan's militia group, Hong Linge's department, and Chen Yuhuan's Lianzhuanghui armed forces; Li Yunchang convened a meeting of anti-Japanese people's deputies, and invited Gao Zhiyuan, Hong Linge, Chen Yuhuan, and others to attend the meeting, and later established the "Jidong Branch of the North China People's Armed Self-Defense Association." In May 1938, Li Yunchang, Gao Zhiyuan, and Hong Linge held a second meeting, at which the number and structure of the Anti-Japanese Coalition Army in Eastern Hebei were determined, at that time Gao Zhiyuan was elected as the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese Coalition in Eastern Hebei, and Hong Linge and Li Yunchang served as deputy commanders.
The third is to launch a workers' and peasants' movement. At the beginning of 1938, Zhou Wenbin, secretary of the Tangshan Working Committee, organized a strike of 35,000 miners in the Kailuan Coal Mine, engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy, and finally won the strike after more than fifty days. At the same time, rural workers in Laoting and other places also united to oppose the exploitation of the landlord class, and later joined the Self-Defense Association and the Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress. By the eve of the uprising, the membership of the Self-Defense Association in Jidong had reached 17,000.
The Jidong Rebellion was originally scheduled to be held on July 16, 1938, but due to the situation, the uprising had to be held ten days earlier, and the first shot of the uprising was fired in Gangbei Village, LuanXian County, and the Fifth General Brigade of the Anti-Japanese League led by Li Runmin and Gao Peizhi took the lead in the uprising. On July 8, Hong Linge and Yang Shisan led their troops to revolt in Beitou Village, Zunhua, and established the first, second, third, and fourth general teams of the Jidong Anti-Japanese Alliance, and on the ninth day, Gao Zhiyuan joined forces with Chen Yuhuan of the Luan County Lianzhuang Association to launch an uprising and established the sixth general brigade. It is worth mentioning that on July 13, Gao Jingzhi, principal of the Lulong County Simple Normal School, also spontaneously threw himself into the wave of uprising, and he personally came to Lulongcheng and scolded the pseudo county magistrate as a "traitor" and a "traitor".
At that time, many good men in the green forest also joined the rebel army, such as Yang Er in Zunhua County and Ding Wanyou in Changli County.
Suddenly, the anti-Japanese armed uprising in jidong reached a climax, and according to statistics, at that time, the jidong anti-japanese coalition established a total of forty-eight general units, far exceeding the original six corps. In two months, as many as 200,000 people participated in the uprising, and the total strength of the Jidong Anti-Japanese League reached a staggering 70,000 people, and at that time, there were more than 30,000 local armed forces in eastern Jidong. Such a force is amazing! At that time, the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army, the 115th Division, the 120th Division and the 129th Division, of which the 115th Division had only 450,000 men, while the 120th Division had only 50,000 men by the end of 1940, and the 129th Division had only 50,000 men. It can be seen from this that at that time, the size of the Jidong Anti-Japanese Coalition was simply comparable to the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army. Of course, in terms of combat effectiveness, the Jidong Anti-Japanese Alliance is far inferior to the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army.
After that, the Jidong Anti-Japanese League and the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army successfully met with the division and declared the complete success of the Jidong Rebellion, when the CPC Central Committee and the Northern Bureau sent congratulatory messages to the Jidong Anti-Japanese Alliance, and for a while, the whole land of Jidong was festive. The Great Rebellion in Eastern Hebei was carried out under the leadership of Li Yunchang, Gao Zhiyuan and others, and this uprising was almost the largest uprising in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which sent a large number of soldiers to the troops of the Eighth Route Army and effectively supported the War of Resistance.