After the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, our Eighth Route Army immediately disorganized into smaller units overnight. Apart from leaving some troops[Expand All]
After the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, our Eighth Route Army immediately disorganized into smaller units overnight. Apart from leaving some troops to protect the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army as they broke through the encirclement and climbed the mountains to play hide-and-seek with the Japanese, the rest of the troops scattered in various directions to break through the encirclement, broke through the Japanese encirclement, and entered the mountainous and plain areas, engaging in guerrilla warfare together with the local people. When breaking through the siege, Zhao Yun, the staff officer of the brigade headquarters who was scattered by the Japanese army, met Li Qiang, the commander of a cavalry company of a certain unit of the Eighth Route Army. The two also encountered the experienced veteran Lao Qu, the astute guard platoon leader Zhou, and the newly enlisted vagrant Xiao Luo. By a strange turn of fate, the five of them were led by traitors to the Japanese Eagle Mountain Coal Mine. Under the leadership of Li Qiang and Zhao Yun, a forced uprising broke out in the coal mine. Finally, everyone escaped from this living inferno. In view of their outstanding performance, the superiors ordered them to officially form an armed work team and head behind enemy lines. At the same time, Zhao Yun was appointed as the team leader. At this point, an Eighth Route Army armed forces unit active behind enemy lines, facing the cruel struggle environment, fought side by side with many of our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians like a dragon diving into the sea, engaging in one life-and-death struggle after another with the cruel Japanese and puppet army spies and traitors.[Collapse]
