1June, 937, the Japanese army attacked Shandong. Li Yu, secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, instructed local party organizations to widely mobilize the masses and hold an anti-Japanese armed uprising without the main force. From June 1937 to March 165438, armed uprisings broke out in more than a dozen areas in Shandong. In Jiaodong, after the uprising troops recovered Penglai, Huangxian and Yexian from the enemy and puppet troops, they elected the county magistrate in a democratic way. These are the first three county-level anti-Japanese democratic regimes established in Shandong. The Shandong Provincial Party Committee also vigorously carried out United front work, the most notable of which was the close cooperation and anti-Japanese relationship with Fan Zhuxian, the former Commissioner and security commander of the Sixth District of Shandong Province of the Kuomintang. * * * sent a large number of party member cadres, pioneers of national liberation and patriotic youths to work in Fan Department, which helped to establish an anti-Japanese armed force of about 60,000 people and opened up the anti-Japanese war situation in more than 30 counties in northwest Shandong. Organized armed uprisings in Culai Mountain, Tianfu Mountain, Heitieshan and Taixi successively, established people's armed forces, launched guerrilla warfare, and opened up anti-Japanese base areas such as Jiaodong, Luzhong, Luxi, Qinghe, Huxi and Lunan.