Li Zhaolin

Li Zhaolin 李兆麟 (1910-1946), known earlier as Li Chaolan 李超兰, was the founder and leader of the 3rd Route Army, a division of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Li was born in Liaoyang county, Liaoning Province,. After the Mukden Incident, he joined the Anti-Japanese National Salvation movement in Beijing. He later returned to organize his hometown volunteers against Japan. In May 1932 Li joined the Youth League and in the fall of 1932 he joined the Communist Party of China and was engaged in to the Benxi coal mine labor movement.

In December 1932 with the Japanese defeating the Anti Japanese Volunteer Armies Lu came to Harbin to direct the military actions of the local party organization. By November 1933, Li went to Zhuhe county to lead its guerrilla forces as deputy commander and political officer under Zhao Shangzhi. By 6 June 1934 he became director of the Political Department of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, and director of the General Political Department of the anti-Japanese forces in and around Heilongjiang. In the next few years with Zhao Shangzhi and Li Yanlu made coordinated raids and attacked and occupied Linkou for a time, and founded the Tangyuan guerrilla base in the lower Songhua River. In May 1939, Li assumed the command of the 3rd Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. He then carried out guerrilla war in the Songnen Plain against the Japanese, and overran Nehe, Keshan, Zhaoyuan and other counties.

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