On the night of August 20th, 1940, the divisions of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, 129 and 120, under the unified command of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, launched a campaign focusing on attacking Zheng Tai Railway. On the third day of the campaign, the number of troops participating in the war reached 105 regiment, so it was called the Hundred Regiments War. Hundred Regiments War is the largest and longest-lasting battle launched by the Eighth Route Army in North China during the stalemate in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
What about the origin, time, background, process and result, the number and significance of killing the enemy?
Introduction to Hundred Regiments War
The Hundred Regiments War was the largest and longest-lasting battle launched by the Eighth Route Army in North China during the stalemate.
Hundred Regiments War was a large-scale sabotage action (also called guerrilla warfare in southern Shanxi) launched by the 18th Army of the National Revolutionary Army (hereinafter referred to as the Eighth Route Army) in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China from August 65438 to August+10/October 65438. China's participating troops include the Eighth Route Army120th Division and129th Division, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and local militia. It was also a large-scale battle that the Eighth Route Army participated in after the Pingxingguan campaign.
At the beginning of the war, the statistics of the Battle Report (the first stage) reached 105 regiments, so it was named Hundred Regiments Battle (formerly Zheng Tai Campaign).
1940 At 8 pm on August 20th, the Eighth Route Army launched the world-famous Hundred Regiments War.
In the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army launched guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, recovered large areas of lost land, and established a series of anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines, such as Jinchaji, Jinsui, Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan, Central China and South China. The active resistance of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army caused great panic among the Japanese aggressors, who pushed 540,000 of the 860,000 invading troops into the battlefield in the liberated areas. The Japanese invaders built many bunkers around the liberated areas, blocked and divided the liberated areas, and implemented a "cage policy" against the liberated areas.
In order to smash the enemy's "cage", the Eighth Route Army concentrated about 300,000 troops in more than 100 regiments and launched a large-scale attack on the traffic lines and strongholds in enemy-occupied areas in North China.
August 20th to September 10 is the first stage of Hundred Regiments War. The Eighth Route Army uprooted numerous enemy strongholds on major railways and highways in North China and put forward the battle slogan of "no rails, no sleepers and no bridges". They dug up the roadbed section by section and burned sleepers, completely paralyzing the enemy's traffic network in North China.
In the second and third stages of the campaign, the Eighth Route Army continued to sweep the enemy strongholds on both sides of the traffic line and deep into the revolutionary base areas, smashing the enemy's large-scale revenge "sweeping". On February 5, 65438, the Hundred Regiments War ended in the glorious victory of our army. In this campaign, our army fought more than 65,438 times+0,800 people, eradicated about 3,000 enemy strongholds, killed and injured 25,800 Japanese puppet troops, captured more than 65,438 people+800,000 people, and seized a large number of military supplies.
Hundred Regiments War is a battle with the largest number of troops, the largest scale, the longest time and the most fruitful results in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. The victory of the Hundred Regiments War dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese aggressors, inspired the fighting spirit of the people of China and curbed the countercurrent of compromise and surrender. Facts have proved that the mainstay of the fight against the Japanese aggressors is the * * * Production Party and its people's army. The Hundred Regiments War has written a glorious page in the history of China and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and it has also had a great influence internationally.