1940 at 8 o'clock on the evening of August 20, all the important traffic lines of the Japanese invaders in North China were violently attacked at the same time. Gunfire was everywhere behind the enemy thousands of miles away. This massive offensive was launched by the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

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, which completely paralyzed 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.

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The historical background of 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. The criss-crossing railway and highway traffic lines are the pillars and chains of the Japanese aggressors' "cage". The enemy used these lines of communication to divide the anti-Japanese base areas into small pieces and used these lines of communication to "nibble" and "sweep" the base areas.

In order to smash the enemy's "cage", the Eighth Route Army concentrated more than 100 regiments with about 300,000 troops. After full preparation, the famous "Hundred Regiments War" was launched. Therefore, the focus of the Hundred Regiments War is to attack the enemy's lines of communication as a whole, and to destroy the enemy's effective forces while destroying the enemy's lines of communication.

People's Network-1Hundred Regiments Battle on August 20, 940