The Hundred Regiments Offensive or the Hundred Regiments Campaign was a tactical campaign initiated by the Eighth Route Army, led by the Chinese Communist Party, against the Japanese invasion in North
Victorious Chinese Communist soldiers holding the flag of the Republic of China.
In May 1940, Chen Xilian (commander of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division) conducted combat mobilization in battle preparation.
After the victory at Dongtuanbao during the Laiyuan–Lingqiu Campaign, Eighth Route Army soldiers cheered triumphantly atop the Great Wall.
Peng Dehuai directed the battle from an artillery observation post on the Guanjia'nao front line.
The Eighth Route Army, also known as the 18th Group Army, was a field army nominally under the banner of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, established in 1937 as part of the Se
Hundred Regiments Offensive
…The Hundred Regiments Offensive (Chinese: 百团大战) or the Hundred Regiments Campaign was a tactical campaign initiated by the Eighth Route Army, led by the Chinese Communist Party, against the Japanese invasion in North China from 20 August 1940, to 24 January 1941. The operation was named in…
Eighth Route Army fighting on the Futuyu Great Wall, Laiyuan, Hebei, 1938. Photograph by Sha Fei.
In July 1937, the Presidium of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party issued an order for the Chinese Red Army to reorganize into the National Revolutionary Army and stand by for the anti-Japanese front line.
Former site of the Eighth Route Army Office in Guilin.
Chinese poster depicting the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi.