The Battle of the Hundred Regiments was the largest battle fought between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army in North China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and because according to the war reports at that time, there were more than a hundred regiments participating in this battle, so it became the Battle of the Hundred Regiments. The main purpose of the Hundred Regiments War was to sabotage the "cage policy" of the Japanese army, and the so-called "cage policy" was that in 1939, the Japanese army concentrated and scattered in the northeast, north China, and the army inside and outside the Great Wall, relying on railways and highways, carried out uninterrupted large-scale sweeping of north China, and dug ditches in the Everbright Plain area of north China, and implemented the "cage policy" of "taking railways as pillars, highways as chains, and strongholds as locks." This "three-light policy" in line with the Japanese army caused great losses to our soldiers and civilians. In order to undermine this policy, in the summer of 1940, the Eighth Route Army decided to start a large-scale sabotage war.
Open UC browser to see more wonderful pictures On July 22, 1970, which was an unknown day for the Japanese army, Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief, and Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo Quan issued the "Campaign Preparation Order", ordering no less than 22 regiments to launch an attack on the Japanese army, the main target of the attack was the Japanese Army's Zhengtai Railway, because the Zhengtai Railway was crucial to North China at that time and was the lifeline of North China. It was also ordered to destroy the Tongpu, Bac Ninh and other highway lines.
Open UC browser to see more wonderful pictures According to the regulations of General Manager Zhu, the number of troops participating in the battle at that time was not less than 22 regiments, but I did not expect that after the battle began, because many commanders of the Eighth Route Army and the people in the base areas hated the "cage policy" very much, they enthusiastically participated in the war, and their enthusiasm was quite high, and all of them added up to not only exceeded the strength of 22 regiments but even reached 200 regiments. At that time, General Peng Dehuai was very excited to hear this news, and said that since hundreds of regiments had participated in the battle, let's call it the "Hundred Regiments War"!
According to the statistics at that time, in more than three months of fighting, our military and civilians fought more than 1,800 battles, killed more than 20,000 Japanese troops, more than 5,000 puppet troops, captured more than 280 Japanese troops, more than 18,000 puppet troops, destroyed more than 900 miles of railways, more than 3,000 miles of highways, and 258 bridge stations, and the captured materials were enough to equip a division. As the largest battle in the history of the Eighth Route Army, the Hundred Regiments War was the largest battle in which our army took the initiative to attack the Japanese army, and this battle was a heavy blow to the Japanese army, it boosted the morale of the chinese army and people, caused a heavy psychological burden on the Japanese army, and forced them to surrender at an early date.