Blood and Fire: This Is How New China Was Forged| Episode 18 "Ping-Type Guan Dajie"

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In September 1937, the Japanese army that invaded the northern part of Shanxi attacked the first line of Pingxingguan and Yanmenguan in an attempt to go south to capture Taiyuan. Lin Biao, commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, led his troops to the danger and ambushed the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Banyuan Division at Pingxingguan. In this battle, the Eighth Route Army annihilated more than 1,000 enemy troops, destroyed dozens of cars, captured a large number of materials, and dealt a fierce blow to the arrogant ambitions of the Japanese army invading China.

The Pingxingguan Victory was the first major victory won by the Chinese army in the war against Japan on its own initiative after the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, broke the myth of the Japanese army's "invincibility," greatly boosted the confidence of the military and people throughout the country in resisting the war, enhanced the prestige of the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army, and made many people believe that the Communist Party not only resolutely resisted Japan, but was also capable of defeating the enemy.