Battle of a Hundred Regiments: Raiding the Tsingtao Railway — Picture: China's War of Resistance

Author: Xiong Yuxiang (Editor)
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: On the night of August 20, 1940, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the 129th Division, and the 120th Division launched a campaign under the unified command of the Eighth Route Army, with the focus on disrupting the Zhengtai Railway. Three days after the campaign began, a total of 105 regiments of the Eighth Route Army participated, hence the name "Hundred Regiments Campaign." On August 22, 1940, the 120th Division and the 129th Division of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, under the unified command of the Eighth Route Army, launched a campaign with the focus on disrupting the Zhengtai Railway. Three days into the campaign, the Eighth Route Army had already deployed 105 regiments, hence the name Hundred Regiments Campaign. This was an unprecedented large-scale offensive battle in the history of China's War of Resistance. It eliminated over 46,000 Japanese soldiers and shattered the Kuomintang's slander that the Communist Party "only roams but does not fight." The Hundred Regiments Campaign cut off the Japanese army's transportation and supply lines, delayed the Japanese army's southward advance, boosted the morale of the people across the nation, and enhanced the reputation of the Communist Party's Eighth Route Army.