Record of the Battles of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army

Author: Wei Bihai
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Publish Date: 2002-01-02
Features: When the eighty thousand-strong Nationalist army in North China collapsed at the slightest touch, Mao Zedong suddenly revealed his ace—the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River and achieved a decisive victory at Pingyuan Pass. The 115th Division was the elite main force of the Central Red Army. Over eight years of the War of Resistance, it had repeatedly achieved remarkable feats. In over thirty thousand battles, it had annihilated over 500,000 enemies, growing from 15,000 to nearly a million regular and local troops. The main force, vowing to march east from Yunyang, advanced straight to the coast of the East Sea, sweeping across North China with invincible momentum; the local armed forces fought bravely, striking terror into the enemy's hearts. This book vividly and objectively recreates the entire campaign of the 115th Division's main force from its decisive victory at Pingyuan Pass to its major counteroffensive in Shandong, through the portrayals of numerous renowned generals such as Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen, Luo Ronghuan, Chen Guang, Xiao Hua, Li Tianyou, Yang Dezhi, Yang Chengwu, Yang Yong, and Chen Shijiu.
When the eighty thousand-strong Nationalist army in North China collapsed at the slightest touch, Mao Zedong suddenly revealed his ace—the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River and achieved a decisive victory at Pingyuan Pass. The 115th Division was the elite main force of the Central Red Army. Over eight years of the War of Resistance, it had repeatedly achieved remarkable feats. In over thirty thousand battles, it had annihilated over 500,000 enemies, growing from 15,000 to nearly a million regular and local troops. The main force, vowing to march east from Yunyang, advanced straight to the coast of the East Sea, sweeping across North China with invincible momentum; the local armed forces fought bravely, striking terror into the enemy's hearts. This book vividly and objectively recreates the entire campaign of the 115th Division's main force from its decisive victory at Pingyuan Pass to its major counteroffensive in Shandong, through the portrayals of numerous renowned generals such as Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen, Luo Ronghuan, Chen Guang, Xiao Hua, Li Tianyou, Yang Dezhi, Yang Chengwu, Yang Yong, and Chen Shijiu.