1940 In the second half of the year, Peng commanded the Eighth Route Army 129 Division and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, with a total of more than 200,000 troops in 105 regiment, and launched an offensive campaign against Japanese puppet troops in Hebei and Shanxi in North China. In this campaign, more than 1800 battles were fought, more than 2,900 strongholds were captured, and more than 45,000 Japanese puppet troops were annihilated, which dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese puppet troops.
Schematic diagram of Hundred Regiments War
, inspired the fighting spirit of China soldiers and civilians in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and enhanced the confidence to win.
1939 Since the winter, the Japanese army has made frequent raids on the anti-Japanese base areas with railways and highways as their pillars, in an attempt to cut off the links between strategic places such as Taihang and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, and implemented the so-called "cage policy" with railways as its pillars, highways as its chains and bunkers as its locks. The Eighth Route Army headquarters decided to launch a traffic war focusing on Zheng Tai Railway and the northern section of Tongpu Road, which effectively dealt a blow to the Japanese army in North China. Zheng Tai Railway occupies a very important position in the traffic line of North China. It crosses Taihang Mountain, which is the link connecting Pinghan and Tongpu railways, and is one of the important strategic transportation lines of Japanese army in North China. The offensive campaign of the Eighth Route Army was first launched on the Zheng Tai Railway, so it began to be called the Battle of Zheng Tai Road.
On July 22nd, 1940, Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, Peng, deputy commander-in-chief and Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff, issued the Battle Preparation Order, stipulating that there should be no less than 22 regiments.
Peng directs the front line.
, a huge blow to Zheng Tai railway. At the same time, it is required to deploy appropriate troops to carry out extensive damage to Tongpu, Pinghan, Jinpu, Beining, Texaco and other railways and some major highway trunk lines in North China, in order to cooperate with the damage to Zheng Tai railway.
On August 8, 1940, Zhu De, Peng and Zuo Quan issued the "Campaign Action Order", stipulating that the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region would attack the railway stone (excluding) to Yangquan section; 129th division attacked Yangquan-Yuci section of Zheng Tai railway; 120 Division launched an attack on Tongpu Railway and Fen (Yang)-Li (Shi) Highway to the north of Xinxian County, and heavily blocked Japanese troops to reinforce Zheng Tai Railway in the north and south of Yangqu. All ministries are required to recover some strongholds occupied by the Japanese army while breaking the traffic line. In these areas and communication lines, there are all three Japanese divisions, two wings of two divisions, all five independent mixed brigades, two brigades of four independent mixed brigades, and two brigades of 1 cavalry brigade, totaling more than 200,000 people. There are also planes 150 and puppet troops 150 or so.
According to the original regulations of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, there were no fewer than 22 regiments participating in the war. However, after the campaign, the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army and the people in the anti-Japanese base areas hated the Japanese "cage policy" and took part in the customs-breaking operation, and various ministries invested a lot of troops, including 39 regiments in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, 129 Division (including 1 and the third column of the death squads) and 120 Division (a total of 46 regiments. (All together, there may be more than 200 groups. )
When Peng and Zuo Quan listened to the battle report in the war room of the Eighth Route Army headquarters and learned that the actual combat forces had reached 105 regiment, Zuo Quan said excitedly: "Good! This is the Hundred Regiments War. " Peng Dui said, "No matter how many regiments there are, let's call this campaign the Hundred Regiments War!" As a result, the Battle of Zheng Tai developed into a Hundred Regiments War.
1In August, 940, the Eighth Route Army headquarters mobilized more than 100 regiments to launch a large-scale attack on the Japanese invaders on the front line of more than 2,000 kilometers in North China, unplugging the enemy's bunkers and strongholds near the base areas, and blowing up railways, bridges and highways, paralyzing the Japanese traffic lines. This is the famous Hundred Regiments War.