🇨🇳 百團大戰 Hundred Regiments Offensive (TRUE EVENTS, 2015 (Eng sub)

The Hundred Regiments Offensive is based on true events, and an important campaign fought by the CCP-led forces during the Total War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In the fall and winter of 1940, the 8th Route Army led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initiated a large-scale campaign against Japan in its rear area in North China. The campaign became known as the “Hundred Regiments Offensive” for the 105 regiments employed in the fighting. On 8 August 1940, the headquarters of the 8th Route Army led by Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, and Zuo Quan, ordered to launch a campaign deploying dozens of regiments to destroy the railway lines and military bases along those lines occupied by the enemy in provinces including Hebei, Shanxi, Suiyuan, Chahar, and Rehe in North China. The 8th Route Army augmented the manpower from initially 20-odd regiments to more than a hundred comprising around 400,000 soldiers since the fighting broke out on 20 August. The fighting was completed by 6 October, but skirmishes continued until the end of the year. The 8th Route Army engaged in over 1,820 battles of varying scales in the campaign, suffering 17,000 casualties and over 20,000 were poisoned. It also inflicted over 20,000 casualties on the Japanese Army and the Collaborationist Chinese Army, dealing a massive blow to the enemy. After the conclusion of the Hundred Regiments Offensive, Okamura Yasuji, the Commander-in-Chief of the North China Area Army, issued the “Three Alls Policy” - to kill all, burn all, loot all - to “wipe out” bases of operations in the enemy’s rear area in North China. The Chinese forces, meanwhile, frequently engaged in tunnel warfare and land mine warfare, organising armed forces in the enemy’s rear area and guerrilla attacks along railways. During the Total War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, conflicts such as the New Fourth Army Incident occurred in early 1941 between the Kuomintang of China (KMT) and the CCP, they still largely maintained t