Hundred Regiments Offensive
Marco Polo Bridge - Beijing -Tianjin - Chahar - Shanghai (1937 ) - ( Sihang - Warehouse) - Beiping - Hankou Railway - Tianjin - Pukou Railway - Taiyuan - Pingxingguan - Xinkou - Nanjing - Xuzhou - Tai_erzhuang - Henan - Lanfeng - Amoy - Chongqing - Wuhan - ( Wanjialing ) - Canton - (Hainan ) - Nanchang - ( Xiushui (river) ) - Suixian - Zaoyang - (Shantou ) - Changsha ( 1939) - South Guangxi - ( Kunlun pass) - Winter offensive - ( Wuyuan ) - Zaoyang - Yichang - hundred regiments - central Hubei - South Henan - West Hebei - Shanggao - Shanxi - Changsha ( 1941) - Changsha ( 1942) - Yunnan -Burma road - Zhejiang - Jiangxi - Sichuan - West Hubei - Northern Burma and Western Yunnan - Changde - Ichi- gō - Henan - Changsha ( 1944) - Guilin - Liuzhou - West Henan and northern Hubei - Western Hunan - Guangxi (1945 ) - Manchukuo ( 1945)
Overview
The growth of fighters 1940 was so impressive, Zhu De ordered a coordinated offensive of most communist units. These included 46 regiments of the 115th Division, 47 regiments of the 129th Division and 22 regiments of the 120th Division. You should run attacks on the cities and connecting them Railroads held by the Japanese. Between 20 August and 10 September, they attacked the links between the Communist base bases, especially those of Dezhou to Shijiazhuang in Hebei, Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan in central Shanxi and Taiyuan to Datong in northern Shanxi. They began with the demolition of tunnels and bridges and the destruction of sections, as well as of the end of September with direct attacks on Japanese garrisons. They suffered heavy losses of up to 22,000 men. The Japanese lost an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 fighters. A total of approximately 960 kilometers of track were destroyed by the Chinese and the important for the Japanese war industry coal mine in Jingxing could be set for half a year out of service.
Peng Dehuai was heavily criticized by Mao that he had revealed through his offensive combat strength of the Red Army against the Kuomintang. This was one of the reasons, why the Hundred Regiments Offensive was the last of the great commitment of the Chinese Communists against the Japanese. Peng was removed from his position as Prime Minister in 1959 and during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 threw the Gang of Four Peng, among other things, the mistakes made repeated before, which led to his downfall.
- Conflict in 1940