Hundred Regiments Offensive | |||||||
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Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War | |||||||
Victorious Chinese Communist soldiers holding the flag of the Republic of China. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Peng Dehuai Zhu De Zuo Quan Liu Bocheng He Long Nie Rongzhen Deng Xiaoping | Hayao Tada | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
8th Route Army |
North China Area Army Collaborationist Chinese Army | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
200,000[2] |
270,000 Japanese troops[3][4] 150,000 Chinese collaborators[3] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
22,000[4]–100,000 (counting desertions)[5] Chinese figure (8th Route Army only): 17,000 casualties and more than 20,000 poisoned[2] |
Several record from different sources: 1. 30,000 Japanese and collaborators[10] |
The Hundred Regiments Offensive or the Hundred Regiments Campaign (Chinese: 百團大戰) (20 August – 5 December 1940)[11] was a major campaign of the Chinese Communist Party's National Revolutionary Army divisions. It was commanded by Peng Dehuai against the Imperial Japanese Army in Central China. The battle had long been the focus of propaganda in the history of Chinese Communist Party but had become Peng Dehuai's "crime" during the Cultural Revolution. Certain issues regarding its launching and consequences are still controversial.