Eighth Route Army
Army · Republic of China · August 22, 1937 – March 1, 1947 · 600,000 strong
The Communist army in the north, formally part of the National Revolutionary Army, which fought from base areas behind the Japanese lines and grew from 30,000 to about a million men.
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Strength and losses
- Nominal Strength: 600,000
Movements
- September 1 – November 9, 1937 Battle of Taiyuan
- September 24–25, 1937 Battle of Pingxingguan
- September 25, 1937 Ambush at Pingxingguan Map
- June 1, 1938 Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area Map
- August 20, 1940 Hundred Regiments Offensive Map
- August 20 – December 5, 1940 Hundred Regiments Offensive
- May 1, 1942 Yan'an Map
- 1945 – 1949 Operation Beleaguer
- August 15, 1945 – March 1, 1947 Moves on the Japanese-held cities Map
- September 10, 1945 – October 12, 1945 Shangdang Campaign Map
- 1946 – 1949 Second Kuomintang-Communist Civil War