From August to December 1940, the Eighth Route Army launched the One-Hundred-Regiment Military Campaign, during which it killed and wounded over 25,800 Japanese and puppet troops and captured large numbers of enemy soldiers. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai is shown here at the front directing a battle. In July 1937, the Japanese imperialists launched an all-out war of aggression against China. In the ensuing eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Chinese Communist Party held high the banner of national unity and armed resistance against Japan, and stood in the forefront of the struggle for national liberation from beginning to end.