One Hundred Regiments War

In 1940, the world anti-fascist battlefield entered the most difficult period. In the European battlefield, after the Nazi army blitzed Poland, they also attacked the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Norway. On June 14, 1940, France, known as one of the world's great powers, surrendered. Hitler paraded in front of the Arc de Triomphe and clamored that he would implement "Operation Sea Lion" to attack Britain. The Soviet Union, which had always supported China, had no choice but to sign a ceasefire agreement with Japan on the Manchuria-Mongolia border in order to avoid being attacked on both sides. In China, the Kuomintang troops were retreating steadily on the frontal battlefield. In order to resist the Japanese attack, Lieutenant General Zhang Zizhong (played by Deng Chao) died for his country in the brutal Zaoyi Battle. The Jianghan Plain and even most of central China fell into the hands of the Japanese. In Yan'an, northern Shaanxi, China, under frequent bombings by Japanese bombers, Mao Zedong (played by Tang Guoqiang), Zhu De (played by Wang Wufu) and other CCP leaders were worried about the future and destiny of China. They decided that at this time, the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by it should step forward to break the rhetoric of national subjugation and surrender, inject hope into the world anti-fascist battlefield, and deal a blow to the Japanese army that invaded China. Far away in the Eighth Route Army headquarters behind enemy lines in Shanxi, Deputy Commander Peng Dehuai (played by Tao Zeru) and Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo Quan (played by Liu Zhibing) are also thinking about how to execute the CCP's