Ba Lu Jun

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Ba Lu Jun is the Chinese name for the Eighth Route Army, a major Communist-led force that fought against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Communist military force
field army
military unit
activeFrom 1937
activeUntil 1945
allegiance Chinese Communist Party
alsoKnownAs Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army
associatedWithLeader Mao Zedong
commander Zhu De
conflict Chinese Civil War
Second Sino-Japanese War
country Republic of China
engagedIn establishment of base areas behind enemy lines
mass mobilization of peasants
flagDescription red flag with yellow star and "八路军" characters
formedFrom Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
linked to: Chinese Red Army
hasChineseName 八路军
hasEnglishName Eighth Route Army
hasPinyinName Ba Lu Jun
headquartersLocation Yan'an
ideology Chinese communism
Marxism–Leninism
languageOfName Chinese
laterOpponent Kuomintang forces
legalStatusDuringWar nominally part of National Revolutionary Army
nameMeaning Eighth Route Army
notableCommander He Long
Lin Biao
Liu Bocheng
Nie Rongzhen
Xu Xiangqian
operationalArea Hebei
Henan
linked to: Henan Province

North China
Shandong
Shanxi
linked to: Shanxi Province
partOf National Revolutionary Army
politicalCommissar Peng Dehuai
primaryOpponent Imperial Japanese Army
recognizedBy Nationalist government of China
reorganizedAs People's Liberation Army
role guerrilla warfare
mobile warfare
resistance against Japanese invasion
secondaryOpponent collaborationist Chinese forces
sizeAtPeak hundreds of thousands of soldiers
subordinateTo Military Commission of the Communist Party of China
usedTactics people's war

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