On December 22, 1942, the "Campaign Preparation Order" for the attack on the Zhengtai Railway, jointly signed by Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, and Zuo Quan, was issued to Nie Rongzhen, He Long, Guan Xiangying, Liu Bocheng, and ***, and reported to the Central Military Commission. However, the Central Military Commission did not give a positive comment on this. The reason is that Mao ** wrote in the article "Strategic Problems of Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War" written in May 1938: .。。。。。。。

Specific to the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, Nie Rongzhen said: "Attacking Zhengtai Road, or attacking Pinghan Road, this is something that is often done in guerrilla warfare. It can be said that this is a kind of daily work of ours, and there are no strategic issues involved. The Central Military Commission will not oppose such a battle plan. ”

The Battle of the Hundred Regiments was highly praised by the Anti-Japanese United Front. But for a long time, this great feat has been met with right and wrong. Like any battle, there were many mistakes and mistakes in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments that did not correspond to the objective reality. During the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and various combat units have already criticized and self-criticized on this issue.

Due to the frenzied retaliation of the Japanese army, the Battle of the Hundred Regiments did aggravate the difficulties of the North China Base Area and the Eighth Route Army, and the extent of its difficulty is difficult for people to imagine today. In March 1943, Peng Dehuai convened a meeting of local cadres in a village in Zuoquan County, and the participants were so hungry that they could not even sit steadily, so Peng Dehuai had to invite everyone to lie down on the kang for the meeting.

The most fundamental thing is that the idea of guerrilla warfare has influenced many people over the years, and they believe that there is only one correct way to resist Japan, and that is to "pounce and run," rather than 100 regiments participating in the war at the same time. Coupled with the erroneous criticism of Peng Dehuai since 1959 and the erroneous criticism of the veteran and veteran during the "**" period, the rights and wrongs of the Hundred Regiments War are even more uncertain.

On September 10, 1940, the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Instructions of the Central Committee on the General Policy of Military Operations to Attack the Enemy and Friends," demanding that North China "should expand the campaign of 100 regiments" and that Shandong and Central China "should follow the precedent of the Battle of 100 Regiments in North China" and "organize one or several planned large-scale offensive operations against the enemy." On March 18 and March 20, 1943, people from all walks of life in Yan'an held mass rallies to solemnly celebrate the victory of the Hundred Regiments War. Wang Jiaxiang, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered a speech entitled "Celebrating the Victory of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments" at the rally, which Chairman Mao attended.

Enlai also said that this victory defeated the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army, and strongly inspired the determination of the fighters in our anti-Japanese base areas to resist the invaders.

After the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, General Zuo Quan was killed, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army said that they would avenge General Zuo, and this operation also proved all this, the Japanese commander Tada Jun was also killed, and then the newspaper reported that the elite of the empire died in China, Commander Zhu said that these brutes were finally finished, and General Lin Biao said that this time the Japanese army could be severely damaged and relied on Li Ming's weapons, without these weapons it is more difficult to deal with the Japanese devils, the Japanese army's combat effectiveness is very strong, and there is still a gap between the training level of the soldiers who can't and the Japanese army.

When Peng Dehuai and Zuo Quan listened to the report on the battle situation in the war room of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and learned that the actual number of troops participating in the battle had reached 105 regiments, Zuo Quan said excitedly: "Good! This is the Battle of the Hundred Regiments. Peng Dehuai said: "No matter how many regiments there are, simply call this battle the Battle of 100 Regiments!" As a result, the Battle of Zhengtai developed into a Battle of the Hundred Regiments

At that time, General Peng and Zuo Quan immediately sent a telegram to the participating regiments of the Eighth Route Army and reported to the Central Military Commission that we used about 100 regiments in the Zhengtai Campaign to start fighting on the evening of the 20th, and the victory in the prelude had been achieved, and the battle was named the "Battle of 100 Regiments". This is the name of the "Battle of the Hundred Regiments", which appeared for the first time in the official documents of the Eighth Route Army, when Mr. Peng also sent a telegram to Jianying of the Eighth Route Army Office in Chongqing, and Jianying presented it to Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek did not give any commendation or reaction to this report, and did not even say a single "but", why, because what kind of shock this report gave Chiang Kai-shek, that is, you actually have 105 regiments in two or three divisions, and this scale far exceeds Chiang Kai-shek's pre-conceived idea, including the entire Kuomintang staff organ's pre-envisioned plan for the scale of the Eighth Route Army.