First, Xing Ping Guan Street
The victory of Pingxingguan was to cooperate with friendly forces in the Second World War to stop the Japanese attack. Under the command of 1 15 division commander Lin Biao and deputy division commander Nie, the Eighth Route Army gave full play to the specialty of melee and mountain warfare and successfully ambushed the Japanese for the first time.
The success of Pingxingguan in the first battle broke the myth of "invincible" of the Japanese army, strongly refuted the "theory of national subjugation" spread by domestic pro-Japanese factions at that time, and made the anti-Japanese war situation in North China initially stable. The victory of Pingxingguan made the Japanese invading army, which had been advancing in all directions, suffer the first heavy blow since the full-scale invasion of China, shattered the Japanese army's arrogant plan of "taking Shanxi in one month and destroying all China in three months", frustrated the enemy's fierce front, and the losing streak crisis in North China's anti-Japanese war made it one brace up.
It forced the Japanese army to change the original large-scale, long-distance strategic circuitous and crazy deep advancement into assembling the main force to advance, which delayed the progress of the enemy's attack on Taiyuan and won valuable time for the World War II area to assemble the main force and deploy the defense system in Xinkou after the Pingxingguan campaign.
Second, Taierzhuang triumph
After the Japanese invaders successively occupied Nanjing and Jinan on February 3 and 27 of 1937+ 17, they decided to take Nanjing and Jinan as their base areas and attack Xuzhou from the north and south along the Jin-Pu Railway, so as to quickly realize the invasion plan of destroying China and connecting the north and south battlefields.
The Battle of Taierzhuang consisted of tengxian, Linyi and Taierzhuang, and the Japanese army was defeated and pursued by the China army. In the fierce fighting that lasted 1 month, the number of China troops participating in the war was about 290,000, and the number of Japanese troops participating in the war was about 50,000. China suffered about 50,000 casualties, and the Japanese army lost about 20,000 lives.
The victory of Taierzhuang was the first major victory in China's frontal battlefield after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. It has dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese aggressors and strengthened the confidence of the military and civilians throughout the country in persisting in the war of resistance. This campaign inspired the morale of the whole nation, changed the international audience, wiped out the prestige of the Japanese invaders and wiped out a large number of effective forces of the Japanese, which was the biggest victory since War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.