Zhuanbi Village

　　In 1940, the world-shocking Hundred Regiments Offensive, deployed and commanded by leaders such as Peng Dehuai and Zuo Quan, took place here. Hundreds of thousands of Eighth Route Army soldiers fought across the plains of North China. Radio signals crisscrossed the skies above Zhuanbi Village along a 2,500-kilometer sabotage line where strongholds were taken, passes seized, transport lines destroyed, and bridges blown up—all aimed at striking against foreign aggression and establishing an anti-Japanese base that spanned all of North China. Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, along with other leaders of the Eighth Route Army and the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee such as Peng Dehuai, Zuo Quan, and Liu Bocheng, held many important meetings in the courtyard here, formulating major policies and strategies. The site also hosted numerous visits from anti-Japanese democrats, Kuomintang generals who resisted the Japanese, and international friends, making Zhuanbi Village an important window for the Eighth Route Army’s external publicity and exchanges.