China’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression -- the largest Asian war in the 20th century -- escalated into full-scale in 1937.

The same year, the Communist Party of China came up with the strategy of Guerilla Warfare -- featuring blitz attack and free movement.

It is an irregular form of warfare, in which small groups of combatants use tactics like ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal army.

Since 1938, Guerilla Warfare was largely used to fight against the Japanese invader.

The plain area in Eastern China, where Japanese army seized most of their provisions, was the main battlefield.

Guerilla soldiers took cover in extensive farmland of tall crops – later hailed as “green tent” by poets and artists.

Artist Wei Qimei named his painting after a line in the famous Chorus of the Yellow River – “heroes in the green tents.”

Throughout the war, the CPC military forces involved in 125,000 campaigns with the Japanese side.

Guerilla Warfare turned out to be the decisive element to the winning of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

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