Siege of Changchun

Originally Posted by montyp165

Even PLA failures in situations like the Hundred Regiments Campaign were very instructive for not only in increasing combat experience of their troops, but also demonstrating the significance of maintaining unit cohesion in disengagements, which would prove critical for future successes in later battles.

PLA did not fail in the Hundred Regiment Campaign. 8th Route Army did the campaign, the result was ambiguious...

This operation have the following results:

"When General Yasuji Okamura took command of the North China Area Army in the summer, the new approach was "Three All" meaning "kill all, burn all, and destroy all" in those areas containing Anti-Japanese forces.

Peng was criticized by Mao for revealing the number of the Communist forces to the Kuomintang. Thus, the Hundred Regiments Offensive became the last of the two major Communist frontal engagements against the Japanese during the war. During the Cultural Revolution, Peng's action was one of the pretexts used by the Gang of Four that led to his downfall. The consensus in China after Cultural Revolution is generally in support of the battle."

Thus the result was ambiguious. Source from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred...ents_Offensive