On this day, 85 years ago, on March 11, 1940 (February 3, 1940, the Eighth Route Army annihilated Zhu Huaibing's 97th Army. A certain unit of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army held a cadre mobilization meeting before the war. On March 11, 1940, the Eighth Route Army organized a counterattack against Zhu Huaibing and other troops of the Kuomintang Army. The Battle of Ciwu, Wu 'an, Shexian, and Linxian, the commander of the 97th Army, and the commander of the New Fifth Army, ended. In February, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Zhu Huaibing, commander of the 97th Army, Zhu Zhonglin, and other troops to defend the Cixian, Wu' an, She County, and Linxian areas in an attempt to coordinate with Shi Yousan, Ding Shuben, and Shen Honglie in southern Hebei and other troops in Shandong, echoed the Taihang, The Eighth Route Army base area in southern Hebei launched a large-scale attack. Chiang Kai-shek also secretly telegraphed Cheng Qian, instructing Lu Zhonglin to "act decisively and be responsible for handling" the Eighth Route Army in the theater under his jurisdiction; On the 22nd, he sent secret telegrams to Cheng Qian and Wei Lihuang, ordering them to expel the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountains. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also sent secret telegrams to Lu Zhonglin, ordering them to "form a siege situation" on the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi and wait for an opportunity to "decisively encircle and annihilate it." Under such circumstances, Liu Bocheng, commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Deng Xiaoping, political commissar, followed the orders of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and concentrated the forces of 13 regiments of the 129th Division and other divisions on the West of Pinghan Road to carry out the magnetic, military and forest-related campaign, determined to eliminate the isolated and prominent Zhu Huaibing troops and defend the Taihang base area. Starting at 2 o'clock on the 5th, the central troops of the Eighth Route Army broke through between the two divisions of the stubborn army. The left and right wings cooperated with the main force to attack fiercely. Zhu Huaibing's troops were attacked by the north and south, and their troops were completely defeated. They abandoned all their baggage and rear organs and fled in the direction of Lin County. On the 8th, most of Zhu Huaibing's troops including the 94th Division, 24th Division and New Second Division were wiped out. When his remnants fled south of Lin County, they were intercepted by the Eighth Route Army's non-moving detachment. In the end, more than 2000 people fled into Xiuwu County. The battle ended on the 11th and wiped out more than 10,000 people. The Eighth Route Army won the Battle of Ciwu and Lin-related.