Eighth Route Army

English

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 八路軍 / 八路军 (Bālùjūn).

Proper noun

Eighth Route Army

  1. (historical, military) a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party that fought the Japanese military and its puppet armies in both conventional and guerrilla warfare during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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