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The Sites of the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army is located at Zhuanbi Village and Wangjiayu Village, Wuxiang County in Shanxi Province.

Zhuanbi Village is 45 kilometers away from Wuxiang County, and is located at a strategic place at the mountainside of Taihang Mountain. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War was located in a building complex including Yuhuang Temple, Lijia Ancestral Temple, Buddha Temple, etc., in the east of the village. Wangjiayu Village lies in a valley on the southern bank of Hongshui River ten kilometers away southwest of Zhuanbi Village. The Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was located in three connected residential houses.

The Sites of the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army have been renovated several times. In the village of Wangjiayu, a memorial of the Site of the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was built. In Zhuanbi Village, there are still vestiges of the entrenchment, the ground fortress, the sentry post cavity, the artillery position and other relics.

In August 1937, the main force of the Red Army led by the Chinese Communist Party was recomposed into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which is called the Eighth Route Army for short. Afterwards, obeying the tactic policy of the Anti-Japanese War made by the Chinese Communist Party, the army crossed the Yellow River to the east led by Zhu De, and marched to the frontline in North China. There they went deep into the rear area of the enemy to explore the Anti-Japanese War battlefield. The Eighth Route Army was headquartered at Nangu Village and Luchengbei Village, which were the base for the Anti-Japanese War in the Jin (Shanxi Province), Cha (Chaha’er Province), and Ji (Hebei Province) area. In July 1937, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was moved from Luchengbei Village to Zhuanbi Village under the direction of the commander-in-chief Zhu De, the vice commander-in-chief Peng Dehuai, and the vice chief of the general staff Zuo Quan. In October, it was moved again to Wangjiayu Village, with part of it staying at Zhuanbi Village. In June 1940, the headquarters was moved back to Zhuanbi Village, and in November to Wujunsi in Zuoquan County. After the fight of Anti Clean-out in May 1942, Peng Dehuai led to move the headquarters back to Zhuanbi Village for the third time. Before long it marched to Taiyue area.

(Source: chinaculture.org)