Guerrilla warfare has a long history in China. In the Battle of Wu Chu in 5 12 BC, there was guerrilla warfare. According to legend, the "Grasping the Strange Classics" written by the Yellow Emperor after the wind said: "The shape of the military patrol, first moving, quiet, avoiding reality and attacking the virtual, relying on victory, scratching the prosperous, collecting the old and rushing to the ground, breaking around the four classics." It vividly describes the guerrilla operations. Guerrilla warfare plays a very important role in the revolutionary war led by the China Communist Party. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Red Army persisted in guerrilla warfare and preserved and developed itself according to the characteristics that the enemy was strong and we were weak. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army went deep behind enemy lines, launched guerrilla warfare on a large scale and for a long time, and fought against more than 60% of Japanese aggressors and more than 95% of puppet troops. During the war of liberation, guerrilla warfare effectively cooperated with regular warfare. The long-term revolutionary war has enabled the people of China to create many unique guerrilla warfare laws, such as sabotage, mine warfare, sparrow warfare, ambush warfare, tunnel warfare and siege warfare. These flexible tactics show the richness of revolutionary guerrilla warfare in China.
Producers in China, represented by Mao Zedong, creatively developed the theory and principles of guerrilla warfare, mainly including:
It is the basic principle of guerrilla warfare that the enemy advances and retreats, the enemy is stationed and disturbed, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase;
Offensive attack is the basic form of guerrilla warfare;
Revolutionary base areas are the support for the survival and development of guerrilla warfare;
Under certain conditions, guerrilla warfare can be regarded as the main form of combat in a certain strategic stage;
The combination of strategic centralized command and decentralized command in campaigns and battles is the command principle of guerrilla warfare;
Guerrilla warfare should develop into regular warfare.
Guerrilla warfare is difficult to solve the whole war problem independently because of its small strength and weak assault. Only by actively creating conditions to make guerrillas develop into regular troops and make regular warfare closely cooperate with guerrilla warfare can we speed up the process of war victory.