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During the war against the Japanese, both the commander-in-chiefs of the two main Chinese communist forces, Eighth Route Army and New Fourth Army, are Hakkas: Zhu De and Ye Ting. On the Nationalist side, Xue Yue and Zhang Fakui were commander-in-chiefs for the 9th and 4th War Zones respectively. Called the "[[Patton]] of Asia" by the West and the "God of War" () by the Chinese, Xue was China's most outstanding general during the war, having won several major battles which killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops. [[Luo Zhuoying]] was the commander-in-chief for the [[Chinese Expeditionary Force (Burma)|1st Route Expeditionary Forces, Burma]] (China's first participation of a war overseas), 1942.