Battle of South Shanxi

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Battle of South Shanxi
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War
A map of the battle
Date 7 May - 27 May 1941 Location South Shanxi Result Japanese victory
Combatants
National Revolutionary Army, China	North China Front Army, Imperial Japanese Army, Japan
Commanders
Wei Lihuang (衛立煌)	Hayao Tada
Strength
180,000 troops in 8 armies	100,000 troops in 6 divisions, 3 brigades
Casualties
?	more than 20,000 troops

Second Sino-Japanese War

Major engagements in bold Mukden - Manchuria -(Jiangqiao - Nenjiang Bridge - Chinchow - Harbin) -Shanghai (1932) -Pacification of Manchukuo - Operation Nekka - ( Rehe - Great Wall) - Suiyuan - Marco Polo Bridge - Beiping-Tianjin - Chahar - Shanghai (1937) (Sihang Warehouse) - Beiping-Hankou Railway - Tianjin-Pukou Railway - Taiyuan - (Pingxingguan) - Xinkou - Nanjing - Xuzhou- Taierzhuang - N.-E.Henan - (Lanfeng) - Amoy - Wuhan-(Wanjialing)- Canton - (Hainan) - (Xiushui River) - Nanchang - Suixian-Zaoyang - (Swatow) - 1st Changsha - S.Guangxi- (Kunlun Pass) - Winter Offensive -(Wuyuan) - Zaoyang-Yichang - Hundred Regiments - French Indochina - C. Hupei - S.Henan - W. Hopei - Shanggao - S.Shanxi - 2nd Changsha - 3rd Changsha - Yunnan-Burma Road-(Yenangyaung)- Zhejiang-Jiangxi - W.Hubei - N.Burma-W.Yunnan - Changde - C.Henan - 4th Changsha - Guilin-Liuzhou - W.Henan-N.Hubei - W.Hunan- 2nd Guangxi edit

The Battle of South Shanxi (Traditional Chinese: 晉南會戰; Simplified Chinese: 晋南会战; pinyin: Jìn Nán Huìzhàn), also known as the Battle of Jinnan and as Chungyuan Operation by the Japanese, it was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

[edit] Order of battle

See Order of battle Battle of South Shanxi