Battle of Tutung

Battle of Tutung
Part of the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang
Date 1934
Location Tutung river, Xinjiang
Result 36th division retreat
Belligerents
Republic of China 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) Red Army
Commanders and leaders
Ma Zhongying General Volgin
Strength
thousands of men 2 brigades of 7,000 men with Tanks, airplane bombers, artillery
Casualties and losses
Heavy Heavy

The Battle of Tutung (1934) occurred when Ma Zhongying's Chinese Muslim 36th Division was attacked by the Soviet Russian Red Army on the banks of the frozen Tutung river. The battle took place over multiple days, where the Soviet bombers used mustard gas.[1] At one point, the Chinese Muslim troops dressed up in sheepskins for camouflage in the snow, and stormed Soviet machine gun posts with curved swords at a short range to defeat a Soviet pincer attack. Heavy casualties mounted on both sides before Ma Zhongying ordered a retreat.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Uses of CW since the First World War". http://www.fas.org/bwc/papers/review/cwtable.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-28. 
  2. ^ Christian Tyler (2004). Wild West China: the taming of Xinjiang. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. p. 112. ISBN 0813535336. http://books.google.com/books?id=bEzNwgtiVQ0C&pg=PA112&dq=ma+zhongying+russian+cars&cd=2#v=onepage&q=storming%20the%20red%20army&f=false. Retrieved 2010-06-28. 
  3. ^ Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 120. ISBN 0521255147. http://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120&dq=soviet+GPU+troops&hl=en&ei=QuwWTLPEMoX7lwfu_pTjCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=machine%20gun%20posts%20whilst%20wielding&f=false. Retrieved 2010-06-28.