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 Belligerents 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 and losses  ? more than 20,000 troops

v • d • e Second Sino-Japanese War Major engagements in bold Before Second Sino-Japanese War Mukden - Manchuria - (Jiangqiao - Nenjiang Bridge - Chinchow - Harbin) - Shanghai (1932) - Pacification of Manchukuo - Rehe - Great Wall - Inner Mongolia - (Suiyuan) Began in 1937–1939 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 - Chongqing - Wuhan - (Wanjialing) - Canton - (Hainan) - Nanchang - (Xiushui River) - Suixian-Zaoyang - (Swatow) - 1st Changsha - S.Guangxi - (Kunlun Pass) - Winter Offensive - (Wuyuan) Began in 1940–1942 Zaoyang-Yichang - Hundred Regiments - N. Vietnam - C. Hupei - S.Henan - W. Hopei - Shanggao - S.Shanxi - 2nd Changsha - 3rd Changsha - Yunnan-Burma Road - (Toungoo) - (Yenangyaung) - Zhejiang-Jiangxi - Sichuan Invasion Began in 1943–1945 W.Hubei - N.Burma-W.Yunnan - Changde - Ichi-Go - C.Henan - 4th Changsha - Guilin-Liuzhou - W.Henan-N.Hubei - W.Hunan - 2nd Guangxi - Manchuria

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.

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