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Battle
Battle of South Guangxi
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Part of the
Second Sino-Japanese War
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Date
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1939-11-15
)
(
1940-11-30
)
November 15, 1939 ? November 30, 1940
(1 year, 2 weeks and 1 day)
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Location
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Result
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Japanese victory
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Territorial
changes
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Chinese maintain control of Kunlun Pass
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Belligerents
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China
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Japan
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Commanders and leaders
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Bai Chongxi
Zhang Fakui
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Rikichi And?
Seiichi Kuno
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Strength
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150,000
(initially only 2 understrength army groups, reinforced by 2 army groups, including 200th Division
(only mechanised force in NRA)
)
CAF
100 aircraft
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100,000
(5th Division, 18th Division
(elements)
, Guards Mixed Brigade, Taiwan Mixed Brigade)
100 aircraft
2 aircraft carriers
70 warships
[
citation needed
]
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Casualties and losses
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5,600 killed
11,000 wounded
800 missing
6,416 other
Total
:
23,816 casualties
45 billion yuan worth of private & public property damage
[
citation needed
]
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4,000+ killed
(including 85% of all officers)
4,000+ wounded
100 captured
Total
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8,100+ casualties
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11,147 civilians killed
2,161 civilians wounded
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citation needed
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3,986 civilians missing
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citation needed
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Total
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17,294 civilians
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- 1931?1937 (pre-war skirmishes)
- 1937?1939
- 1940?1942
- 1943?1945
- Air War
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The
Battle of South Guangxi
(
traditional Chinese
:
桂南會戰
;
simplified Chinese
:
桂南??
;
pinyin
:
Guinan Huizhan
) was one of the 22 major engagements between the
National Revolutionary Army
and
Imperial Japanese Army
during the
Second Sino-Japanese War
.
In November 1939, the Japanese landed on the coast of
Guangxi
and captured
Nanning
. In this battle, the Japanese successfully cut off
Chongqing
from the ocean, effectively severing foreign aid to China's war efforts by the sea, rendering
Indochina
, the
Burma Road
and
The Hump
the only ways to send aid to China.
The Chinese launched several major offensives that maximized Japanese casualties. A majority of the conflicts occurred in the
fighting for Kunlun Pass
. With the success of the
Vietnam Expedition
in September 1940, the Japanese were able to cut China off from Indochina. Now only the Burma Road and The Hump remained, ending the costly necessity of occupying Guangxi. By November 1940, Japanese forces had evacuated from Guangxi except from some coastal enclaves.
Order of battle
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See also
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Sources
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- Hsu Long-hsuen, Chang Ming-kai (1972).
History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937?1945)
. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung (2nd ed.). Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China: Chung Wu Publishing. pp. 311?318, 325?327, map 18.
- Perry?Castaneda Library Map Collection
, China 1:250,000, Series L500, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954- . Topographic Maps of China during the Second World War.
- These two maps cover the area where most of the fighting went on in the Guangxi campaign:
- Lai-Pin nf49-1
, has the Kunlun Pass just above where the road from Nanning enters the map:
- Nanning nf49-5
References
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Bibliography
- Cheung, Raymond.
OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES 126: Aces of the Republic of China Air Force
. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.
ISBN
978-1-4728-0561-4
.
- Xu,Lumei.
Fallen: A Decryption of 682 Air Force Heroes of The War of Resistance-WWII and Their Martyrdom
. ?城?, 北京, 中?: ??出版社, 2016.
ISBN
978-7-5126-4433-5
.
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