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Battle of South Guangxi - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 23°48′20″N 108°59′02″E / 23.8055°N 108.9840°E

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Battle of South Guangxi

Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War

Date	(1939-11-15) (1940-11-30)November 15, 1939 – November 30, 1940 (1 year, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location	South Guangxi
Result	Japanese victory
Territorial changes	Chinese maintain control of Kunlun Pass

Belligerents

China

Japan

Commanders and leaders

Strength

150,000
(initially only 2 understrength army groups, reinforced by 2 army groups, including 200th Division (only mechanised force in NRA))
CAF 100 aircraft

100,000
(5th Division, 18th Division (elements), Guards Mixed Brigade, Taiwan Mixed Brigade)
100 aircraft
2 aircraft carriers
70 warships^{[citation needed]}

Casualties and losses

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]}

4,000+ killed
(including 85% of all officers)
4,000+ wounded
100 captured
Total:
8,100+ casualties

11,147 civilians killed
2,161 civilians wounded^{[citation needed]}
3,986 civilians missing^{[citation needed]}
Total:
17,294 civilians

Second Sino-Japanese War

1931–1937 (pre-war skirmishes)

1937–1939

Marco Polo Bridge
Beiping–Tianjin
Chahar
2nd Shanghai
- Sihang Warehouse
Railway Operation
- Beiping–Hankou
- Tianjin–Pukou
Taiyuan
- Pingxingguan
- Xinkou
Nanking
- Massacre
Xuzhou
- Taierzhuang
North-East Henan
- Lanfeng
Amoy
Chongqing
Yellow River flood
Wuhan
- Wanjialing
- Wenxi fire
Canton
- Hainan
Nanchang
Suixian–Zaoyang
- Swatow
1st Changsha
South Guangxi
- Kunlun Pass
Winter Offensive
- West Suiyuan
- Wuyuan

1940–1942

Zaoyang–Yichang
Hundred Regiments
North Vietnam
Central Hubei
South Anhui
South Henan
West Hubei
Shanggao
South Shanxi
2nd Changsha
3rd Changsha
Yunnan-Burma Road
- Tachiao
- Oktwin
- Toungoo
- Yenangyaung
Zhejiang–Jiangxi
Sichuan (cancelled)

1943–1945

West Hubei
North Burma and West Yunnan
- Myitkyina
- Mount Song
Changde
Ichi-Go
- 4th Changsha
- Hengyang
- Guilin–Liuzhou
West Henan–North Hubei
West Hunan
Guangxi

Air War

Taihoku

Japanese offensives,
1940–1942

1940

1941

1942

Military campaigns of the Empire of Japan

Meiji period

Taishō period

Shōwa period

The Battle of South Guangxi (traditional Chinese: 桂南會戰; simplified Chinese: 桂南会战; pinyin: Guìnán Huìzhàn) 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

Sources

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.
- Map 18
Perry–Castañeda 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

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.
Xú,Lùméi. Fallen: A Decryption of 682 Air Force Heroes of The War of Resistance-WWII and Their Martyrdom. 东城区, 北京，中国: 团结出版社, 2016. ISBN 978-7-5126-4433-5.

23°48′20″N 108°59′02″E / 23.8055°N 108.9840°E / 23.8055; 108.9840

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