Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign | |||||||
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Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II | |||||||
A Japanese soldier with 50 mm heavy grenade discharger during the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, 30 May 1942 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
China United States | Japan | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Gu Zhutong Shangguan Yunxiang Tang Shih-Tsun Wang Jingjiu Li Jue Xue Yue Ou Zhen Shi Zhongcheng Wang Yaowu Xia Chuzhong Sun Du Feng Sheng-Fa Ding Zhipan Wang Tieh-Han Chang Wen-Ching Tao Kuang Liu Yu-Ching Fan Tse-Ying Mo Yu-Shuo |
Shunroku Hata Shigeru Sawada Korechika Anami Sanji Ōkido Tetsuzo Ide Takayuki Uchida Toshijiro Takeuchi Johkichi Nanbu Haruo Yamamura Hachiro Tagami Tagaji Takahashi Shigeru Ōga Saburo Takehara Takejiro Imai Tokutaro Ide Giichi Hirano Naotsugu Sakai † | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Republic of China Army |
Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
300,000 | 180,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Chinese claim : 724 officers and 23,637 soldiers killed 914 officers and 24,366 soldiers wounded 600 officers and 18,040 soldiers missing[1] Japanese claim : 41,960 killed and 10,992 captured[2] |
Chinese claim : 36,000 casualties[1] Japanese claim : 13th army :[3] 1,284 killed 2,767 wounded 11,812 fallen ill 11th army :[4] 336 killed 949 wounded 65th Infantry Regiment Suffered irreparable losses of about 1,337 people(Calculated based on the number of additional soldiers)[5] 2nd Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment Suffered irreparable losses of about several hundreds (Calculated based on the number of additional soldiers)[6] | ||||||
250,000 Chinese killed[7] |
The Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign or the Chekiang–Kiangsi campaign (Japanese: 浙贛作戦, simplified Chinese: 浙赣战役; traditional Chinese: 浙赣戰役; pinyin: Zhè-Gàn Zhànyì), also known as Operation Sei-go (Japanese: せ号作戦), was a campaign by the China Expeditionary Army of the Imperial Japanese Army under Shunroku Hata and Chinese 3rd War Area forces under Gu Zhutong in Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi from mid May to early September 1942.