Battle of Taierzhuang

Battle Of Taierzhuang

Coordinates: 34°33′26.39″N 117°43′50.70″E / 34.5573306°N 117.73075°E / 34.5573306; 117.73075

Battle of Tai'erzhuang
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War

House-to-house fighting in Tai'erzhuang
Date evening of 24 March¹-7 April 1938
Location Tai'erzhuang (Shandong), Pizhou (Jiangsu)
Result Decisive Chinese victory
Belligerents
National Revolutionary Army
Soviet Volunteer Group		 Imperial Japanese Army
North China Area Army, 2nd Army
Commanders and leaders
Li Zongren
Han Fuju
Pang Bingxun
Sun Lianzhong
Han Deqin
Bai Chongxi
Sun Zhen
Tang Enbo
Wang Mingzhang†
Zhang Zizhong
Guan Linzheng		 Rensuke Isogai (10th Division)
Itagaki Seishiro (5th Division)
Shunroku Hata (13th Division)
Strength
100,000-400,000 troops in 10 divisions 40,000-70,000 troops in 3 divisions (10th Division, 5th Division, 13th Division)
80+ tanks
11+ armored cars
8+ armored fighting vehicles
Unknown number of planes
Casualties and losses
20,000 10,000+ killed and thousands more wounded
30 tanks destroyed
Second Sino-Japanese War
  • Major engagements in bold
Began in 1931–1937
  • 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
    • West Suiyuan
    • Wuyuan
Began in 1940–1942
  • Zaoyang-Yichang
  • Hundred Regiments
  • N. Vietnam
  • C. Hubei
  • S.Henan
  • W. Hebei
  • Shanggao
  • S.Shanxi
  • 2nd Changsha
  • 3rd Changsha
  • Yunnan-Burma Road
    • Tachiao
    • Oktwin
    • Toungoo
    • Yenangyaung
  • Zhejiang-Jiangxi
  • Sichuan invasion
Began in 1943–1945
  • W.Hubei
  • N.Burma-W.Yunnan
  • Changde
  • Ichi-Go
  • C.Henan
  • 4th Changsha
    • Hengyang
  • Guilin-Liuzhou
  • W.Henan-N.Hubei
  • W.Hunan
  • 2nd Guangxi
Others
  • Aerial engagements

The Battle of Tai'erzhuang (simplified Chinese: 台儿庄会战; traditional Chinese: 臺兒莊會戰; pinyin: Tái'érzhūang Huìzhàn) was a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, between armies of Chinese Kuomintang and Japan, and is sometimes considered as a part of Battle of Xuzhou.

Tai'erzhuang is located on the eastern bank of the Grand Canal of China and was a frontier garrison northeast of Xuzhou. It was also the terminus of a local branch railway from Lincheng. Xuzhou itself was the junction of the Jinpu Railway (Tianjin-Pukou) and the Longhai Railway (Lanzhou-Lianyungang) and the headquarters of the KMT's 5th War Zone.

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