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Part of Second Sino-Japanese War

Battle of South Shanxi

May 7–27, 1941 · Battle site

Result Japanese victory

Japanese forces attacked Chinese armies in the Zhongtiao Mountains of southern Shanxi. They inflicted heavy losses on the Chinese side but failed to destroy it as a fighting force.

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Japan

Allies

Japan
Republic of China
Hayao Tada military commander
Wei Lihuang military commander

Units

North China Area Army Yi Un Imperial Japanese Army Akira Mutō Lieutenant General Asaka Yasuhiko General Chiang Kai-shek Generalissimo Doihara Kenji General Emperor Taishō Dai-gensui Hajime Sugiyama General Harukichi Hyakutake General Hatazō Adachi Lieutenant General Hayao Tada General Heisuke Yanagawa Lieutenant General Heitarō Kimura General Hideki Tojo General Hideyoshi Obata General Hirohito Hiromichi Yahara Colonel Hisaichi Terauchi General Hitoshi Imamura General Ijichi Kōsuke Lieutenant General Isamu Chō Lieutenant General Jirō Minami General Jirō Tamon Lieutenant General Jun Ushiroku General Kamio Mitsuomi General Kan'in Kotohito Generalfeldmarschall Kanji Ishiwara Lieutenant General Katsura Tarō General Keiji Suzuki Major General Kenkichi Ueda General Kingorō Hashimoto Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki Colonel Kodama Gentarō General Kuniaki Koiso General of the Army Kunio Nakagawa Lieutenant General Kuroda Kiyotaka Lieutenant General Kuroki Tamemoto General Kōtoku Satō Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma Lieutenant General Masakazu Kawabe General Masaomi Yasuoka Lieutenant General Michitarō Komatsubara Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima Lieutenant General Morihiro Higashikuni Major Nobuyuki Abe General Nogi Maresuke General Oku Yasukata Marshal Otozō Yamada General of the Army Prince Arisugawa Taruhito General Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa Major Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa Colonel Prince Tsunehisa Takeda Major General Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda Podpolkovnik Rensuke Isogai General Renya Mutaguchi Lieutenant General Rikichi Andō General of the Army Sadae Inoue General Saigō Takamori Gensui Seiichi Kita General Seiichi Kuno Lieutenant General Seishirō Itagaki General Senjūrō Hayashi General Shigeru Honjō General Shizuichi Tanaka General Shizuo Yokoyama Lieutenant General Shunroku Hata Gensui Shōjirō Iida Divisional General Sōsaku Suzuki General Tadamichi Kuribayashi Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano Lieutenant General Takahito, Prince Mikasa Major Takaji Wachi Lieutenant General Takashi Sakai General Takeichi Nishi Colonel Takuma Nishimura Lieutenant General Takurō Matsui Lieutenant General Tanaka Giichi General Tanzan Ishibashi Sub-lieutenant Tatsumi Naofumi Lieutenant General Tomiichi Murayama Officer Candidate Tomoyuki Yamashita General Ugaki Kazushige General Waichirō Sonobe Lieutenant General Yamagata Aritomo Field Marshal Yamaguchi Motomi Yamanashi Hanzō General Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu Major General Yasuji Okamura General Yoshitsugu Saitō Lieutenant General Ōdera Yasuzumi Major General Ōtori Keisuke Ōyama Iwao Gensui · 1868–present Yoshijirō Umezu General · 1903–1945 Yi U Colonel · 1933–present
National Revolutionary Army Bai Chongxi General Chen Cheng General Chiang Kai-shek Du Yuming Lieutenant General Feng Yuxiang General Feng Zhanhai Lieutenant General Gu Zhutong General He Long He Yingqin General Li Zongren General Lin Biao Ma Zhongying General Wei Lihuang General Xu Xiangqian Xue Yue General Ye Jianying Zhang Aiping Zhang Qun Major General Zhou Enlai General Zhu De