Battle of South Guangxi

Battle

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Chinese. Click [show] for important translation instructions.

*   * Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
* Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
* You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is `Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Wikipedia article at [[:zh:桂南会战]]; see its history for attribution.`
* You may also add the template `{{Translated|zh|桂南会战}}` to the talk page.
* For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

|

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
Bai Chongxi
Zhang Fakui|  Rikichi Andō
Seiichi Kuno
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

* v
* t
* e

Second Sino-Japanese War

1931–1937 (pre-war skirmishes)

* Manchuria
* Mukden
* Lytton Report
* Jiangqiao
* Nenjiang Bridge
* Jinzhou
* Harbin
* 1st Shanghai
* Pacification of Manchukuo
* Inner Mongolia
* Great Wall
* Rehe
* Suiyuan

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

* v
* t
* e

Japanese offensives,
1940–1942

1940

* Manchukuo
* Chongqing
* South Guangxi
* West Suiyuan
* Wuyuan
* Zaoyang–Yichang
* French Indochina
* Kaimingjie
* Central Hubei
* North China

1941

* Panjiayu
* South Henan
* Western Hubei
* Shanggao
* South Shanxi
* 2nd Changsha
* Malaya
* Pearl Harbor
* Thailand
* Hong Kong
* Philippines
* Guam
* Wake
* Sand Island
* Niihau
* Gilbert Islands
* Indian Ocean
* Borneo
* Dutch East Indies
* 3rd Changsha

1942

* Timor
* Burma
* New Guinea
* Qantas Short Empire shootdown
* Singapore
* Darwin
* Ellwood
* Broome
* KNILM Douglas DC-3 shootdown
* Operation K
* Andaman and Nicobar
* Christmas Island
* Ceylon
* Solomons
* Tulagi
* Coral Sea
* Nauru and Ocean Islands
* Zhejiang-Jiangxi
* Madagascar
* Aleutian Islands
* Midway
* Sydney
* Newcastle
* Fort Stevens
* Dureenbee
* Mount Emily

* v
* t
* e

Military campaigns of the Empire of Japan

Meiji period

* Taiwan (1874)
* Ganghwa (1875)
* Ryukyu (1879)
* Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan (1894–1895)
* Liaodong Peninsula (1895)
* China (1899–1901)
* Manchuria and Korea (1904–1905)
* Korea (1910)

Taishō period

* Tsingtao (1914)
* German Pacific possesions (1914)
* Siberia (1918–1922)

Shōwa period

* Manchuria and Inner Mongolia (1931–1936)
* China (1937–45)
* French Indochina (1940)
* Asia-Pacific (1941–1945)

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

[edit]

Further information: Order of Battle for Battle of South Guangxi

## See also

[edit]

* Air Warfare of WWII from the Sino-Japanese War perspective

## Sources

[edit]

* 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

[edit]

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
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template