Battle of West Suiyuan | |||||||
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Part of Second Sino-Japanese War | |||||||
Chinese 35th Army | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Republic of China | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ma Hongkui Ma Hongbin | Shigenori Kuroda | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Thousands of Chinese Muslim and Han Chinese troops | Thousands of Japanese and Mengjiang troops | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
According to commander Fu Zuoyi's report on 24th April 1940 : [1] 2,129 killed 1,767 wounded 1,895 missing According to history of the Anti-Japanese War : [2] 2,872 killed or wounded 2,126 missing | 160 killed, 461 wounded, 534 afflicted with frostbites [3] |
The Battle of West Suiyuan (simplified Chinese: 绥西战役; traditional Chinese: 綏西戰役; pinyin: Suíxī zhànyì) was part of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was fought from January – February 1940, as part of the Chinese 1939 Winter Offensive.