Operation Chahar

Operation Chahar
Part of Second Sino-Japanese War

Chinese soldiers, pictured by the Great Wall of China in Laiyuan in 1937
Date8 August 1937 – 17 October 1937
(2 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location
Vicinity of Beiping and ChaharSuiyuan
Result Japanese victory
Belligerents

 Japan

 China
Commanders and leaders
Empire of Japan Kiyoshi Katsuki
Empire of Japan Shigiyasu Suzuki
Empire of Japan Seishirō Itagaki
Empire of Japan Hideki Tōjō
Demchugdongrub
Republic of China (1912–1949) Tang Enbo
Republic of China (1912–1949) Chiang Kai-shek
Republic of China (1912–1949) Yan Xishan
Republic of China (1912–1949) Fu Zuoyi
Strength
90,000 Kwantung Army troops
60,000 Mongolian and Manchurian troops[1]
Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown 26,000[1]

Operation Chahar (Japanese: チャハル作戦, romanizedChaharu Sakusen), known in Chinese as the Nankou Campaign (Chinese: 南口戰役; pinyin: Nankou Zhanyi), occurred in August 1937, following the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin at the beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War.

This was the second attack by the Kwantung Army and the Inner Mongolian Army of Prince Demchugdongrub on Inner Mongolia after the failure of the Suiyuan Campaign. The Chahar Expeditionary Force was under the direct command of General Hideki Tōjō, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army. A second force from the Beiping Railway Garrison Force, later the 1st Army under General Kiyoshi Katsuki, was also involved.

  1. ^ a b Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th Ed. Jefferson, North Carolina: Mcfarland & Company. p. 364. ISBN 9780786474707.