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The Battle of Wuhan (traditional Chinese: 武漢會戰; simplified Chinese: 武汉会战; Japanese: 武漢作戦 (ぶかんさくせん)), popularly known to the Chinese as the Defence of Wuhan (traditional Chinese: 武漢保衛戰; simplified Chinese: 武汉保卫战), and to the Japanese as the Capture of Wuhan, was a large-scale battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Chinese troops crossing the Yellow River in June 1938, the river was deliberately flooded by Chinese forces to buy time to defend Wuhan. Below are the units and commanders that participated in the Battle of Wuhan , also called the Wuchang–Hankou campaign , fought from early June through November 12, 1938, a phase of the Second Sino-Japanese War .
The battle was one engagement of the Zaoyang-Yichang campaign that rumbled through late spring of that year. Surrounded by the Japanese, his forces had refused either to retreat or to surrender. In the ensuing hand-to-hand combat, General Zhang had been wounded seven times in all, by grenade, bullet, and finally by bayonet.
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1 January - The KMT Central Standing Committee resolved at its 62nd meeting, Chiang Kai-shek resigned, the election of Kong Xiangxi as the executive president, leaving the post of vice president of the Executive Yuan, Zhang Qun successor.
Zhang Gan (Chinese: 张淦) (17 September 1897 – 21 February 1959) was a Kuomintang general from Guangxi. Originally a major in the army of Lu Rongting's Old Guangxi clique, he went to over to Li Zongren's New Guangxi clique in 1926 and was subsequently promoted to lieutenant colonel and then colonel.
Xue was also involved in the Battle of Wuhan, [2] commanding the 1st Army Corps. In the mountains northwest of Wuhan, Xue succeeded in nearly destroying the entire 106th division of the imperial Japanese army. During the battle, most of the Japanese officers were killed and the Japanese had to air-drop 300 officers by parachutes into the ...
Battle of South Henan Sun Tongxuan (孙桐萱; Sun Tung-hsuan; 1895–1978) was a Kuomintang general. [ 1 ] He fought at the Battles of Wuhan and south Henan .