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The battle of Xinkou marked the first large-scale cooperation between the provincial army (Yan Xishan’s Shanxi troops), Chinese Communists (Eighth Route Army), and Chiang Kai-shek’s Central Army (14th Group Army) during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Although the Chinese defenders fought bravely on a united front against the enemy during ...
Battle of Xinkou September 1937; Battle of Nanking December 1937; Battle of Xuzhou December 1937 Battle of Taierzhuang March 1938; Northern and Eastern Honan 1938 January 1938 Battle of Lanfeng May 1938; Xiamen May 1938; Battle of Wuhan June 1938 Battle of Wanjialing; Guangdong October 1938; Hainan Island February 1939; Battle of Nanchang March ...
Hao Mengling (18 February 1892 – 15 October 1937) was a Chinese general who distinguished himself first in the Northern Expedition and then in the Battle of Xinkou. [ 1 ] Early life
At about 02:00 when the tide had begun to recede, PLA troops from regiments 244, 251, and 253 landed on the north side of Greater Kinmen Island at Guningtou (Ku-ning-t'ou, 古寧頭 [15]), Huwei (湖尾) and Longkou (壟口). Regiment 244 was the first ashore landing near Lungkou where Nationalist defenders raked them with machine-gun fire ...
In early November, the Japanese attacked the last defense positions north of Taiyuan. The 20th and 109th Divisions, having marched unopposed to the area, flanked the city. By this point, Taiyuan was under assault from the north, east, and southeast. [13] On November 7, most of the Chinese troops had evacuated the city in a disorganized mob.
The Sino-Dutch conflicts were a series of conflicts between the Ming dynasty (and later its rump successor the Southern Ming dynasty and the Ming loyalist Kingdom of Tungning) of China and the Dutch East India Company over trade and land throughout the 1620s, 1630s, and 1662.
Battle of Taierzhuang World War II General Seishirō Itagaki ( 板垣 征四郎 , Itagaki Seishirō , 21 January 1885 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and War Minister from 1938 to 1939.
The Battle of Xiakou was fought between the warlords Sun Quan and Liu Biao in 203 in the late Eastern Han dynasty. Sun Quan's forces attempted to conquer Jiangxia Commandery (present-day Xinzhou District, Wuhan , Hubei ), which was defended by Liu Biao's general, Huang Zu .