Suiyuan Campaign (1936)

Suiyuan Campaign (1936)

Warbox
conflict=Suiyuan Campaign 1936
partof=Second Sino-Japanese War
date=October – November 1936
place= Suiyuan province, Inner Mongolia
result= Chinese victory
combatant1= flagicon|Republic of China Republic of China
combatant2="(advisiors only)"
commander1= flagicon|Republic of China Fu Tso-yi
flagicon|Republic of China Tang Enbo
flagicon|Republic of China Zhao Chengshou
flagicon|Republic of China Wang Jingguo
commander2=
strength1= flagicon|Republic of China Local Provincial forces: 35th Army, Cavalry Army, 19th Army, AA battalion from Nanking
strength2= 30 Japanese advisors
casualties1= ?
casualties2= approx. 7,000 |

The Suiyuan Campaign was an engagement between the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Japanese-trained Inner Mongolian/Grand Han Righteous Armies before the outbreak of official hostilities during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Background

The Tanggu Truce of 1933 established a ceasefire between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army, including a demilitarized zone running from the coast at Tianjin to Beijing. As neither the Empire of Japan nor the Republic of China wanted to break the truce overtly, the center of conflict shifted west to Inner Mongolia, where proxy armies were used by both sides over the provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan. During the 1933-1936 period, Chahar proclaimed itself the independent Mongol Military Government allied with Japan under Prince Demchugdongrub who sought to rule all of Inner and Outer Mongolia and parts of northern China.

History

On November 14, 1936 a coalition of the Inner Mongolian Army's 7th and 8th Cavalry Divisions, Wang Ying's Grand Han Righteous Army, and Mongol mercenaries from Jehol, Chahar and other areas, supported by 30 Japanese advisors, attacked the Chinese garrison at Hongort.

After several days of fighting the attackers failed to capture the town. On November 17 a Chinese counterattack surprised the invaders and led to a disorganized retreat. Taking advantage of the Mongolian disorder General Fu Tso-yi made a flanking movement to the west of the Mongolian headquarters at Pai-ling-miao and attacked, capturing it and routing the Mongolian forces, who suffered 300 killed, 600 wounded, 300 captured. Wang and his Grand Han Righteous Army were trucked into a location near Pai-ling-miao and launched a counterattack, which failed dismally on December 19, with most of the attackers either taken prisoner or annihilated. [Guo Rugui, [http://www.wehoo.net/book/wlwh/a30012/04580.htm 第二部分:从“九一八”事变到西安事变日本侵绥的战备企图和中日 2] .]

Small scale fighting continued in Suiyuan until the beginning of open hostilities following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident the following year.

Aftermath

The defeat of Japan’s proxy forces encouraged many Chinese into pushing for a more active resistance against the Japanese. The Xi'an Incident which occurred immediately after the successful outcome of this campaign was possibly triggered by this event.

Small scale combat continued in Suiyuan until the beginning of open hostilities following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident the following year. Following his defeat in Suiyuan, Prince Demchugdongrub was forced to rebuild his army. With Japanese help by the time war broke out in July of 1937, his army consisted of 20,000 men in eight cavalry divisions. These forces participated in Operation Chahar and the Battle of Taiyuan during which Japanese regular and allied Inner Mongol forces finally captured eastern Suiyuan province.

Notes

ee also

* Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933-36)
* Order of Battle Suiyuan Campaign(1936)

Sources

* Jowett, Phillip S. , Rays of The Rising Sun, Armed Forces of Japan’s Asian Allies 1931-45, Volume I: China & Manchuria, 2004. Helion & Co. Ltd., 26 Willow Rd., Solihul, West Midlands, England.
* 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 (China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations)
** Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang
** Jiangsu People's Publishing House
** Date published : 2005-7-1
** ISBN:7214030349
** On line in Chinese: [http://www.wehoo.net/book/wlwh/a30012/A0170.htm 中国抗战正向战场作战记]

External links

* [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/IMTFE/IMTFE-5a.html International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Chapter 5: Japanese Aggression Against China]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,753960,00.html TIME Oct. 23, 1933, Inner Mongolia for Inner Mongolians]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,746478,00.html TIME, Dec. 11, 1933 Generalissimo’s Last Straw]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,746922,00.html TIME Magazine, Feb. 12, 1934 The Word is Out]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758024-1,00.html TIME Magazine, Jul. 26, 1937 Another "Kuo"?]

Topographic Map
* [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/china/txu-oclc-10552568-nk49-8.jpgWu Chuan nk49-8] Pai-ling-miao, Wu Chuan area of Suiyuan Province


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