Battle of Pingxingguan

When

24 Sep 1937 – 25 Sep 1937

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

39.35° N, 113.96° E

Description

1937 battle

1937 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War

The Battle of Pingxingguan was the initial significant confrontation in northwestern Shanxi after the commencement of the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War at the Pingxing Pass. The conflict commenced in late September and endured for almost ten days. Initially, Chinese soldiers effectively ambushed and repelled Japanese troops in the Pingxingguan region.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Second Sino-Japanese War - Battle of Pingxingguan: The Communist Chinese Eighth Route Army defeats the Japanese”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die 8. chinesische Armee besiegt japanische Truppen in der Schlacht von Pingxingguan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire chinoise de la Huitième armée de route à la bataille de Pingxingguan dans le Shanxi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Second Sino-Japanese War7 Jul 1937 · Interstate war · Deaths 20,000,000