Battle of Beiping–Tianjin

Battle of Beiping-Tianjin
	Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War
	; Japanese troops march into the Zhengyangmen gate in Beijing after capturing the city.
Date	July 7 – August 8, 1937; (1 month and 1 day)
Location	Vicinity of Beijing – Tianjin
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
Japan East Hebei;	China
Commanders and leaders
Kanichiro Tashiro; Kiyoshi Katsuki	Song Zheyuan; Zhao Dengyu †; Tong Linge †
Strength
180,000+	~75,000+
Casualties and losses
According to Japanese newspaper :; Japanese army in North China from the Marco Polo Bridge incident until 29th July 1937 : 422 combat deaths (including 59 in the Tongzhou mutiny); ; The remaining 10,000 men of the puppet Eastern Hebei Security Team who did not mutiny were disarmed by the Japanese Army and imprisoned in the Xiyuan concentration camp.	29th Corps from the Marco Polo Bridge incident until 3 August 1937 :; 5,000+ casualties; 5,000+ killed; ; 29th Corps and police forces from the Marco Polo Bridge incident until 3 August 1937 : approximately 15,000 casualties, 6,000+ soldiers of the 39th independent brigade in Beiping and 4,000+ Tianjin police members disarmed by the Japanese Army and imprisoned in the Xiyuan concentration camp.; ; Tongzhou mutineers of the puppet Eastern Hebei Security Team : 6,000 killed, wounded, missing, or captured.

The Battle of Beiping–Tianjin (simplified Chinese: 平津作战; traditional Chinese: 平津作戰; pinyin: Píng Jīn Zùozhàn), also known as the Battle of Beiping, Battle of Peiping, Battle of Beijing, Battle of Peiking, the Peiking–Tientsin Operation, and by the Japanese as the North China Incident (北支事変, Hokushi jihen) (25–31 July 1937) was a series of battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War fought in the proximity of Beiping (now Beijing) and Tianjin. It resulted in a Japanese victory.