Battle of Changsha (1944)

Battle of Changsha (1944)
	Part of Operation Ichi-Go, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II
	; Chinese Army in the battle
Date	26 May 1944 – 8 August 1944 ; (2 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Location	Changsha and Hengyang
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
China	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Xue Yue; Fang Xianjue	Isamu Yokoyama; Yasuji Okamura
Strength
Forty-three divisions totaling 286,000 troops	Eight divisions
Casualties and losses
Chinese claim :; 32,009 killed and 52,985 wounded (from 25 May until 10 October 1944); 86,752 killed or wounded and 21,531 missing; ; Japanese claim (until the fall of Hengyang): 66,468 killed and 22,460 captured	Chinese claim:; 66,809 casualties; 104,675 killed or wounded and 447 captured; ; Japanese claim:; Until 20th July 1944 :; 3,860 killed; 8,327 wounded; 7,099 sick; 19,286 total; Estimated to have reached 40,000-50,000 casualties (including from illness) by mid-August and 60,000 by late August; ; After the capture of Hengyang, the Japanese 11th Army received 100,000 additional soldiers to supplement the combat and non-combat losses in the battle of Changsha-Hengyang.
	↑ Seriously underestimated, see below;

The Battle of Changsha of 1944 (also known as the Battle of Hengyang or Campaign of Changsha-Hengyang; Chinese: 長衡會戰) was an invasion of the Chinese province of Hunan by Japanese troops near the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. As such, it encompasses three separate conflicts: an invasion of the city of Changsha and two invasions of Hengyang.

The Japanese military transferred the bulk of their troops from the Japanese homeland and Manchuria as part of Operation "Ichi-Go" or "Tairiku Datsu Sakusen" which roughly translates as 'Operation to Break through the Continent'. This was an attempt to establish a land and rail corridor from the Japanese occupied territories of Manchuria, Northern and Central China and Korea and those in South East Asia.

[3] Seriously underestimated, see below