Battle of South Shanxi

Battle of South Shanxi
	Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War
	; A map of the battle
Date	May 7–27, 1941; (2 weeks and 6 days)
Location	South Shanxi, China
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
National Revolutionary Army, China	North China Front Army, Imperial Japanese Army, Japan
Commanders and leaders
Wei Lihuang	Hayao Tada
Strength
180,000 troops in 8 armies	100,000 troops in 6 divisions, 3 brigades
Casualties and losses
According to commander-in-chief Wei Lihuang's report on 5th September 1941 : 25,066 killed or wounded and 21,611 missing; According to the history of the Anti-Japanese War (based on reports from each unit in June and July) : 75,600 killed, wounded, or missing; ; Japanese claim : 42,000 killed and 35,000 captured; ; According to Japanese interrogations of Chinese POWs : 12,672 prisoners	Chinese claim : 39,600 casualties; ; Japanese claim : 673 killed and 2,292 wounded
	↑ Wei Lihuang wrote that the number of killed being higher than the number of wounded was because many of the reported casualties included previously-unreported vacancies and that each division had as many as 2,000 vacancies. Moreover, most of the missing were guerillas in Southern Shanxi who had lost contact with the main force but there were still troops returning one after another. Various commanders also took the opportunity to overreport damaged or lost equipment to make up for insufficient or poor equipment. Thus, the number of loss equipment reported were generally higher than the actual number of losses;

The Battle of South Shanxi , also known as the Battle of Jinnan (Chinese: 晉南战役) and Zhongtiao Mountains campaign (Chinese: 中條山會戰) by the Chinese and as the Chungyuan Operation by the Japanese, was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).

[3] Wei Lihuang wrote that the number of killed being higher than the number of wounded was because many of the reported casualties included previously-unreported vacancies and that each division had as many as 2,000 vacancies. Moreover, most of the missing were guerillas in Southern Shanxi who had lost contact with the main force but there were still troops returning one after another. Various commanders also took the opportunity to overreport damaged or lost equipment to make up for insufficient or poor equipment. Thus, the number of loss equipment reported were generally higher than the actual number of losses