Battle of Pingxingguan

Battle of Pingxingguan
	Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War
	; Chinese soldiers firing a Type 24 heavy machine gun at an ambush against Japanese troops in the Battle of Pingxing Pass
Date	September 22–29, 1937; (1 week)
Location	Pingxingguan, Shanxi39°20′43.98″N 113°57′34.23″E / 39.3455500°N 113.9595083°E
Result	Japanese victory over the Chinese Nationalists and capture of Pingxingguan; Chinese Communists victory at the Pingxingguan Ambush;
Belligerents
Republic of China	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Yan Xishan; Yang Aiyuan; Fu Zuoyi; Lin Biao; Zhu De	Itagaki Seishiro
Units involved
National Revolutionary Army Eighth Route Army; ; Republic of China Air Force	Imperial Japanese Army
Strength
Nationalist troops : 158,307 troops.; Communists troops : 6,000 troops of the 115th Division	5th Division (15,000 troops) of the Imperial Japanese Army and the 2nd and 9th Independent Mixed Brigades of the Kwantung Army Pingxingguan ambush : certain supply troops and the 3rd Battalion of the 21st Regiment of the 5th Division;
Casualties and losses
Nationalist troops : 39,402 casualties; ; 115th division in the Pingxingguan ambush : ~400 casualties	Chinese Claim :; Chinese Nationalists claim : 2,952 casualties; Chinese Communists claims :; Initial Chinese report : 1,000 casualties; Postwar Chinese study : 400–500 casualties; ; Japanese Records : 527 killed, 961 wounded, 18 missing In the Pingxingguan ambush : 165 killed, 75 wounded;
	1 2 Including in the battles of Guangling and Lingqiu from September 13 until September 15; ↑ Pingxingguan ambush only;

The Battle of Pingxingguan (Chinese: 平型關戰役) was a battle between Chinese and Japanese troops at the Pingxing Pass. The Japanese army defeated the numerically-superior Nationalist army and occupied the pass over the course of a week. This battle also saw cooperation between Nationalist and Communist troops.

The Pingxingguan Ambush, commonly called the Great Victory of Pingxingguan in Mainland China, was an engagement fought on 25 September 1937, at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War, between the Eighth Route Army of the Chinese Communist Party and the Imperial Japanese Army. The battle resulted in the loss of 400 to 600 soldiers on both sides, but the Chinese captured 100 trucks full of supplies. The victory gave the Chinese Communists a tremendous boost since it was the only division-size battle that they fought during the entire war.

[include-3] 1 2 Including in the battles of Guangling and Lingqiu from September 13 until September 15

[5] Pingxingguan ambush only