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Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang
	; Japanese troops in the battle of Zaoyang-Yichang
Date	May 1 – June 18, 1940; (1 month, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Location	Vicinities of Zaoyang and Yichang, Hubei32°07′31″N 112°45′04″E / 32.1252°N 112.7510°E
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
Republic of China	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Li Zongren; Zhang Zizhong †	Waichiro Sonobe
Strength
350,000	IJA 11th Army; 200+ tanks; 100+ aircraft; 1st China Expeditionary Fleet
Casualties and losses
Japanese records: 60,000+ killed & wounded; 81 artillery pieces captured; 727 automatic weapons captured; 12,557 rifles captured;	Chinese records: 11,000 killed; ; According to Japanese confidential files: 2,700 killed; 7,800 wounded; tens of thousands;

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The Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang, also known as the Battle of Zaoyi (Chinese: 棗宜會戰), was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Background

The Japanese were seeking a quicker solution to achieve a Chinese surrender. The Japanese contemplated moving directly down the Yangtze to the relocated Chinese capital, Chongqing. To do so, they would need to capture a critical town in western Hubei province, Yichang.

The Japanese attack did not commit many troops or material, which enabled the main Chinese commander, Li Zongren, who had frustrated the Japanese before, to repel the Japanese.

Battle

On 1 May 1940, three divisions of the IJA 11th Army under command of General Waichiro Sonobe began a drive towards Zaoyang. They pushed towards the 5th warzone's strongholds in the Tongbaishan and Dahongshan mountains, attempting to encircle and destroy the Chinese 31st Army Group under General Tang Enbo in a pincer movement. The Chinese strategy aimed to let the Japanese forces run low on supplies, and then counterattack, as had been successfully employed at the Battle of Changsha. When the Japanese managed to outmaneuver Tang's forces, General Zhang Zizhong marched to his aid with the Chinese 33rd Army Group. The Japanese forces rallied and pushed back the Chinese, and General Zhang Zizhong was cut down in a burst of machine gun fire when he refused to retreat from the front lines. He was the most senior Chinese commander to be killed in combat during the war.^[1]

The Japanese used chemical weapons against Chinese forces who lacked chemical weapons in order to compensate for when they were numerically inferior, whenever Chinese were defeating the Japanese in hand to hand combat. The Japanese did not dare to use gas against the Americans because the Americans had their own chemical weapons stockpile and the Japanese feared retaliation.^[2]^[3]^[4]

The Japanese launched gas attacks against Chinese when the Chinese were defeating and overwhelming the Japanese in hand to hand combat, like at the battle of Yichang in 1941, where Japanese ground forces in the city were routed by Chinese soldiers but the Japanese deployed mustard gas to win the battle.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Aftermath

According to Japanese records, the Japanese casualties were 2,700 troops killed and 7,800 wounded. Chinese records show that 11,000 Japanese troops were killed. While the Chinese 5th War Area arguably made tactically sound decisions in its battle plans, it was ultimately overwhelmed by the sheer firepower of the Japanese combined arms offensive, relying primarily on small arms to face the onslaught of Japanese air, naval, artillery, and armoured striking power. As the Chinese commanders had surmised, the Japanese forces were overextended, and were not in a position to pursue their victory. However, the Imperial Japanese Navy pushed strongly for the occupation of Yichang, located at the edge of Sichuan Province and connecting the 5th and 9th war zones. The Navy felt that it was critically needed as a forward base for air attacks against Chongqing. After considerable argument, the Japanese Army agreed to occupy Yichang.^[1] This dealt a considerable blow to the morale and fighting capacity of the Chinese as no large-scale offensive was mounted after this operation.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b Frank, Richard (2020). Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937 – May 1942. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1324002109.
^ Grunden, W.E. (2017). "No Retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War II". In Friedrich, B.; Hoffmann, D.; Renn, J.; Schmaltz, F.; Wolf, M. (eds.). One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences. Springer. pp. 259–271. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_14. ISBN 978-3-319-51664-6. S2CID 158528688.
^ "(PDF) No Retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War II". Retrieved 21 January 2024.
^ Hammond, James W. (1999). Poison Gas: The Myths Versus Reality. Praeger Security International (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 50. ISBN 0313310386. ISSN 0883-6884. that raid was the Japanese decision to extend her defense perimeter to include the Solomon Islands . ... In three days of hand - to - hand fighting from blockhouse to blockhouse , Tarawa was " USMC entirely " ( a paraphrase of the ...
^ United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division (1944). Enemy Tactics in Chemical Warfare. War Department. p. 81-83. The order set up within an infantry regiment a temporary gas unit , consisting of eight squads , whose duty was to carry ... or on occasion thrown by hand , the Japanese also have toxic smoke ( vomiting gas ) candles which are self ...
^ Military Intelligence Division (1944). Index to Intelligence Publications. War Department. p. 81-83. The gas squads were to be attached to forward companies or place under their direct command , and the importance of ... and tear gas candles , designed to be placed on the ground and burned , or on occasion thrown by hand , the Japanese ...
^ United States. War Department. General Staff (1944). Special Series, Issue 24. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 81-83. The order set up within an infantry regiment a temporary gas unit , consisting of eight squads , whose duty was to carry ... or on occasion thrown by hand , the Japanese also have toxic smoke ( vomiting gas ) candles which are self ...
^ Hooper, Franklin Henry, ed. (1942). Britannica Book of the Year. ContributorWalter Yust. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated. p. 172. After a fierce four – day hand – to – hand combat the Chinese recaptured Ichang . When the Japanese used gas to attack Ichang , according to Chungking , the Chinese forces withdrew on Oct. 13. The Chinese and Japanese military situation ...
^ Walter Yust, ed. (1943). Britannica Book of the Year Omnibus [1942]. Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 353. OCLC 9824466. After a fierce four – day hand – to – hand combat the and naval fire occupied six different points stretched over a dis- Chinese recaptured Ichang . When the Japanese used gas to tance of 250 mi . along the Kwangtung coast , and at the ...
^ Central China area operation record 1937–1945 (PDF) (Report). Japanese Monograph. Vol. 179. Tokyo, Japan: Headquarters, USAFFE and eighth U.S. Army, Office of the chief of military history department of the army. 21 December 1955. pp. 215–218. Retrieved 8 February 2018.

Sources

Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China. Page 334-339, Map 20, 21
van de Ven, Hans. War and Nationalism in China: 1925–1945,

External links

"Occupation of Shashi", Nippon News, No. 3. in the official website of NHK.
"Occupation of Yichang", Nippon News, No. 4. in the official website of NHK.

[Frank-1] Frank, Richard (2020). Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937 – May 1942. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1324002109.

[2] Grunden, W.E. (2017). "No Retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War II". In Friedrich, B.; Hoffmann, D.; Renn, J.; Schmaltz, F.; Wolf, M. (eds.). One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences. Springer. pp. 259–271. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_14. ISBN 978-3-319-51664-6. S2CID 158528688.

[3] "(PDF) No Retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War II". Retrieved 21 January 2024.

[4] Hammond, James W. (1999). Poison Gas: The Myths Versus Reality. Praeger Security International (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 50. ISBN 0313310386. ISSN 0883-6884. that raid was the Japanese decision to extend her defense perimeter to include the Solomon Islands . ... In three days of hand - to - hand fighting from blockhouse to blockhouse , Tarawa was " USMC entirely " ( a paraphrase of the ...

[5] United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division (1944). Enemy Tactics in Chemical Warfare. War Department. p. 81-83. The order set up within an infantry regiment a temporary gas unit , consisting of eight squads , whose duty was to carry ... or on occasion thrown by hand , the Japanese also have toxic smoke ( vomiting gas ) candles which are self ...

[6] Military Intelligence Division (1944). Index to Intelligence Publications. War Department. p. 81-83. The gas squads were to be attached to forward companies or place under their direct command , and the importance of ... and tear gas candles , designed to be placed on the ground and burned , or on occasion thrown by hand , the Japanese ...

[7] United States. War Department. General Staff (1944). Special Series, Issue 24. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 81-83. The order set up within an infantry regiment a temporary gas unit , consisting of eight squads , whose duty was to carry ... or on occasion thrown by hand , the Japanese also have toxic smoke ( vomiting gas ) candles which are self ...

[8] Hooper, Franklin Henry, ed. (1942). Britannica Book of the Year. ContributorWalter Yust. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated. p. 172. After a fierce four – day hand – to – hand combat the Chinese recaptured Ichang . When the Japanese used gas to attack Ichang , according to Chungking , the Chinese forces withdrew on Oct. 13. The Chinese and Japanese military situation ...

[9] Walter Yust, ed. (1943). Britannica Book of the Year Omnibus [1942]. Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 353. OCLC 9824466. After a fierce four – day hand – to – hand combat the and naval fire occupied six different points stretched over a dis- Chinese recaptured Ichang . When the Japanese used gas to tance of 250 mi . along the Kwangtung coast , and at the ...

[JM-179-10] Central China area operation record 1937–1945 (PDF) (Report). Japanese Monograph. Vol. 179. Tokyo, Japan: Headquarters, USAFFE and eighth U.S. Army, Office of the chief of military history department of the army. 21 December 1955. pp. 215–218. Retrieved 8 February 2018.

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+| date        = {{Date range and age in years, months, weeks and days|1940|5|1|1940|6|18}}
+| coordinates = {{coord|32.1252|N|112.7510|E|source:wikidata-and-enwiki-cat-tree_region:AU|display=title,inline}}
 | place       = Vicinities of [[Zaoyang]] and [[Yichang]], [[Hubei]]
+| result      = Japanese victory
-| result      = Japanese victory<ref name="pu1943">{{cite book|author=China. Hsüan ch'uan pu|title=China After Five Years of War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mpYlAAAAMAAJ|year=1943|publisher=Gollancz|page=62}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Bulletin of International News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BALAQAAMAAJ|year=1941|publisher=Association for International Understanding|page=1770}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Philippine Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATPnAAAAMAAJ|year=1940|publisher=Philippine Education Company|page=62}}</ref><ref name="hidalgojr.1928">{{cite book|author1=Felix Reburreccion Hidalgo|author2=Charles E. Griffith, jr.|title=Philippine Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4329hVylYoC|year=1928|publisher=Philippine Education Company|page=62}}</ref>
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-* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Republic of China Army.svg}} [[National Revolutionary Army]]
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-* {{flagicon image|War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg}} [[Imperial Japanese Army]]
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+| strength1   = 350,000
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+| casualties1 = Japanese records:
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+* 60,000+ killed & wounded
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+* 81 artillery pieces captured
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+* 727 automatic weapons captured
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+* 12,557 rifles captured
+| casualties2 = Chinese records: 11,000 killed<br /><br /> According to Japanese confidential files:
+* 2,700 killed
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+* tens of thousands
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-The '''Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang''', also known as the '''Battle of Zaoyi''', was one of the 22 major engagements between the [[National Revolutionary Army]] and [[Imperial Japanese Army]] during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].
+The '''Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang''', also known as the '''Battle of Zaoyi''' ({{zh|t=棗宜會戰}}), was one of the 22 major engagements between the [[National Revolutionary Army]] and [[Imperial Japanese Army]] during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].
 ==Background==
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 ==Battle==
-On 1 May 1940, the Japanese forces began a drive towards [[Zaoyang]]. They pushed towards the 5th warzone's strongholds in the Tongbaishan and Dahongshan mountains,  attempting to draw the Chinese forces into a battle and destroy them with a [[pincer movement]]. The Chinese strategy aimed to let the Japanese forces run low on supplies, and then destroy them.
+On 1 May 1940, three divisions of the [[Eleventh Army (Japan)|IJA 11th Army]] under command of General [[Waichiro Sonobe]]  began a drive towards [[Zaoyang]]. They pushed towards the 5th warzone's strongholds in the Tongbaishan and Dahongshan mountains,  attempting to encircle and destroy the Chinese 31st Army Group under General [[Tang Enbo]] in a [[pincer movement]]. The Chinese strategy aimed to let the Japanese forces run low on supplies, and then counterattack, as had been successfully employed at the [[Battle of Changsha (1939)|Battle of Changsha]]. When the Japanese managed to outmaneuver Tang's forces, General [[Zhang Zizhong]] marched to his aid with the Chinese 33rd Army Group. The Japanese forces rallied and pushed back the Chinese, and General Zhang Zizhong was cut down in a burst of machine gun fire when he refused to retreat from the front lines. He was the most senior Chinese commander to be killed in combat during the war.<ref name="Frank">{{cite book |last1=Frank |first1=Richard |title=Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937 – May 1942 |date=2020 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-1324002109}}</ref>
+The Japanese used chemical weapons against Chinese forces who lacked chemical weapons in order to compensate for when they were numerically inferior, whenever Chinese were defeating the Japanese in hand to hand combat. The Japanese did not dare to use gas against the Americans because the Americans had their own chemical weapons stockpile and the Japanese feared retaliation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Grunden |first1=W.E. |editor-last1=Friedrich |editor-first1=B. |editor-last2=Hoffmann |editor-first2= D.|editor-last3=Renn |editor-first3=J. |editor-last4= Schmaltz|editor-first4= F. |editor-last5= Wolf|editor-first5= M. |date=2017 |chapter=No Retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War II |chapter-url= https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_14|title= One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences |isbn=978-3-319-51664-6 |publisher=Springer|pages= 259–271|doi= 10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_14|s2cid=158528688 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://researchgate.net/publication/321329919_No_Retaliation_in_Kind_Japanese_Chemical_Warfare_Policy_in_World_War_II|title=(PDF) No Retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War II|accessdate=21 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Hammond|first=James W. |series=Praeger Security International|issue=178 of Contributions in military studies |date=1999 |title=Poison Gas: The Myths Versus Reality |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PfUxW5x1s6oC&dq=japanese+gas+hand+to+hand+combat&pg=PA50 |issn= 0883-6884 |publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group|page=50 |isbn=0313310386|edition=illustrated|quote=that raid was the Japanese decision to extend her defense perimeter to include the Solomon Islands . ... In three days of hand - to - hand fighting from blockhouse to blockhouse , Tarawa was " USMC entirely " ( a paraphrase of the ...}}</ref>
+The Japanese launched gas attacks against Chinese when the Chinese were defeating and overwhelming the Japanese in hand to hand combat, like at the battle of Yichang in 1941, where Japanese ground forces in the city were routed by Chinese soldiers but the Japanese deployed mustard gas to win the battle.<ref>{{cite book |author=United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division|issue= 24 of Special series, United States War Dept |date= 1944|title=Enemy Tactics in Chemical Warfare |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gq1BAAAAIAAJ&dq=japanese+gas+hand+to+hand+combat&pg=PA81  |publisher=War Department |page=81-83 |quote=The order set up within an infantry regiment a temporary gas unit , consisting of eight squads , whose duty was to carry ... or on occasion thrown by hand , the Japanese also have toxic smoke ( vomiting gas ) candles which are self ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Military Intelligence Division |issue= 23 of Special series|date=1944 |title=Index to Intelligence Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vC9JAQAAIAAJ&dq=japanese+gas+hand+to+hand+combat&pg=RA7-PA81  |publisher= War Department|page=81-83|quote=The gas squads were to be attached to forward companies or place under their direct command , and the importance of ... and tear gas candles , designed to be placed on the ground and burned , or on occasion thrown by hand , the Japanese ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=United States. War Department. General Staff |date=1944 |title=Special Series, Issue 24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ziOhAAAAMAAJ&dq=japanese+gas+hand+to+hand+combat&pg=PA81 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=81-83 |quote=The order set up within an infantry regiment a temporary gas unit , consisting of eight squads , whose duty was to carry ... or on occasion thrown by hand , the Japanese also have toxic smoke ( vomiting gas ) candles which are self ... }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Hooper |editor-first= Franklin Henry |others=ContributorWalter Yust |date=1942 |title= Britannica Book of the Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Am4NAQAAMAAJ&q=hankow+%22hand+-+to+-+hand%22+gas+japanese|location= |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated |page=172 |quote=After a fierce four – day hand – to – hand combat the Chinese recaptured Ichang . When the Japanese used gas to attack Ichang , according to Chungking , the Chinese forces withdrew on Oct. 13. The Chinese and Japanese military situation ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |oclc=9824466 |editor=Walter Yust |date=1943 |title= Britannica Book of the Year Omnibus [1942]|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lXMhAQAAMAAJ&q=hankow+%22hand+-+to+-+hand%22+gas+japanese|location= |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |page=353 |quote=After a fierce four – day hand – to – hand combat the and naval fire occupied six different points stretched over a dis- Chinese recaptured Ichang . When the Japanese used gas to tance of 250 mi . along the Kwangtung coast , and at the ...}}</ref>
 ==Aftermath==
+According to Japanese records, the Japanese casualties were 2,700 troops killed and 7,800 wounded. Chinese records show that 11,000 Japanese troops were killed. While the Chinese 5th War Area arguably made tactically sound decisions in its battle plans, it was ultimately overwhelmed by the sheer firepower of the Japanese combined arms offensive, relying primarily on small arms to face the onslaught of Japanese air, naval, artillery, and armoured striking power. As the Chinese commanders had surmised, the Japanese forces were overextended, and were not in a position to pursue their victory. However, the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] pushed strongly for the occupation of Yichang, located at the edge of [[Sichuan Province]] and connecting the 5th and 9th war zones. The Navy felt that it was critically needed as a forward base for air attacks against [[Chongqing]]. After considerable argument, the Japanese Army agreed to occupy Yichang.<ref name="Frank"/> This dealt a considerable blow to the morale and fighting capacity of the Chinese as no large-scale offensive was mounted after this operation.<ref name = 'JM-179'>{{cite report |date= 21 December 1955|place = Tokyo, Japan |title= Central China area operation record 1937–1945|url= http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japan/Monos/pdfs/JM-179/JM-179.pdf|publisher= Headquarters, [[United States Army Forces in the Far East|USAFFE]] and [[Eighth United States Army|eighth U.S. Army]], [[United States Army Center of Military History|Office of the chief of military history department of the army]]|pages= 215–218|access-date= 8 February 2018|series =Japanese Monograph |volume = 179}}</ref>
-The Japanese casualties were 2,700 troops killed and 7,800 wounded. The occupation of Yichang gave the Japanese an advantageous base for air attacks against Chongqing. Furthermore, it dealt a considerable blow to the morale and fighting capacity of the Chinese as no large-scale offensive was mounted after this operation.<ref name = 'JM-179'/>
 ==See also==
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 ==Sources==
 * Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, '''History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)''' 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China. Page 334-339, Map 20, 21
-* van de Ven, Hans. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=aOLbQEnNEcoC&pg=PA245&lpg=PA245&dq=Battle+of+Zaoyang%E2%80%93Yichang&source=bl&ots=xYBtUoaIl6&sig=d-zTllmpCg7lX-5nB4f0WvyUPQA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WfGRU-CLOoHxoASPqIKgBg&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=Battle%20of%20Zaoyang%E2%80%93Yichang&f=false War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945],''
+* van de Ven, Hans. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=aOLbQEnNEcoC&dq=Battle+of+Zaoyang%E2%80%93Yichang&pg=PA245 War and Nationalism in China: 1925–1945],''
 ==External links==
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 * [http://cgi2.nhk.or.jp/shogenarchives/jpnews/movie.cgi?das_id=D0001300389_00000&seg_number=006 "Occupation of Yichang"], ''Nippon News'', No. 4. in the official website of NHK.
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-[[Category:History of Hubei]]
+[[Category:Conflicts in Hubei]]
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