Word: shansi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were four main areas of Chinese push. Up north in Shansi a Chinese force of 20,000 was at work. In central China, near Nanking, Chinese mercenary troops of the Japanese puppet Wang Ching-wei reportedly revolted, blew up two Japanese troop trains and attacked several small villages. A Chinese force also attacked the town of Langsi and "liquidated all of the Japanese defenders." Farther south, only 100 miles from Shanghai, another Chinese Army forced its way across the Chientang River. In the extreme southwest, whence the Japanese carelessly drained troops for the investment of Indo-China, some...
...third year, summer of 1939, opened with spectacular Chinese victories in Shansi Province. The Japanese shook up their high command and started a face-saving drive on Changsha. Their faces were slapped instead, in what Chungking called "the biggest single victory of the war." Desperate, the Japanese undertook a surprise attack, this time successful, on Nanning, in order to cut down on the flow of munitions from French Indo-China into China. This was a serious blow to the Chinese. The fall of Ichang early this month gave the Japanese a convenient base for new and heavier-than-ever bombing...
Closely connected with guerilla bands in Shansi and other provinces of northern China, Major Carlson said that China is like a checkerboard with the Japanese holding the lines and the Chinese the squares. Meaning that the invaders control the railways and the defenders hold the space between, he recalled that in one place, a small defending force surrounded on four sides has not surrendered to the enemy in almost a year of fighting...
...attempting to command the northern approaches to Chungking, with Hanchung (see map) as its ultimate objective. They did the same to a September drive for Changsha, key to Chungking's southern approaches. And they made a bloody, muddy fiasco of a Japanese "cleanup" campaign in supposedly occupied Shansi Province in the north...