Word: taierchwang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most thrilling sequence in Inside Fighting China is its picture of the Battle of Taierchwang. The Chinese lie in wait in the hills while the camera hovers over the Japanese columns advancing along the roads below. Then with a roar the Chinese swarm down, utterly smash the Japs...
...derelict Chinese army commanded by Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell; in their confidence they hurried into Yünnan only 5,000 strong. At week's end "Uncle Joe's" men came to life and, with a fury that harked back to the Chinese furies at Changsha and Taierchwang, rolled up the Japanese rear. In Yunnan a trap snapped on the Japanese...
...square miles populated by 115,000,000 Chinese, the Japanese confidently (and therefore halfheartedly) offered peace. The Chinese refused. The Japanese set about trying to consolidate the occupied areas, riddled by guerrillas. During this process a large force allowed itself to be hemmed in by masses of Chinese at Taierchwang and suffered the worst Japanese defeat in modern history (TIME, April...