Word: tancheng
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Striking quickly from the eastern side of the Lunghai Corridor, the mobile Chinese captured for a night the walled town of Tancheng, almost 15 miles back of the farthest advanced Japanese line. With their forces at Nanlakow thus threatened, reinforced Japanese troops retook the town, but realized that the wily Chinese by this stroke had succeeded in lengthening what was already for them a too extended southern Shantung battlefront...
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