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	Evening of 24 September 1937 – noon of 25 September 1937
Location	Pingxingguan, Shanxi39°20′43.98″N 113°57′34.23″E / 39.3455500°N 113.9595083°E
Result	Chinese victory
Belligerents
Republic of China	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Lin Biao; Zhu De	Itagaki Seishiro
Units involved
National Revolutionary Army Eighth Route Army; ; Republic of China Air Force	Imperial Japanese Army
Strength
6,000 troops of the 115th Division	15,000 troops (5th Division); however, only certain supply troops and the 3rd Battalion of the 21st Regiment were involved in the actual ambush
Casualties and losses
~400	400–500

The Battle of Pingxingguan (Chinese: 平型關戰役), 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.^[2]

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.^[2]

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