Jinzhou Operation

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Jinzhou (Chinchow) Operation
Part of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japanese artillery in Manchuria after the Mukden Incident
Date (1931-12-21) (1932-01-03)December 21, 1931 – January 3, 1932 (1 week and 6 days) Location Liaoning, Manchuria, Republic of China Result Japanese victory
Belligerents
Republic of China National Revolutionary Army Anti-Japanese guerrillas	Empire of Japan Imperial Japanese Army
Commanders and leaders
Zhang Xueliang	Jirō Tamon
Strength
84,000 men	12,000 men
Casualties and losses
3,000 (Japanese estimate)	300

The Jinzhou Operation or Chinchow Operation was an operation in 1931 during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, which was a preliminary, contributing factor to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.