Battle of Xuzhou

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battle military campaign

The Battle of Xuzhou was a major 1938 campaign in the Second Sino-Japanese War in which Japanese forces encircled and captured the strategic rail hub of Xuzhou after heavy fighting against Chinese Nationalist troops.

Aliases (2)

Xuzhou Campaign ×2
Japanese forces captured Xuzhou ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	battle → military campaign →
alsoKnownAs	Xuzhou Campaign →
belligerent	Imperial Japanese Army → National Revolutionary Army →
campaignGoal	destroy Chinese main forces in the Xuzhou area →
casualties	heavy on both sides →
commander	Bai Chongxi → Hata Shunroku → Itagaki Seishiro → Li Zongren → Tang Enbo → Xue Yue →
conflict	Second Sino-Japanese War →
countryInvolved	Empire of Japan → Republic of China →
defensiveActionBy	Chinese National Revolutionary Army →
endDate	1938-05 →
followedBy	Battle of Wuhan →
front	Chinese front of World War II →
historicalPeriod	Second World War in Asia →
involvedBranch	Chinese Air Force → Chinese ground forces → Japanese Army aviation units →
involvedForce	Chinese 5th War Zone → Japanese Central China Area Army → Japanese North China Area Army →
location	Jiangsu → Republic of China → Xuzhou →
militaryTheater	North China theater →
objective	capture of Xuzhou →
offensiveActionBy	Imperial Japanese Army →
outcome	Japanese forces captured Xuzhou →
partOf	Japanese campaign to secure northern and central China → Second Sino-Japanese War →
precededBy	Battle of Taierzhuang →
result	Japanese victory →
scale	multi-army operation →
significance	allowed Japanese to consolidate control over North China Plain → forced Chinese Nationalist forces to withdraw westward →
startDate	1938-03 →
strategicImportance	major rail hub → transportation center in eastern China →
tacticUsed	encirclement → pincer movement →
typeOfEngagement	large-scale conventional land battle →
year	1938 →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Battle of Wuhan → Wuhan campaign →	precededBy
Battle of Xuzhou ("Xuzhou Campaign") →	alsoKnownAs
Battle of Taierzhuang →	followedBy
Battle of Xuzhou ("Japanese forces captured Xuzhou") →	outcome
Battle of Taierzhuang ("Xuzhou Campaign") →	partOf
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) →	significantEvent