Battle of West Suiyuan

Battle of West Suiyuan
Part of Second Sino-Japanese War
Chinese 35th Army
Date January 1940 – February 1940 Location Suiyuan Result Chinese victory
Belligerents
Republic of China	Empire of Japan Mengjiang
Commanders and leaders
Ma Hongkui Ma Hongbin	Shigenori Kuroda
Strength
Thousands of Chinese Muslim and Han Chinese troops	Thousands of Japanese and Mengjiang troops
Casualties and losses
According to commander Fu Zuoyi's report on 24th April 1940 : [1] 2,129 killed 1,767 wounded 1,895 missing According to history of the Anti-Japanese War :[2] 2,872 killed or wounded 2,126 missing	160 killed, 461 wounded, 534 afflicted with frostbites [3]

The Battle of West Suiyuan (simplified Chinese: 绥西战役; traditional Chinese: 綏西戰役; pinyin: Suíxī zhànyì) was part of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was fought from January – February 1940, as part of the Chinese 1939 Winter Offensive.