Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign

Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II
A Japanese soldier with 50 mm heavy grenade discharger during the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, 30 May 1942
Date (1942-05-15) (1942-09-04)May 15 – September 4, 1942 (3 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Vicinity of Zhejiang, Jiangxi Result Japanese victory
Belligerents
China  United States	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Gu Zhutong Shangguan Yunxiang Tang Shih-Tsun Wang Jingjiu Li Jue Xue Yue Ou Zhen Shi Zhongcheng Wang Yaowu Xia Chuzhong Sun Du Feng Sheng-Fa Ding Zhipan Wang Tieh-Han Chang Wen-Ching Tao Kuang Liu Yu-Ching Fan Tse-Ying Mo Yu-Shuo	Shunroku Hata Shigeru Sawada Korechika Anami Sanji Ōkido Tetsuzo Ide Takayuki Uchida Toshijiro Takeuchi Johkichi Nanbu Haruo Yamamura Hachiro Tagami Tagaji Takahashi Shigeru Ōga Saburo Takehara Takejiro Imai Tokutaro Ide Giichi Hirano Naotsugu Sakai †
Units involved
Republic of China Army	Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731
Strength
22,099 officers and 290,209 soldiers[1]	180,000
Casualties and losses
Chinese claim :[1] 724 officers and 23,637 soldiers killed 914 officers and 24,366 soldiers wounded 600 officers and 18,040 soldiers missing Japanese claim : 41,960 killed and 10,992 captured[2]	Chinese claim : 36,869 killed or wounded[1] Japanese claim : 13th army :[3] 1,284 killed 2,767 wounded 11,812 fallen ill 11th army :[4] 336 killed 949 wounded
250,000 Chinese killed[5]

The Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign or the Chekiang–Kiangsi campaign (Japanese: 浙贛作戦, simplified Chinese: 浙赣战役; traditional Chinese: 浙赣戰役; pinyin: Zhè-Gàn Zhànyì), also known as Operation Sei-go (Japanese: せ号作戦), was a campaign by the China Expeditionary Army of the Imperial Japanese Army under Shunroku Hata and Chinese 3rd War Area forces under Gu Zhutong in Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi from mid May to early September 1942.