1943 Spring Operation in the Taihang Mountains

1943 Spring Operation in the Taihang Mountains
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the China Burma India Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War II
Date (1943-04-20) (1943-05-22)April 20 – May 22, 1943
(1 month and 2 days)
Location
Taihang Mountains, China
Result

Japanese victory

  • Surrender of Generals Pang Bingxun and Sun Dianying
Belligerents
National Revolutionary Army, China Japanese North China Area Army, Imperial Japanese Army, Japan
Commanders and leaders
Pang Bingxun 
Sun Dianying 
Ma Fawu (WIA)
Liu Jin
Peng Dehuai
Liu Bocheng		 Teiichi Yoshimoto
Units involved

Nationalists :

  • 24th Group Army :
    • 40th Army
    • New 5th Army
    • 27th Army
  • Various guerilla units
  • Various local militias

Communists :

First Army :

Twelfth Army :

Strength
24th Group Army : 82,000 (Japanese Claim)

Eighth Route Army : 14,679 militiamen		 50,000 (Nationalist Chinese Claim)
Casualties and losses

Japanese Claim :
9,913 killed
15,900 POWs
58,000 surrendered

Chinese Claim : Nationalists :

  • 24th Group Army :
    5,000-6,000 casualties
    New 5th Army wiped out
  • Various guerilla units and local militias surrendered and defected

Communists :

  • Eighth Route Army : 142 killed, 237 wounded
 Japanese Claim :
227 killed
803 wounded

Chinese Nationalist Claim : 5,000-6,000 casualties

Chinese Communist Claim : 2,500+ casualties

The 1943 Spring Operation in the Taihang Mountains was an operation initiated by the Japanese North China Area Army to destroy, capture, or force the surrender of Chinese guerillas based in the Taihang Mountains, one of the most renowned mountain ranges in China spanning across Hebei, Henan, and Shanxi provinces. The first phase of the operation was aimed at the Nationalist 24th Group Army in the southern part of the Taihang Mountains and the second phase targeted the base of the Taihang Military Region of the Communist Eighth Route Army. The National Revolutionary Army referred to the battle as the Second Battle of the Taihang Mountains District. The Eighth Route Army referred to the second phase of the operation as the May 1943 Taihang Anti-"Mopping-Up" Campaign and the Summer Anti-"Mopping-Up" Campaign.


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