Battle of Beiping–Tianjin

Battle of Beiping-Tianjin
	Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the interwar period
	; Japanese troops march into the Zhengyangmen gate in Beijing after capturing the city.
Date	July 7 – August 8, 1937; (1 month and 1 day)
Location	Vicinity of Beiping city – Tianjin city in the Republic of China
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
Japan East Hebei;	China
Commanders and leaders
Kanichiro Tashiro; Kiyoshi Katsuki	Song Zheyuan; Zhao Dengyu †; Tong Linge †
Strength
180,000+	~75,000+
Casualties and losses
?	29th Army from the Marco Polo Bridge incident until 3 August 1937 :; 5,000+ casualties; 5,000+ killed; ; 29th Army and police forces from the Marco Polo Bridge incident until 3 August 1937 : approximately 15,000 casualties, 6,000+ soldiers of the 39th independent brigade in Beiping and 4,000+ Tianjin police members disarmed by the Japanese Army.

The Battle of Beiping–Tianjin (simplified Chinese: 平津作战; traditional Chinese: 平津作戰; pinyin: Píng Jīn Zùozhàn), also known as the Battle of Beiping, Battle of Peiping, Battle of Beijing, Battle of Peiking, the Peiking–Tientsin Operation, and by the Japanese as the North China Incident (北支事変, Hokushi jihen) (25–31 July 1937) was a series of battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War fought in the proximity of Beiping (now Beijing) and Tianjin. It resulted in a Japanese victory.