Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign

Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the China Burma India Theater 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
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 180,000
Casualties and losses
Chinese records:
724 officers and 23,637 soldiers killed
914 officers and 24,366 soldiers wounded
600 officers and 18,040 soldiers missing

Western estimate: 30,000 killed or wounded

Japanese claim:
13th Army's claim:
24,430 killed
8,564 POWs

11th Army's claim:
15,758 killed
2,283 POWs
Chinese claim: 36,869 killed or wounded

Japanese records:
13th Army:
1,284 killed
2,767 wounded
11,812 fallen ill

11th Army:
336 killed
949 wounded
As many as 250,000 Chinese civilians killed

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.

Hata's forces launched the campaign in retaliation for the Doolittle Raid, conducted by American pilots who had then landed in China's Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces. Besides seizing local airfields, Japanese troops launched massive reprisal campaigns against the local population by "slaughtering every man and child." As many as 250,000 Chinese died in the Japanese reprisals, the majority civilians.