Battle of Wuhan
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The Battle of Wuhan (traditional Chinese: 武漢會戰; simplified Chinese: 武汉会战; Japanese: 武漢作戦 (ぶかんさくせん)), popularly known to the Chinese as the Defence of Wuhan (traditional Chinese: 武漢保衛戰; simplified Chinese: 武汉保卫战), and to the Japanese as the Capture of Wuhan, was a large-scale battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Engagements took place across vast areas of Anhui, Henan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Hubei provinces over a period of four and a half months. It was the single largest, longest, and bloodiest battle of the entire Second Sino-Japanese War.[18][19][20] More than one million National Revolutionary Army troops from the Fifth and Ninth War Zone were put under the direct command of Chiang Kai-shek, defending Wuhan from the Central China Area Army of the Imperial Japanese Army led by Shunroku Hata. Chinese forces were also supported by the Soviet Volunteer Group, a group of volunteer pilots from Soviet Air Forces.[21]
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Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War | |||||||||
Chinese machine gun position at Wanjialing | |||||||||
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China | Japan | ||||||||
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254,628[10] - 500,000 killed and wounded[11] |
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Traditional Chinese | 武漢會戰 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 武汉会战 | ||||||
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Defense of Wuhan | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 武漢保衛戰 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 武汉保卫战 | ||||||
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Kanji | 武漢攻略戦 | ||||||
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Although the battle ended with the eventual capture of Wuhan by the Japanese forces, it resulted in heavy casualties, with China suffering as many as one million casualties.[22] With Japan suffering its heaviest losses of the war, it decided to divert its attention to the north, which would prolonged the war until the attack on Pearl Harbor.[23] The end of the battle signaled the beginning of a strategic stalemate in the war,[24] shifting from large pitched battles to localised struggles.[25]