Battle of Changsha (1944)

Battle of Changsha (1944)
	Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II
	; Chinese Army in the battle
Date	May 1944 - 18 June 1944
Location	Changsha and Hengyang
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
China	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Xue Yue; Fang Xianjue	Isamu Yokoyama; Yasuji Okamura
Strength
300,000 troops in eight army groups	360,000 troops of the 11th Army
Casualties and losses
90,000 (17,000 in Hengyang	66,000 (Japanese claim: 19,000 in Hengyang

The Battle of Changsha of 1944 (also known as the Battle of Hengyang or Campaign of Changsha-Hengyang; Chinese: 長衡會戰) was an invasion of the Chinese province of Hunan by Japanese troops near the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. As such, it encompasses three separate conflicts: an invasion of the city of Changsha and two invasions of Hengyang.

The Japanese military transferred the bulk of their troops from the Japanese homeland and Manchuria as part of Operation "Ichi-Go" or "Tairiku Datsu Sakusen" which roughly translates as 'Operation to Break through the Continent'. This was an attempt to establish a land and rail corridor from the Japanese occupied territories of Manchuria, Northern and Central China and Korea and those in South East Asia.

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