Battle of Xinkou

Battle of Xinkou
	Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War
	; Chinese troops marching to defend Xinkou mountain passes
Date	October 11 – November 5, 1937; (3 weeks and 4 days)
Location	Niangzi Pass and Taiyuan in China
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
China Chinese Nationalist Party; Chinese Communist Party;	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Yan Xishan; Yang Aiyuan; Wei Lihuang; Zhu De; Fu Zuoyi; Li Mo'an; Hao Mengling †	Itagaki Seishiro
Strength
280,000 in 52 divisions	140,000 in 4 divisions; 350+ artillery guns; 150+ tanks; 300 aircraft
Casualties and losses
100,000 dead, injured or missing	20,000 killed; Tens of thousands more wounded; Dozens of tanks and 24+ planes

The Battle of Xinkou (simplified Chinese: 忻口会战; traditional Chinese: 忻口會戰; pinyin: Xīnkǒu Huìzhàn) was a decisive engagement of the Taiyuan Campaign, the second of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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