Battle of Rehe

Battle of Rehe
Part of the Defense of the Great Wall in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the interwar period
32nd Infantry Regiment Commander Tanaka Seiichi and his troops capturing Gubeikou Pass on the Great Wall.
Date (1933-02-21) (1933-03-01)February 21 – March 1, 1933 (1 week and 1 day) Location Jehol Province, Manchuria region, Republic of China Result Japanese-Manchukuo victory Territorial changes Rehe Province got annexed on the 4 March 1933
Belligerents
China	Empire of Japan Manchukuo National Salvation Army
Commanders and leaders
Tang Yulin Sun Dianying	Nobuyoshi Muto Zhang Haipeng Li Jizhun
Strength
100,000–150,000 regular troops	100,000
Casualties and losses
Battle of Rehe: 161 officers and 5,051 soldiers killed 368 officers and 4,894 soldiers wounded	171 combat deaths

The Battle of Rehe (simplified Chinese: 热河战役; traditional Chinese: 熱河戰役; pinyin: Rèhé zhànyì, sometimes called the Battle of Jehol) was the second part of Operation Nekka, a campaign by which the Empire of Japan successfully captured the Inner Mongolian province of Rehe from the Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang and annexed it to the new state of Manchukuo. The battle was fought from February 21 to March 1, 1933.