Battle of Shanghai

The Battle of Shanghai
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257 Killed
 * colspan="2"|Date                   August 13, 1937
 * colspan="2"|Location            Shanghai
 * colspan="2"|Result                IJA Victory
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67 Wounded

37+ Captured

(17,000+ Civilians) 125 Killed
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28 Wounded

2 Captured The first battle of Shanghai occurred on August, 1937 with forces of IJA vs CNRA yet again. It was the first major official offensive in the war, the map it occurred it is now inactive.
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First Phase
Some time around 9:00AM the first Japanese forces began the attack, mostly SNLF and skilled IJA, the CNRA already had defenses ready and prepare to defend a long street against the IJA forces arriving. The first attack took about 20 minutes and was repelled after Chinese machine guns forced IJA back to their camp.

During the time between IJA being at their camp and the Second phase IJA had secretly prepared a flanking party to ambush CNRA on the far right side of their defenses.

Second Phase
At 10:00AM the Second phase begun, IJA forces commenced the attack and swiftly flanked CNRA on all sides. Few forces were defending their flanks and they soon became surrounded and were all wiped out. The Japanese soldiers then moved past them and split up to attack all 3 flags at once, the battle continued to rage on for about 45 Minutes before victory was declared in favour of IJA. In the end the Japanese scored 257 kills on the Chinese and CNRA scored 125 Kills against IJA, though it was a raid to flags.

Aftermath
After the battle it was counted that 143 IJA were dead due to enemy fire, wounds, and accidental friendly fire. On the CNRA side about 260 died from enemy fire and wounds.

Continued Resistance
Unorganized resistance continued in the city for 3 months, sometimes bringing full scale combat and even an engagement which ended in CNRA victory in the Second Battle of Shanghai. In the fog of victory Shanghai was a great moral boost for IJA and disheartened CNRA heavily.