Battle of Nanking

The Battle of Nanking
On November 20th, 1937, Japanese forces, mostly those from the Shanghai engagements, marched upon Nanking in large numbers. They were headed to the capital of China, Nanking. CNRA had decided to defend the city due to it's moral boost of it's men holding the capital gave. IJA wanted to diminish this moral and use Nanking as headquarters in the war.

First Assault
The main battle for Nanking began on November 22nd, 1937. CNRA was defending with a large garrison of 26 Men vs IJA's force of 24, the battle erupted at 11:00AM and Japanese soldiers stormed the walls, CNRA's makeshift defenses were torn down and IJA soon reached their main defense line. Chinese tanks and machine gun emplacements hindered the Japanese for quite a while, enough time for Moofasian and Dr_SunYatSen to escape the city and halt the Japanese assault temporarily

Second Assault
IJA began the second assault at 1:15PM after hours of skirmishing and brief battles, Tanks and Planes were brought in and withered down the Chinese defense line to the extent where only 6 men still held their main defense line. It quickly fell and CNRA were forced back to it's second to last defense area, Gan Factory, defended by General Xue_Yue and Field Marshal Xivian

Final Assault
The final assault on the CNRA Factory begun at 1:30PM lead by Major Todo_Takatora, almost all Japanese forces partook in the battle which resulted in 105 IJA dead to 135 CNRA dead. The costly attack on the Factory slowed the attack down and it only ended at 2:10PM when the Chinese retreated to the Presidential Palace, there they surrendered the City and Xue_Yue was executed by the Japanese as Xivian and the 88th German Trained Division escaped the city almost unharmed.

Aftermath
At the end of the battle, almost all of CNRA's forces were destroyed except for the 88th, SunYatSen, MoofAsian, and Xivian, who all escaped the city just barely before the second assault.

The Rape of Nanking
After the battle the Rape of Nanking had commenced, a horrifying and brutal rape which saw the lives of more than 150,000 Chinese civilians killed (80,000 Japanese Estimate) and 20,000 Raped. Field Marshal Hisaichi_Terauchi admitted to this taking place although he was not present at the time, the main Generals who commenced the Rape were Lieutenant General DaiVietNam and General KenjiDoihara.