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commander, 10 engagements

Battles of Li Tsung-jen

Battles of Li Tsung-jen

Chinese warlord, politician, and general (1890–1969), 1891 to 1969

Li Tsung-jen is recorded as a commander at 10 placed engagements in the atlas between 1928 and 1946: 8 battles and 2 campaigns, all in present-day China. Taken in date order, the sites lie 5,840 km apart end to end, 649 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Second Sino-Japanese War (7), Central Plains War (1), Chinese Civil War (1).

Second Battle of GuilinBattle of Suixian–ZaoyangBattle of Zaoyang–YichangBattle of South HenanOpening CampaignNorthern ExpeditionBattle of TaierzhuangBattle of XuzhouBattle of Wuhan1939–1940 Winter OffensiveNorthern ExpeditionBattle of TaierzhuangBattle of XuzhouBattle of Wuhan1939–1940 Winter OffensiveTaipeiChengduChongqingXianNanjingGuiyangZiboHangzhouKunmingJinan1000 km30.560N, 111.726E
10 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1928: 1 engagements1930: 1 engagements1938: 3 engagements3 in 19381939: 1 engagements1940: 2 engagements1941: 1 engagements1946: 1 engagements19281946
10 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Northern Expedition, 1928Second Battle of Guilin, 1930Battle of Taierzhuang, 1938Battle of Xuzhou, 1938Battle of Wuhan, 1938Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang, 19391939–1940 Winter Offensive, 1940Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang, 1940Battle of South Henan, 1941Opening Campaign, 194619281946
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 3

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1928Northern ExpeditionPeople's Republic of ChinaNationalist government victory; All Chinese warlords accept...
17 July 1930Second Battle of GuilinGuilin, People's Republic of China1,345 km SEHunan Army victory
24 March 1938Battle of TaierzhuangTai'erzhuang District, China1,256 km NEChinese victory
24 March 1938Battle of XuzhouXuzhou, People's Republic of China61 km SWJapanese victory
27 October 1938Battle of WuhanWuhan, People's Republic of China493 km SWJapanese victory
24 May 1939Battle of Suixian–ZaoyangSuizhou, People's Republic of China225 km NWChinese victory
19401939–1940 Winter OffensiveChina786 km NWJapanese victory
1 May 1940Battle of Zaoyang–YichangZaoyang City, China786 km EJapanese victory
30 January 1941Battle of South HenanChina202 km NBoth sides claimed victory.
1946Opening CampaignEast China, China686 km SECommunists retreat to northeastern China, Partial...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.