Battle of Dawan Cheng

Battle of Dawan Cheng
	Part of the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang
Date	1934
Location	Dawan Cheng, Xinjiang
Result	Chinese victory
Belligerents
Republic of China 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army)	Red Army ; White Russian forces
Commanders and leaders
Ma Zhongying	; General Volgin General Bekteev;
Strength
500 soldiers	Dozens of armored cars and hundreds of soldiers
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Heavy, entire column nearly wiped out

The Battle of Dawan Cheng (1934) occurred when Ma Zhongying's Chinese Muslim 36th Division encountered a Soviet Russian Red Army armoured car column. The 36th division was withdrawing, chased by of White Russian, Mongol, and colloborationist Chinese forces. The 36th division wiped out nearly the entire column, after engaging the Soviet Russians in fierce melee combat, and knocked the wrecked Russian armored cars down the mountain. When a White Russian force showed up, Ma Zhongying withdrew.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Christian Tyler (2004). Wild West China: the taming of Xinjiang. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. p. 112. ISBN 0813535336. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
^ Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 121. ISBN 0521255147. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
^ Ai-ch'ên Wu, Aichen Wu (1940). Turkistan tumult. Methuen: Methuen. pp. 89, 234. Retrieved 2010-06-28.

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[1] Christian Tyler (2004). Wild West China: the taming of Xinjiang. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. p. 112. ISBN 0813535336. Retrieved 2010-06-28.

[2] Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 121. ISBN 0521255147. Retrieved 2010-06-28.

[3] Ai-ch'ên Wu, Aichen Wu (1940). Turkistan tumult. Methuen: Methuen. pp. 89, 234. Retrieved 2010-06-28.

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