Defense of the Great Wall
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Was a military campaign where Japan successfully captured the Inner Mongolian province of Rehe from the Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang, and incorporated it into the newly created state of Manchukuo.
Chronology
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May 1933: The Chinese army retreated from their remaining positions on the Great Wall.
May 1933: Dolon Nor and Guyuan were taken over by the Kuomintang forces.
March 1933: End of Chinese resistence in Manchuria.
May 1933: In April 1933, collaborationist General Liu Guitang, under Japanese orders, crossed into southeastern Chahar province in the Dolonor region, as a diversionary feint to draw off Chinese reinforcements to the Great Wall. Finding little resistance, Liu then led his 3,000 troops further east toward Changpei.
February 1933: On February 25, Chaoyang and Kailu were taken by the Japanese.
April 1933: The advancing Japanese forces approached Miyun.
March 1933: Japanese troops pushed up to the Great Wall itself.
April 1933: Japanese troops retook Lengkou Pass after dozens of seesaw fights over the pass defenses and Chinese forces at Jielingkou abandoned that pass.
June 1933: Kangbao fell under Japanese military occupation.
March 1933: Japanese cavalry and the 1st Special Tank Company took Chengde the capital of Rehe.
March 1933: The Japanese 4th Cavalry Brigade encountered resistance from the forces of Sun Dianying, and after days of fighting, took Chifeng.
April 1933: The Kuomintang 29th Corps evacuated from Xifengkou Pass.
May 1933: Tanggu Truce: the Chinese government was forced to acknowledge the de facto independence of Manchukuo and the loss of Rehe.
