Operation Chahar

Operation Chahar
	Part of Second Sino-Japanese War
	; Chinese soldiers, pictured by the Great Wall of China in Laiyuan in 1937
Date	August 1937
Location	Vicinity of Beiping and Chahar – Suiyuan
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
Japan Mongol Military Government; Manchukuo ;	China
Commanders and leaders
Kiyoshi Katsuki ; Shigiyasu Suzuki ; Seishirō Itagaki ; Hideki Tōjō ; Demchugdongrub	Tang Enbo ; Chiang Kai-shek ; Yan Xishan ; Fu Zuoyi
Strength
90,000 Kwantung Army troops; 60,000 Mongolian and Manchurian troops	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown	26,000

Operation Chahar (Japanese: チャハル作戦, romanized: Chaharu Sakusen), known in Chinese as the Nankou Campaign (Chinese: 南口戰役; pinyin: Nankou Zhanyi), occurred in August 1937, following the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin at the beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War.

This was the second attack by the Kwantung Army and the Inner Mongolian Army of Prince Teh Wang on Inner Mongolia after the failure of the Suiyuan Campaign (1936). The Chahar Expeditionary Force was under the direct command of General Hideki Tōjō, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army. A second force from the Peiping Railway Garrison Force, later the 1st Army under General Kiyoshi Katsuki, was also involved.

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