Key battles in WW1/WW2

Shanghai

The Battle of Shanghai was one of the most important battles of the Second Sino-Japanese war and would as expected result in a Chinese defeat because if the lack of standardization of military equipment and troop training. The battle would be costly for both sides but still the Chinese would fail to defend one of their largest cities in the nation. And because of this would result in turmoil and a plummet in morale. Let's see what happened there.

August 13th 1937 the Battle begins with Japanese forces approaching the old medieval city walls of the city and bombing the living daylight out of it to destroy much of the defences possible. And the Chinese despite having a poor military presence still held to the front until reinforcements could arrive. The Japanese had brought large columns of men and armoured vehicles and some tanks aswell. But the Chinese had set up traps and ambushes along the roads heavily covered up by big trees. And when armoured columns passed through the road the Chinese would suprise attack by throwing stick grenades through the trees and would result in massive destruction of many columns of troops and armoured vehicles. The battle would last roughly 4 months until November 26th when the Chinese would abandon the city.

Despite repelling multiple attacks by Japanese troops, their poor military presence and equipment resulted a large loss of the Central defences and lost many men in the battle and Japan would suprisingly only take limited casualties up to barely 30,000. However the Chinese put up a fierce resistance and in warned the Japanese and its leader Hirohito that China was not to go down without a fight. And that it symbolised the Chinese resistance despite it being superior to them. The courage of the Civilians and troops also conveyed that Japan would take heavy casualties maybe even more than China. (They didnt!) But the slowly growing chinese war industry would have effected Japanese expansion due to the fact that Japan didn't have a large enough army to competently destroy all of the Chinese military. So the war would drag on for 8 years until September 1945.