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  • Battle of Dawan Cheng
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  • The Battle of Dawan Cheng (1934) occurred when Gen. Ma Zhongying's Chinese Muslim 36th Division encountered a Soviet Russian Army armoured car column. The 36th Division was withdrawing, chased by White Russian and Mongol troops and Chinese forces allied with them. The 36th Division wiped out nearly the entire column, after engaging the Russians in fierce, sometimes hand-to-hand combat, and knocked the wrecked Russian armored cars down the mountain. When a White Russian force showed up, Ma Zhongying withdrew.
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Strength
  • 500
  • Dozens of armored cars and hundreds of soldiers
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Partof
  • the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang
Date
  • 1934
Commander
  • Gen. Ma Zhongying
  • Gen. Volgin Gen. Bekteev
Casualties
  • Unknown
  • Heavy, entire column nearly wiped out
Result
  • 36
combatant
  • Red Army
  • Republic of China 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army)
  • White Russian forces
Place
  • Dawan Cheng, Xinjiang
Conflict
  • Battle of Dawan Cheng
abstract
  • The Battle of Dawan Cheng (1934) occurred when Gen. Ma Zhongying's Chinese Muslim 36th Division encountered a Soviet Russian Army armoured car column. The 36th Division was withdrawing, chased by White Russian and Mongol troops and Chinese forces allied with them. The 36th Division wiped out nearly the entire column, after engaging the Russians in fierce, sometimes hand-to-hand combat, and knocked the wrecked Russian armored cars down the mountain. When a White Russian force showed up, Ma Zhongying withdrew.