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Battle of Ürümqi (1933)

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1933 battle of the Kumul Rebellion For other battles of the same name, see Battle of Ürümqi.
First Battle of Ürümqi
Part of the Kumul Rebellion
Date1933
LocationÜrümqi, Xinjiang
Result Provincial victory
Belligerents
Taiwan Republic of China New 36th Division Taiwan Chinese Xinjiang Provincial government
Commanders and leaders
Taiwan Ma Shih-ming Taiwan Jin Shuren
Taiwan Sheng Shicai
Colonel Pappengut
Strength
10,000 Chinese Muslim troops North East Salvation Army (Manchurian soldiers) and 1,800 White Russian troops
Casualties and losses
~6,000 troops killed (estimated by Wu Aichen)
Kumul Rebellion
Important past events

First Sino-Uyghur Conflicts

Warlords Wars

Second Sino-Uyghur Conflicts

Sino-Soviet Conflict in Xinjiang

The First Battle of Ürümqi (Chinese: 第一次迪化之戰) was a conflict in the spring of 1933 between the armies of the Xinjiang provincial government under Jin Shuren and the New 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) of the Nationalist government of China. The Chinese government secretly urged Hui General Ma Zhongying to attack Jin Shuren while at the same time assuring Jin that he was recognized as the legitimate Governor. Fierce fighting broke out at the gates of the city, and one of the Chinese commanders torched a street where the Muslims troops had managed to break through at the West Gate, killing everyone in the vicinity, including refugees. The Dungans were then forced to retreat into the range of machine gun fire, which killed many of them.

A White Russian force of 1,800 troops under Colonel Pavel Pappengut subsequently fought off the Muslim soldiers. Wu Aichen was told at least 2,000 had died by that point. The Muslims attempted to scale the walls at the Great West Bridge, and several were killed. The city was relieved when the provincial forces of newly incumbent Military Governor of Xinjiang (新疆督办) Sheng Shicai approached and the Muslim troops fled. Approximately 6,000 Chinese/Han and Muslim soldiers died in the fighting.

Notes

  1. ^ Archibald Cary Coolidge; Hamilton Fish Armstrong; Council on Foreign Relations (1954). Foreign affairs, Volume 32. Council on Foreign Relations. p. 493. 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. 103. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. Retrieved 2010-06-28.


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