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Battle of Tutung

Battle of Tutung
Part of the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang
Date1934
Location
Toutunhe, Xinjiang
Result

Inconclusive

  • Chinese withdrawal
Belligerents
Taiwan China Soviet Union Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Taiwan Ma Zhongying Soviet Union Gen. Volgin
Strength
2 brigades of 7,000 men with tanks, bomber planes, artillery
Casualties and losses
Heavy Heavy

The Battle of Tutung (Chinese: 頭屯河戰役) of 1934 occurred when Gen. Ma Zhongying's Chinese Muslim 36th Division was attacked by the Soviet Red Army on the banks of the frozen Tutung River [zh]. The battle took place over several days, and Soviet bombers used mustard gas.[1] At one point, the Chinese Muslim troops dressed up in sheepskins for camouflage in the snow, and stormed Soviet machine-gun posts with curved swords at a short range and defeated a Soviet pincer attack. Casualties were getting heavy on both sides before Ma Zhongying ordered a retreat.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Uses of CW since the First World War". Archived from the original on 2010-08-22. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  2. ^ Christian Tyler (2004). Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 112. ISBN 0-8135-3533-6. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  3. ^ 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. 120. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
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