Word: chengchow
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Chungking's celebration was soon ended. The Japanese Army, stung by its Central China defeat, suddenly uncorked a drive in North China. Crossing the muddy Yellow River, a three-year-old barrier to Japanese advance, it seized the strategic rail center of Chengchow. If the Japanese could consolidate and drive from Chengchow west along the railway toward Sian, their achievement would be greater than the conquest of Changsha...