Ninth Military Front :[2]760 officers and 22,667 soldiers killed1,310 officers and 33,795 soldiers wounded421 officers and 11,066 soldiers missingTotal : 2,491 officers and 67,528 soldiers killed, wounded, or missing 1,670 killed5,184 wounded14 missing[1] Japanese infantry companies who participated in the battle estimated to have suffered 60% casualties (based on an estimate from a company commander's assumption of 35 deaths out of his 200 troops before participating in the Third Battle of Changsha).
[5] According to division commander Eitaro Uchiyama, the 13th division was on the verge of being wiped out in the Yichang offensive, to the point of preparing the suicide site for him and senior officers of the division and being ready to burn the flag of the 104th infantry regiment.
[6] 65th Infantry Regiment suffer serious casualties, with 213 killed in action according to the military history compiled by war veterans of the regiment after the war.
1941 1942 Taishō period Shōwa period The (Second) Battle of Changsha (6 September – 8 October 1941; Chinese: 第二次長沙會戰) was Japan's second attempt at taking the city of Changsha, China, the capital of Hunan Province, as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Japanese were repulsed again, and the battle ended with a Chinese victory.