鄂西会战是1943年夏季日本第11军为打击中国第六战区部队进行的一次进攻战役。鄂西会战历时月余,第六战区以10个军的兵力抗击了日军约5个师团的进攻,并取得重大胜利。1943年4月,与欧洲战场盟军对德意法西斯军队的反攻相呼应,美军在西南太平洋向日军发动了反攻。日本为摆脱困境,意欲从陷于泥沼中的中国大陆战场抽出兵力,用于太平洋战场对付盟军,于是便加紧对我军的攻势。初夏,侵华华中日军第11军纠集第3、第 The Battle of West Hubei Province was an offensive campaign conducted by the 11th Japanese Army in the summer of 1943 against the Sixth Theater Division in China. The western part of western Hubei Province lasted for more than a month and the sixth theater brought the victory of some 5 divisions of the Japanese army with the strength of 10 troops and achieved major victories. In April 1943, in response to the counterattack against the German-Italian fascists by allied forces on the European battlefield, the U.S. troops launched a counter-offensive against the Japanese troops in the Southwest Pacific. In an attempt to extricate itself from its predicament, Japan wants to pull its troops from the trapped China mainland and use it to deal with the Allied forces in the Pacific theater. As a result, Japan has stepped up its offensive against our army. In early summer, the 11th Central Army invaded China, Central China, gathered the 3rd and the 4th