 The capture of Yingkou marks the effective end of major combat on the Asian mainland in the First Sino-Japanese War, although the Imperial Japanese Army continued to push for permission from Imperial General Headquarters to continue on towards either Beijing or Mukden.On 24 March, the Japanese made an amphibious landing with several thousand troops on the Qing fortifications at Haichow in Jiangsu Province, north of Shanghai.The capture of these fortifications placed the Japanese within 50 miles of the strategic Grand Canal connecting Beijing with Nanjing.