Battle of Lanfeng order of battle

The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Lanfeng in May 1938.

China

1st War Area - Cheng Qian

Eastern Honan Army - Xue Yue
- 64th Army - Li Han-huen
  - 155th Division - Chen Kung-hsin
  - 187th Division - Peng Ling-cheng
- 8th Army - Huang Chieh
  - 40th Division - Lo Li-jung
  - 102nd Division - Po Hui-chang
- 74th Army - Wang Yaowu
  - 51st Division - Wang Yao-wu
  - 58th Division - Feng Sheng-fa
71st Army Song Xilian
- 87th Division [2]
- 88th Division - Long Muhan

Reinforcements [May22nd]

17th Corps - Hu Zongnan - May22nd
- 1st Army - Li Tieh-chun
  - 1st Division - Li Tieh-chun
  - 78th Division - Li Wen
- 27th Army - Kuei Yung-ching
  - 36th Division [2] - Chiang Fu-sheng
  - 46th Division - Li Liang-yung
- 200th Division (1st Column) - Qiu Qingquan
  - Tank battalion *
  - Infantry battalion
  - Engineer battalion
  - Armored car battalion
  - Antiaircraft unit
  - Motor maintenance unit
  - Antitank battalion

Note:

* Tanks of the 1st Column's armoured battalion would have been equipped with new Soviet T-26 tanks. (There is some photographic evidence that there were some of the Italian CV-33 tanks there as well. One was photographed on the Lanfeng battlefield with three Japanese troops examining it. see photo and discussion http://www.china-defense.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=512 Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine)

Japan

North China Area Army - Juichi Terauchi [1,3]

1st Army - Kyoji Kotsuki

14th Division - Kenji Doihara
- 27th Infantry Brigade
  - 2nd Infantry Regiment
  - 59th Infantry Regiment
- 28th Infantry Brigade
  - 15th Infantry Regiment
  - 50th Infantry Regiment
- 20th Field Artillery Regiment
- 18th Cavalry Regiment
- 14th Engineer Regiment
- 14th Transport Regiment

Note: IJA 1st Army had these armoured units directly under its command that could have been assigned to 14th Division: [3]

1st Independent Light Armored Car Squadron
5th Independent Light Armored Car Squadron
2nd Tank Battalion

Sources

[1] Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China.

page 230-235

Map. 9-2

[2] German trained Division. Note these divisions had been badly mauled in the battles of Shanghai and of Nanking in 1937 and were no longer the crack units they once were.

[3] 抗日战争时期的侵华日军序列沿革 (Order of battle of the Japanese army that invaded China during the Sino Japanese War)

[4] 國軍精銳---國民革命軍第二○○師 Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Elite Troops of the National Revolutionary Army, the 200th Division, (in Chinese)

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