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The Battle of South Henan, fought late January through early February 1941, was one of the 22 major engagements between the Imperial Japanese Army and National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Japan

Eleventh Army
xxx General Waichirō Sonobe

3rd Division – Fusataro Hanjima [1]?

5th Infantry Brigade

6th Infantry Regiment

68th Infantry Regiment

29th Infantry Brigade

18th Infantry Regiment

34th Infantry Regiment

3rd Field Artillery Regiment

3rd Cavalry Regiment

3rd Engineer Regiment

3rd Transport Regiment

39th Division – Lt. Gen Keisaku Muragami [4,5]

39th Infantry Brigade Group

231st Infantry Rregiments

232nd Infantry Regiments

233rd Infantry Regiments

39th Recon Regiment

39th Field Artillery Regiment

39th Military Engineer Regiment

39th Transport Regiment

4th Division (partial) – Lt. Gen Kenzo Kitano [4,5]

4th Infantry Brigade group:

8th Infantry Regiment

37th Infantry Regiment

61st Infantry Regiment

4th Recon Regiment

4th Field Artillery Regiment

4th Military Engineer Regiment

4th Transport Regiment

40th Division – Lt-General Naojikiro Amaya, Manchuria 10/2/39-8/25/1941[4,5]

40th Infantry Brigade group:

234th Infantry regiment

235th Infantry regiment

236th Infantry regiment

40th Cavalry regiment

40th mountain artillery regiment

40th military engineer regiment

40th Transport regiment

Opposing commanders

Sonobe Waichiro

Kurahashi Detachment/15th Division – Col. Kurahashi

60th Infantry Regiment (from 15th Division in the Nanchang area)

17th Division – Lt-General Morito Hirabayashi[4,5]

17th Infantry Brigade Group

53rd Infantry Regiment

54th Infantry Regiment

81st Infantry Regiment

23rd Field Artillery Regiment

7th Military Engineer Regiment

17th Transport Regiment

18th Independent Mixed Brigade – Lt. Gen Taka Kayashima 1939- 1941[4,5]

92nd Independent infantry battalion

93rd Independent infantry battalion

94th Independent infantry battalion

95th Independent infantry battalion

96th independent infantry battalion

artillery troops

labor troops

signal communication unit.

7th Tank Regiment – ?

13th Tank Regiment – ?

? Tank Regiment – ? [1] (one of 3 Tank Regiments)

1 Separate Heavy Artillery Regiment

China

Opposing commanders

Chinese guy

5th War Area – Li Tsung-jen [1]

2nd Army Group – Sun Lianzhong

55th Corps -Tsao Fu-lin

74th Division – Tsao Fu-lin

29th Division – Li Tseng-chih

59th Corps – Huang Wei-kang

38th Division – Li Chiu-sze

180th Division – Liu Chen-shan

68th Corps – Liu Ju-ming

143rd Division – Huang Chao-sung

119th Division – Chen Hsin-chi

36th Provincial Division – Liu Ju-chen

33rd Army Group – Feng Zhi'an

77th Corps – Feng Chih-an (concurrent

37th Division – Li Chiu-sze

179th Division – Liu Chen-shan

30th Corps – Chih Feng-cheng

27th Division – Hsu Wen-yao

30th Division – Liu Chen-shan

2nd Army – Ho Chu-kuo

Separate Inf. Brigade

3rd Division -

31st Army Group – Tang Enbo

92nd Corps – Li Hsien-chou

21st Division – Hsu Wen-yao

142nd Division – Fu Li-ping

14th Provincial Division – Liao Yun-tse

85th Corps – Li Hsien-chou

4th Division – Shih Chueh

25th Division – Ni Tsu-hui

11th Reserve Division – Chang Tang-hsiang

29th Corps – Chen Ta-ching

19th Division – Lai Ju-hsiung

91st Division – Wang Yu-wen

16th Provincial Division – Li Chiang

13th Corps – Chang Hsueh-chung

89th Division – Shu Yung

110th Division – Wu Shao-chou

New 1st Division – Tsai Chi

84th Corps – Mo Shu-chieh

?

36th Corps – ?

?

15th Sep. Brigade – Huang Tze-hua

14th Artillery Regiment

4th Separate Engineer Battalion

4th Battery, 1st Btn. 56th AT Regiment

Sources

Print

[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.

Web

[4] Generals from Japan

[5] The Japanese Mutumi troop encyclopedia