Order of battle: Battle of South Henan explained
Battle of South Henan (late Jan. – early Feb. 1941)
Japan
11th Army – Waichirō Sonobe
- 3rd Division – Fusataro Hanjima [1]?
- 5th Infantry Brigade
- 6th Infantry Regiment
- 68th Infantry Regiment
- 29th Infantry Brigade
- 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
- 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
Airforce:
China
5th War Area – Li Zongren [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
Airforce:
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