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
    • 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
• 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:

•  ? (100 aircraft)

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:

•  ?

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.
• [4] Generals from Japan
• [5] The Japanese Mutumi troop encyclopedia