Battle of Lanfeng
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| Battle Of Lanfeng | |||||||
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| Part of the campaign of Northern and Eastern Honan 1938 | |||||||
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| Combatants | |||||||
| National Revolutionary Army, China | Imperial Japanese Army, Japan | ||||||
| Commanders | |||||||
| Cheng Chien | Kenji Doihara | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| ? | 20000 | ||||||
| Casualties | |||||||
| ? | ? | ||||||
| Second Sino-Japanese War |
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| Major engagements in bold Mukden - Manchuria -(Jiangqiao - Nenjiang Bridge - Chinchow - Harbin) -Shanghai (1932) -Pacification of Manchukuo - Operation Nekka - ( Rehe - Great Wall) - Suiyuan - Marco Polo Bridge - Beiping-Tianjin - Chahar - Shanghai (1937) (Sihang Warehouse) - Beiping-Hankou Railway - Tianjin-Pukou Railway - Taiyuan - (Pingxingguan) - Xinkou - Nanjing - Xuzhou- Taierzhuang - N.-E.Henan - (Lanfeng) - Amoy - Wuhan-(Wanjialing)- Canton - (Hainan) - (Xiushui River) - Nanchang - Suixian-Zaoyang - (Swatow) - 1st Changsha - S.Guangxi- (Kunlun Pass) - Winter Offensive -(Wuyuan) - Zaoyang-Yichang - Hundred Regiments - French Indochina - C. Hupei - S.Henan - W. Hopei - Shanggao - S.Shanxi - 2nd Changsha - 3rd Changsha - Yunnan-Burma Road-(Yenangyaung)- Zhejiang-Jiangxi - W.Hubei - N.Burma-W.Yunnan - Changde - C.Henan - 4th Changsha - Guilin-Liuzhou - W.Henan-N.Hubei - W.Hunan- 2nd Guangxi edit |
The Battle of Lanfeng was part of the larger campaign for Northern and Eastern Honan (Feb. 7- June 10th 1938) and was occurring at the same time as the Battle of Xuzhou (Late Dec. - Early June, 1938). It involved a counterattack on the Japanese 14th Division, the vanguard of the Japanese First Army of its North China Area Army numbering 20,000 men and tanks.
[edit] Order of Battle Battle of Lanfeng
[edit] 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
