Order of Battle Battle of Pingxingguan
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China
Chinese Units mentioned Defending Pingxingguan: [1]- 17th Corps - Kao Kuei-tse (from 7th Army Group)
- 84st Div. - Kao Kuei-tse (concurrent)
- 21st Div. - Li Hsien-chou
- 73rd Division - Liu Feng-pin (from 33rd Army)
- 15th Corps - Liu Mao-en (from 13th Army)
- 64th Div- Wu Ting-lin
- 65th Div- Liu Mao-en(concurrent)
- 115th Division – Lin BiaoLin BiaoLin Biao was a major Chinese Communist military leader who was pivotal in the communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, especially in Northeastern China...
, deputy Nie RongzhenNie RongzhenNie Rongzhen was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader, and one of ten Marshals in the People's Liberation Army of China. He was the last surviving PLA officer with the rank of Marshal.-Biography:...
(from 18th Army Group – 8th Route Army)- 343th Brigade - Zhou Jianping
- 685th Regiment – Yang DezhiYang DezhiYang Dezhi was a senior military officer in the North China Field Army, a veteran of the Korean War and commander in China during the Sino–Vietnamese War or Third Indochina War, a brief but bloody border war fought in 1979 between the China and the Vietnam...
- 686th Regiment - Li Tienyou
- 685th Regiment – Yang Dezhi
- 344th Brigade - Xu Haidong
- 687th Regiment - Zhang Shaodong
- 688th Regiment – ? (in reserve)
- 343th Brigade - Zhou Jianping
Japan
Attacking Pingxingguan:- 21st Brigade, 5th Japanese Division
Japanese forces in the ambush battle of Pingxingguan:
- 3rd Battalion, 21st Regiment, 21st Brigade, 5th Japanese Division
- Supply troops of the 21st Regiment - Lieutenant 高桥义夫
- 15 supply troops and 70 escorts in 70 horse-drawn vehicles with 50 horses, filled with clothes, food, ammunition and proceeded westwards towards Pingxingguan.
- Japanese 6th Depot
- 2nd Company motorized supply column - First Lieutenant 矢岛俊彦
- 176 men in 50 trucks
- 3rd Company motorized supply column - Major 中西次八
- ?men in 30 trucks
- 2nd Company motorized supply column - First Lieutenant 矢岛俊彦
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.
- Description (in Chinese) of the Battle of Pingxingguan in the on line version of the book: 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 (China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations) by 郭汝瑰 (Guo Rugui), Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2005-7-1, ISBN:7214030349
- a more recent study (in Chinese) 关于平型关战斗的史实重建问题 "On the reconstruction of the facts of the Battle of Pingxingguan" by Professor Yang Kui Song
- Pingxingguan Campaign