Order of battle Peiking – Suiyuan Railway Operation

Peiking – Suiyuan Railway Operation

Peiking – Suiyuan Railway Operation was the Chinese operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War to counter the Japanese Operation Chahar to invade Suiyuan in August 1937....

1937

China

Taiyuan Pacification Headquarters – Yen Hsi – shan

Yan Xishan

Yan Xishan, was a Chinese warlord who served in the government of the Republic of China. Yan effectively controlled the province of Shanxi from the 1911 Xinhai Revolution to the 1949 Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War...

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1st Cavalry Corps (temporarily attached) – Chao Cheng-shou
- 1st Cavalry Division – Pen Yu-pin
- 2nd Cavalry Division – Sun Chang-sheng
- New 2nd Cavalry Brigade – Shih Yu-shan
- 218th Inf. Bde – Tung Chi-wu
- New 3rd Inf. Bde – Ching The-chuan
- New 5th Inf. Bde – An Yung-chang
- New 6th Inf. Bde – Wang Tse-hsiu
- 6th Cavalry Division – Liu Tan-fu
- 7th Cavalry Division – Men Ping-yueh
  Men Bingyue
  Men Bingyue, Men Ping-yueh, 门炳岳 Chinese General in the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. As commander of the 7th Cavalry Division he participated in the Suiyuan Campaign in 1936, defeating the Japanese backed Inner Mongolian Army...
7th Army Group – Fu Tso-yi
Fu Zuoyi
Fu Zuoyi was a Chinese military leader. He began his military career in the service of Yan Xishan, and he was widely praised for his defense of Suiyuan from the Japanese. During the final stages of the Chinese Civil War, Fu surrendered the large and strategic garrison around Beiping to Communist...
- 7th Army Temporary Group – Fu Tso-yi (concurrent)
  - 72nd Division – Chen Chang-chieh
  - 7th Separate Brigade - Ma Yen-shou
  - 200th Brigade - Liu Tan - fu
  - 211th Brigade - Sun Lan-feng
- 7th Army Group Detachment - Liu Ju-ming
  Liu Ruming
  Liu Ruming, Liu Ju-ming, 刘汝明, Chinese general during the Warlord Era, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.- Overview :...
  
  (7th Army Deputy)
  - 143rd Division - Liu Ju-ming (concurrent)
  - 27th Separate Brigade - Liu Ju-chen (withdrawn from Peiping)
  - Chahar Peace Preservation Brigade
  - Chahar Peace Preservation Brigade
Frontline Group – Tang En-po
- 13th Corps – Tang En-po (concurrent)
  - 4th Division – Wan Wang – ling +
  - 89th Division – Wang Chung-lien +
- 17th Corps – Kao Kuei-tse
  - 21st Division – Li Hsien - chou
  - 84th Division – Kao Kuei – tse (concurrent)

1st War Area – Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

14th Army Group - Wei Li Huang
- 85th Division – Chen Tieh
- 14th Corps – Li mo-yen
  - 10th Division – Li mo-yen (concurrent) +
  - 83rd Division – Liu Kan +

Notes

+ Reorganized Divisions without German training.

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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.
[2] Jowett, Phillip S. , Rays of The Rising Sun, Armed Forces of Japan’s Asian Allies 1931-45, Volume I: China & Manchuria, 2004. Helion & Co. Ltd., 26 Willow Rd., Solihul, West Midlands, England.

See also

Operation Chahar
Operation Chahar
Operation Chahar, known by the Japanese as チャハル作戦 and by the Chinese as the 长城抗战 , occurred in August 1937, following the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War....

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