The Battle of Taierzhuang, the comparison of Chinese and Japanese forces

Battle of Taierzhuang.

March 1938

April 1938.

Li Zongren (commander-in-chief), Tang Enbo, ten divisions, about 100,000 men: Ryosuke Isoya, Seishiro Itagaki, two divisions (Itagaki 5th Division, Isoya 10th Division), about 30,000 men.

**。About 20,000 on the Chinese side: more than 16,000 on the Japanese side.

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It is a fact that the equipment and personnel combat effectiveness of small Japan at that time were stronger than those of China.

The little hairy boy doesn't understand history and is blind. The Chinese commander who commanded the Battle of Taier was Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth War. Deputy Commander Li Pinxian.

The main combat units were Sun Lianzhong's Second Army and Tang Enbo's Twentieth Army. as well as Sun Tongxuan's Third Group Army, Li Pinxian's Eleventh Group Army, Xu Yuanquan's Twentieth Group Army, Liao Lei's Twenty-first Group Army, Deng Xihou's Twenty-second Group Army, Han Deqin's Twenty-fourth Group Army, Yang Sen's Twenty-seventh Group Army, Pang Bingxun's Third Army, Feng Zhi'an's Nineteenth Army, Zhang Zizhong's Twenty-seventh Army and other units, more than 400,000 people.

Our ** number is 50,000, while the enemy's ** number is 20,000. Although there is such a difference in the number of people, this battle is the first great victory since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which greatly boosts the morale of our side.

In this battle, our army wiped out more than 20,000 Japanese troops, and our army's ** also reached more than 50,000, which shows the tragedy of this war.

The Battle of Taierzhuang was of special significance in China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It is also known as the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Lunan or the bloody battle of Taierzhuang.

From March 16, 1938, a war was launched in Taierzhuang, Shandong Province, which deeply exposed the ambition of Japan and other imperialists to dominate the world. It took more than a month until the end of April 15.

The Japanese attacked Xuzhou in three ways and annihilated the Japanese army, including 6000+ Chihuai Blockade, 6000+ Linyi Blockade, 2500+ Tengxian Blockade, 13000+ Taierzhuang Siege and Annihilation Battle, and 1000+ Jining Wenshang Attack. In the Battle of Taierzhuang, under the personal command of Li Zongren, the main forces of the 5th and 10th elite divisions of the Japanese army were defeated, and the 13th Division was blocked in the Huai River and could not move, annihilating more than 10,000 Japanese troops.

It succeeded, and the Japanese army invested too few troops.

1. North China Front: Shouichi Terauchi.

2. Commander of the Second Army, Toshizo Nishio.

3. The 5th Division: Division Commander Seishiro Itagaki General Nagawa Oki and Chief of Staff Takeshi Sakurada.

4. The 21st Infantry Brigade: Major General Shun Sakamoto (Sakamoto Detachment) 5. The 21st Infantry Wing: Katano Tarumi Osa.

6. A brigade of the 42nd Infantry Wing.

7. The Fifth Wing of Field Artillery: Kobori is Fan Daisa.

8. A squadron of mountain artillery.

9. The 10th Division: Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, the commander of the Sentenced Division, and the chief of staff is not expensive.

10. The 33rd Infantry Brigade: Major General Seya Kei (Seya Detachment) 11, the 10th Infantry Wing: Chichai Yaezo (Yizhou Detachment), the 63rd Infantry Wing:

Fukuei Zhenhei Dazuo (Taierzhuang Dispatch Team), the 10th Independent Machine Gun Brigade, the 10th Independent Light Armored Vehicle Squadron, and the 12th Independent Light Armored Vehicle Squadron.

12. The 10th Wing of Field Artillery (missing a brigade): Haruharu Taniguchi, Temporary Field Artillery Squadron (90 Field Artillery), Temporary Mountain Artillery Squadron, 2nd Wing of Field Heavy Artillery (missing a brigade), 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Artillery Wing in China (howitzer).