Order of battle Defense of the Great Wall
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The following units and commanders fought in the Defense of the Great Wall
Defense of the Great Wall
The Defense of the Great Wall was a campaign between the armies of Republic of China and Empire of Japan, which took place before the Second Sino-Japanese War officially commenced in 1937...

 of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...

. List as of 20 March 1933.

China

Military Committee (Peking branch) - Chairman 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....

, He Yingqin
He Yingqin
He Yingqin , also spelled Ho Ying-chin, was one of the most senior generals of the Kuomintang during Republican China, and a close ally of Chiang Kai-shek.-Early years:A native of Guizhou, He was healthy and bookish in his childhood...

 (deputy)
  • 1st Army Group - Commander in chief - Yu Xuezhong (defends Tianjin, Daigu and garrisons Tianjin-Pukou Railroad)
    • Chief staff officer Liu Zhonggan
    • 51st Army - Yu Xuezhong
      • 113th Division - Li Zhentang
      • 111th Division - Dong Yingbin
      • 114th Division - Chen Guanqun
      • 118th Division - Du Jiwu
      • 1st Cavalry Division - Zhang Chengde
  • 2nd Army Group - Commander in chief Shang Zhen
    Shang Zhen
    Shang Zhen, , 商震, General of the National Revolutionary Army during the Warlord Era and Second Sino-Japanese War.Governor of Suiyuan Province from 1927 to 1928. He became Chairman of the Government of Hebei Province and Commander of the Peiping & Tientsin Garrison from 1928 to 1929 following the...

    (defense Luan River and the Lengkou Pass)
    • Chief staff officer - Lu Ji
    • 32nd Army - Shang Zhen
      • 139th Division - Huang Guanghua
      • 84th Division - Gao Guizi
      • 141st Division - Gao Hongwen
      • 142nd Division - Li Xingcun
      • 4th Cavalry Division - Guo Xipeng
    • 57th Army - He Zhuguo
      • 115th Division - Yao Dongfan
      • 109th Division - He Zhuguo
      • 120th Division - Chang Jingwu
      • 3rd Cavalry Division - Wang Jifeng
  • 3rd Army Group - Commander in chief Song Zheyuan
    Song Zheyuan
    Sòng Zhéyuán was a Chinese general during the Chinese Civil War and Sino-Japanese War .- Early life and education :...

    (defense of the Xifengkou Pass )
    • Vice-commander in chief - Pang Bingxun
      Pang Bingxun
      Pang Bingxun was a high-ranking nationalist commander who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army and Chinese Communist Army...

       Qin Dechun
    • Chief staff officer - Zhang Weifan
    • 29th Army - Song Zheyuan
      • 37th Division - Feng Zhian
      • 38th Division - Zhang Zizhong
      • 2nd Temporary Division - Liu Ruming
    • 40th Army - Pang Bingxun
      • 5th Cavalry Division - Li Fu
      • 115th Brigade - Liu Shirong
      • 116th Brigade - Chen Chunrong
  • 4th Army Group - Commander in chief Wan Fulin
    Wan Fulin
    Wan Fulin was the military governor of Heilongjian province from 1928, and part of the Fengtian clique. On Dec 29th 1928, Wan Fulin along with Zhang Xueliang, son of late Zhang Zuolin, together with Zhang Zuoxiang, against Japanese threats and coercion, declared in a public wire that the four...

    (assists the 57th Army with three Divisions to defend the Lengkou pass)
    • Chief staff officer - Wang Jingru
    • 53rd Army - Wan Fulin
      • 108th Division - Yang Zhengzhi
      • 10th Division - Shen Ke
      • 106th Division - Shen gram
      • 116th Division - Miao Chengliu
      • 119th Division - Sun Dequan
      • 129th Division - Wang Yongsheng
      • 130th Division - Zhu Hongxun, Yu Zhaolin
      • 2nd Cavalry Division - Huang Xiansheng
  • 8th Army Group - Commander in chief Yang Jie (defense of the Gubeikou pass)
    • 17th Army - Xu Tingyao
      • 2nd Division - Huang Jieyan
      • 25th Division - Guan Linzheng
        Guan Linzheng
        Guan Linzheng (1905-1980)was a highly successful Chinese general in the Kuomintang who fought against both the Chinese communists and the Imperial Japanese Army, and was a recipient of Order of Blue Sky and White Sun, the highest honor for a Chinese nationalist commander.-Early life and career:Guan...

      • 1st Cavalry Brigade - Li Jiading
    • 67th Army - Wang Yizhe (defense of the Gubeikou pass)
      • 107th Division - Zhang Zhengfang
      • 110th Division - He Lizhong
      • 112th Division - Zhang Tingshu
      • 117th Division - Weng Zhaoyuan
    • 26th Army - Xiaozhi Chu
      • 44th Division Commander Xiaozhi Chu (concurrently)
      • Preparation Regiment (Turned over to the Peking branch of the Military Committee to direct)
    • 41st Army - Sun Kuiyuan
      Sun Dianying
      Sun Diangying was one of the minor warlords during the Warlord Era.-Biography:...

      • 117th Brigade - Ding Ting
      • 118th Brigade - Liu Yueting
      • Reinforced 1st Brigade - Xing Yuchou
    • 105th Division - Liu Duoquan
    • 6th Cavalry Division - Bai Fengxiang
    • 83rd Division - Liu Kan

  • 5th Army Group - Commander in chief Tang Yulin
    Tang Yulin
    Tang Yulin was a Chinese warlord in the Fengtien clique and Chairman of the government of Rehe.-Biography:...

    • Remnants of this defeated Army from Jehol had retreated into Chahar to the area of Dushikou
      Dushikou
      Dushikou is a town in northern Chicheng County, Hebei, China, located about 120km northeast of Zhangjiakou. Dushikou is an ancient town, first built in the Tang Dynasty. It still contains stone paved streets and old buildings. It is located at one of the passes in the Great Wall for which it is...

       and Luanping. It operated from Guyuan
      Guyuan
      Guyuan is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It occupies the southernmost section of the region.-Administrative divisions:-Geography and climate:...

       observing eastern border of Jehol.
  • 7th Army Group - Commander in chief Fu Zuoyi
    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...

     (defending eastern sector of the Great Wall line)
    • 59th Army - Fu Zuoyi (concurrently)
    • 61st Army - Li Fuying
    • 1st Cavalry Army - Zhao Chengshou
  • Also in Rehe there were Feng Zhanhai
    Feng Zhanhai
    Feng Zhanhai or Feng Chan-hai, 冯占海,, was one of the leaders of the volunteer armies resisting the Japanese and the puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria. Feng was born on November 6, 1899. At eighteen he joined the Dongbei Army, and later entered a military school graduating in 1921...

    ’s 63rd Army and other Manchurian Anti-Japanese Righteous and Brave Army units of Li Zhongyi, Deng Wen and others.

Later Reinforcements from 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....

 to defend Peiking.
  • 87th Division
  • 88th Division
  • 42nd Division - Feng Qinzai
    Feng Qinzai
    Feng Qinzai 冯钦哉, or Feng Chin-Tsai was a Lieutenant-General in the Chinese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.Feng Qinzai commanded the 42nd Division during the Battle of the Great Wall. In 1937, he became commander of the 14th Army, leading it in the Battle of Taiyuan...


Sources

  • [1] 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 (China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations)
    • Author : Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang
    • Press : Jiangsu People's Publishing House
    • Date published : 2005-7-1
    • ISBN 7-214-03034-9
    • 第二部分:从“九一八”事变到西安事变滦东战斗 3

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