1st War Area - Cheng Qian Reinforcements [May22nd] Note: North China Area Army - Juichi Terauchi [1,3] 1st Army - Kyoji Kotsuki
Note: IJA 1st Army had these armoured units directly under its command that could have been assigned to 14th Division: [3] [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.
Note these divisions had been badly mauled in the battles of Shanghai and of Nanking in 1937 and were no longer the crack units they once were.
[3] 抗日战争时期的侵华日军序列沿革 (Order of battle of the Japanese army that invaded China during the Sino Japanese War) [4] 國軍精銳---國民革命軍第二○○師 Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Elite Troops of the National Revolutionary Army, the 200th Division, (in Chinese)