46th Division: 2 brigade commanders, 11 school officers, 108 junior officers, and more than 4,000 soldiers casualties.[3]
87th and 88th Divisions of the 71st Corps: more than 7,000 killed or wounded, more than 1,100 missing.[4]
20th, 51st, and 58th Divisions of the 74th Corps: heavy casualties, with a total of 7,000 new recruits requested by the corps commander to cover the losses.[5]
1st, 61st, 78th, and 36th Divisions: 7,125 casualties.[6][7]
106th and 155th Divisions: very heavy casualties.[1]:119-121
It involved a Chinese counterattack at Lanfeng by elements of the 1st War Area against the positions held by the Japanese 14th Division. The 14th Division was the vanguard of the Japanese First Army (North China Area Army) and numbered 20,000 men with tanks. It was the first action of the Chinese 200th Division, the first mechanized division in the Chinese Army.
In the assault, the 200th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, located to the west of the line of contact, overran the flanks of Kenji Doihara's 14th Division, successfully encircling 7,000 men of the division in the county of Lanfeng. The battle resulted in a Japanese defeat, forestalling the Japanese capture of the northern section of the Longhai railway. The Chinese victory, which The New York Times described as a second Taierzhuang, resulted in the near destruction of the 14th Division.[12]
Simultaneously, Japanese forces undertook a successful offensive operation that captured the city of Kweiteh southeast of Lanfeng.[12]
123History and Political Compilation Department (1963). 抗日戰史: 運河垣曲間黃河兩岸之作戰(二)[History of the Anti-Japanese War: Operations on both banks of the Yellow River between the canal and Yuanqu (Part 2)]. Ministry of National Defense (Republic of China).
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, page 230–235, Map. 9-2
