Battle of Northern and Eastern Henan

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese 1st Army, under the command of Lt. General Kiyoshi Katsuki, drove General Cheng Qian's 1st War Area Chinese forces out of Northern and Eastern Honan. The Japanese advance continued until they were halted by the catastrophic 1938 Yellow River flood, which was caused by the Chinese Army diverting the Yellow River into the Jialu and Huai Rivers.

Campaign of Northern and Eastern Henan
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the interwar period
Date (1938-02-07) (1938-06-10)February 7 – June 10, 1938 (4 months and 3 days) Location Northern and Eastern part of Henan province in the Republic of China Result Japanese victory, the Nationalists destroyed the embankments in Huayuankou Town, causing the 1938 Yellow River flood
Belligerents
China	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Cheng Qian	Hisaichi Terauchi
Units involved
First Military Front	Japanese North China Area Army
Strength
349,800[1]	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Chinese claim :[1] 979 officers and 24,275 soldiers killed 1,453 officers and 24,284 soldiers wounded 451 officers and 10,785 soldiers missing	Chinese claim : 51 captured[1] Japanese record : 14th division : 6,400 killed or wounded[2] Other units : unknown

Order of battle

Main article: Order of battle for Campaign of Northern and Eastern Henan 1938

Further reading

• 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, pp. 230–235. Map 9-2.