overview
The Group Army was the largest military establishment unit of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China during the Anti-Japanese War.
At the end of the war, there were 40 army groups. During the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, three more group armies were formed.
XI-XX armies
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
Eleventh Army | Formed: September 1937 Revocation: September 1940 | Li Pinsian | September 1937 – October 1939 | Battle of Xuzhou Battle of Wuhan |
Xia Wei | October 1939 – November 1939 | not | ||
Huang Qixiang | November 1939 – September 1940 | Winter offensive of 1939 | ||
Reconstituted: November 1941 Revocation: March 1945 | Song Xilian | November 1941 – September 1943 | Burma Road Campaign | |
Huang Jie | September 1943 – March 1945 | Battle of Northern Burma in western Yunnan Second Burma Expedition | ||
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
XII Army | Formed: December 1937 Reorganized as Quzhou Appeasement Office: October 1945 | Yu Hanmou | December 1937 – October 1945 | Battle of Guangzhou Winter offensive of 1939 |
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
XIII Army | Formed: February 1939 Revocation: January 1946 | Wang Jingguo | February 1939 – January 1946 | not |
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
Fourteenth Army | Formed: September 1937 Revocation: July 1944 | Wei Lihuang | September 1937 – October 1939 | Battle of Taiyuan |
Liu Maoen | October 1939 – July 1944 | Winter offensive of 1939 Battle of Jinnan Battle of Yuxianggui | ||
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
Fifteenth Army | Formed: September 1937 Revocation: July 1940 | Temporary | September 1937 – November 1937 | Battle of Songhu |
Law Cheuk-ying | November 1937 – December 1937 | not | ||
Temporary | December 1937 – May 1939 | Battle of Wuhan The First Battle of Changsha | ||
Xue Yue | May 1939 – October 1939 | not | ||
Guan Linzheng | October 1939 – July 1940 | Winter offensive of 1939 | ||
Reconstituted: May 1941 Revocation: October 1945 | He Zhuguo | May 1941 – October 1945 | Second Battle of Changsha Battle of Yuxianggui | |
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
Sixteenth Army | Formed: January 1939 Revocation: March 1945 | Xia Wei | January 1939 – November 1939 | not |
Cai Tingkai | November 1939 – November 1939 | Battle of Guinan | ||
Xia Wei | November 1939 – March 1945 | Battle of Guiliu | ||
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
XVII Army | Formed: November 1937 Revocation: October 1945 | Ma Hongkui | November 1937 – October 1945 | Battle of Suixi |
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
XVIII Army | Formed: September 1937 Independently formed as the Chinese People's Liberation Army: January 1946 | Jude | September 1937 – January 1946 | Flat level combat Hundred regiments battle |
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
XIX Army | Formed: September 1937 Revoked: October 1942 | Xue Yue | September 1937 – January 1938 | Battle of Songhu |
Law Cheuk-ying | January 1938 – April 1942 | Battle of Wuhan Battle of Nanchang The First Battle of Changsha Winter offensive of 1939 Battle of Kamigao Second Battle of Changsha Third Battle of Changsha | ||
Liu Yigu | September 1942 – October 4 | not | ||
Law Cheuk-ying | September 1942 – October 7 | not | ||
Reconstituted: November 1943 Reorganized into the reorganized XXII Army: September 1946 | Wang Zhonglian | September 1943 – October 4 | not | |
Towneber | September 1943 – October 9 | not | ||
Chen Daqing | September 1944 – October 1 | Battle of Yuxianggui Battle of Western Hubei | ||
Zhang Xuezhong | September 1945 – October 10 | not | ||
unit | Date of formation | commander in chief | tenure | Main battles |
XX Army | Formed: September 1937 Revocation: September 1945 | Shang Zhen | September 1937 – October 9 | Battle of the Jinghan Line Battle of Wuhan Battle of Nanchang The First Battle of Changsha Winter offensive of 1939 |
Huo Jingzhang | September 1940 – October 7 | Second Battle of Changsha Burma Road Campaign Battle of Northern Burma in western Yunnan Second Burma Expedition | ||
Reconstituted: November 1946 Reorganized into the Reorganized XXI Army: February 1947 | Xia Chuzhong | September 1946 – October 1 | not |