Order of Battle: Hundred Regiments Offensive
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China
8th Route Army - Deputy Commander Peng DehuaiPeng Dehuai
Peng Dehuai was a prominent military leader of the Communist Party of China, and China's Defence Minister from 1954 to 1959. Peng was an important commander during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese civil war and was also the commander-in-chief of People's Volunteer Army in the Korean War...
- 129th Division
- 47 regiments
- 120th Division
- 22 regiments
- 115th Division
- 46 regiments
Total: 115 Regiments, variously estimated between 70,000 and 300,000 men. Actual communist strike regiments exerted to the campaign would total about 22 regiments.
Japan
Japanese Northern China Area ArmyJapanese Northern China Area Army
The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.-History:The Japanese North China Area Army was formed on August 21, 1937 under the control of the Imperial General Headquarters. It was transferred to the newly formed China Expeditionary Army on September 23,...
- Lieutenant General Hayao Tada
Hayao Tada
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- 15th Independent Mixed Brigade [ HebeiHebei' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...
, Peiking area] - 27th Division27th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)The Japanese 27th Division was formed in China from the units of the former Japanese China Garrison Army July 15, 1938, becoming one of the first triangular divisions in the Japanese Imperial Army.- Organization :27th Division [2]...
[ HebeiHebei' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...
, Tientsin area] - 7th Independent Mixed Brigade [ ShandongShandong' is a Province located on the eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese...
, HuiminHuimin CountyHuimin County is a county of northwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Binzhou City.The population in 1999 was 620,335.-Climate:- External links :*...
area] - 110th Division [Hebei, BaodingBaoding-Administrative divisions:Baoding prefecture-level city consists of 3 municipal districts, 4 county-level cities, 18 counties:-Demographics:The Baoding urban area has a population of around 1,006,000 . The population of the Baoding administrative area is 10,890,000. The considerable majority are...
area] - 8th Independent Mixed Brigade [Hebei, ShijiazhuangShijiazhuangShijiazhuang is the capital and largest city of North China's Hebei province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about south of Beijing...
area] - Major General Mizuhara - 1st Independent Mixed Brigade [Hebei, HandanHandanHandan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwestern part of Hebei Province of China.- History :Handan was the capital of the State of Zhao during the Warring States period , after the capital moved from Zhongmu. The city was conquered by the State of Qin after the virtual annexation of...
area] - Mongolian Army [HQ: Chahar, ZhangjiakouZhangjiakouZhangjiakou, also known also by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province of North China, adjacent to Beijing to the southeast. Its administrative area has a population of 4.35 million, and covers...
] - 1st Army [ ShanxiShanxi' is a province in Northern China. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....
, Taiyuan]- 36th Division [Shanxi , Lu'an area]
- 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade [Shanxi, Shanheng (山亨) county area]
- 4th Independent Mixed Brigade [Shanxi, YangquanYangquanYangquan is a prefecture-level city in the Shanxi province of China. Situated to the west side of Taihang Mountain, Yangquan occupies a total area of 4,470 square kilometers and is home to a population of about 1.3 million . Yangquan is rich in mineral resources and is famous for its smokeless coal...
area] - Lieutenant General Katayama - 9th Independent Mixed Brigade [Shanxi, Taiyuan area]
- 41st Division41st Division (Imperial Japanese Army)The 41st Division was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. It was formed on 2 October 1939, under the command of Lieutenant General Moritake Tanabe...
[Shanxi, LinfenLinfen-Administrative divisions:The prefecture-level city of Linfen is divided in one district, two cities and fourteen counties. The information here presented uses the metric system and data from 2010 Census.-Pollution:...
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Collaborationist chinese forces
Sources
- Tetsuya Kataoka, Resistance and Revolution in China, The Communists and the Second United Front, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford
- [2] 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)
- [3] RESISTANCE WARS: Hundred Regiment Campaign