Order of Battle for Battle of South Guangxi

Japan

21st Army - Lt. Gen. Rikichi Andō

Rikichi Ando

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[6,7]

22nd Army (10 Feb 1940 - 19 Nov 1940,- Army disbanded) - Lt. Gen Seiichi Kuno

Seiichi Kuno

- Notes :...

[6]

5th Division - General Hitoshi Imamura
Hitoshi Imamura
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(9 Nov 1938 - 9 Mar 1940), Lt. General Akita Nakamura (9 Mar 1940 - 15 Oct 1940), Lt. General Takuro Matsui (15 Oct 1940 - 11 May 1942)[6,7]
- 9th Infantry Brigade
  - 11th Infantry Regiment
  - 41st Infantry Regiment
- 21st Infantry Brigade - Major Gen. Masao Nakamura
  Masao Nakamura
  - Notes :...
  - 21st Infantry Regiment
  - 42nd Infantry Regiment
- 5th Mountain Artillery Regiment
- 5th Cavalry Regiment
- 5th Engineer Regiment
- 5th Transport Regiment
Formosa Mixed Brigade[2]- Major Gen. Sadaichi Shioda [7]
- 1st Formosa Infantry Regiment
- 2nd Formosa Infantry Regiment
- Formosa Artillery Regiment
- Formosa Military Engineer Regiment

January 1940 reinforcements from Canton

18th Division - Lt. Gen. Seiichi Kuno
Seiichi Kuno
- Notes :...

[7]
- 23rd Infantry Brigade
  - 55th Infantry Regiment
  - 56th Infantry Regiment
- 35th Infantry Brigade
  - 114th Infantry Regiment
  - 124th Infantry Regiment
- 18th Mountain Artillery Regiment
- 22nd Cavalry Battalion
- 12th Engineer Regiment
- 12th Transport Regiment
Guards Mixed Brigade - Major Gen. Takeshi Sakurada
Takeshi Sakurada
- Notes :...

[7]
- 1st Guards Infantry Regiment
- 2nd Guards Infantry Regiment
- Guards Cavalry Regiment
- Guards Field Artillery Regiment (elements)
- Guards Engineer Regiment (elements)
- Guards Transport Regiment (elements)

Army Airforce:

21st Independent Aviation Corps, IJA [2,3] - ?
- Independent 82nd Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai [S. China] - ?
  - Light bomber squadron. (reconnaissance aircraft)
- Independent 84th Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai [Canton] - Captain Magoji Hara
  - Nakajima Ki-27 (fighter aircraft)

Navy Airforce:

5th Fleet [3] - Adm. Nobutake Kondō [7]
- 2nd Air Sentai - ?
- Akagi [southern China] (end/04/39 – middle/02/40) [3]
  - Fighter Daitai - Mitsubishi A5M
  - Bomber Daitai - Aichi D1A2
  - Attack Daitai - Yokosuka B4Y1
- 11th Destroyer Division-- and
  - Kamikawa Maru - seaplane carrier
  - Chiyoda - seaplane carrier
3rd Combined Air Unit
- 14th Kokutai, IJN [based in Nanning from late 12/39] - ? [3]
  - Fighter Daitai - 13 Mitsubishi A5M

Notes:

Initial landing and advance to Nanning
Nanning
Nanning is the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. It is known as the "Green City" because of its abundance of lush tropical foliage.-History:...

by 5th Division and Formosa Mixed Brigade. Guards Mixed Brigade
Guards Mixed Brigade
In September 1939 the 1st Guards Brigade of the Japanese Imperial Guards Division was split off and transferred to South China to became known as the Guards Mixed Brigade. It took with it the 1st and 2nd Guards Infantry Regiments, the Guards Cavalry Regiment, and about half of the other support and...

and the 18th Division were sent as reinforcements from Canton area in January 1940. [1]

After 9 February 1940, the 18th Division was returned to Canton and the 21st Army was disbanded, the forces of the 21st Army came under the control of the Southern China Area Army (Canton) under General Rikichi Andō

Rikichi Ando

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(10 Feb 1940 - 5 Oct 1940) and General Jun Ushiroku

Jun Ushiroku

- Notes :...

(5 Oct 1940 - 26 Jun 1941)[6]. The forces remaining in Guangxi, now subordinate to South China Front Army, became the Japanese Twenty-Second Army under Lt. Gen Seiichi Kuno (10 Feb 1940 - 19 Nov 1940)[6], until the Army was disbanded at the end of the campaign. On June 3, 1940 the Guards Mixed Brigade

Guards Mixed Brigade

In September 1939 the 1st Guards Brigade of the Japanese Imperial Guards Division was split off and transferred to South China to became known as the Guards Mixed Brigade. It took with it the 1st and 2nd Guards Infantry Regiments, the Guards Cavalry Regiment, and about half of the other support and...

became the 1st Guards Brigade of the Guards Division

Guards Division

The Guards Division is an administrative unit of the British Army responsible for the administration of the regiments of Foot Guards and the London Regiment.-Introduction:...

. The 2nd Imperial Guards Infantry Regiment under Col. Kunio Osonoe from 1st Guards Brigade was assigned to the Indochina Expeditionary Army

Indochina Expeditionary Army

The ' was an amphibious army corps of the Imperial Japanese Army formed on September 7, 1940 to coordinate the invasion and occupation of French Indochina during the Second Sino-Japanese War...

in September, 1940. In October 1940, the remainder of 1st Guards Brigade (1st Guard Regiment and support units) joined other Japanese units occupying French Indochina

French Indochina

French Indochina was part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia. A federation of the three Vietnamese regions, Tonkin , Annam , and Cochinchina , as well as Cambodia, was formed in 1887....

China

Generalissimo's HQ in Kweilin - Pai Chung-hsi [1]

16th Army Group - Wei Yun-sun *
- 31st Corps - Wei Yun-sun
  - 131st Division
  - 135th Division
  - 188th Division
- 46th Corps - Ho Hsuan
  - 170th Division
  - 175th Division
  - New 19th Division
26th Army Group - Tsai Ting-kai
Tsai Ting-kai
Cai Tingkai was a Chinese general.Cai was in overall command of the 19th Route Army of the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army and other Chinese forces responsible for holding off the Imperial Japanese Army during the Shanghai War of 1932 on 28 January 1932.In November 1933, Cai and...

*
- 1st Sep. Inf. Regts.
- 2nd Sep. Inf. Regts.
- 3rd Sep. Inf. Regts.
- 4th Sep. Inf. Regts.
35th Army Group - Teng Lung-kuang
- 64th Corps - Chen Kung-hsia
  - 155th Division
  - 156th Division
37th Army Group - Yeh Chao
- 66th Corps - Yeh Chao
  - 159th Division
  - 160th Division
38th Army Group - Hsu Ting-yao
Xu Tingyao
Xu Tingyao, Hsu Ting-Yao, , was a Chinese KMT general from Anhui.General Xu, commanded 17th Army during the Defense of the Great Wall in 1933, taking temporary command of the 8th Army Group when its commander was relieved...
- 2nd Corps - Li Yen-nien
  - 9th Division
  - 76th Division
- 5th Corps - Tu Yu-ming
  - 200th Division (Mechanized Division) - Tu Yu-ming
    - 598th Infantry regiment (with Soviet trucks)
    - 599th Infantry regiment (with Soviet trucks)
    - 600th Infantry regiment (with Soviet trucks)
  - Armored vehicle regiment (50 BA type armored cars)
  - Armored regiment (70 T-26, 4 BT-5, 18-20 CV-33's)
  - Motorized Artillery regiment (122mm howitzers, 75mm field guns and 45mm AT guns)
  - New 22nd Division
  - 1st Honor Division
- 9th Corps - Kan Li-chu
  - 49th Division
  - 93rd Division
  - 2nd Reserve Division
- 99th Corps - Fu Chung-fang
  - 92nd Division
  - 99th Division
  - 118th Division
- 36th Corps - Yao Chuen
  - 5th Division
  - 96th Division
43rd Division
New 3rd Division
Kwangsi Pacification HQ
Artillery Detachment

Air Forces: **

C A F 2nd Route Force [3] - Colonel Chang Ting-Meng
- 100 planes [1]
- 115 planes [3]
- 3rd Pursuit Group - Huang Pantang
  - 7th Pursuit Squadron - Lu Tian-Long
    - Polikarpov I-15
  - 8th Pursuit Squadron - ?
    - Polikarpov I-15
  - 27th Pursuit Squadron -
    - Gloster Gladiator Mk. I, Polikarpov I-
  - 29th Pursuit Squadron -
    - Gloster Gladiator Mk. I, Polikarpov I-
  - 32nd Pursuit Squadron - Wei Yi-Ging
    - Gloster Gladiator Mk. I, Polikarpov I-15bis
- 4th Pursuit Group - Liu Chi-Han
  - 21st Pursuit Squadron - Lo Ying-Teh
    - Polikarpov I-15bis -
  - 22nd Pursuit Squadron - Cheng Hsiao-Yu
    - Polikarpov I-15bis -
  - 23rd Pursuit Squadron - ?
    - Polikarpov I-15bis -
  - 24th Pursuit Squadron - Su Xian-Ren
    - Polikarpov I-16
- 5th Pursuit Group ?
  - 17th Pursuit Squadron - Captain Shen Tse-Liu
    - Polikarpov I-15bis, Dewoitine D.510
  - 26th Pursuit Squadron - ?
    - Polikarpov I-16
  - 28th Pursuit Squadron - Major Louie Yim-Qun
    Louie Yim-Qun
    "Clifford" Louie Yim-qun , also known as Louie Yen-chung, was born in Seattle, Washington; his father was from Taishan county, Guangdong, China. He obtained a private pilot's license at the Portland Flying School, Oregon, and went to China in 1933. One of the other pilots in Portland was Hazel Ying...
    - Polikarpov I-15bis
  - 29th Pursuit Squadron - Captain Ma Kwok-Lim
    - Polikarpov I-15bis
- 6th Bomber Group - ?
  - 19th Bomber Squadron - ?
    - Tupolev SB
- 18th Pursuit Squadron - Major Yang Yibai [3]
  - Curtiss Hawk III, Curtiss Hawk 75
- Soviet Suprun Group - K. K. Kokkinaki
  - Polikarpov I-16

Notes:

1. 16th Army Group and 26th Army Group were original defenders of Gwangxi. Other units were reinforcements which gradually arrived from Hunan, Gwangtung, and Szechuan. [1]

2. On 18 December the Chinese launched a successful counter-offensive against the Japanese in the Kwangsi Province. To support the Chinese Kwangsi-offensive and direct the air-units the more experienced 1st ARC (Colonel Chang Ting-Meng) temporarily replaced the 2nd ARC (Colonel Hsing Chan-Fei) at Liuchou, with the 2nd ARC moving to rear positions at Kwei-Lin.

Taking part in the offensive were 115 aircraft of the 3rd, 4th and 5th PGs, 6th BG, 18th PS and one of the Soviet groups. [3]

Sources

[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.

[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] Sino-Japanese Air War 1937-45

[4] Imperial Guard of Japan

[6] Generals from Japan (World War II)

[7] Re: Orbat for Southern Kuangsi Campaign

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