Order of Battle: Hundred Regiments Offensive

Hundred Regiments Offensive

• Aug 20 – Dec 5, 1940

China

8th Route Army – Deputy Commander Peng Dehuai

• 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 Army – Lieutenant General Hayao Tada ^[1]

• 15th Independent Mixed Brigade [ Hebei, Peiking area]
• 27th Division [ Hebei, Tientsin area]
• 7th Independent Mixed Brigade [ Shandong, Huimin area]
• 110th Division [Hebei, Baoding area]
• 8th Independent Mixed Brigade [Hebei, Shijiazhuang area] - Major General Mizuhara ^[2]
• 1st Independent Mixed Brigade [Hebei, Handan area]
• Mongolian Army [HQ: Chahar, Zhangjiakou]
  • 26th Division [ Suiyuan, Datong area]
  • 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade [Chahar, Zhangjiakou area]
• 1st Army [ Shanxi, Taiyuan]
  • 36th Division [Shanxi, Lu'an area]
  • 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade [Shanxi, Shanheng (山亨) county area]
  • 4th Independent Mixed Brigade [Shanxi, Yangquan area] - Lieutenant General Katayama ^[2]
  • 9th Independent Mixed Brigade [Shanxi, Taiyuan area]
  • 41st Division [Shanxi, Linfen area]

Collaborationist Chinese forces

• ?

Notes

1. 抗日战争时期的侵华日军序列沿革
2. Tetsuya Kataoka, Resistance and Revolution in China, pg.218

Sources

• Tetsuya Kataoka, Resistance and Revolution in China, The Communists and the Second United Front, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford
  • The Battle of One Hundred Regiments
• [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