This is the order of battle for the January 28 incident, also known as the first Shanghai incident, in 1932. This was a brief war between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan that occurred prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Because the Japanese assumed the tactical initiative, their forces are listed first.
| Shanghai Expeditionary Army
General Yoshinori Shirakawa - Chief of Staff: Lieutenant General Kanichiro Tashiro
- Army troops
- Mixed Regiment Medium Artillery
- 3 batteries (150mm howitzers, 12 guns, horse drawn)
- 2 batteries (100mm guns, 8 guns, horse drawn)
- 24th Mixed Brigade
- Major General Kumaya Shimomoto
- 2nd Battalion / 14th Infantry Regiment
- 1st Battalion / 24th Infantry Regiment
- 1st Battalion / 46th Infantry Regiment
- 1st Battalion / 48th Infantry Regiment
- 2nd Battalion / 3rd Independent Mountain Gun Regiment
- 2nd Company / 18th Engineer Battalion
- 9th Division
- Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda
- 6th Infantry Brigade
- 7th Infantry Regiment
- 35th Infantry Regiment
- 18th Infantry Brigade
- 19th Infantry Regiment
- 36th Infantry Regiment
- 9th Mountain Artillery Regiment
- 9th Cavalry Regiment
- 2nd Independent Tank Company
- Captain Shigemi
- 5 Type 89 Medium Tanks
- 10 Renault NC27 Tanks
- Cavalry Detachment
- Artillery Battalion (150mm howitzers)
- Heavy Siege Gun Unit (150mm mortars, 6 guns)
- 11th Division
- Lieutenant General Tokutarou Koutou
- 10th Infantry Brigade
- 12th Infantry Regiment
- 22nd Infantry Regiment
- 22nd Infantry Brigade
- 43rd Infantry Regiment
- 44th Infantry Regiment
- 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment
- 11th Cavalry Regiment
- 11th Engineer Regiment
- 11th Army Service Detachment
- 14th Division
- Lieutenant General Naosuke Matsuki
- 27th Infantry Brigade
- 2nd Infantry Regiment
- 59th Infantry Regiment
- 28th Infantry Brigade
- 15th Infantry Regiment
- 50th Infantry Regiment
- 20th Field Artillery Regiment
- 18th Cavalry Regiment
- 14th Engineer Regiment
- 14th Battalion of Army Service Corps
- Army Air Service
- 3 bomber squadrons
- 1 pursuit squadron (Nieuports)
- 1 reconnaissance squadron
| Third Fleet
Vice Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura - 1st Carrier Division (Koku-sentai)
- Fleet carrier Kaga (加賀) (flagship)
- Nakajima A1N fighters
- Mitsubishi B1M bombers
- Light carrier Hōshō (鳳翔)
- 9 Nakajima A1N2 fighters
- 3 Mitsubishi B2M bombers
- 3 Mitsubishi C1M Type 10 reconnaissance aircraft
- 32 other warships including
- 1 Kongō-class battlecruiser: Kirishima (霧島)
- 1 Nagara-class cruiser: Yura (由良)
- 1 Tenryū-class cruiser: Tenryū (天龍)
- 1 Mutsuki-class destroyer: Mutsuki (睦月)
- Shanghai SNLF
- Captain Samejima (2,000 men)[a]
- 1st Battalion (Including Sasebo 1st SNLF)
- 2nd Battalion (Former Kure 1st SNLF)
- 3rd Battalion (Former Sasebo 2nd SNLF)
- 4th Battalion (Former Sasebo 3rd SNLF)
- 5th Battalion (Former Yokosuka 1st SNLF)
- 7th Battalion (Former Yokosuka 2nd SNLF)
- Armed reservists (est. 2,800-2,900 men)[b] and Ronin (est. 100-200 men)[c]
- Total Naval forces in Shanghai as of Feb 1932: approx. 5,000 men
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Shanghai Front
General Cai Tingkai
- 19th Route Army
- Lieutenant General Jiang Guangnai
- 60th Division
- Major General Sheng Guanghan
- 119th Brigade
- 120th Brigade
- 61st Division
- Lieutenant General Mao Weishou
- 121st Brigade
- 122nd Brigade
- 78th Division
- Lieutenant General Shu Zu-nien
- 155th Brigade
- 156th Brigade
- 3 Chinese armored trains (500 men)[d]
- Woosung Forts Garrison (2,000 men)[e]
| - 5th Army
- General Zhang Zhizhong
- 87th Division
- Lieutenant General Lau Ching-yueh
- 174th Brigade
- 175th Brigade
- 88th Division
- Lieutenant General Yu Jishi
- 176th Brigade
- 177th Brigade
- Independent Brigade
- Major General Wang Ken
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- ^ SNLF units were sent after the incident happened.
- ^ In civilian clothes, distinguished by a brassard
- ^ In civilian clothes
- ^ Patrolled the Woosung Railroad line
- ^ Harassed vessels with machine-gun fire
Sources[edit]
- Cooke, Major Elliot .D. (Dec 1937). The Japanese attacks at Shanghai and the defense by the Chinese, 1931-1932. Military Review.
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