Order of Battle: Hundred Regiments Offensive

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Hundred Regiments Offensive

China

8th Route Army  – Deputy Commander Peng Dehuai

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.

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Japan

Japanese Northern China Area Army  – Lieutenant General Hayao Tada [1]

The Japanese North China Area Army was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Hayao Tada Japanese general

Hayao Tada was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Hebei Province

Hebei is a province of China in the North China region. The modern province was established in 1911 as Zhili Province or Chihli Province. Its one-character abbreviation is "冀" (Jì), named after Ji Province, a Han dynasty province (zhou) that included what is now southern Hebei. The name Hebei literally means "north of the river", referring to its location entirely to the north of the Yellow River.

The 27th Division was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call-sign was the Field Division. It was formed in China as triangular division from the independent mixed brigade and other units 21 June 1938

Tianjin Municipality in Peoples Republic of China

Tianjin, alternately romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the nine national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,621,200 as of 2016 estimation. Its built-up area, made up of 12 central districts, was home to 12,491,300 inhabitants in 2016 and is also the world's 29th-largest agglomeration and 11th-most populous city proper.

Collaborationist Chinese forces

Notes

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

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