Order of battle January 28 incident

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.

Japan
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)
 * 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) and Ronin (est. 100-200 men)
 * Total Naval forces in Shanghai as of Feb 1932: approx. 5,000 men

China
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)
 * Woosung Forts Garrison (2,000 men)


 * 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