The order of battle for the Battle of South Guangxi by country is as follows:
Japan
21st Army (to Feb. 9th 1940) – Lt. Gen. Rikichi Andō 7]
22nd Army (10 Feb 1940 – 19 Nov 1940,- Army disbanded) – Lt. Gen Seiichi Kuno
5th Division – General Hitoshi Imamura (9 Nov 1938 – 9 Mar 1940), Lt. General Aketo Nakamura (9 Mar 1940 – 15 Oct 1940), Lt. General Takuro Matsui (15 Oct 1940 – 11 May 1942) 7] 9th Infantry Brigade 11th Infantry Regiment 41st Infantry Regiment 21st Infantry Brigade – Major Gen. Masao Nakamura 21st Infantry Regiment 42nd Infantry Regiment 5th Mountain Artillery Regiment 5th Cavalry Regiment 5th Engineer Regiment 5th Transport Regiment Formosa Mixed Brigade- 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 [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 [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 – ? 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 – Adm. Nobutake Kondō [7] 2nd Air Sentai – ? Akagi [southern China] (end/04/39 – middle/02/40) 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 Kōkūtai, IJN [based in Nanning from late 12/39] – ? Fighter Daitai – 13 Mitsubishi A5M
Notes: Initial landing and advance to Nanning by 5th Division and Taiwan Composite Brigade. Guards Mixed Brigade and the 18th Division were sent as reinforcements from Canton area in January 1940.
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 (10 Feb 1940 – 5 Oct 1940) and General Jun Ushiroku (5 Oct 1940 – 26 Jun 1941). 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), until the Army was disbanded at the end of the campaign. On June 3, 1940, the Guards Mixed Brigade became the 1st Guards Brigade of the 1st Guards Division. The 2nd Imperial Guards Infantry Regiment under Col. Kunio Osonoe from 1st Guards Brigade was assigned to the Indochina Expeditionary Army 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.
China
Generalissimo's HQ in Kweilin – Pai Chung-hsi
16th Group Army – Wei Yun-sun *
31st Army – Wei Yun-sun
131st Division
135th Division
188th Division
46th Army – Ho Hsuan
170th Division
175th Division
New 19th Division
26th Group Army – Tsai Ting-kai *
1st Sep. Inf. Regts. 2nd Sep. Inf. Regts. 3rd Sep. Inf. Regts. 4th Sep. Inf. Regts. 35th Group Army – Teng Lung-kuang 64th Army – Chen Kung-hsia 155th Division 156th Division 37th Group Army – Yeh Chao 66th Army – Yeh Chao 159th Division 160th Division 38th Group Army – Hsu Ting-yao 2nd Army – Li Yen-nien 9th Division 76th Division 5th Army – 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 Army – Kan Li-chu 49th Division 93rd Division 2nd Reserve Division 99th Army – Fu Chung-fang 92nd Division 99th Division 118th Division 36th Army – Yao Chuen 5th Division 96th Division 43rd Division New 3rd Division Kwangsi Pacification HQ Artillery Detachment