How many troops were there in the third Changsha Defence War?

The Japanese army inherited the Second Reich, and the organizational system of China Beiyang Army is nominally the same.

The army of the Second Reich of Germany took divisions as strategic units, with each division18,000 people, including infantry12,000 people and about 6,000 people in other arms. The Japanese army is not called "division", but "division".

At first, a Japanese division completely imitated the establishment of a German division, about18,000 people. But later, with the change of the war, it was changed many times. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the total strength of a Japanese division was 24,000-28,000. From the perspective of scale and composition, it feels quite like a division in the United States (a division in Europe is generally about 654.38+04000, and a division in the United States is twice as big, reaching 28000).

The basic unit of the Japanese army is the division. In addition, the Japanese army has also established a higher level (group) army, front-line army, general army and so on. , but there is no unified preparation. In fact, the Japanese divisions also have a variety of preparations.

When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, the Japanese army had 17 standing divisions with guards numbered 1 to 20 (internal divisions 13, 15, 17, 18). It is a four-unit system, that is, a division has two brigades, and a brigade has two infantry wings, so that each division has four infantry wings.

In addition, the division also has artillery wing, trench wing, engineering wing, cavalry wing and other units. There are 28,500 people in each division and 25,000 people in each division.