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)
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
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
10 Renault NC27 Tanks
Cavalry Detachment
Artillery Battalion (150mm howitzers)
Heavy Siege Gun Unit (150mm mortars, 6 guns)
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
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
Shanghai Front
General Cai Tingkai
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