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During the period of aggression against China, the Japanese army prepared a detailed table at all le

1.

class:

There are 13 people in each squad of the Japanese army, including the squad leader, 4 machine gun shooters and 8 riflesmen. There is a light machine gun, with four people (commander, shooter, and two ammunition-carrying deputy shooters). These four people are equipped with self-defense pistols and sometimes carry rifles in battle (except machine gun shooters); the remaining eight riflesmen each have a single-shot rifle. Among the specially strengthened troops, the strengthened squad will be equipped with an additional 50mm grenade launcher carried by two people.

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Squad:

A Japanese squad had three squads arranged above and a grenade squad equipped with three grenade trolleys, a total of 54 people.

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Squadron:

A standard 180-man infantry squadron of the Japanese army includes: a 19-man squadron unit: squadron leader, executive officer, 3 sergeants, 4 sanitation officers, officer orders, 8 telecommunications officers), and 3 squads of the aforementioned 54-man squad.

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Brigade:

A standard 1100-person brigade of Japanese army consists of: a 30-person brigade, a 110-person transport squadron (carts and mules and horses). Some brigades merge their transport squadrons into the wing. The four aforementioned infantry squadrons (some only have 3); a 174-person machine gun squadron (14-person company and 3 machine gun platoons, and 1 ammunition platoon), each platoon of 4 heavy machine guns, a total of 12 (some companies only have 8); a 55-person gun platoon (1 10-person

The platoon headquarters, one ammunition squad with 15-person ammunition squad, two 15-person artillery squads each equipped with one 70mm Type 92 infantry gun, and a very small force is equipped with a 122-person artillery company (including a 27-person ammunition squad, and two 31-person artillery squads each equipped with two infantry guns). Among these small number of artillery companies, some of them are lucky enough to be assigned to 20MM anti-tank guns, and can be organized into 4 24-person platoons equipped with two anti-tank guns. In this case, the ammunition squad must be expanded to 39 people.

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United:

A standard 3800-man wing of the Japanese army consists of a 54-man command; a 121-man transport team (carts and mules and horses), carrying one-day supplies for the regiment and each company directly under it, and a field kitchen that may be equipped with divisions; an 81-man ammunition platoon carries one-day ammunition platoon. Three infantry squadrons; a 122-man artillery squadron, including a 25-man company, an observation squad, a 31-man ammunition platoon, and three 31-man artillery platoon (each with two 15-man artillery squad, equipped with a 70mm 92 infantry artillery). A very small number of corps have a 364-man artillery platoon.

The team consists of two 170-man squadrons, each with 4 guns. The anti-tank squadrons belong to the wing have 122 people: a company with 20 people, an ammunition squadron of 21 people, and a 33 gun squad (each with two 37mm anti-tank guns). The communications squadron has a telephone squad (4 to 6 telephone shifts, 3 telephones per shift, and a switch), and a radio squadron (5 to 8 radio stations). During the battle, the telephone and radio station are assigned to each brigade and each direct team. The wing's health system is very weak, with only 2 doctors and 2 health officers in the wing, the brigade has 3 doctors and four health officers, and the squadron has four health officers.

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division:

The division units of the Japanese army mainly include: 3 infantry corps, one field artillery corps, one reconnaissance corps, one engineer corps, one transport corps, and communication corps. The field artillery corps has 2,322 people, three 688-man artillery brigades, each equipped with 12 75mm field artillery or mountain cannons, and only some divisions replace one of the brigades with 105mm cannons. The reconnaissance brigades have 730 people, including a 130-man corps, a 130-man cavalry brigade (4 30-man platoons), two 160-man motorized brigades, and one 100-man truck transport brigades (at least the two motorized brigades can be transported on paper). This reconnaissance brigades can also be replaced by a 950-man cavalry brigade. The engineer brigades have 900-10
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