The Japanese forces consisted of the 38th Division, the 66th Regiment of the 51st Division (1 wing and 1 artillery team), and the 1st Flying Division, the 45th Squadron (27 light bombers, 9 fighters, 29 heavy bombers) and the 2nd Dispatch China Fleet were used for sea and air support. Before the outbreak of the first battle, a total of more than 30,000 soldiers, with 50 aircraft, 13 ships, and 173 cannons.

The Japanese offensive forces were formed

army

38th Division

38th Infantry Regiment

228th Infantry Wing

229th Infantry Wing

230th Infantry Wing

The 38th Wing of Mountain Artillery, a total of 28 mountain guns

38th Engineer Wing

38th Wing of Heavy Soldiers

Squadron of armored vehicles, 5 light tanks

Communications Corps

Health Team

Ordnance Service Corps

1st Field Hospital

2nd Field Hospital

Sick horse farm

Field communication pigeon squad, 68 communication pigeons

It is equipped with the 10th Wing of the Independent Mountain Artillery of the Army, with 24 41-type mountain guns

The 2nd Independent Rapid-Fire Artillery Brigade, 18 37 mm guns, 50 horses, 412 personnel

The 5th Independent Rapid-Fire Artillery Brigade, 2 37 mm guns (participating in the battle), 46 horses and 444 personnel

The 20th Independent Mountain Artillery Brigade, 9 mountain guns

The 21st Mortar Brigade has 36 light mortars, 280 horses, and 422 personnel

Field Gas 5th Squadron

The 18th Field Gas Squadron with 396 personnel and 181 horses

The 19th Independent Engineer Wing has 359 combat personnel, 31 horses, and 10 cars

The 20th Independent Engineer Wing has 557 participants, 61 horses and 5 cars

The 2nd Squadron of the 14th Independent Engineer Wing with 343 combatants

There are 6 squadrons of baggage troops, 2 squadrons of bridge-building, 1 radio squadron, and epidemic prevention and water supply troops

South China Gendarmerie

The 23rd Artillery Corps of the 1st Army directly under the Army

The 1st Wing of Heavy Artillery, (two brigades in total) 8 howitzers of 240 mm caliber

2nd Brigade of Separate Heavy Artillery, 8 cannons of 150 mm caliber

3rd separate heavy artillery brigade with 8 cannons of 150 mm caliber

5th Wing of Artillery Intelligence

The 3rd mechanical traction team has 145 personnel, 18 8-ton tractors and 14 13-ton tractors

Attached to the 14th Wing of Field Heavy Artillery, 6 150 mm howitzers (1 brigade)

It is equipped with 1 squadron of engineers, 1 radio squadron, 1 squadron of baggage troops, and 1 epidemic prevention and water supply unit

On 23 November, 34 planes took off from Nenjiang Airport north of Qiqihar, from Jinzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, and Taiwan, and 29 planes landed at Guangzhou Airport on 7 December

The 10th Fighter Squadron of Independence, 13 "Type 97" fighters

The 18th Squadron of Reconnaissance Aircraft, 3 reconnaissance planes of the "Type 97" Command

The 3rd Squadron of the 44th Squadron of the Zhixie Team, 6 "98-type" direct cooperation aircraft

47th Aerodrome Brigade

67th Squadron of the 1st Flight Field Brigade

1st Brigade of the 57th Air Field

14th Wing of Telecommunications

Two squads for wireless and 1 squadron for wired

Baggage 3rd Wing

The 4th Brigade of the 5th Wing of the Railway, 3 Automobile Squadrons

The 5th Military Station includes 1 squadron sent from the 66th Wing to serve as a guard, a 1 regional team from the military station, a 1 land troop transport team, a Shenzhen branch of the hospital, a wounded soldier transportation team, a sick horse farm, a supply depot, and a post office of the 213th Field Army

The South China Ministry of Water Transport, a department of the Ministry of Transport, an engineer squadron, a 14 berthing yards, and a number of personnel and ships

66th Infantry Wing

Affiliation: 1 brigade of the 14th Wing of the Field Artillery, 3 squadrons of engineers, 1 squadron of baggage soldiers and horses, 1 squad of automobiles, 1 health team, 1 field hospital, 1 epidemic prevention and water supply unit, 1 sick horse farm, 2 radio squadrons, 1 supply depot, and the post office of the 205th Field Army.

The Navy's 2nd Dispatch Fleet has a total of: one "Isuzu" light cruiser; 3 destroyers "Thunder", "Den" and "Tsuga"; **4 boats "bulbul", "magpie", "male" and "goose"; 3 gunboats "Hashidate", "Uji" and "Koga"; about 300 marines; There were two water reconnaissance aircraft and three shipboard attack aircraft. In order to disrupt the cable communication, the two operation ships "Chiyo Maru" and "Akitsu Maru" were assigned to the 2nd Dispatch China Fleet to cut off the submarine wires of **.

The Guangdong side has a special base team

Xiamen side special base team

The British garrison numbered more than 14,000 men. Among them, there are 11,000 British and Indian troops (4 battalions, including the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Scottish Infantry Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the Miduss Regiment, the 5th Battalion of the 7th Rajep Regiment, the 2nd Battalion of the 14th Punjab Regiment and artillery and engineer units), 1,973 combatants of the Canadian Corps (1,975 people), 1,387 volunteers, the Canadian Corps is a large infantry battalion, most of them are recruits who lack rigorous training, and the Volunteers are temporarily recruited by foreign personnel. In addition, it is equipped with 1 S-class destroyer, 8 ** speedboats, 4 shallow water gunboats and a number of armed patrol ships"; In Stanley, Baisha Bay, Dalang Bay and other places along the coast, "a total of 29 cannons were set up; There is a RAF squadron of 3 Hornantelope bombers and 2 Walrus water reconnaissance aircraft.

By the end of November 1941, the Japanese army learned through reconnaissance that the strength of the British army in ** was roughly as follows:

Commander of the Army** garrison: Major General Mardeshi

Chief of Staff: Brigadier General Bergwards

**Infantry Brigade Commander: Brigadier General Valles (4 infantry brigades, 2 Indian brigades)

Canadian Brigade Commander: Brigadier General Roshen (2 infantry brigades)

Commander of the Royal Artillery Regiment: Brigadier General McLeod

**Commander of the Volunteers: Colonel Rhodes

The above count: about 2,680 British troops, about 3,350 Indian troops, about 750 Chinese troops, and about 1,720 volunteers (British, Indian, and Chinese)

The navy was commanded by Admiral Collinson, and included 1 light cruiser, 3 destroyers, 4 gunboats, about 10 ** boats, 3 laying ships, 1 tanker, and about 30 alert boats (there was also the US gunboat "Mindanao" docked in this port)

The Air Force has 2 land and 2 seaplanes. (About 10 civil aircraft, located at Kai Tak Airport east of Kowloon City on the other side of ** Island)

On July 2, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Council formally adopted the "Southward Expansion" strategy ("Outline of the Imperial National Policy to Adapt to the Evolution of the Situation"), on November 5, the Emperor approved the operational plan for the war against the United States, Britain and the Netherlands played by the General Staff Headquarters, and on the 6th, the Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army, General Saiyama Mitsudai, issued the "Mainland Order No. 557" to the Chinese Dispatch Army and the South China Front: the 38th Division under the command of the commander of the 23rd Army as the backbone force cooperated with the Navy to prepare for the capture. Preparations for the war were to be completed roughly by the end of November, and the start of the war was to begin immediately after the Japanese attack on Malaya. On December 2, the Japanese base camp gave the Chinese dispatch army an order to capture **.