Order of battle for Battle of South Guangxi
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 [6,7] 22nd Army (10 Feb 1940 – 19 Nov 1940,- Army disbanded) – Lt. Gen Seiichi Kuno  January 1940 reinforcements from Canton Army Airforce: Navy Airforce: Notes: 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  Air Forces: ** Notes: 1. 16th Army Group and 26th Army Group were original defenders of Gwangxi. Other units were reinforcements which gradually arrived from Hunan, Gwangtung, and Szechuan.  2. On 18 December the Chinese launched a successful counter-offensive against the Japanese in the Kwangsi Province. To support the Chinese Kwangsi-offensive and direct the air-units the more experienced 1st ARC (Colonel Chang Ting-Meng) temporarily replaced the 2nd ARC  (Colonel Hsing Chan-Fei) at Liuchou, with the 2nd ARC moving to rear positions at Kwei-Lin. Taking part in the offensive were 115 aircraft of the 3rd, 4th and 5th PGs, 6th BG, 18th PS and one of the Soviet groups.  Sources.  Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) 2nd Ed.,1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China.  抗日战争时期的侵华日军序列沿革 (Order of battle of the Japanese army that invaded China during the Sino Japanese War)  Sino -Japanese Air War 1937–45  Imperial Guard of Japan  Generals from Japan (World War II)  Re: Orbat for Southern Kuangsi Campaign References. Bibliography