The following is the order of battle of the forces involved in the Battle of Shanghai, during the opening stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
National Revolutionary Army Centralized Chinese Air Force Units (includes former aviators of various warlord air forces and Chinese-American Volunteers) Imperial Japanese Navy 3rd Fleet : Admiral Hasegawa Kiyoshi National Revolutionary Army 3rd Military Region - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (20 Aug 1937) Wusung – Shanghai Siege Area Yangtze River Right Bank Garrison Sector Yangtze River Left Bank Garrison Sector Hangzhou Bay Left Bank Garrison Sector East Zhejiang Garrison Sector Chinese Air Force Units - includes former aviators of various warlord air forces plus Chinese-American Volunteers Imperial Japanese Navy Imperial Japanese Army National Revolutionary Army 3rd War Area - Generalisimo Chiang Kai-skek (after late Sept. 1937) Imperial Japanese Army Central China Front Army – Gen. Iwane Matsui 3rd, 6th, 9th, 14th, 36th, 87th, 88th, and the Training Division of the Central Military Academy.
Also the "Tax Police" regiment (equivalent of a division) under T.V.
Soong's Ministry of Finance, later converted to the New 38th Division during the war, were German armed and trained by German officers.
2nd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 25th, 27th, 57th, 67th, 80th, 83rd, 89th Division