What level of establishment is the Sakagaki Division?

The Sakagaki Division is the highest level of the basic combat formation. The number of people is around 10,000.

Referring to the old German Army, the Japanese army ingeniously constructed a system of detachments, squads, squadrons, brigades, wings, brigades, and divisions, and imitated the huge firepower and numbers of American divisions in World War I in World War II.

It is different from the structure to the scale.

The Japanese divisions were divided into four classes during World War II:

Category A Division of the First Class; From the Guards Division (later expanded into the 1st Guards Division, the 2nd Guards Division, and the 3rd Guards Division), the 1st Division to the 11th Division, the 12th Division, the 14th Division, the 16th Division, the 19th Division, and the 20th Division, there are 17 best-equipped divisions and regiments of the first class A. The number of men in each division exceeded 10,000.

Division of the second class B; The 13th Division, the 15th Division, the 17th Division, and the 18th Division to the 110th Division are all second-class Category B combat divisions, which are new support divisions and regiments for the war, and their combat effectiveness is inferior to that of Category A standing divisions.

Category C Divisions of the Third Class: The numbers of the 110th Division to the 300th Division (at this time, Japan no longer arranged the number of divisions and regiments in complete order, about 169 to 230 in total). (These divisions were all newly added reserve combat divisions at the end of 1943).

Four types of D-division divisions: 110 divisions and divisions other than 300 (at this time, Japan no longer arranged in complete order, with a total of about 169 to 230 numbers). These divisions were established in late 1939, and most of them were newly organized or expanded into independent mixed brigades.

The Fifth Division is the only reinforced division in the empire with three brigades, and its strength has reached 32,000 people, which has always been the capital of Sakagaki Seichi has always been able to give orders to other division commanders of the same level in a commanding tone, although they are both lieutenant generals, but in the eyes of their peers, Sakagaki has long been compared with those generals of the empire, including Lieutenant General Ito, commander of the Second Army, and Lieutenant General Eiichi Tojo of the Chahar Front Army have always obeyed Sakagaki's command in this campaign.

In fact, the battle plan of Jinbei has always been planned by Sakagaki.

The Dazuo level was equivalent to the brigade level at that time, with about three or four thousand people.

The combat establishment of Japan in World War II was established in imitation of the Prussian military system, a division is equivalent to an army, in fact, you can understand it literally, a brigade is equivalent to a division, an infantry wing is equivalent to a brigade, and so on. The division has two brigades and two infantry wings, three infantry brigades and four infantry squadrons.

I won't say much about the historical origin of the compilation, and it should correspond to the compilation of other countries as follows:

Division = Corps Number: 28,200 (Division A) 24,400 (Type B) 15,500 (C) 11,000 (D).

Brigade = Division. Wing = regiment.

3800 people.

Brigade = battalion. Squadron = company, 180 people.

Squad = card, 54 people.

class, 13 people.

Establishment in World War II:

Modern compilation:

It is divisions and brigades, and below are brigades, squadrons, squads, equivalent to regiments, battalions, and companies.

The Sakagaki Division was one of the first seven divisions in Japan to form Liang Roll. One of the 17 standing divisions before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, once set a record in the Chinese battlefield and more than 70 divisions successively against each other, known as "respecting the scum refers to the steel army", in 1940 it was reorganized into one of the four mechanized divisions of the Japanese army, the most well-known to the Chinese is the 19th division commander Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro, so the division is also called "Itagaki Division" by the Chinese.