Collaborationist Chinese Army

The Collaborationist Chinese Army is the collective name for the military forces raised by the puppet governments that Imperial Japan set up in occupied mainland China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the wider Second World War. It covers the armies of the Provisional Government (1937 to 1940), the Reformed Government (1938 to 1940) and the Reorganized National Government under Wang Jingwei (1940 to 1945), which absorbed the two earlier regimes. The forces went by several names depending on unit and allegiance, and are commonly called puppet troops. Their overall strength is estimated at about 683,000 men. The Provisional Government began with only a police force, then opened a military academy in Beijing in 1938 and planned an army of eight infantry regiments, while the Reformed Government fielded a small and poorly regarded force of 10,000 to 30,000 men that reports said fled from guerrillas.