The Rehe Guard Army was a corps of the Manchukuo Imperial Army, formed after the conquest of the former Chinese province of

Rehe Rehe (), also romanized as Jehol, was a former Chinese special administrative region and province. Administration Rehe was north of the Great Wall, west of Manchuria, and east of Mongolia. Its capital and largest city was Chengde. The second ...

during Operation Nekka in 1933. The Rehe Guard Army was created from a section of the Taoliao Army and had a nominal strength of 17,945 men * Headquarters (301) * Artillery Unit (854) * Cavalry Unit (172) * Infantry Unit (1,294) * Chengde Area Forces (4,783) * Chifeng Area Forces (3,414) * Chaoyang Area Forces (3,977) * Weichang Area Forces (3,150) * Xinjing Cavalry Brigade (2,018) * Seiyan Army (Fangtian Area Forces) (3,760) * River Patrol Unit (640) In the 1935 reorganization of the Manchukuo Imperial Army it became the

5th District Army "Chengde" Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a contagious rash tha ...

under command of General Chang Hai-peng.

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*{{cite book , last = Jowett , first = Philip , year = 2005 , title = Rays of the Rising Sun, Volume 1: Japan's Asian Allies 1931-45, China and Manchukuo , publisher = Helion and Company Ltd. , location = , isbn = 1-874622-21-3 Armies of Manchukuo Second Sino-Japanese War